The Office of the Director of National Intelligence is supposed to focus on supervising and synthesizing the intelligence community‘s various lines of effort. The ODNI’s effort to feed the Biden administration‘s fixation with diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives is undermining that responsibility. As first reported by the Daily Wire and expanded upon by the Washington […]
It is rare to see the kind of conservative victory over an entrenched liberal institution like the one Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) just scored against the Walt Disney Company. Disney and the oversight board appointed by DeSantis to oversee the region of Florida where Disney World is located announced Wednesday that they had settled a […]
The crisis between the White House and Israel continues to escalate. The State Department reacted angrily to Israeli statements that the U.N. Security Council resolution demanding a ceasefire had undermined negotiations to release Israeli hostages held by Hamas, calling the Israeli statement “inaccurate in almost every respect.” President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Antony […]
How are America’s leaders measuring up against the standards set by the Constitution and the examples of the Founding Fathers? It’s a question I’ve been asking as I seek refuge from contemporary politics in reading and occasionally writing, in my 2023 book Mental Maps of the Founders, about the early years of the republic. One […]
For eight years, Michael Ojeda delivered food for a Pizza Hut in Ontario, California, using the income he received to support his family. In December, the 29-year-old received a letter from the pizza franchise informing him that his employment was being terminated in February. The news shook him. “Pizza Hut was my career for nearly […]
U.S. business executives met with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing on Wednesday. China‘s state media outlet Xinhua reported that they included, “[Evan] Greenberg, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, [Stephen] Schwarzman, Chairman and CEO of Blackstone Group, [Cristiano] Amon, President and CEO of Qualcomm, [and Graham] Allison, […]
Feminist author Jill Filipovic is worried about the growing political divide between the sexes. Noting that a recent Gallup poll found a 30-point difference between the percentage of young women who self-identify as Democratic and the percentage of men the same age who do the same, Filipovic wrote, “An ideological gap this wide, drawn along […]
Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) vetoed an assault weapons ban that passed the state legislature last month, alongside multiple other gun control bills, in a 30-bill veto session on Tuesday. “I swore an oath to defend the Constitution of the United States of America and the Constitution of Virginia, and that absolutely includes protecting the...