Not to pile on, but while we’re tallying transgressions against ex-U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, who was fired by President Donald Trump last week, we should not forget the often-overlooked death of another American citizen who was killed by an ICE agent under her watch.

Every time news articles or commentators mention the ...Read more

The polls make it obvious: Americans are dissatisfied with their leaders. That sense of grievance applies to presidents, of course, as both Donald Trump and predecessor Joe Biden have chalked up dismally low approval ratings. But the frustrations go well beyond those two supposed leaders of the free world.

Across public service, business, ...Read more

There’s never been a film like “Sinners,” an actual fact even if it wins absolutely nothing Sunday night at the Oscars, because its 16 nominations have already established that there’s never been a film like “Sinners.”

Whether it wins a record-breaking 12 Academy Awards and launches into our cultural history as the most decorated ...Read more

Across the country, Immigration and Customs Enforcement is acquiring industrial warehouses to be converted into detention facilities for people swept up in the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown. ICE has bought at least seven facilities so far, some of which are projected to hold thousands of people. One warehouse in an Arizona town ...Read more

In his State of the Union address on Feb. 24 — how long ago that seems — the president claimed that the problem of “affordability” was solved. He spoke too soon. Even before the strikes on Iran drove the price of oil sharply higher, concern about inflation was mounting. A prolonged conflict in the Middle East would be sure to make things...Read more

More than a week after the U.S. and Israel launched punishing airstrikes against Iran, neither side appears ready to pause hostilities. The Islamic Republic will surely pay the bigger price for its intransigence. But that doesn’t mean the U.S. can ignore the long-term costs of fighting without a realistic endgame in mind.

Despite claiming to ...Read more

The late writer and satirist P.J. O’Rourke once famously noted, “Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.” He should have apologized to teenage boys.

In 2011, President Barack Obama signed the GPRA Modernization Act, bipartisan legislation intended to improve government accountability and ...Read more

North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un will draw a dangerous conclusion from the U.S. and Israel’s strikes on Iran: Nuclear weapons are the ultimate guarantor of regime survival.

Pyongyang has condemned the operation that killed Iran’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei, calling the attacks shameless and an illegal act of aggression. President Donald ...Read more

This weekend, the sun shone and a warm breeze brought a sense of hope after a long winter. Birds chirped and neighbors emerged from hibernation, exchanging greetings after months indoors. Children took to the streets on their bikes, and those of us with kids relished the laughter that comes when the weather finally turns.

For families in Iran,...Read more

For as long as I’ve worked in democracy reform, I’ve watched people use non‑partisan and non‑biased as if they meant the same thing. They don’t.

This confusion has distorted how Americans judge the credibility of the democracy reform movement, journalists, and even one another. We have created an impossible expectation that anyone ...Read more

From a pure military-centric perspective, the ongoing U.S. and Israeli war against Iran has been a smashing success. Yet in terms of strategy, the air campaign, now in its second week, is very much a discombobulated mess: U.S. goals are constantly shifting, metrics for victory are nebulous, and the emergence of a coherent endgame is nonexistent....Read more

Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens have wasted no time turning the Iran war into raw material for their anti‑Israel worldview, rearranging facts to fit a narrative they were already committed to.

In the span of days, Carlson has accused the Jewish Chabad‑Lubavitch movement of quietly engineering a holy war, while Owens has declared she ...Read more

President Donald Trump’s cabinet is filled with grifters, fools, and thugs. Kristi Noem somehow managed to be all three.

While she will not be missed as head of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, her proposed replacement, U.S. Sen. Markwayne Mullin, hardly seems any better.

The Senate, which must confirm the next secretary, should ...Read more

Donald Trump has chosen to govern as a wartime president. But history shows that military strength abroad rarely saves a president who is losing control of the political battlefield at home.

Trump’s campaign against Iran — from airstrikes on strategic targets to the killing of top Iranian leadership — has quickly become the defining ...Read more

It is now clear that the joint United States-Israeli war on Iran will not result in a quick capitulation by the Islamic Republic or an uprising by the Iranian people, as was clearly hoped for by the Trump administration.

This was sealed Friday by President Donald Trump’s demand that the Iranian regime “unconditionally surrender” — a ...Read more

In an effort to justify his war on Iran, President Donald Trump turned to history. He begins with 1979, the year the Islamic Revolution deposed Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and replaced him with the government of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.

Iran has been a problem ever since. Forty-seven years of repressive theocratic rule hasn’t been good for...Read more

The war with Iran is burning the clock on President Donald Trump’s chances for a reset with voters on the economy. And that increases the odds that his 2026 messaging will focus on disqualifying Democrats with polarizing wedge issues — a strategy that has mostly, though not entirely, failed for other presidents.

As the midterm primaries get...Read more

“’I love the smell of deportations in the morning…’ Chicago is about to find out why it’s called the Department of WAR.” President Donald Trump, September 6, 2025

This statement, made by President Donald Trump on Truth Social, referencing protests against ICE and mass deportation, draws attention to a problem that is not discussed ...Read more

The end of the college basketball season is fast approaching. Selection Sunday is less than a week away, with dozens of teams waiting to see where they will be seeded and, for some, if they fall on the right side of the bubble. This also means that college basketball fans are sharpening their pencils to fill out their March Madness bracket.

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