President Donald Trump’s “Unleashing American Energy” executive order directly attacks the chief reason for the nation’s inability to permit major projects expeditiously, including those seeking to develop domestically available energy and minerals: the National Environmental Policy Act. Signed on Inauguration Day, in a section titled “Unleashing Energy Dominance through Efficient Permitting,” the executive order revokes an […]

Few political clichés are more frequently invoked than “personnel is policy.” Like most aphorisms, it’s rooted in truth. Ideas aren’t self-executing, and the government is no better than the people who staff it. Washington received the latest reminder of this reality on Wednesday when news broke that the House Foreign Affairs Committee had hired a new staff […]

Returning to fundamental truths is already a theme of President Donald Trump’s second term. Last week, the president signed an executive order titled “Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government.” On Tuesday, he signed an executive order titled “Protecting Children from Chemical and Surgical Mutilation.” In 2025, this almost seems bold. In […]

Democrats and their friends in corporate media have no idea how to handle Trump 2.0. The president’s first term saw a handful of major accomplishments, namely tax cuts and the Abraham Accords, but, by and large, Democrats and journalists were able to thwart large swaths of President Donald Trump’s agenda using an extremely effective combination of censorship and […]