American presidents face an inescapable dilemma as soon as they are reelected. Because they cannot run again, they find it…

If you think America doesn’t permit assisted suicide, you haven’t been watching the New York mayoral election. The city is…

Gaza was always going to be a hard lift, and it is proving to be exactly that. The two years…

Although we are still learning the details of the lethal assault on the ICE facility in Dallas, we already know…

Jimmy Kimmel’s broadcast has made a lot more news off the air than on it. The latest is that ABC…

Governor Spencer Cox of Utah rose above the crowd when he spoke of Charlie Kirk‘s assassination and the apprehension of…

Free speech, the very bedrock of constitutional democracy, is writhing on its deathbed in England. It will take a mass movement to restore its vitality. Fortunately,…

Did President Trump make any progress toward ending the war in Ukraine after successive meetings with Vladimir Putin, Volodymyr Zelensky…

President Trump’s initiative to restore law and order to the streets of the nation’s capital is a smart political move.…

The big education news this week is a court ruling that allows the Trump administration to begin cutting jobs at…

As the song goes: “Chicago, that toddlin’ town.” It was certainly toddlin’ in the 1950s and 1960s, when that song…

“Who will guard the guardians?” That question, posed two millennia ago by the Roman poet, Juvenal, is just as relevant today. It recurs every time we learn of a…

There are serious, unanswered questions about the impact of America’s bombing of three Iranian nuclear sites. Three stand out. How…

“80-20” issues have become a catchphrase recently. Most voters on those issues favor one policy by overwhelming margins and oppose…

China is surely America’s most dangerous threat over the medium term, but Iran is surely the most dangerous right now. The Islamic Republic would be even…

“You don’t have to go home, but you can’t stay here.” So goes the bartenders’ refrain to customers at closing…

The weather is growing warm, which means anti-Semitic demonstrations are blooming at elite universities. The hatred of Jews is no longer hidden, as it was in…

President Trump has already dropped the first hammer on Harvard. He’s ready to drop the whole tool chest on a…

Last week’s violent anti-Semitic protest at Stanford is yet another sign of a pernicious climate on many campuses. The immediate…

To win elections in a two-party system, the victor needs to erect a big tent. He needs to persuade all…

Donald Trump this weekend floated the idea of running for a third term. Unless he’s doing it in 1940 when…

Congress has been mulling the future of publicly-funded television and radio. Here’s a spoiler alert: that funding is toast. There…

Yesterday, with growing sadness, I read a wonderful book about teaching and learning, written by one of the great teachers…

Donald Trump’s speech to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday night was the most powerful, rousing, and pointed of…

Why are Democrats mounting such a ferocious assault on Elon Musk? Why are mainstream media outlets so eager to go…