It's not every day that I find myself sitting down with the secretary of the treasury at his historic office in Washington. This past Thursday, I visited with Secretary Scott Bessent, one of the most closely watched, talked-about, and popular members of Donald Trump's Cabinet.

The Iranian regime, which chants "death to America" on a daily basis and has even attempted to assassinate Trump, crossed that red line. Indeed, Trump's red line hasn't just been violated, it's been eviscerated.

With President Lee’s commentary during a recent meeting with President Xi Jinping that he hopes to fully restore Korea's ties with China by next year, this should be sending out alarm bells in Washington.

Greenland is not a punchline. It is a strategic question with real consequences, and how the United States pursues its interests there could either strengthen American leadership or severely weaken it. Strength is measured by how you secure outcomes without destabilizing.

It's encouraging that the Supreme Court appears poised to rule that states may pass legislation banning males from female sports.

Even as inflation slows, families still struggle to pay basic bills and feel pessimistic. The baseline price level is so much higher. As if working to fix these affordability challenges weren't enough for the Trump administration, there is the national debt.

End the weaponized "compassion" industry, end the fraud, and the plans for the socialist transformation of America become much more difficult.

Personal injury lawyer John Morgan, longtime Democratic Party donor and one of Biden's top supporters won't cough up another penny towards the library due to poor treatment he has received from Joe’s staff, projecting, "He’ll be lucky to have a bookmobile."

Europe is free to regulate its own market. It's not free to export its regulatory preferences in ways that nullify American constitutional protections or undermine the legal systems the U.S. relies on to protect its interests abroad.

A real state disarms militants and protects civilians. The failed Palestinian experiment does the opposite because it no longer seeks a state. It seeks submission from Infidels like you and me.

Families deserve a mortgage system rooted in accuracy, stability, and common sense: especially now, when the cost of getting it wrong has never been higher.

Every year Democrats applaud expanded enrollment in the ACA, ignoring the fact that Much of it is fraudulent. The GAO found that people using fake identifies to sign up for subsidized health insurance get through every time. It's been going on for over a decade.

President Trump has executed with boldness and finesse, and done so on multiple theaters. The greatest challenges are still ahead. May we hope and pray for God’s protection and the continuing defeat of evil this year.

Newly applied surveillance techniques now include the use of facial recognition devices, which quietly scan and store biometric data on customers as they shop for everyday groceries and household supplies.

Despite decades of pro-abortion rights propaganda and cultural indoctrination, a clear majority of Americans — 57% — still oppose being compelled to fund abortions.

The First Amendment does not grant universities a right to create a new generation of violent revolutionaries. The federal government must use extreme measures to combat extremism. Rogue university presidents must be deposed.

When will Congress stop buying into this mythology that colleges are nonprofit organizations? Why should donations from millionaires and billionaires be IRS tax write-offs? It's farcical.

For evidence of America's success and fairness, you don't have to look any further than the migration pattern from socialist Venezuela and Cuba to the United States.

he Iranian people are determined to take back their liberty from decades of repression—and that this time, it looks increasingly likely that they will succeed.

Pressure applied from outside Iran is now having effects inside the country, allowing military action aimed at incapacitation to go beyond deterrence.

The fact that a commonsensical understanding of human nature has to be articulated before the Supreme Court shows how ideologically corrupt we've been become. It's not the ordinary American who is the problem, it's elite decision makers.

Far from being a check on the new Mayor's frightening platform, Kathy Hochul is leaning into his extremist orthodoxy and proving that she may be the shrewdest buffer Mamdani could ever have hoped for.

The only way to prevent more deaths like Renee Good's, and more mayhem like that unleashed by the exploitation of George Floyd's killing, is to stop giving in to activists who think they have a right to resist and obstruct law enforcement.

Across professions, incivility in the workplace can cause productive employees to become discouraged, disengaged, and disinterested in professional development.

We're taking away health insurance from millions, eliminating the subsidies that make incomplete plans at least partly affordable, then telling parents to go have a conversation with the doctor they don't have about whether their child should have a flu shot?

The effort by President Trump to decisively confront and neutralize Nicolás Maduro’s regime should be understood not as a narrow foreign policy maneuver, but as a signal flare in the larger civilizational struggle of our time.

Federal prosecutors now suggest that up to half of the $18 billion spent on 14 Medicaid-funded Minnesota programs since 2018 may have been tied to fraud. Even if those estimates are revised downward, the pattern is unmistakable. Fraud became routine.

Hamas and other factions are not to have any role in the governance of Gaza, directly, indirectly or in any form. All military, terror and offensive infrastructure, including, tunnels, and weapon production facilities are to be destroyed and not rebuilt.

Imposing "regime change," installing pro-American leaders, and engaging in democratic "nation building" in any country are, as history has cruelly taught us, fraught and uncertain processes with outcomes usually incurring significant expense in blood and treasure.

Although nearly everybody has resumed in-person meetings, the increase in virtual meetings during the Biden administration has had continuing consequences, many of them beneficial.

The political class continues to miss an uncomfortable truth: a strong majority of Americans with Mexican roots support aggressive action against Mexican drug cartels. This isn’t about politics. It’s about survival.

