In recent speeches and op-eds, my colleague Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) imagines “a world of scarcity” in which “the math” compels us to conclude the United States “lack[s] the capacity to manufacture the amount of weapons Ukraine needs us to supply to win the war.” He and other congressional isolationists claim that the United States […]

Now more than ever, the internet is an informational battleground. What should be a thriving marketplace for speech is being tainted constantly by threats of censorship from bureaucrats with their own agenda.  One key ideal of many Republican supporters is the belief that the government has no business interfering with our First Amendment rights to […]

Perhaps the best book about America was not written by an American. Instead, Democracy in America came from the pen of a Frenchman, Alexis De Tocqueville. Tocqueville, a politician and aristocrat, died on April 16, 1859 — 165 years ago.  Democracy in America came from the Frenchman’s first-hand observations of the United States in the […]

The mission of the CIA is to acquire protected information from abroad from which CIA analysts can then extrapolate assessments for policymakers. The CIA often successfully performs this work via means of sacrifice and skill. Unfortunately for America but fortunately for Russia, the CIA’s handling of the so-called Havana syndrome issue remains highly problematic. That’s […]

Former President Trump will be back in a Manhattan courtroom on Tuesday for the continuation of jury selection in his criminal hush money trial. The process is expected to last a minimum of several days as hundreds of New Yorkers will be whittled down to 12 jurors with six alternates. More than half of the...

The Labor Department on Tuesday issued long-awaited rules governing acceptable levels of exposure to silica dust, a compound linked to terminal breathing issues in miners. Under the final rule, the exposure limit will be lowered to 50 micrograms per cubic foot of air over the course of an eight-hour shift. It also requires metal and...

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) raised a controversy after he encouraged those dealing with streets blocked by protesters to “take matters into your hands,” appearing to encourage violence. Protesters against the American response to the Israel-Hamas war shut down multiple highways across the country Monday, including blocking the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco and Brooklyn...