A half-century ago, Israel found itself deeply isolated when the United Nations passed a resolution equating Zionism with racism. The U.N. eventually repealed this Cold War relic, but today, Israel is again shunned by many nations because of the war in Gaza. The recent ceasefire brokered by President Donald Trump offers the Jewish state a […]
The MAGA movement that President Donald Trump created keeps pushing back on him, from his administration’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files to his comments this week regarding visas for foreign workers. Trump says that he decides what it means to “Make America Great Again,” but the repeated disputes underscore how the ideological purity of […]
The debate about political polarization often inevitably devolves into finger-pointing from both sides about how polarizing their opponents are. And yet, only one side routinely has bizarre stories about how it has cut off relationships with family members who have different politics. That side is the liberals, who otherwise wail about tolerance and diversity. Jimmy […]
A network of tech donors skeptical of artificial intelligence is paying to insert reporters in major newsrooms who go on to report stories amplifying their concerns about risks in AI development, a Washington Examiner review has found. The Tarbell Center for AI Journalism’s fellowship program places reporters at prestigious news organizations such as Bloomberg, TIME, […]
Two of the nation’s most powerful newspapers, the Washington Post and the New York Times, recently portrayed special presidential envoy Richard Grenell as the villain of the Kennedy Center story. The first outlet warned of a “politicized” arts institution under his watch. The second followed with a sprawling piece titled “The Kennedy Center Crackup,” painting […]
Gene L. Dodaro is not a household name. He is a mild-mannered man who is rarely seen without a necktie and dark suit, and who speaks in a flat, matter-of-fact tone. He has worked for the federal government since 1973. Yet, his retirement in December may well set off a separation-of-powers battle royale between President […]
Earlier this month, Democrats won decisively in the Virginia gubernatorial election. The party’s triumph in the state was broad-based, as Democrats nearly secured a supermajority in the Virginia House of Delegates. Even Jay Jones, the Democratic nominee for attorney general who sent text messages hoping for the death of the children of a political rival […]
The amount of fentanyl being seized by federal law enforcement at the nation’s border has decreased sharply over the past year as President Donald Trump has commanded the government to shut down the border to the deadly drug. U.S. Customs and Border Protection interdicted almost half as much fentanyl in fiscal 2025, which ended in […]
In the 10 months since returning to the White House, President Donald Trump has forcibly deported half a million illegal immigrants and compelled another 1.6 million to voluntarily self-deport. And thanks to his crackdown on unfettered student visas and low-skilled J-1 visas, the total temporary “nonimmigrant” population in the country is expected to fall by […]
In Death by Lightning, the new Netflix miniseries helmed by Mike Makowsky of Game of Thrones fame, President James Garfield and his assassin, Charles Guiteau, are opposite poles of the national character, forever united through one of those lurid, violent spectacles for which we Americans have such an enormous tendency and talent. In lesser hands […]
