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President Trump is on a roll. By Friday, the stock market had recaptured the value lost after traders sustained a severe case of tariff jitters.

South Korea held its presidential election on June 3, and Lee Jae-myung of the Democratic Party was declared the winner.

The Supreme Court's landmark ruling Friday in Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton is a historic victory not just for the children of Texas but also for all American children.

Last weekend, The Wall Street Journal published a rare story on the Ukraine war, though it was buried on page A10 after a front-page teaser.

During the presidential campaign, Donald Trump repeatedly promised to fight for the American people "every single day."

Somewhere along the line, everyone seems to have lost focus on the illegal immigration matter.

One really positive thing that DOGE and the Trump administration did was to have government employees report their weekly activities -- yet many people howled about it.

In 1924, G.K. Chesterton wrote, "Why is it that for the last two or three centuries, the educated have been generally wrong and the uneducated relatively right?"

Zohran Mamdani won the New York City Democratic primary for mayor, immediately becoming the favorite to win the general mayoral election -- and an object of both adulation and concern.

On July 4, America will be 249 years old. Our friends abroad should join patriots at home in celebrating the miracle that is the United States of America.