These are frightening times at America’s leading universities. Following the Trump administration’s declaration that it will withhold $400 million in federal research grants and potentially billions more from Columbia University “for the lawless antisemitism that it allowed to occur on its campus,” the Department of Education announced 60 top universities are now under investigation for […]

The federal government is headed for a shutdown on Friday unless Congress can agree in time to a stop-gap spending measure. But if GOP leaders don’t add provisions reversing every lawless spending cut made by Elon Musk’s supposed Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), every Democrat in the House and Senate must vote “no.” After all, […]

In the wake of Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s meeting with his Russian counterparts in Saudi Arabia Tuesday, defenders of freedom worldwide can be forgiven for thinking they had seen this horror story before. After all, an expansionist European power pressed its claim to the territory of another sovereign nation in part based on the […]

I’m outraged! I only now learned that in just four years the United States provided $175 billion in foreign aid to 16 European nations, including France, Italy and the UK! It’s shocking, but it’s true! A long time ago, there was this thing called World War II. It started about a year after a popular […]

As the New York Times detailed, Elon Musk and his DOGE non-agency are now routinely accessing vital government computer systems at the Treasury Department, the GSA, the IRS and other federal bureaus. President Trump’s “special government employee” has deployed engineers as young as 19 to peruse and mine sensitive government systems previously off limits to […]

This is one of the darkest and most shameful days in modern American history. By unilaterally imposing 25% tariffs against Canada and Mexico in violation of a trade agreement he himself signed in 2018, President Trump has betrayed our closest friends, allies and trading partners. Instead of working hand-in-hand with our North American neighbors to […]

On the same day that all 11 GOP members of the Senate Budget Committee voted to advance the nomination of Trump OMB pick Russ Vought, some of their Republican colleagues rang the alarm bell about the impact of the President’s wide-ranging federal spending freeze. As one anonymous GOP Senator told The Hill, “Republicans were starting […]

Donald Trump’s clear victory in yesterday’s presidential election certainly seemed to prove the old maxim that perception is reality. Exit polls of 10 battleground states showed that 68% of those surveyed said the economy was “not so good” (35%) or “poor” (33%). Of the third (32%) who identified the economy as the issue that mattered […]

A fixture at Donald Trump’s final campaign rallies features the Republican nominee asking, “Are you better off now than four years ago?” Even with the steep pandemic and war induced-inflation of 2022 and early 2023, the data clearly show the answer is “yes.” Over the last two weeks, even the conservative Wall Street Journal (“U.S. […]

Two years ago, abortion proved to be the decisive issue in the surprisingly strong Democratic performance in 2022 midterm elections. In the wake of the appalling Dobbs decision eviscerating 50 years of Supreme Court precedent, America’s large and growing pro-choice majority put Republicans on notice that their anti-abortion extremism will come with a steep price. […]