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One month into Operation Epic Fury against the Islamic Republic of Iran, a long-overdue conversation has finally broken into the open: What, exactly, is the enduring rationale for NATO? For decades, this question has been treated in Washington foreign policy circles as heretical. But it isn't. And to their credit, President Donald Trump and ...Read more

Two thousand years ago, Jesus of Nazareth entered Jerusalem on a Sunday with crowds cheering on the arrival of a king. Riding on a white donkey, the crowd laid palm branches on the ground for him. Before the week was out, Jesus would be dead. Many of those who heralded his arrival would, by Friday, be cheering for Barabbas, a murderer and ...Read more

Don't look now, but FCC Chairman Brendan Carr and Jim Acosta agree on something: President Donald Trump is "winning" his effort to reshape the media landscape in his second term.

Appearing on the "Power Lines" podcast with his fellow ardent leftists Oliver Darcy and Jon Passantino, Acosta glumly proclaimed, "I don't think it takes a rocket ...Read more

"White House deploys Marco Rubio to clarify messaging about Iran conflict." So reads the headline on the front page of the Washington Examiner's website in the early hours of April 1, the third month of U.S. military operations against Iran, which have been taking place since Feb. 28.

That prominence was overtaken as it was announced that ...Read more

So much for journalistic objectivity.

The BBC science editor covering the launch of Artemis II couldn't contain her enthusiasm when the first plumes of smoke spread out from the launch pad. "Oh, my goodness! Oh, my goodness!" she exclaimed, clapping like a schoolgirl.

As the rocket lifted off, she got visibly emotional: "It's not just what ...Read more

"That God, which ever lives and loves,

One God, one law, one element,

And one far-off divine event

To which the whole creation moves."

-- Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)

When American colonists were oppressed by British monarchs, the word most frequently uttered in pamphlets, editorials and sermons was not "safety" or "taxes"; it ...Read more

We are living through a quiet but consequential redefinition of manhood -- one shaped not by wisdom, responsibility or lived experience but increasingly by noise, performance and profit.

A growing segment of voices, amplified across social media, promotes a hollow version of masculinity rooted in indulgence, detachment and what can only be ...Read more

The World Bank recently published a 276-page report supporting the idea that industrial policy belongs "in the national policy toolkit of all countries." This is a significant reversal for an institution that spent decades pushing developing nations toward fiscal discipline, open trade and market liberalization. When the World Bank seems more ...Read more

On March 31, President Donald Trump told major media the American military operation to end the Iranian dictatorship's nuclear weapons quest would conclude "within two weeks, maybe two weeks, maybe three."

Trump said, by then, the U.S. will have achieved all of its military objectives, which includes destroying the regime's ability to ...Read more

There are plenty of things an NBA player can do and still keep his job.

League history is littered with examples: players involved in off-court scandals, arrests, even allegations of serious violence. Time and again, teams and the league have found ways to look past behavior that, in most professions, would be career-ending.

But there ...Read more

Politicians tax what we earn, regulate what we build and often decide what we can do with our bodies and our money.

I like to think I own myself. But politicians increasingly act as if they do.

"People should not have power over other people's lives," says Timothy Sandefur, author of the book "You Don't Own Me."

In my latest video, Sandefur ...Read more

Former Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia visited Princeton University in 1995 and gave a lecture in which he discussed his approach to interpreting the Constitution.

He argued that what mattered most was the original meaning of the text when it was ratified.

"I will consult the writings of some men who happened to be Framers -- Hamilton's...Read more

The newspapers routinely play Hide the Ideology when liberal judges are resisting President Donald Trump. They'll write "a federal judge" ruled against Trump and not tell consumers that the judge is a liberal. Liberals are always painted as nonpartisans when they act like partisans.

That's the case with Obama-appointed judge (and former Clinton...Read more

There are few things in life more terrifying than a cancer diagnosis, as any victim of this horrible disease will tell you.

So let's kill cancer before it kills us.

This crusade could be similar in size and scope to our national commitments to developing a polio vaccine in the 1950s and the COVID-19 vaccine in 2020-21, both of which saved ...Read more

It's not just Israel.

One of the least convincing arguments of opponents of the Iran war is that it is a conflict initiated by the Jewish state for its own benefit -- the U.S. is just along for the ride.

This view not only discounts the U.S. interest in defanging Iran, but neglects that there are other countries in the region besides Israel ...Read more

Christians describe the day an innocent man was violently executed as "Good." Unless you know the whole story, it doesn't make much sense.

This is Holy Week on the Christian calendar. It began with Palm Sunday, which commemorates the Triumphal Entry. As Jesus rode a young donkey into Jerusalem, the people shouted, "Hosanna!" and "Blessed is ...Read more