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People may forget that Scott Bessent is probably the strongest wartime Treasury secretary going all the way back, at least to World War II. Through his Economic Fury campaign, he has slowly but surely turned off Iran's monetary and economic spigots.

In just a few days, the Jewish community will sit around the Seder table and retell the story of our people's journey from slavery to freedom, a story often defined by miracles. But there is a detail in that story that is often overlooked. The ...

Will President Trump fall prey to the "Pottery Barn Doctrine"? Articulated by Secretary of State Colin Powell in the run-up to the Iraq War, it holds that when you break something - in this case, a nation, rather than a vase - you own it. As Trump ...

Washington periodically rediscovers the idea of suspending the federal gasoline tax whenever fuel prices rise and voters grow restless, and the White House and a bipartisan handful of lawmakers are once again contemplating a suspension of the tax.

Many years ago, sometime after Ronald Reagan replaced Pat Brown as governor of California, I was driving up the coast from Los Angeles to San Francisco and visited Hearst Castle, William Randolph Hearst's epic mansion in San Simeon. It was state ...

American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten is sounding the alarm about the decade-long decline in student test scores, pointing to screens and devices as a culprit. She's calling it a "call to action." She left out the part about how ...

The homeless encampment rapidly spreading across 12 blocks along the West Side of Manhattan from the Intrepid Museum to the Javits Center is a red flag to New Yorkers in every part of the city that if you own anything, the city will not protect you,

The World Health Organization and the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are scrambling to contain a fast-moving Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda that has claimed nearly 400 lives and sparked alarm across ...

The president's recent push to send federal health care dollars directly to individuals, rather than insurers, reflects a broader demand for transparency and effectiveness in how public funds are used. Government-funded medical research, which forms ...

On Sept. 30, 2024, prominent progressive thinker and author Ta-Nehisi Coates appeared on "CBS Mornings" to promote his new book focusing on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, "The Message." Coates' argument echoed many standard left-wing tropes about ...