By encouraging and supporting vaccinations for everyone without forcing them on anyone, Trump is trying to deliver on his promise to Make America Healthy Again.

President Trump is updating the Monroe Doctrine. He said, "The Monroe Doctrine is a big deal, but we've superseded it by a lot." Under President Trump's doctrine, the goal is to prevent "hostile actors, foreign-backed criminal networks . . . from gaining footholds . . . "

The Iranian people took you at your word. Now they’re waiting to see if America's 47th commander in chief is a man of action, or just another politician making promises he won’t keep. I believe you meant what you said.

This "tax me more" phenomenon is fueled by ignorance and neo-Marxists. They insist that "the rich" do not pay their “fair share” of taxes. They never say what that "fair share" is — other than "More!"

The 50-year mortgage doesn't address housing affordability. It merely prolongs the mortgage term; offers little in the way of monthly payment relief. Government planners would do better to focus on restrictive zoning practices that reduce housing density, increasing costs.

The culture of the United States military reflects a deep understanding of mission and honor. That understanding is rooted in purpose and moral clarity. When military service is guided by principle, it unites. When it is misused or shaped by dictatorship, it breeds fear and division.

In the run-up to the congressional and gubernatorial elections in November, the Trump administration and the GOP must relentlessly highlight their many successes in battling antisemitism during the last tumultuous decade, compared to the Democrats’ failures.

Change has been felt. It was for this reason that the left didn't want Secretary Hegseth on the job, with nearly the same hatred as they feel towards President Trump.

According to data published by the CDC's National Center for Health Statistics, the U.S. experienced a total of 172,960 overdose deaths from cocaine from 2013, the year Maduro became the president of Venezuela, through 2023.

Mayor Karen Bass claims her administration is "pro-housing," yet she has opposed legislation to encourage multi-family housing near transit stops and has backtracked on her own Executive Directive 1, which was intended to fast-track approvals for apartment units.

It was rich to hear Russia and China complain about the U.S. violating international law to arrest an indicted narco-terrorist in light of Russia's brutal invasion of Ukraine and China's escalating military threats to Taiwan.

Many view the Somali Scandals in Minnesota as an outrage that should result in jail sentences, deportations, citizenship revocation, and legislative reform. Our comb-over conservative elected officials view the scandal as a hook that will get them on TV.

For decades, state sovereignty, originally conceived to protect nations from external domination, has been systematically distorted into a shield for criminal regimes, failed states, and authoritarian rulers. Power unused in the face of injustice is not restraint. It's abdication.

Azerbaijan's presence matters in part because geography has placed it at the center of what is increasingly called the Middle Corridor.

Riyadh Season is not a party. It is a message. And the message is that Saudi Arabia is no longer asking the world to imagine its future. It is inviting the world to participate.

Venezuela transformed from authoritarian governance into an organized criminal enterprise operating behind sovereignty’s facade.

The Muslim Brotherhood has never hidden its ambitions. In 2011, its leader, Mohammed Badie, vowedto crush "Zio-American arrogance" and impose Islam's "mastership of the world" through a global caliphate under Sharia law.

Why are some analysts warning that if Iran's political system fails to align itself with ongoing social transformations, in intellectual, security, judicial, and executive dimensions, it may struggle to navigate the Iranian year 1405 (beginning March 21, 2026)?

The only difference between a socialist and a Democrat is that the Democrat says, "Your earnings don't belong to you. Your earnings belong to the government. Now hand over half of your earnings."

During the Christmas season, Christians of every faith celebrate life - specifically the life of their savior, Jesus Christ. The exception this year is New York's governor, Kathy Hochul.

While hope abounds for the future of the South Caucasus region following a United States-brokered peace deal between Azerbaijan and Armenia earlier this year, Washington must continue recalibrating its broader approach to Eurasia.At the center of that recalibration is a...

Whatever the government takes and whatever it negates, it may not abridge the freedom of speech, directly or indirectly, by taxes or threats or commands or prohibitions or praises or chilling. If it could, then we'd have not even the semblance of a representative democracy.

Surprisingly, the specter of antisemitism has begun stirring in the sectors of the Republican Right, until recently staunchly pro-Israel.

Medicare will impose price controls on prescription drugs for the first time when the calendar flips to January. Even before those controls formally take effect, the damage is already being done.

Winning the 2026 midterms will require President Trump and Republicans to speak directly to the American people, bypassing hostile media filters, repeating clear economic facts, and relentlessly contrasting results with Democratic misinformation.

Recently, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., sent out breathless warnings on social media and television that Trump is going to cut Social Security offices and make it harder for Americans to receive benefits.

Sure, Germany is a winter wonderland of celebrations, and New York City has Times Square. But, there is no doubt that the Holy City of Bethlehem is the epicenter of Christmas.

We can't overlook the fact that President Trump appointed three Supreme Court justices during his first term, giving the Court an ideological balance tipped in favor of life, and of our Constitution.

In American politics, the scoreboard is rarely the final word. The conversation is. And sometimes the man who loses the election walks away with the only prize that endures: the future.