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Amid celebrations of our nation's 250th birthday, Gallup serves up a sobering portrait of general dissatisfaction with our nation's core institutions.

"Confidence in U.S. institutions Remains Near All-Time Low," reports Gallup.

Of 14 core institutions -- banks, big business, labor, the presidency, Congress, schools, health care, etc. -- only...Read more

On Feb. 17 of this year, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) temporarily closed the Strait of Hormuz -- or at least claimed that it had denied non-Iranian ships the right to pass through the Strait.

That day, I wrote a column arguing the size and composition of the forces the U.S. had deployed in the Middle East and "the Pentagon's ...Read more

Four New Yorkers have been killed by Legionella bacteria in the last week, tragedies that were preventable if the city had performed its core, lifesaving duty to monitor and inspect air conditioning cooling towers.

But New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is focused on creating a socialist utopia instead of keeping the city running.

The ...Read more

"We are doomed and our leaders are insane."

So wrote journalist Matt Taibbi recently.

Taibbi didn't respond to our request for an interview, but he raises issues that deserve debate. So my new video is based on his column.

"Not one of our presidents ..." Taibbi writes, "can resist starting wars."

When the Soviet Union fell, President Bill ...Read more

Seven members of the Little Sisters of the Poor left their order's motherhouse in La Tour Saint-Joseph, France, on Aug. 28, 1868, and headed for the coast. Three days later, they boarded the Napoleon III steamship and began a trip across the Atlantic.

Two weeks later, they arrived in New York.

Then, a few days after that, they established ...Read more

Sexual abuse of minors is a serious crime. But when it comes to the national media, the crime is only serious if it can make Republicans look bad. Recently, Curtis Houck of the Media Research Center found that ABC, CBS and NBC devoted 1,627 minutes of airtime on their morning, evening and Sunday shows over the last year to the Jeffrey Epstein ...Read more

CARLISLE, Pennsylvania -- Jamie Dimon sat on the stage with President Donald Trump, Sen. David McCormick (R-Pa.), Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, Secretary of the Army Dan Driscoll and investors. The CEO of JPMorgan Chase looked out at an auditorium filled with more than 1,500 people attending the inaugural Defense and Innovation Summit.

"God ...Read more

Last week I took a daylong field trip touring a giant data center near Dulles International Airport in Loudon County, Virginia. The facility is owned and operated by CloudHQ.

A "cloud," by the way, is the hardware that stores trillions of data files, research, love letters, the entirety of the Library of Congress and virtually everything else...Read more

The World Cup showed why you shouldn't be ashamed of America's heroes and heritage.

While only Argentina and Spain made Sunday's World Cup final, citizens of many countries enthusiastically cheered on their teams. Norwegian fans became an internet phenomenon for their "Viking Row" cheer. Sitting like they were in a longboat, fans moved their ...Read more

When New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signed a one-year moratorium on new large-scale data centers via executive order, it became the nation's first statewide ban.

It will likely be popular. Polls find widespread opposition to data centers, and the objections seem to be growing. Around 70% oppose the construction of a new artificial intelligence data...Read more

It's easy to forget, but from 2022 through 2024, Democrats engaged in some of the most reckless, republic-destabilizing actions since their partisan forebears fired on Fort Sumter in 1861. In colluding to prosecute then-former (and future) President Donald Trump on sham legal grounds across four different jurisdictions and three separate ...Read more

New York just became the first state in the country to sign a moratorium on data centers. There are two paths forward on this issue. One path builds the infrastructure that runs the next 50 years of the American economy. The other bans the future, then acts surprised when the jobs show up somewhere else. I'm here to defend the data centers ...Read more

Is it possible that the Republican war on so-called diversity, equity and inclusion is having an effect on the movies? The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) is expressing alarm at the decline of LGBTQ characters at the movies -- it's at 20.4% of 2025 films in their latest tally, down from 28.5% in 2022.

Worse yet for the GLAAD...Read more

Still boyish, energetic, enthusiastic, Lindsey Graham died suddenly last weekend at the age of 71. Once upon a time, death at such an age was not unexpected. The two Presidents Roosevelt died aged 60 and 63, and in the summer of 1949, two Supreme Court justices in their 50s died of heart attacks.

But advances in medicine and pharmacology have ...Read more

What did the country ever do to white college graduates to make them feel so disaffected from its economic and political system?

The wave of socialist victories in Democratic primaries is being driven by well-educated white voters who are more extreme than the rest of the Democratic coalition.

The latest evidence is a new poll in the closely ...Read more

The question recently asked by a federal judge in Miami -- can the president sue an entity in the executive branch of the federal government and benefit from the resolution of that lawsuit? -- seems to beg the question.

How could anyone sue an entity he controls and derive a benefit from the amicable resolution of such a lawsuit at the expense ...Read more

America spends an extraordinary amount of time debating the top 1% -- the billionaires, corporate CEOs and hedge fund managers -- and the widening gap between the rich and everyone else. It is an important conversation in a nation that prizes both opportunity and free enterprise.

But there is another 1% we talk about far too little.

Not the ...Read more

Americans will soon choose a set of senators who will take office in January 2027 and serve through early 2033. In the final months of that term, Social Security's retirement trust fund is expected to run dry and trigger benefits cuts of 22% -- not just for the wealthy, not just for new retirees, but for everyone up to and including widows ...Read more