The bizarre story of a decorated U.S. special forces member and the explosion of a Tesla Cybertruck near the Strip on Wednesday morning came into more focus Friday. It appears to have been a suicide premeditated for maximum attention.

Police identified 37-year-old Matthew Alan Livelsberger of Colorado as the man who drove the vehicle, laden ...Read more

In less than two weeks, Donald Trump will become our 47th president. Among a number of priorities about which the soon-to-be president has mused publicly — going after undocumented workers, going after Liz Cheney, going after the Panama Canal — one that concerns me, because he might actually do it, is going after the post office.

On Dec. 14...Read more

WASHINGTON — By the standard President Joe Biden set himself, the core purpose he proclaimed when he ran in 2020, it is impossible to assess his one-term presidency as anything but a failure.

"We are in a battle for the soul of this nation," Biden said as he began his campaign in 2019. "If we give Donald Trump eight years in the White House,...Read more

Many Democrats remain comically befuddled over how they lost two of the past three presidential elections to Donald Trump. As one might expect from those obsessed with gender and identity politics, they now engage in projection, chalking up the defeats to a sexist and misogynist electorate.

“Will the U.S. ever be ready for a female president?...Read more

One thing seems to be lost in the border crisis/illegal immigration/migrant surge debate: When government needs to find money, it will.

Granted, taxpayers have ultimately covered the enormous bill to pay for housing and caring for migrants around the country thanks to the Biden administration’s “come on in” policies. But short of Donald ...Read more

Migrants aren’t the only ones dying — more than 5,000 in the last decade — because politics has replaced common sense as a way to solve the human crisis occurring daily at the U.S. border with Mexico.

Seventeen of the more than 10,000 Texas National Guardsmen unnecessarily deployed at the border since March 2021 have died from various ...Read more

Among the big losers of the 2024 election were politicians and activist groups who claim so-called “dark money” is the secret force driving American politics. Groups that do not disclose their donors once again made up a small share of overall campaign spending and notched few notable victories.

The results underscore an uncomfortable but ...Read more

A young friend had invited me to go with him to the Pittsburgh Gun Show. It's a culture I don't know at all — I've never even shot a gun — so I went along. There were a lot of guns, and a lot of other things too, like old Army uniforms, but mostly guns, gun parts, and ammo. And knives.

The people there really, really like guns. As I say, it...Read more

“The Shining” (book 1977, film 1980) is about a white-knuckle alcoholic’s descent into his disease and its effects on his mind, career and family. I didn’t learn this until recently. I just thought it was about how scary it is to be married to a writer.

I moved from L.A. to New York City three years ago as a writer and representative of...Read more

President-elect Donald Trump has repeatedly promised to impose trade tariffs ranging from 25% to 100% unless Mexico “secures” its border with the United States. The concept of using Mexico as an arm of the U.S. immigration enforcement is not new.

During his first administration, Trump pressured Mexico to increase the number of detentions ...Read more

With Donald Trump set to return to the White House, there’s much speculation on how his second administration will affect press freedom. The short answer is that we don’t know, but prognosticators do have the benefit of an important dataset: his first term.

And, if that record is any indication, national security “leaks” to the press ...Read more

Have you made a New Year’s resolution yet? Here are two good ones: to be compassionate and to get healthy. You can start doing both in “Veganuary,” an annual challenge encouraging everyone to go vegan for the month of January.

Consuming meat, eggs and dairy is cruel, unnecessary — and bad for you. Studies show that individuals who ...Read more

The coming year, 2025, is really like any other, only more so: It deserves to be greeted with what one of my former editors calls “paranoid optimism.”

Optimism is in order because the world, chaotic as it currently looks, might get better — and yes, in part because a new American president, Donald Trump, could tackle problems in such mind...Read more

As Inauguration Day nears, it’s clear that President-elect Donald Trump believes he has a mandate to enact the largest deportation in U.S. history. What happens next could forever alter what it means to be an American.

Immigration under President Joe Biden surged to levels unmatched in more than a century — an estimated net increase of 8 ...Read more

The 400 New Orleans police officers on duty in the French Quarter were not able to stop the New Year’s Eve ramming attack with a pickup truck used to run down revelers on Bourbon St., nor should those cops have been expected to, even as three of those officers heroically shot dead the killer when he opened fire.

It is the FBI that is America�...Read more

Updates keep coming in on the New Year’s Day terrorist attack on Bourbon Street, but one detail thus far is especially disturbing and serves as a wake up call to cities across the country.

Normally, bollards are part of a protective infrastructure preventing vehicles from entering areas crowded with pedestrians.

They weren’t there in the ...Read more

With less than a month left now in Joe Biden’s presidency, it might seem pointless to discuss yet again the president’s cognitive fitness for office. But there are two reasons that discussion shouldn’t yet be over:

One, there are serious questions right now about who is actually making decisions in the White House — questions driven ...Read more

Let's not sugarcoat it. If President-elect Donald Trump attempts what he has foreshadowed, we are about to enter the most challenging period of our 248-year-old republic.

At the same time, Americans remain an idealistic, compassionate people who believe in our Constitution, Bill of Rights, and principles of fairness and opportunity. And our ...Read more

Even before taking office, the Republican Party’s new majority has become deeply split over the legislative path ahead. Some lawmakers want to prioritize defense, energy and immigration; others want to focus on taxes first; still others want everything, all at once, preferably while humiliating their opponents. A more modest agenda would ...Read more

In its waning weeks, President Joe Biden’s administration has revved up engagement on Sudan in an attempt to end, or at least pause, a devastating war that has created the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. The next administration is unlikely to take up the cause, which is so far off the radar that no one is even speculating what Donald ...Read more