“Operation Absolute Resolve” successfully dismantled illegitimate President Nicolás Maduro’s dangerous narcoterrorism regime and created valuable opportunities for the U.S. economy — fueled by the oil sector.

The Trump agenda prioritizes unleashing American energy, which includes maximizing domestic production of traditional ...Read more

There are few moments as clarifying as a true crisis and Iran’s revolutionary, Islamist regime is in the depths of one. So what are we learning?

One revelation from the recent wave of protests concerns the nature of the governing structure that Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has shaped and overseen for all but 10 of the Islamic Republic’s 46 ...Read more

Talk is cheap. Moving isn’t. That’s why it’s worth looking at state-by-state migration patterns.

U-Haul recently released its annual report tracking one-way customer transactions. The top-ranked states have the highest percentage of in-migration compared with out-migration based on U-Haul rentals.

While not a comprehensive measure of ...Read more

Donald Trump’s henchmen (in this case, henchwoman) are at it again, this time ginning up a phony criminal investigation into Federal Reserve Chair Jay Powell in much the same way that they’ve tried against Trump antagonists Jim Comey and Tish James. Those persecutions were horrible precedent in their own right, but this, signed off on by the...Read more

Since NATO’s 1949 founding, the Soviet Union and then Russia have sought to counter, if not conquer, the alliance. Remarkably, despite the invasion of Ukraine degrading Russia’s defense and diplomatic standing, Moscow’s malevolent objective may finally be in reach.

But not because of pressure from the Kremlin. Rather, from the White House...Read more

One of the most insidious aspects of the Trump era is how quickly the public gets used to what should be unacceptable scenarios — such as the use of federal criminal prosecutions for political retribution.

Having already watched as Trump’s Justice Department launched baseless, vengeful criminal cases against former FBI Director James Comey ...Read more

Crises’ crucibles often forge potent alliances. Before the American Revolution, John Adams steadfastly welcomed any and all “terrible news” of British despotism. “The worse, the better,” he invariably remarked, knowing that the crown’s attacks on liberty would unite the colonists.

World War I’s trials channeled Progressive Era ...Read more

Secretary of State Marco Rubio – once derided by Donald Trump as “Little Marco”– has emerged as the trusted point man riding shotgun on Trump’s mechanical bull of a foreign policy – from taking Greenland to dealing with a dangerous Iran.

No secretary of state in recent history has had to deal with so many crises and hot spots all at...Read more

As New Year’s Eve approached, I found myself mulling over something that in all my previous adult years would have been unthinkable: What if I didn’t drink? Sure, I had a lovely bottle of champagne chilling in the fridge. But I’d already planned on having Dry(ish) January. Wouldn’t it be great to wake up in 2026 fully rested and with a ...Read more

Donald Trump was elected twice on a slogan to make America great, but nearly everything he does makes the country worse.

Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill increased U.S. debt and boosted health care costs. His tariffs have raised prices, while cuts to regulations have left workplaces more dangerous. Trump has also weakened higher education, slashed ...Read more

Democrats have to bring more to the table in 2028 than a robust hatred for Donald Trump and animosity for Republicans in general if they want to regain substantial power in D.C.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren has a new-ish plan for that, which she outlined Monday in a speech at the National Press Club.

Think “big tent.”

“There are two visions ...Read more

Darren Woods is known mostly as the chairman of ExxonMobil, the largest U.S. oil company. On Friday, however, he made noise in a different sphere by placing an obscure financial term into the political lexicon: "Uninvestible."

That's how Woods described Venezuela — more specifically, Venezuela's oil industry. His remark came during a meeting ...Read more

There’s a time-honored tradition of U.S. presidents, whose electoral fortunes tend to rise or fall with the state of the economy, grumbling about chairmen of the Federal Reserve Board.

Famously, Paul Volcker, who as Fed chair dramatically raised interest rates in the early 1980s to combat inflation rates considerably higher than those that ...Read more

This season’s flu is lurking right around the corner. Even if you’ve done the right thing and had the flu shot. Even if you haven’t had the flu for years.

Don’t make the mistake of taking this virus lightly. The main strain making the rounds is virulent and hard to shake.

By the end of December, the Centers for Disease Control ...Read more

January represents a time of new beginnings, an opportunity for self assessment and productive change — unless you sit in Congress, where inertia and fiscal fantasy rule the day.

Last week, the Congressional Budget Office noted that the federal deficit for the first three months of fiscal 2026 — October through December — hit an estimated...Read more

It’s National Pizza Week—a tribute to late college nights, birthday parties and slices eaten straight from the box while running errands. In the U.S. alone, we eat roughly 4 billion pizzas a year. And each day, we consume the equivalent of 100 acres of pizza, which translates to approximately 350 slices per second.

Pizza is comfort. Pizza ...Read more

What does it mean to be an American? That question lies at the heart of a debate between Vivek Ramaswamy and Vice President JD Vance that will help determine the future of the Republican Party. The run-up to the country’s semiquincentennial is the perfect time to hold the debate, but it also presents an enormous problem for Vance: The Founders...Read more

More than a week after Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro was captured and brought back to the United States to stand trial on narcoterrorism charges, officials with the Donald Trump administration are trying to determine how relations with one of South America’s largest countries will evolve in the weeks and months ahead. In between Trump’...Read more

Current high prices for groceries, housing and other goods are largely not the fault of President Donald Trump. That blame still rests with the inflationary policies of former President Joe Biden, whose tenure brought a 21.5% rise in consumer prices.

Most of the Democrats who are now castigating Trump and Republicans for the continued stress ...Read more