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WASHINGTON -- "We will build a massive missile defense shield to protect us," Donald Trump told a crowd at an Arizona campaign rally in October. "And it's going to be made in the USA, a lot of it right here."

It was a timely proposal given that in 2023, Americans spent more than a week watching a Chinese spy balloon travel from Asia to Alaska...Read more

SAN DIEGO -- President Donald Trump's recent spate of deportations means different things to different people.

For conservatives, the glorious sight of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents hauling away immigrant workers in handcuffs is evidence of -- in MAGA lingo -- "promises made, promises kept."

Of course, it's likely that some ...Read more

California Democrats want fire victims to sue oil and gas companies. President Donald Trump wants them to have access to more water.

After surveying the wildfire damage in Los Angeles, Trump issued an executive order to "ensure adequate water resources in Southern California." He cited the problems with fire hydrants running dry and empty ...Read more

PITTSBURGH -- The investment firm Ancora is pushing U.S. Steel shareholders to drop the Nippon Steel merger and oust CEO David Burritt, a move that would align with President Donald Trump's insistence that U.S. Steel stay in American hands.

It is unclear from its statement how big a stake in U.S. Steel the Cleveland-based finance company ...Read more

Just how much longer will American parents, their kids, business leaders and the political class tolerate the dreadful performance of our public schools? It's arguably the greatest threat to our nation's economic health and our national security.

The latest Nation's Report Card test scores are dismal and heartbreaking. The crash that started ...Read more

Teddy Roosevelt would presumably be pleased. President Trump spoke loudly and swung a big stick in Panama's direction, and it produced instantaneous results when Secretary of State Marco Rubio visited the small Central American nation.

President Jose Raul Mulino Quintero said that Panama won't renew its participation in China's Belt and Road ...Read more

President Donald Trump won the illegal immigration war in 10 hours versus the socialist president of Colombia.

Not my alma mater Columbia University -- which is also radical, socialist, anti-American and pro-illegal immigration. But the Latin American country of Colombia.

Trump should use this exact same blueprint that brought the country of ...Read more

Less than two weeks into this second Trump presidency, the fearmongering has already reached fever pitch. "He can't do it!" the critics have invariably howled in decrying President Donald Trump's landmark day-one executive order upending the status quo on birthright citizenship for the children of illegal aliens, "Protecting the Meaning and ...Read more

President Donald Trump recently floated a fantastic idea: Arab nations, he said, should accept large numbers of Gazans as refugees, a move that "could be temporary or long term." The accommodation would allow Israel to eliminate the remnants of Hamas, which, in turn, would allow the international community to rebuild Gaza.

Not only would such a...Read more

The Dunning-Kruger Effect is in full force these days. It posits that those with less knowledge of a subject have more certainty about the subject. For example, a layman is far more certain about the big bang than the astrophysicist. The armchair aviation expert is far more certain of the plane crash cause than the aviator.

Tragedy struck on ...Read more

From the inception of Donald Trump's political career, journalists have found it necessary to police each other, to insist that any notion of objectivity or balance with Trump was a grievous sin, a corrupt attempt to "normalize" an abnormally dangerous candidate.

Now that Trump is in his second term, a few rare voices have floated the novel ...Read more

It's part of who we are.

The White House executive order theoretically ending birthright citizenship grandly proclaims its purpose as "Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship." As we've come to expect from this administration, the proposed change to American law would do the exact opposite. Also in keeping with the Trumpian ...Read more

Move fast and break things. That's the original operating philosophy of Facebook founder and Meta mogul Mark Zuckerberg, and it seems to be the operating procedure of President Donald Trump in these first weeks of his second term.

That makes a certain sense. In a largely successful society, unrocked by revolution, institutions come to be in ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Caroline Kennedy, the surviving child of the late President John F. Kennedy, is leading the charge against her cousin, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Donald Trump's pick to serve as secretary of Health and Human Services.

In a letter released Tuesday, she wrote that her cousin Bobby's "views on vaccines are dangerous and ...Read more

SAN DIEGO -- The relationship between Americans and the millions of undocumented immigrants who live in the United States is complicated.

Contrary to the whine served up by President Donald Trump and other right-wing politicians eager to score points with the nativist wing of the Republican Party, our country is not undergoing an "invasion" ...Read more

In 2021, to his credit, President Joe Biden warned the American public against the dangers of zero-click spyware manufactured by an Israeli corporation. Zero-click is unwanted software that can expose the entire contents of one's mobile or desktop device to prying eyes without tricking one into clicking on to a link. Biden banned its importation...Read more

In politics, few figures have demonstrated the kind of transactional decisiveness that Trump exemplifies. His recent dealings with the Colombian government underscore the efficiency of his approach. Regardless of whether you agree with his broader policies, it's hard to deny the fact that so far the president has been decisive and effective on ...Read more

At last week's World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, President Donald Trump mixed compelling pro-growth talking points with his signature streak of aggressive protectionism. It's safe to say that these two ideas are officially on a collision course.

On one hand, Trump insists that "America is back and open for business." His promises to...Read more