In Focus
JD Vance is the favorite for the 2028 GOP nomination
Conventional wisdom says the 2028 Republican nomination for president is a lock: Vice President JD Vance will carry the MAGA torch into the GOP’s post-Trump era. Sen.…
June 25, 2025
The bell tolls for the ayatollahs: What the Israeli strikes on Iran mean
for the Islamic republic
Magazine
Trump and Democrats fight over the flag
President Donald Trump and the Democrats are fighting over the national flag, America’s preeminent patriotic symbol. Democrats know it’s a problem that they’re accurately seen as often…
Columnists
The great MAGA split
The first American casualty of the Israel-Iran conflict was Tucker Carlson. “The first week of a war with Iran could easily kill thousands of Americans,” Carlson said…
Columnists
The Social Security Administration is still ignoring the baby bust
You may have seen the headlines recently: “Social Security, Medicare to Run Short of Funds in 2033, Trustees Say.” Last year, the date was 2034, so doomsday…
Magazine
Mastering data before Google: Remembering the legacy of Ben Wattenberg
Ben Wattenberg died 10 years ago this month, but his legacy still looms large. Wattenberg, a pundit, demographer, and political operative, reshaped Washington and America through his…
Magazine - Your Land
If the price is right, there is no job Americans won’t do
“There’s no playbook” on how to move forward. This is what Chad Hartmann of Glenn Valley Foods told NBC News after Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers raided…
Magazine
The bell tolls for the ayatollahs
In the opening pages of his 1940 novel, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway recites the English writer John Donne’s famous poem from centuries past. “Never…
Business
Economic isolation started Iran’s self-inflicted military wounds
Israel‘s preemptive strikes against arch-enemy Iran, and a tacit green light by the United States to continue, have capped years of aggressive international economic sanctions. Combined with…
Magazine
From Tehran to Tel Aviv: How Israelis are experiencing the war with Iran
Ten million bleary-eyed Israelis were awoken at 3 a.m. local time on June 13 by a siren and an unusual phone notification. “Extreme Alert!” it read. “Due…
Immigration
The immigration protests are more like the nullification crisis than the Civil Rights Movement
President Donald Trump ran in 2024 on enforcing the nation’s immigration laws. As he follows through on that promise, he has prompted widespread opposition from the progressive…