July marked the fifth consecutive month of border crossings dropping, which even accounting for the seasonal drop around summertime is at the lowest level in years. This represents a success of Biden administration efforts, but…

It’s a shame that the Republican Party now leans toward abandoning Ukraine to Russian domination and repression, to be reabsorbed into the old Soviet system. It is, after all, the party of Dwight Eisenhower, who…

A week can be a long time in war. Until July 27th there was growing optimism that Israel and Hamas were close to a ceasefire that would halt their ten-month conflict.  Diplomats and spies from…

When an autocrat declares victory despite evidence to the contrary, you are in make-believe territory. On Sunday night, after six long hours waiting for the election authorities to deliver results, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro was…

Donald Trump wowed the crowds Saturday at the Bitcoin Conference by promising to make the U.S. the “crypto capital of the planet.” But he has some work to do to iron out the contradiction in…

Months if not years in the making, a bipartisan bill in Washington seeks to speed up permitting for new energy infrastructure, which far too often today gets bogged down if not killed by exhausting regulatory…

President Joe Biden was still recovering from COVID when he addressed the country from the Oval Office on Wednesday night.  He was still hurting from wounds to both his pride and his undimmed desire to…

President Joe Biden put country before self Sunday when he announced he would not run for re-election, saying “I believe it is in the best interest of my party and the country for me to…

The Kremlin finally put our imprisoned colleague Evan Gershkovich on trial, and on Friday he was sentenced to 16 years in a high-security penal colony. The charge was espionage, but there was no public evidence…

An unprecedented strain of bird flu is spreading among dairy cattle in the U.S. An outbreak of a flesh-eating bacteria has infected more than 1,000 people in Japan. At least 13 communicable diseases including measles,…