President Donald Trump moves like an ocean. It is often violently stormy on the surface, so tempestuous that it is dangerous to get anywhere near it. But that apparent and sometimes real danger does not determine whether the tide is coming in or going out — ebbing toward failure or flooding toward success. The Trump […]
At the Battle of San Jacinto, Texas, revolutionaries faced Mexican Gen. Santa Anna and his men in a fight that not only secured Texas independence but lived on in glory. Nearly 200 years later, Texans are fighting another war with Mexico: The war for water. Under the 1944 Water Treaty, the United States and Mexico […]
The second and third words of the title of a new book from policy wonk and former Clinton Foundation and Democratic congressional hand Marc Dunkelman, Why Nothing Works: Who Killed Progress―and How to Bring It Back, make quite the assertion. Nothing works? Based on the results of last year’s presidential election, reams of polling showing […]
One person is in custody and another is in critical condition after a stabbing near the University of Virginia's Alumni Hall Thursday, according to Nexstar's WRIC.
President Trump welcomed Paul Dabbar and Hung Cao as officials in his second administration on Thursday, lauding them for their careers in public service. Dabbar, a former nuclear submarine officer, has been dominated as deputy secretary of Commerce. Cao, a former GOP nominee to serve as a congressman and a senator from Virginia, was nominated...
President Trump is urging Iowa to finalize legislation that would remove protections for transgender people, following the lead of his executive order.
Pam Hemphill, who was charged for her involvement in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, is pushing back against the notion that the Department of Justice (DOJ) was weaponized against the rioters. “I’m not a victim of January 6th, and the DOJ was not weaponized against me,” Hemphill said Thursday during an appearance...
Should an AfD-led Germany withdraw from NATO, the alliance would surely collapse, as would an EU without Germany. Instead, a German-Russian alliance would fill Europe’s security vacuum and dominate the continent.