Current events in Iran have largely pushed the Israeli-Hamas conflict out of the news cycle. But a recent incident in Gaza reinforces how Hamas terrorists have little consideration for the well-being of their own people.

On Monday, Reuters reported that a U.N. official accused Hamas of sabotaging aid distribution in the Gaza Strip, “placing ...Read more

This week, public health detectives in Michigan got their first big lead in the cyclosporiasis outbreak that has sickened thousands of people in the state amid a broader national surge. Initial evidence suggests contaminated lettuce or salad greens could be driving infections — though authorities caution that other food sources can’t be ...Read more

At the risk of turning myself into a pariah, I don’t think money in politics is a problem.

Voters on the right and left don’t seem to agree on much these days. But they tend to share the belief — it’s an article of faith, really — that campaign donations, especially corporate cash, are a corrupting force in American politics. Simply ...Read more

People love the convenience of simply swiping a credit card or tapping their smartphones when making a purchase, but now lawmakers want to micromanage these transactions line by line, imposing intrusive bureaucracy that will add costs and interference to a well-oiled machine.

When a customer makes an electronic payment, data on the sales ...Read more

President Donald Trump, along with some of his aides and supporters, have proposed a number of absurd ideas to aggrandize him. By far the most absurd is their repeated appeals to add his likeness to Mount Rushmore.

Carved into South Dakota’s Black Hills between 1927 and 1941, Rushmore features four of America’s most celebrated presidents: ...Read more

The mendacity of the political left is audacious and delusional. Take this recent view from In These Times magazine, a longtime voice of the progressive left:

“After New York’s Democratic primary shockwaves, there is no doubt: democratic socialism is on the march in the U.S.,” the headline declared.

“This summer, a seismic wave ripped ...Read more

The U.S. constitutional order has been miraculously successful. It has endured, it has adapted and it has been the foundation for unsurpassed prosperity and material advance. The world has found no better system and, as almost all Americans understand, setting it aside would be catastrophic. For these reasons, a certain reverence — entailing a...Read more

President Donald Trump and other Republicans like to say the United States does not have money for programs that address the needs of ordinary citizens.

“It’s not possible for us to take care of day care, Medicaid, Medicare, all these individual things,” Trump said recently, saying that the nation had more important things to do, like “...Read more

Mister President, it’s not really your fault – well, not totally your fault – that failings by your top advisers and even the bureaucracy have so often made you seem so embarrassingly uninformed and misinformed during our multiple and overlapping crises of war and peace.

You have been put into an awful position of having to serve as the ...Read more

When the history of the first quarter of the 21st century is written, there will be one towering political figure above all the rest — President Donald J. Trump.

That’s why I believe he belongs on Mount Rushmore.

Not because the Washington establishment approves; it never will. Not because CNN or The New York Times says so; they never ...Read more

California just made one of the country’s most significant public investments in addressing homelessness, including $116 million in its new budget to help identify and support students experiencing homelessness. It’s the first state in our nation’s history to invest resources on this scale to support this especially vulnerable population. ...Read more

Democratic socialists who have enjoyed a string of recent primary triumphs in New York City and Denver want to believe that the Graham Platner political disaster in Maine is a one-off and tells us nothing about whether far-left politics will play with Americans outside of gentrified urban areas.

Senate candidate Platner’s rise in Maine, just ...Read more

Property tax relief has become one of the few ideas capable of uniting politicians who otherwise agree on almost nothing. Across the Midwest, officials are advancing proposals to ease the burden.

In Michigan, a leading Democratic Senate candidate, Abdul El-Sayed, is calling for a property tax freeze for seniors. Ditto in Ohio, where Gov. Mike ...Read more

It was 20 years ago this month when we started writing about how the toxic fallout from the 9/11 destruction of the World Trade Center by Osama Bin Laden’s Al Qaeda terrorists was sickening and killing people. Then the politicians were named Bloomberg, Pataki and Bush. The politicians’ names have changed, but not the importance of getting to...Read more

It was 20 years ago this month when we started writing about how the toxic fallout from the 9/11 destruction of the World Trade Center by Osama Bin Laden’s Al Qaeda terrorists was sickening and killing people. Then the politicians were named Bloomberg, Pataki and Bush. The politicians’ names have changed, but not the importance of getting to...Read more

The U.S. attorney general is often called the people’s lawyer because he or she serves the public interest by guarding the legal rights of taxpayers, residents, victims of crimes, and the environment.

But the attorney general is not supposed to be the White House consigliere, abusing the rule of law, carrying out political vendettas, and ...Read more

Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham’s sudden death sparked vicious vitriol from liberals and conspiracy theories from conservatives as Democrats looked with renewed hope at capturing the South Carolina seat in November.

Some left wing pundits celebrated Graham’s death with hate-filled posts on social media, calling him a toady for President ...Read more

On July 9, the Trump administration delivered a gift to Cadiz Inc., a politically well-connected firm that has been trying for decades to win approval for a scheme to pump water out of the Mojave Desert and market it to water agencies across the Southland.

The administration approved the company's application to convert an abandoned 220-mile ...Read more

Almost two decades ago, when trillions of dollars in private housing debt proved unsustainable, governments had to step in to prevent the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression from eclipsing it. But now governments have their own debt problems, and if they don’t get them under control soon, there will be nobody to step in next time...Read more

As yet another heat dome settles over part of the U.S., a depressingly predictable news cycle is unfolding. This week, the headlines will warn of dangerously high temperatures; next week, they’ll chronicle the human toll.

Even more depressing: That won’t capture the full force of the heat’s devastation. The deaths reported will surely be ...Read more