The Biden administration will use $500 million to help protect communities affected by what it's calling a "wildfire crisis," which Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said is caused by climate change.

White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan urged House Speaker Mike Johnson Tuesday to hold a vote on the Senate's $95 billion foreign aid package, saying Ukraine's diminishing munitions in its war with Russia is partly due to congressional inaction.

President Biden on Tuesday said he plans to announce "major" new sanctions on Russia at the end of the week in response to the death of opposition leader Alexei Navalny.

He likes to invent history and pretend that he’s the toughest guy on the block, but Russian President Vladimir Putin’s decision to withhold Alexei Navalny’s body from his family is instructive. For a start, it underlines Putin’s plain disregard for the most basic teachings of the Russian Orthodox Church, teachings he claims are central to […]

Attending the Munich Security Conference in Germany last weekend, Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) explained why he believes the United States should resist new aid provisions to Ukraine. Vance was nuanced and well spoken, something that seemed to shock the Munich audience. He unequivocally condemned Russian President Vladimir Putin for the killing of Alexei Navalny (the […]

The United States and Somalia on Feb. 15 signed a memorandum of understanding that would commit the U.S. to build five bases for Somalia’s Danab Brigade at a projected cost of $100 million. That followed previous U.S. provision of an even greater amount to train and assist the Danab Brigade. Assistant Secretary of State Molly […]

Thanks to the nation’s most stringent environmental laws, California already has the nation’s most expensive housing. But instead of repealing those laws and building more housing, the Democrats that control California have instead chosen to subsidize demand, which will only raise the price of housing in California even higher. In 1970, lawmakers passed the California […]

The results of the 2024 Presidential Greatness Project Expert Survey were released, and the survey found that President Joe Biden was the 14th-best president of all time. Biden received such a high mark despite the many issues plaguing his presidency. These include higher gas prices, higher violent crime rates, higher inflation, and a border crisis […]

I’ve written in defense of the current child tax credit, and I favor expanding it modestly. At the same time, I understand the conservative arguments against this. Those are three worthy arguments that should be weighed against the benefits of an expanded child tax credit and that should inform the details of a policy. There’s […]

The supposed conservative majority on the Supreme Court has once again declined to weigh in on a contentious issue and will allow a lower court ruling to stand with seriously harmful implications. On Tuesday, the court announced it had declined to hear a case that argued that changes to the admissions process of Thomas Jefferson […]