The 2024 Paris Olympics are just around the corner. On July 26, tens of millions of people around the world will tune in to watch the opening ceremony and the games to follow in the coming weeks. Not to mention the more than 8.6 million attendees who have already purchased tickets. Since the first modern...
Editor’s note: The following column was first published on Public, a Substack publication. The news media is finally doing real reporting and asking tough questions. Recently, White House correspondents repeatedly questioned Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre about why a Parkinson’s expert has visited the White House so many times, leading to a heated exchange. After ignoring...
The vaunted saviors of democracy in the Democratic Party were ready to throw out all the norms this summer to make sure voters keep them in power.Unfortunately for them, the calendar is not their friend. With just four months before the general election ends, Democrats and their advocates in the media began floating the idea...
“The First Amendment Is Out of Control.” That headline in a recent column in the New York Times warned Americans of a menace lurking around them and threatening their livelihoods and very lives. That menace is free speech and the media and academia are ramping up attacks on a right that once defined us as...
The bar could not have been lower, nor the stakes higher for President Joe Biden than they were for his prime time press conference on Thursday night. And while he just barely cleared the bar and likely lived to fight another day, the stakes for him and the nation remain just as high. Yes, there...
NATO leaders in Washington this week are pledging support for Ukraine, but they are also deeply worried about their own long-term security. If Putin ever attacks a NATO country, he’s going to send tanks. And pop a missile barrage over Europe’s cities, just as he did to five cities in Ukraine on Monday. Fortunately, NATO...
The federal government is now paying interest on the national debt at an annualized rate of more than $1 trillion per year, expanding to $1.5 trillion in 2025, according to thelatest figures from the Treasury and the Bureau of Economic Analysis. Annual interest expenses have more than doubled since the third quarter of 2020, shortly...
When Democrats and their allies in the media broachthe topic of Project 2025,the theme music for the Imperial March (Darth Vader’s theme song) might as well start rising up in the background.But that’s where the desperation of the Dems has landed in this critical moment for the party and its likely presidential nominee, Joe Biden....
National Education Association president Becky Pringle wants to win “all the things.” She wants the nation’s largest teachers union to win all the power, all the elections, and all the progressive demands that radical union activists desire. Unfortunately, Pringle’s union does not seek to “win” a better education system for our nation’s struggling students. Before...
There is a very important press conference Thursday as the NATO summit in Washington, D.C. wraps up. It is an important moment for President Joe Biden, but he will be graded on a pass-fail basis. If he does not abjectly fail—as he did in his debate with former President Donald Trump two weeks ago, or...
