President Donald Trump‘s recent imposition of tariffs has ignited debates over their costs and benefits. While these tariffs have created uncertainty for consumers, businesses, and governments, they can also serve as protection against predatory trade practices from competitors such as China. Among the most significant sector-specific tariffs, Trump imposed a 25% duty on all steel […]

In the last weeks of the Biden administration, Assistant Secretary of State Barbara Leaf traveled to Syria to meet Ahmad al-Sharaa, the Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham leader whose December 2024 march on Damascus ended the Assad family’s half-century reign of terror. At the time of their meeting, Sharaa was still a wanted terrorist in the United […]

In 2019, Marlean Ames applied for a promotion at the Ohio Department of Youth Services, where she had worked for 15 years. She didn’t get the job. A few weeks later, despite an exemplary work record, Ames was demoted and her pay was cut nearly in half. Her former position was given to a 25-year-old […]

If you’re too young to remember the tearing down of the Berlin Wall or even to realize why it mattered, Washington, D.C., may offer you something that also has symbolic value in the fight for freedom. Black Lives Matter Plaza is being torn up in the nation’s capital. Just like the wall that separated free, […]