Defense
China’s new war: America’s freedom depends on confronting the threat
The world is more dangerous today than at any time in my lifetime. America is at war — not a hot war like World War II or a cold…
September 11, 2024
Ted Cruz’s Border Battle: The Texan believes Democrats are taking short-term immigration risks for long-term gains
Immigration
Ted Cruz says Democrats taking short-term immigration risks for long-term gains
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) is locked in a fierce battle for reelection this year, but he doesn’t necessarily consider that his biggest challenge. “In the 12 years…
Magazine
Why more women will have AI boyfriends than men will have AI girlfriends
Artificial intelligence is no longer a “what if.” From virtual assistants to productivity tools to even, occasionally, supercharged search engines, with tools like Perplexity.ai, AI is everywhere.…
Entertainment
Red Dawn is a misunderstood masterpiece
If ever a film has been ripe for rediscovery and reevaluation, it is Red Dawn, John Milius’s 1984 movie about a group of Colorado children who become…
Magazine
A president and an oil baron walk into a journalist
Washington Examiner contributing writer and presidential historian Tevi Troy has just written The Power and the Money: The Epic Clashes Between Commanders in Chief and Titans of…
Magazine
‘Force pro’
In an earlier Life in Uniform column, I told you about my friend William Keller, who was a sergeant E-4 in the Air Force in Vietnam in…
Foreign Policy
Great White North: Canada’s stakes in the US presidential election are considerable
When the world snoops on the relationship between the United States and Canada, they see a complicated marriage. Longtime allies who haven’t seen a shot fired in…
Magazine
Will longtime ‘North Carolina split’ between presidential and gubernatorial races hold?
It’s a truism of North Carolina’s politics that every four years, the Republican presidential nominee wins the state’s electoral votes while a Democrat takes the governorship. For…
Magazine
Anger buddies
At a certain point in your life, when something bothers you, this is the first question you ask yourself: Is what I’m irritated by a legitimate problem,…
Congressional
‘Do-nothing’ GOP House got a few things done
Democratic President Harry Truman popularized the term “do-nothing Congress” and rode that taunt to an unexpected victory in 1948. Truman, a vice president who rose to commander…