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As the sun rises on a new Trump-era geopolitical chapter, Washington confronts a defining choice: Will America view the People's Republic of China and its regnant Communist Party through the rose-colored lens of transaction and diplomacy, or will it soberly recognize Beijing as America's foremost geopolitical adversary in a multigenerational ...Read more

During oral arguments in Trump v. Slaughter, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor threatened America with a good time, warning that the administration is "asking us to destroy the structure of government."

Great. It's about time an unaccountable fourth branch of the state was decimated. Trump v. Slaughter revolves around the president's ...Read more

On the day the Justice Department arrested several men for trying to smuggle NVIDIA chips into China, the president announced the United States would permit NVIDIA to sell its advanced graphics processing units to China. The United States, by most estimates, right now has a computing advantage over China of 32 to 1. Giving China these chips ...Read more

People magazine and former Washington Post reporter Paul Farhi have made separate lists of insults President Donald Trump has recently lobbed at female reporters. It doesn't matter how the journalists behaved because apparently, women can't possibly be ill-mannered in press conferences. Or they think you can't possibly be as rude as Trump.

The ...Read more

Few would have guessed that Erika Kirk would have to spend energy these last few, heart-breaking months fending off a right-wing influencer bent on implicating her slain husband's own organization, TPUSA, in his assassination.

Here we are, though. Influential voices on the right have become more and more conspiratorial in recent years, and ...Read more

We have revised the first sentence of the latest column titled "Donald Trump is becoming Joe Biden version 2.0," changing the phrase "then-President Joe Biden" to "then-Vice President Kamala Harris." Please use the revised version.

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"Does anyone know where the love of God goes
When the waves turn the minutes to hours?"
-- Gordon Lightfoot (1938-2023) "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald"

As we learn more about the events on Sept. 2, 2025, in international waters 1,500 miles from the United States, the behavior of the United States military becomes more ...Read more

Minnesota is now facing one of the largest documented government service fraud scandals in United States history. Under Gov. Tim Walz's evidently unwatchful eye, federal prosecutors have estimated that approximately $1 billion in taxpayer funds have been siphoned from multiple state- and federally funded social service programs over the last ...Read more

In a scene that perfectly captures the strangeness of American politics today, President Donald Trump, a billionaire and self-styled champion of American business (at least the ones he likes) was all smiles during an Oval Office visit from Zohran Mamdani, the democratic socialist and mayor-elect of New York City.

For months, the two men ...Read more

Ever since Notre Dame's football team was cheated (yes, cheated) out of playing in the college football championship playoffs, the news has been filled with articles by sportswriters who are incensed that the team decided not to participate in one of the remaining bowl games that are not part of the playoffs.

For example, Chris Vannini...Read more

The United States is confronting an existential threat -- but not the kind defined by ships on the horizon or missiles in the air. The danger instead stems from a waning sense of national purpose and a growing doubt about America's global role. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the emerging geopolitical alignment linking China, Russia and ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- If you tuned into "60 Minutes" Sunday night, you saw Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., talk about her falling out with President Donald Trump and her decision to resign from the House in the middle of what was supposed to be her third two-year term.

That Greene would get her own star segment on "60 Minutes" is no surprise. As ...Read more

Recently in The Wall Street Journal, Neera Tanden, CEO of the Center for American Progress, a major foghorn in our nation's capital for America's left, explained "Why Democrats Won the Shutdown."

The most accurate declaration in the article is "fights tell the country a lot about what -- and who -- the fighters care about."

And, indeed, ...Read more

Thank goodness the Trump administration and technology-savvy congressional leaders (in both parties) agree on one very key strategic issue vis-a-vis Communist China: America must close the rare earth gap.

The 17 rare earth minerals -- also called rare earth elements (REEs) -- are fundamental to digital modernity. REEs possess irreplaceable ...Read more

Wikipedia is "Wokepedia," complains Elon Musk. That's because it's become so left-wing. "It's designed to push an ideological agenda that you can't see," says journalist Ashley Rindsberg. "So what if it's biased?" I ask. "It's just one website." "Wikipedia's information spreads into everything online," he replies, "ChatGPT, ... Siri, Alexa. Ask ...Read more

When former President George W. Bush stood on the West Front of the Capitol for his second inauguration in 2005, he gave a speech that called for a utopian foreign policy that aimed at spreading democracy all across the globe.

"We are led, by events and common sense, to one conclusion: The survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends ...Read more

The Washington Post would like you to pretend along with them that they're the essence of fact-based neutrality, that they don't play favorites. Then you notice that their Sunday Arts & Style section carried a sprawling four-page spread with 10 color photographs on the glorious Rosie O'Donnell and her passionate loathing of President Donald ...Read more

EXPORT, Pennsylvania -- When Ben Fallon was growing up in Cranberry Township, Pennsylvania, all he ever wanted to do was play football. Fallon was in fourth grade, and in Western Pennsylvania, pretty much every boy wants to play football. However, his parents had some strong feelings about that sport.

"My parents wouldn't let me play football...Read more