In 1996, I was a 21-year-old antiwar conservative who cast my first presidential vote ever for Pat Buchanan in the Republican primaries. I was also a native South Carolinian and Lindsey Graham was already running for a second term representing my state in the U.S....
Five days after his party suffered a spectacular loss in the midterm elections, President Donald Trump sat down for a nearly half hour interview with Ross Douthat of CBS News. On foreign policy, Trump made three particularly shocking statements. The day after the...
In its early days, Saturday Night Live got a lot of comedy mileage out of Chevy Chase satirizing President Gerald Ford’s clumsiness with exaggerated pratfalls and stumbles. It wasn’t just SNL. Comedian Bob Hope piled on, saying you could always find Ford on the golf...
Libertarians hold that absolute freedom of association allows individuals to form unions, guilds, or cooperatives to bargain collectively, provided membership remains entirely voluntary and the organization never uses government force to coerce others. But that theory...
Another election has come and gone and Americans are, as ever, facing new governance defined by corruption, incompetence, war, national debt, and endless intrusions into what should be personal matters. And yet, for all of this, there really are noticeable differences...
Sometime this weekend, perhaps late at night, you may have typed a question into the assistant that now lives inside Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. It might have been about a loan you cannot cover, or a parent whose health is slipping. Since December 16, 2025,...
When Vivek Ramaswamy emerged onto the political scene, he provided a sense of hope for some that he might be a genuine alternative to the Republican establishment. Vivek’s appeal to libertarians came through during his earliest moments on the campaign trail for the...
The casual observer could be forgiven for wondering how the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), a Sudanese paramilitary organization notorious for atrocities in Darfur, became powerful enough to challenge the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) for control of the country when its...
Last week, Bill Kristol’s son-in-law Matthew Continetti wrote an op-ed about the midterm elections for The Wall Street Journal titled “Anti-Semitism is on the Ballot.” “Rising antisemitism isn’t only a problem for Democrats. No one who travels in Republican or...
Over the last year, a common narrative has circulated through conservative commentary about Latin America’s political shifts. Washington dismantled the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the argument goes, and conservative candidates began...
The word “audacity,” defined by the Cambridge English Dictionary as “courage or confidence of a kind that other people find shocking or rude,” is, as its definition suggests, construed mainly in personal terms, and often, as with Barack Obama’s “the audacity of hope,”...
With all of President Donald Trump’s wars—Iran, Yemen, Ukraine, Nigeria, Somalia, Venezuela, and cartels—it's easy to lose track of what is happening on the Korean Peninsula. However, since Trump returned to the White House, a series of developments on the Korean...
Independent Australian MP, Helen Haines, has lost both of her legs after being attacked by a man who drove his car repeatedly into her. The attack on the 65-year old woman may be a politically motivated assassination attempt. The head of the Australian Federal Police,...
The national Republican Party has settled on a campaign against the Democrats, painting the opposition party as a bunch of economic socialists. “Across the nation, socialist policies are increasingly dominating Democratic politics,” Rep. Brian Steil (R-WI) complained...
Perhaps you’re old enough to recall the New Atheist movement and the "Four Horsemen of New Atheism," a reference to the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse in Christian eschatology, or theology of the end times. Inspired by this quartet, I have been cataloging the "Four...
On October 25, the left-wing incumbent Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who came second in the first round of elections, defeated the right-wing Flávio Bolsonaro, who had defeated him in round one. The result was always possible, since millions had sat out expressing their...
In a statement posted on Twitter/X, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) said: REMINDER: The single biggest driver of our national debt for the last 25 YEARS have been Republican-led tax cuts. — Senator Patty Murray (@PattyMurray) August 21, 2026 Senator Murray’s claim that...
Washington is preparing for a new round of talks in the Indo-Pacific. The South China Morning Post reported on October 22 that Philippine ambassador Jose Manuel Romualdez anticipated possible meetings of the informal “Squad” security grouping ahead of regional summits...
