The Spirit Airlines saga highlights the folly of government industrial policy — whether promoted by Democrats or the current president.

Last week, President Donald Trump floated a $500 million bailout for the low-cost carrier, which has twice filed for bankruptcy and is now struggling because of soaring fuel costs triggered by the Iran war. ...Read more

More than 158 million Americans cast a ballot in the 2024 election, and nearly one in three did so by mail.

Nothing about that should be controversial because voting by mail is safe, secure and deeply rooted in American history. Generations of voters have relied on absentee and mail-in ballots to make their voices heard — from Union soldiers ...Read more

For the fifth time, the Senate Democrats last week tried to put constitutionally protected guardrails on President Donald Trump and his authority over the war in Iran. For the fifth time, Republican senators blocked them.

The actions and statements of the president and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth should snap Republican senators back to ...Read more

Butler, Pennsylvania, was a wake-up call.

The White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooting Saturday night was what happens when leaders hit the snooze button.

Our country can’t afford to sleep in any longer.

Pols on the left labeled President Donald Trump a threat to democracy in the runup to the 2024 election, despite the July ...Read more

Hypocritical Democrats and their sycophants in the media are rushing to evade blame for inciting political violence in the country including the latest assassination attempt of President Donald Trump.

White House officials yesterday called out three Massachusetts lawmakers – Ayanna Pressley, Elizabeth Warren and Ed Markey – for leading the ...Read more

Maybe you don’t like the war with Iran. Perhaps widespread Medicaid fraud has you questioning our massive federal government’s ability to manage sprawling budgets. Or perhaps, like many folks in blue cities that faced ICE and Border Patrol surges in Trump’s second term, you don’t want your tax dollars underwriting these actions.

This ...Read more

Recalling the “Candid Camera” of yore, we can still remember the reactions from folks who had no idea they were being filmed.

Allen Funt’s prescient reality TV show may be long gone from the airwaves, but in its place is a wave of always-on technology that can make anyone a star, even if they don’t want to be.

The latest example is ...Read more

Chicago police Officer John Bartholomew, shot to death on Saturday by a suspect while he was in custody, should be alive today.

The alleged shooter, 26-year-old Alphanso Talley, was ordered detained Monday by Cook County Circuit Court Judge Luciano Panici. Talley is accused of murder and attempted murder, among numerous other charges, in the ...Read more

I need a friend.

Never thought I’d have to say that. But my longtime pals, baby boomers all, are thinning out. Several friendships have been lost through death as we edge closer to the threshold of 77 years, the average life expectancy of American men. (For women, it’s 81.)

Other friendships have broken down because of illness, as in the ...Read more

Last week Yale University took the first step on the road to recovery: It admitted it had a problem. That problem is a lack of trust — and the damage that Yale and other top schools have done isn’t to themselves, it is to the entire system of U.S. higher education.

America’s elite universities, which produce world-class research and ...Read more

The war that the United States and Israel launched against Iran, and by extension Lebanon, seems to have entered a new phase, which might be called a Sitzkrieg, a “Bore War,” drole de guerre or a “phoney” (sic) war.

Those terms come from one of the strange early phases of World War II. After the Nazis invaded Poland, Britain and France ...Read more

We are united by our commitment to nonviolence and our reverence for the pacifist tradition, so our conversations since Feb. 28 have been consumed by concern over war and human loss. Our pain over the glorification of the U.S. bringing death to Iran and its people is doubled by the parallel tragedy in Sudan and with Russia’s war against ...Read more

The violence at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner on Saturday underscores how dangerous this political moment is in the United States. For the past several years — certainly since Jan. 6, 2021 — the U.S. has been experiencing a period of increased political violence.

Researchers at the Polarization & Extremism Research & ...Read more

King Charles III is Donald Trump’s opposite in every way. The former is a master of protocol: Everything he does daily is scripted to a T. The latter despises a script, hates giving formal speeches and prefers to ad-lib in front of his supporters. Due to his bloodline and the role of the monarchy in British life, Charles rises above the fray ...Read more

For Democrats or, for that matter, anyone who believes in checks and balances, things are starting to look up.

President Donald Trump's days of untrammeled war-making, law-breaking and generally doing whatever he damn well pleases may finally be drawing to a close. Public opinion, history and, especially, the surging price of gasoline and ...Read more

Senator John Fetterman was “front and center” in the Washington Hilton’s ballroom during the shooting that occurred at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, according to a statement released by the senior senator from Pennsylvania.

You would imagine that in his first public statement he would discuss the welfare of the president, who ...Read more

President Donald Trump has now been involved in what appears to be an unprecedented three attempts on his life. It must be jarring for someone with so much wealth and the full protection of the United States government to think he could still come within a whisker of being shot in America.

Sadly, the attack at the White House correspondents’ ...Read more

Didn’t Florida voters outlaw gerrymandering? You sure wouldn’t know it by looking at the map Gov. Ron DeSantis released Monday of his proposed new congressional district lines.

The map is an absolute sea of red. There are four blue-leaning districts for Democrats and 24 red-leaning districts — an increase of four — for Republicans. ...Read more

Here’s a fundamental principle of diplomacy: Chances of success are diminished if one side thinks the other is comprised of crazy bastards. Especially if one side is willing to call the other “crazy bastards” in public, as President Donald Trump did in early April.

The “bastards” part is just an insult; let’s consider the “crazy�...Read more

Starvation has been a problem in communist countries. Obesity is a major problem in capitalist countries. Yet New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani believes his city needs the government propping up new grocery stores.

Mamdani, an open socialist, is struggling to balance the budget. He’s already proposed reducing public library funding. His ...Read more