COUNCIL BLUFFS, IOWA — National politics are exceptionally chaotic these days, and the harms are real. At the local level, the chaos is of a different sort, and it usually ends up being harmless. In the band room of Heartland Christian School, the 20th and 21st precincts of Council Bluffs, 100 Iowans gathered in the […]
On Jan. 7, an Israeli airstrike killed two Al Jazeera journalists in the Gaza Strip. The Qatar-run news outlet immediately accused Israel of targeting journalists and labeled their death an “assassination.” No serious journalist, diplomat, or human rights activist should give Al Jazeera benefit of the doubt. Terrorists have long used media to amplify reach. […]
The size, scope, power, and control of the federal government have expanded dramatically since President Joe Biden was sworn into office. His administration has initiated and signed into law trillions of dollars in new spending and promulgated regulations that have made it more expensive and difficult to conduct business or raise a family. At the […]
Momentous Supreme Court cases sometimes arise from more pedestrian events. The justices will hear oral arguments for one such case on Wednesday. Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo has to do with commercial fishing. A national law passed in 1976 requires federal observers to accompany fishing boats. These observers make sure those vessels and their crew […]
Many of us were stunned by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’s decision last August to prosecute former President Donald Trump and 18 co-defendants under Georgia’s Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act. Although I’m not a lawyer, it certainly seemed to be a rather novel, and highly partisan, application of a law that hitherto had […]
For the second year in a row, every branch of the U.S. military, except the Marine and Space Corps, missed its recruiting target. To put this crisis into context, the U.S. Army, Navy, and Air Force ended 2023 with a recruitment shortfall of 41,000. There has not been a more difficult recruitment environment since the […]
In the lead-up to Taiwan's presidential election, China launched a massive disinformation campaign, with the explicit intention of sowing confusion and making the Taiwanese people question the validity of their own election.
Fresh off his runaway win in the nation's first 2024 presidential nominating contest, the next phase of former President Trump’s courtroom chronicles will begin Tuesday as a jury convenes to determine how much Trump must pay for defaming a longtime advice columnist. Last year, a jury concluded Trump sexually abused the columnist, E. Jean Carroll,...
Former President Trump is poised to emerge the top candidate in 98 of Iowa’s 99 counties after Monday's caucuses, with former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley edging him out in just one county. Haley, seen as the more moderate candidate in the race, got the top spot in Johnson County, which is home to the...