The swift sword of DOGE: The toughest, yet most important, assignment
President-elect Donald Trump‘s fraught, tempestuous, yet ultimately empowering relationship with the legal system has defined his political career. It dominated his first term, continued to play a…
In 2020, political writers who favored Joe Biden seemed to all coalesce on the same word: empathy. Time magazine ran a big story about “Joe Biden, Kamala…
President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to bring a swift end to the Russia-Ukraine conflict in his second term, but it remains unclear what exactly he means to…
China is preparing for war. The United States is distracted and distant. And Beijing seems to have a strategy — one that will exploit both Washington’s inability…
This is the season of light and hope. We dared to dream that we were past the worst. The pardoning of Hunter Biden looked like the last…
I rise in the middle of the night, go outdoors at sunrise, but both in the fields and at home I study, think, read, and write ……
David Letterman compared Johnny Carson to a “public utility.” Walter Cronkite anointed him the “most durable performer in the whole history of television.” An “OK” hand signal…
Every society has a place that is viewed as a toxic haven of immorality. Many in the United States try to point to combat sports, rap music,…
In 2022, the government of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu unveiled a monument of Col. John Pennycuick in his English hometown of Camberley. The inscription described…
Somehow, even after the past few decades of secularization, a significant portion of the country still believes we would all be better off if Americans were even…
