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January 6 has become a date of hallowed pagan sacredness to the ruling class - a supposed talisman marking chaos, a shorthand for "threats to democracy." But the media, predictably, has focused on the wrong January. And the wrong threat. Because the ...

Donald Trump's recent floated proposal to deploy the National Guard to crime-overrun blue cities like Chicago and Baltimore has been met with howls of outrage from the usual suspects. For many liberal talking heads and Democratic officials, this is ...

As Americans, we have accepted division as par for the course. Whether it is President Trump's 100 days or cultural issues, "division" itself may be the most overused word in America. The constant drumbeat of cultural conflicts and partisan standoffs ...

Something changes when you watch hordes of your political opponents gleefully celebrate the assassination of a man because he believed what you believe. On Wednesday, Charlie Kirk visited Utah Valley University. He was talking to a crowd of thousands ...

This week marks the 80th anniversary of President Harry Truman's fateful decision to drop atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (respectively, Aug. 6 and 9, 1945). To date, those two bombings represent the only instances in ...

I attended a screening the other day (June 15) of "The Stringer," a provocative film that challenges authorship of the famous "Napalm Girl" photo, taken in Vietnam in June 1972. I remain unpersuaded by the film's centerpiece claim that a Vietnamese ...

The central strategy of media bias is defining your terms. The most obnoxious strategy of liberal journalists is defining the Republicans as ideological extremists engaging in culture wars and weaponizing partisan narratives for political victory.

After eight months in office, almost all of the Trump administration's aggressive trade agenda has come into focus. Sectoral tariffs have been applied to industries deemed important to national security. A fresh review of the USMCA, negotiated and ...

Republican lawmakers are encountering a surprising source of opposition to reforming and rationalizing U.S. energy policy: America's Big Oil companies. Before the dust had even settled on the 2024 national elections, CEOs at major oil companies from ...

Last week's Senate Finance Committee hearing was supposed to be about oversight, to ask the tough but necessary questions on how a federal agency is moving toward its authorized mandate. Instead, it became a bipartisan spectacle of scorn aimed ...