Courage, Strength & Optimism

A woman takes pictures of the hostages kidnapped by Hamas at the fence in front of the New Synagogue Berlin on Jan. 16, 2025 in Tel Aviv, Israel.

The hostages need stronger sanctions on Hamas and Iran

By Ruby Chen March 2, 2026 5:11 am

Approve the Union Pacific-Norfolk Southern merger

James Rogan Mar 2, 2026

A baby is lifted over a wall at the Kabul airport in Afghanistan by U.S. soldiers as Afghans attempt to flee the Taliban takeover of the country, Aug. 19, 2021.

Trump Defense Department callously endangers Afghan allies

Beth Bailey Aug 1, 2025

President Donald Trump speaks before signing the Laken Riley Act in the East Room of the White House, Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2025, in Washington.

Team Trump is blowing its chance to reform the deep state

John Schindler Jul 31, 2025

Trump has already hosted two key allies at the White House, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, with at least three other foreign leaders slated to visit by month's end.

Rescissions are not a White House ‘fade on soft power’

James Mazzarella and Patrick Quirk Jul 31, 2025

FILE - In this May 14, 2014 file photo, people walk by the Sony Building at Ginza shopping district in Tokyo. Sony shareholders voted Thursday, June 19 to keep Chief Executive Kazuo Hirai and other top executives after heckling them about the Japanese electronics and entertainment company's continuing losses. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi, File)

Is Sony the next TikTok?

By Paul Boardman March 27, 2023 6:00 am

The Taliban escalate their brutal hunt for American allies

By Beth Bailey March 26, 2023 6:00 am

Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Sergei Kislyak.

Trump’s latest gift to Biden

By Ian Haworth March 24, 2023 1:04 pm

Ban TikTok — now

By Kaylee McGhee White March 24, 2023 9:47 am

What Florida’s higher education bill gets right

By Max Eden March 23, 2023 8:52 am

TikTok data trackers installed on state government websites, review finds

By Christopher Hutton March 21, 2023 12:15 pm

Biden administration limits China investments by semiconductor chip subsidy recipients

By Christopher Hutton March 21, 2023 10:27 am

Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with Head of the Jewish autonomous region Alexander Vinnikov in the Kremlin in Moscow, Friday, July 25, 2014. (AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Mikhail Klimentyev, Presidential Press Service)

Putin’s imperial ambitions are a threat to the American-led world order

By Michael Lucchese March 21, 2023 6:00 am

Andy Lack, Ronan Farrow, Chris Hayes.

Manchin blasts Biden over ESG rule veto

By Breanne Deppisch March 20, 2023 2:33 pm

Rep. Jared Golden, D-Maine, attends the State of the Tribes, Wednesday, March 16, 2023, at the State House in Augusta, Maine.

Biden administration criticized by Maine Democrat for ‘hypocrisy’ in lobster regulations

By Rachel Schilke March 20, 2023 2:09 pm

FILE - In this April 19, 2011 file photo, a member of the U.S. National Guard checks on his colleague inside a Border Patrol Skybox near the Hidalgo International Bridge in Hidalgo, Texas. National Guard members along the Texas-Mexico border assist Border Patrol by surveying the terrain from the tower. The U.S. National Guard faces a vastly different landscape than it did on its last two deployments to the Mexican border but its role is shaping up much the same: moving Border Patrol agents from behind-the-scenes jobs to making arrests on the front lines. The Guard was assigned to observation posts some distance from the border for safety reasons, using binoculars and other gear to spot people crossing. Richard Barlow, then a top Border Patrol official in San Diego, said their success as lookouts varied because they were unarmed and needed protection in more dangerous areas.

Sixteen on FBI terror watchlist caught illegally crossing southern border in February

By Anna Giaritelli March 20, 2023 12:19 pm

The Iraq War looks better with time

By Michael Rubin March 20, 2023 6:00 am