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White House says to ‘expect more’ climate funding before President Biden leaves office

President Biden is seeking to focus on climate funding during his final weeks in office, before President-elect Trump potentially takes aim at his green energy agenda.

The nation’s cartoonists on the week in politics

Every week political cartoonists throughout the country and across the political spectrum apply their ink-stained skills to capture the foibles, memes, hypocrisies and other...

Mississippi’s Clarke Reed blocked Reagan but did a lifetime of good for the GOP

If not for one momentous decision in 1976, Mississippi’s Clarke Reed would be considered one of the great heroes of the Republican Party renaissance of the latter 20th century. The reality that he spent his last 48 years detested by a swath of Reaganite activists should not obscure his larger contributions to the cause. Journalist-historian […]

What’s inside Stanley Tucci

Though Stanley Tucci is a Hollywood A-lister, starring alongside Ralph Fiennes in this year’s Oscar-contending Conclave, for instance, and in crowd pleasers such as the Hunger Games films, he has cooked up a public persona somehow more associated with food than acting. Tucci has honed a character as a famous epicure that rivals the ones […]

No risk, no rewards for America

A senior federal employee lamented to me recently about work fights he has with lawyers. It would be bad enough if these pitted him against attorneys launching lawsuits against his department, but it’s not.  His diurnal conflicts are with lawyers on his own side. They constantly press him not to go ahead with one innovation […]

CNN is about to pay for its bias

CNN suffered a huge setback in a Florida court on Dec. 9 when a state judge denied the network’s efforts to dismiss a case against a Navy veteran who helped civilians flee the country in the final days of President Joe Biden’s disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan. Zachary Young was running a security consulting company in […]

Foul-mouthed Milei shows libertarians the way

Last year, the Economist warned that “Javier Milei would be a danger for democracy in Argentina” on the eve of his election. Twelve months on, that global voice of “Sensible Centrism” has changed its tune: “Javier Milei’s reforms hold lessons for the world.” You can see its point. In his first year, the Argentine president […]

Many are called: The jury’s verdict on the death of Jordan Neely

Penny and Neely were brought together in an encounter that neither man should have been required to manage.

New Jersey mayor: Kirby drone comments ‘ridiculous’

A mayor in New Jersey recently slammed White House national security spokesperson John Kirby for seemingly brushing off potential threats from unidentified drones that have been spotted more frequently over the Garden State, calling it "ridiculous." “I have to tell you, that's incredulous. I'm incredulous about that. That is ridiculous,” Sam Morris, the mayor of...

Trump was the only possible choice for Person of the Year 

Who else could have competed for the prestigious title?  

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