The Chinese Communists took control of Hong Kong in 1997. They promised civil liberties for 50 years, but only someone hopelessly naïve was inclined to believe them.

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 years, the U.S. has paid high prices to subsidize other wealthy countries that have drug price controls in place. Although drug companies should profit from life-saving drugs, the costs of this should be shared by the world, not shouldered by the United States.

Tim Walz was never a middle American Democrat; he was just bland, whose politics were as far-out as those of anyone else in his party. The Democrats' problem isn't with the way their candidates look or sound, it's what they believe and do.

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.

Yes, I've determined that lending my voice is perfectly OK with me so long as it doesn't change my meaning or allow algorithmic imitators to pretend to make up my mind.

As a best practice when sharing appropriately, both publicly and privately, from genuine compliments to describing background and work experience, honesty is apparently the best policy in more ways than one.

Let this be my New Year's gift to you. Getting help is not a weakness. Medicine works, but only if you take it. This is about health, mental and physical. Wishing you a happy — and especially healthy — new year.

Colorado parents have been able to send their children to the top preschools of their choice on the taxpayers’ dime since 2022 through the state's universal preschool program. But Colorado excludes preschools administered by Catholic parishes.

The administration claims that the huge installations obscure the detection of potential foreign adversaries that could threaten "east coast population centers." President Donald Trump paused construction until a solution, if any, could be devised.

Don't be fooled. Yes, the status quo is unsustainable, and pretending otherwise is reckless. But taxing the rich can't meaningfully solve our underlying fiscal problems. Feelings are not solutions.

In today's digital economy, where opaque algorithms prioritize inflated hyperbole and facts often trail fast-moving news cycles, independent media is more important than ever – and Americans know it.

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...

When President Donald Trump was elected in November of 2024, he inherited a "mess." Incredibly, in less than one year, it's "morning again" in America.

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.

The high-profile nature of the case serves to remind us all that murder is murder, regardless of where it takes place or the societal ranking of the individuals involved.

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.

Rather than trying to fix the estate tax, abolish it. Eliminate the stepped up basis for inherited stock, and make inherited money and other gifts received taxable income for the recipients.

It's amazing what a difference a president who puts America first can make. Yet young people are grim in their outlook. They're oblivious to how blessed they are to be in America at this unique moment of peace and unprecedented prosperity. They don't get it.

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.

On Dec. 5, the Republicans on the Joint Economic Committee of the U.S. Congress published an analysis of rapidly growing federal debt. "Relative to one year ago, total gross national debt is $2.23 trillion higher; relative to five years ago, it is $11.00 trillion higher."

Our voters, especially younger ones, want what their parents and grandparents have: A spouse, a house, a well-paying job, two kids, a dog, a safe community, good schools and, maybe, even a white picket fence.

We see people committing egregious crimes. It's impossible to overstate the damage this is doing. There needs to be arrests, prosecutions, convictions and serious sentences imposed for all this corruption. Otherwise, we're hurtling headlong toward a future as a failed state.

Saving, in many ways, is life or death in this world. Go for it. You will be a happier human being if you have money, and saving is the way to make it happen even unto old age.

Some issues in Washington are like that proverbial leaking roof: everyone knows it needs fixing, and every storm reminds us of the problem. But instead of grabbing a ladder and repairing it, the buckets just get moved around.

When a government loses an arbitration case in a neutral tribunal, it pays the award. That predictability is what allows U.S. companies to invest abroad with confidence. Romania is now threatening that foundation.

Until we restore transparency in economic data, until we stop manipulating the narrative to score political points, and until we replace volatility with consistency, small moves from the Fed will remain: gestures.

Liberal politicians have taken pains to invoke the imagery of the Hannukah menorah's light in order to pontificate about abstract universalist principles. Sometimes they even get the most basic facts of the Hannukah story egregiously wrong, as Doug Emhoff did.

This year's opening front? Military families at Tyndall Air Force Base near Panama City, Florida, who found themselves on the receiving end of the Grinch. In mid-November, families were ordered to take down Christmas decorations from their private residences.

Fentanyl pours across borders and overdoses ravage communities. The sharp divide couldn't be clearer. One party is focused on dismantling the global narcotics machine killing Americans. The other is offering sympathy, and political cover, to criminals.

The intellectualism of John F. Kennedy, patriotic, aspirational, grounded in faith and freedom, is all but forgotten, having been replaced by a grievance-obsessed ideology dividing the nation into oppressors and victims.

Affordability is a "feeling" issue, and history always weighs against an incumbent when he must defend himself on that basis. President Trump needs to move the discussion away from "affordability," as he's doing already;

Our nation's 47th chief executive understands how the exchange of goods and services leads to prosperity and peace.

Ultimately, a Palestinian state cannot be built in opposition to Israel's fundamental security needs. Israel does not need to embrace every step of the process, but it must have confidence that the emerging state will not become a new platform for violence.

Egypt is where the Brotherhood was founded in 1928, with the Abdel Fattah el-Sisi regime regularly cracking down on Brotherhood activities there.

The first year of Trump's first term was chaotic: The turnover of his "A-Team" hit 35%, according to an analysis by Brookings Institution visiting fellow Kathryn Dunn Tenpas.

Russia tried to destroy Ukraine's drone makers from the air. It would be a bitter irony if, in the end, the real damage came from inside law-enforcement buildings that never fully left the old ways behind.

The Jews who come to pray in our synagogue are not just "Jews. We stand out. The men wear kippot. While most people up and down the block are dressed for jogging or for a stroll, we are dressed in what was once called our "Sunday's best." Our formal Saturday Sabbath attire. We are targets.

President Donald Trump is racing against the political clock, working to fortify the razor-thin Republican majority in the U.S. House before the 2026 midterms threaten to upend his legislative momentum.

A simple solution to all this: Those who prefer not to get obliterated in narcotics boats or wind up clutching wreckage should spend their days in more worthwhile ways. If you want to stay alive and well, don't smuggle deadly drugs into the United States of America.

As the late, great Rush Limbaugh reminded us, the military's job is to "kill people and break things." Nowhere is this return to normal more justified than in the obliteration of Venezuelan drug boats.

As Thomas Jefferson once noted, the "God who gave us life gave us liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God?"

The clubs we built and frequented like NATO and eventually the European Union (EU) were the envy of the global commons. Even the U.K. called the relationship special.

When voters feel their government is taking away the tools that keep them functional, productive, and alive, they do not sit by quietly. They organize. They vote. And they punish politicians who ignore them.

Secretary Kennedy, the MAHA promise was about rebuilding institutions that serve the people. You now have the opportunity to steady the FDA, restore integrity at the highest levels, and ensure that public health is driven by science, not ego.

A study a few years ago found that 22% of millennials weren’t sure if they knew what the Holocaust was. And 67% had not heard of Auschwitz, the Nazi death camp where more than one million Jews and others were murdered.