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

Tom Cotton sounds the alarm on China â is anybody listening?

Tom Cotton sounds the alarm on China â is anybody listening?

By Salena Zito March 17, 2023 3:04 pm

In this May 21, 2014, photo, Russia's President Vladimir Putin, and China's President Xi Jinping, right, smile during signing ceremony in Shanghai, China. China signed a long-awaited, 30-year deal Wednesday to buy Russian natural gas worth some $400 billion in a financial and diplomatic boost to diplomatically isolated President Vladimir Putin. The Obama administration is playing down an increasingly warm relationship between its main global rivals, China and Russia, that it may have inadvertently encouraged.

Russia is helping China speed up its nuclear buildup. The US is unprepared to counter it

By Jack Kraemer and Patty-Jane Geller March 17, 2023 1:24 pm

The trillion-dollar hole in the president’s budget

By Matt Weidinger March 16, 2023 1:30 pm

In this Tuesday, Jan. 25, 2011 photo, U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Marc Krugh, left, from the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment, looks on as a comrade peers through the scope on his weapon during a patrol near Iskandariyah, 30 miles (50 kilometers) south of Baghdad. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

Biden administration supports repealing authorization for wars in Iraq

By Mike Brest March 16, 2023 11:23 am

Has America been too slow to wake up to the China threat?

By Hugo Gurdon March 16, 2023 9:46 am

Basic fixes to start saving Medicare

By Joe Albanese March 16, 2023 6:00 am

Secretary of State Antony Blinken.

Is Blinken repeating Biden’s Iraq mistake in Africa?

By Michael Rubin March 15, 2023 1:50 pm

A North Korean man carries his country's national flag after celebrations of the "Day of the Shining Star" or birthday anniversary of late North Korean leader Kim Jong Il on Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2016, in Pyongyang, North Korea. The celebrations of Kim's birthday anniversary, a revered national holiday, came as South Koreaâs president warned that North Korea faces collapse if it doesnât abandon its nuclear weapons program, amid an international outcry over Pyongyangâs January nuclear test and the Feb. 7 rocket launch.

North Korea signals more provocations and tensions

By Bruce Klingner March 15, 2023 1:42 pm

Biden’s Alaska oil project approval is a gift to the environment

By Tom Joyce March 15, 2023 10:23 am

Biden accuses people who oppose mutilating children of being ‘close to sinful’

By Zachary Faria March 14, 2023 2:01 pm

Former Rep. Barney Frank speaks.

Barney Frank’s bank tanks: Government is just the word for the businesses we shut down together

By Timothy P. Carney March 14, 2023 12:46 pm

Here’s what to know about the three leading bills to crack down on TikTok

By Christopher Hutton March 14, 2023 4:45 am