Speaker Mike Johnson advanced a short-term funding bill to keep the government open in a similar fashion as his predecessor, but the lawmakers who booted Rep. Kevin McCarthy don't plan on axing the new House leader for it.
President Biden criticized former President Donald Trump for calling his political opponents "vermin," saying the language is similar to that of Nazi Germany.
Two weeks ago, the Washington Examiner’s editorial board criticized Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) and me for our legislation to remove marijuana as a Schedule I substance. In its op-ed, the editorial board does mental gymnastics to claim that the continued prohibition of marijuana is the solution to black markets and completely disregards the potential to advance the medical benefits it is capable of offering.
Even for an often-neglected population, the Illinois legislature’s recent indifference toward its own citizens seemed callous to the point of being cruel. The state’s lawmakers allowed a program that provides scholarships to low-income students to expire without so much as a vote.
The First Amendment and landmark Supreme Court rulings make the U.S. exceptional on the concern of freedom of speech. Our preference of speakers over subjects in defamation laws and tolerance of the most controversial protests emphasize that the national interest is best served by maximal speech. Until recently, Republicans were broadly supportive of this understanding. They rightly pointed out the Left's growing tendency to restrict or penalize speech seen as contravening left-wing orthodoxy on issues such as identity politics.
In the nauseating demonstrations celebrating Hamas’s slaughter of Israelis, one hears repeated, again and again, the refrain that Israelis are “settlers” and “colonists” — and therefore, in the catechism inculcated in universities in recent decades, oppressors not deserving of mercy or sympathy when tortured and murdered by those who deemed themselves the oppressed.
Maya Angelou famously once said, “When people show you who they are, believe them the first time.” On Tuesday, Nikki Haley just showed the public who she is. It was troubling and, quite frankly, un-American.
President Biden met face-to-face with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday in a high stakes meeting between the leaders of two global powers. Biden and Xi held their first in-person meeting in one year during the Asian Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit in San Francisco, where they were expected to discuss improved military communications, stopping...
Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, called on federal lawmakers on Wednesday to pass legislation requiring parental approval for app store downloads by teenagers, as the company faces pressure to strengthen protections for children on its social media platforms. Antigone Davis, Meta’s global head of safety, said in a blog post that the...