The White House raised the spirits of Hamas terrorists this week by publicly rebuking Israel. It’s the same tired tune from the Harris-Biden administration.

On Sunday, U.S. secretaries of defense and state sent a missive to their Israeli counterparts demanding that the Jewish state ensure an increased flow of humanitarian aid to the Gaza ...Read more

MODIIN, Israel — Of all the occasions my family and I have had to run to bomb shelters over the last few weeks, the most disconcerting was Iran’s Oct. 1 attack on Israel.

Even before the air raid siren sounded, our phones blared with a new Israeli alert system, deployed for the first time, directing us to take shelter until further notice....Read more

Life may be full of uncertainties but there's one thing you can count on come election day, as surely as the sun rises over the Sierra and sets over the Pacific.

Donald Trump will lose California. And it won't be remotely close.

In 2016, Trump was buried in a 25-point Hillary Clinton landslide. In 2020, he lost to Joe Biden by 29 percentage ...Read more

In 2000, when Democratic and Republican party lawyers fought over recounting Florida’s presidential votes, Connecticut Sen. Joseph Lieberman, the Democratic vice presidential nominee, declared that mail ballots from overseas military voters should be given the “benefit of the doubt” and counted, even if some arrived after Florida’s ...Read more

The image of Elon Musk that may be dominating people's mindspace at the moment is of his prancing about joyously — and yes, a tad weirdly — behind Donald Trump on the podium during the latter's Oct. 5 rally in Butler, Pa.

But how many people noticed the clue to Musk's worldview on display at the event? For visible under his jacket was a T-...Read more

Discussion of peace talks between Ukraine and Russia has become popular as Kyiv's battle to drive out Russian troops appears stuck in a stalemate — or worse. Many security analysts, including some sympathetic to Ukraine, now talk about the need for the beleaguered nation to concede territory to Moscow.

Much of that talk ignores the realities ...Read more

You've all heard the phony claims about how terrible the federal government's response to the recent hurricanes has been, right?

Former President Donald Trump has lied repeatedly about the effort. He's spun a preposterous tale about the feds abandoning hard-hit parts of western North Carolina because they are majority Republican. He says the ...Read more

Of the $4.5 trillion the U.S. spends on health care every year, the largest proportion — almost a third — goes to hospitals. The cost of hospital services has consistently outpaced the overall inflation rate for at least two decades. If Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump really want to reduce health-care costs —...Read more

The pandemic may feel like ages ago, but the fiscal follies of COVID continue to wreak havoc with personal and government balance sheets.

Higher prices brought about by the Biden-Harris administration’s $2 trillion federal spending binge known as the American Rescue Act of 2021 continue to bedevil family budgets. Although 9 percent inflation ...Read more

In the 1984 horror film "The Children of the Corn," a mysterious entity lures children to turn against their parents to guarantee an abundant corn harvest. Fast-forward 40 years, and a mysterious entity in Montgomery County, Maryland, is enticing children to turn against the Western world.

Nestled just north of Washington, D.C., Montgomery ...Read more

In December and January, Americans may face the gravest threat to the nation since the eve of the Civil War in April 1861.

A recent PRRI survey shows that about a quarter of Republicans agree that if Donald Trump “is not confirmed as the winner of the 2024 election, he should declare the results invalid and do whatever it takes to assume his...Read more

Donald Trump or Kamala Harris? The answer to the question of 2024 couldn’t be more straightforward: Trump.

Even without the failures of the Biden-Harris administration, there are plenty of reasons to support a second Trump term. As one of the most successful businessmen in American history, Trump would be a free-market president again by ...Read more

Colleges have understandable reasons for giving a leg up in admissions to students whose parents or other relatives attended the same school. The applicants known as “legacy candidates” are more likely to accept the offer, which helps the schools secure a freshman class that is qualified and committed to attending. They tend to need less ...Read more

Numerous audits and in-depth investigations led by Republicans have confirmed there is no evidence of voter fraud and machine rigging in the 2020 presidential election. Even former President Donald Trump has finally admitted he lost the election.

It is vitally important for voters to trust the 2024 election process. Post-election analysis, ...Read more

Words matter. Especially when uttered by a president, and especially overseas. “Speak softly, and carry a big stick,” Theodore Roosevelt advised, though he never envisioned a successor who would prove capable of obliterating cities half a world away in under half an hour.

That nuclear stick is pretty big indeed, capable since 1945 of ...Read more

The International Longshoremen’s Association scored a victory for its 45,000 dockworkers this month: After its three-day strike against the consortium of companies that operate ports in the eastern half of the country, it secured a significant raise for members.

But while the dockworkers won this battle, it seems more than likely that they’...Read more

Voting is already underway in many places nationwide, and Election Day is only weeks away. While many people have decided whether they are voting for one candidate or perhaps just against another, some are still deciding whether they will vote.

No matter where you are, I want to share why voting for Vice President Kamala Harris is a great ...Read more

In a September 2016 piece in The Atlantic, writer Salena Zito described an ironic phenomenon regarding then-presidential candidate Donald Trump’s outrageous rhetoric. The press, Zito wrote, “takes him literally, but not seriously,” while Trump’s more fervent supporters “take him seriously, but not literally.”

Almost a decade later, ...Read more

The most prominent entries in a Google search for “COVID misinformation” are likely to be claims about the dangers and lack of effectiveness of the COVID-19 vaccine, COVID therapies that have not been proved to work or inaccurate estimations of COVID-19’s mortality.

These are typically right-wing talking points, and one could easily ...Read more