Optimism, especially about our ability to solve big problems, is in brutally short supply these days. The gloom might be at its worst in the climate change arena, where the Trump administration is in the midst of an all-out assault on green energy and the world is poised to miss the Paris Agreement target of limiting warming to no more than 1.5 ...Read more

Yes, Mr. President, we know there was massive welfare-related fraud in Minnesota. We’ve written about it more than once and the beleagured governor up there rightly has said he now will not stand for reelection and is struggling to survive his current term, given the billions of dollars that have flowed to all the wrong places. Yes, there’s ...Read more

Federal mandates drove automakers into a financial ditch.

Ford Motor Co. has announced a dramatic shift away from producing electric vehicles. That includes dumping the electric version of its F-150 truck, dubbed the Lightning. The main result of its EV plan was lighting billions of dollars on fire. Ford said it would take a $19.5 billion ...Read more

The auto industry is headed back to where it should have stayed in the quest to put a cleaner fleet on the road: hybrids.

Automakers are rapidly backing away from plans to fully electrify their offerings, due to an easing of fuel economy and emissions mandates by the Trump administration and continued resistance from consumers.

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President Donald Trump has devoted much energy during his second term to undoing the damage caused by his predecessor’s economic paternalism. His latest success will be a boon to America’s competitiveness and sovereignty.

On Monday, the Treasury Department announced that U.S. multinational corporations will not be subjected to a 15% global ...Read more

Democrats in recent years have used concerns about “inequality” to attack free-market capitalism, a system that has created the wealthiest country in the history of the world. But as more in-depth analysis reveals, criticisms of wealth “disparities” are often based on incomplete data about household finances.

For 2025, the U.S. poverty ...Read more

Nicolas Maduro appeared in a New York courtroom Monday, two days after U.S. forces carried out a surprise raid in Venezuela, capturing the country’s president at a military base and hustling him in handcuffs and blindfolded to a U.S. aircraft carrier. “I am innocent,” he told the judge.

Maduro — who, with the help of his predecessor, ...Read more

As we kick off a new year, it’s a good time to assess President Donald Trump’s performance on the economy. He came into office a year ago with his “America First” philosophy. He promised to bring down the cost of living, create jobs, reduce illegal immigration at the border, enact big corporate and income tax cuts, and more. So, how is ...Read more

Former vice presidential contender and current aw-shucks Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz announced this week that he won't run for a third term, dogged by a scandal over child care funds that may or may not be going to fraudsters.

It's a politically driven mess that not coincidentally focuses on a Black immigrant community, tying the real problem of ...Read more

The muscular foreign policy of President Donald Trump is not about glory for glory’s sake. It is a clear expression of America First.

Trump’s understanding of our national interests is simple and clear: Critical assets and strategic geography are core; both must be secured for the defense and prosperity of American citizens.

It doesn’t ...Read more

President Donald Trump’s campaign for the Nobel Peace Prize no doubt fueled his decision to launch an unprovoked invasion of Venezuela. Instead, the military strike is more likely to yoke him to a bipartisan history of presidential adventurism abroad, from Democrat Lyndon Johnson’s Vietnam fiasco to Republican George W. Bush’s Iraq debacle...Read more

As the new year gets underway, Donald Trump wants to take the food out of millions of children’s mouths while depriving them and their parents of other social services, by supposedly freezing $10 billion in disbursements to Minnesota, New York, California, Illinois and Colorado going mostly to the TANF food assistance program. His excuse is ...Read more

The Biden administration spent years trying to buy votes with unconstitutional student loan bailouts, but now the Trump Department of Education is on a mission to get that taxpayer money repaid. That includes garnishing the wages of millions of borrowers who haven’t made any payments on their loans in almost six years. It’s about time.

In ...Read more

Given the administration’s actions for the past month, from shooting small boats near the shores of Venezuela, to seizing oil tankers, to acknowledging that there was a U.S. covert action underway there, the military intervention to remove Venezuelan president Nicholas Maduro should come as no surprise.

But while some in Washington are ...Read more

"You are going to be the proud owner of 25 million people," the late Gen. Colin Powell told Pres. George W. Bush before the president authorized the Iraq War, according to journalist Bob Woodward. "You will own all their hopes, aspirations and problems. You'll own it all."

There are 6 million more people in Venezuela than there were in Iraq in ...Read more

In Russia’s public museums today, antiquarian statuary depicting naked Roman or Greek figures is condemned by the Kremlin as violating the country’s “deep moral traditions.” Sharing unauthorized information about Vladimir Putin’s Ukraine war is punishable by up to 15 years’ imprisonment. All things Western are canceled.

Russia is a ...Read more

The facts, familiar though they may be, deserve repeating: On Saturday, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, were captured and removed from the country following a large-scale U.S. military operation involving elite forces and months of planning.

They appeared Monday in a New York court, facing charges including ...Read more

Jan. 6, 2021, should be a date that lives in infamy, like Dec. 7, 1941, and Sept. 11, 2001.

But five years after an angry mob stormed the U.S. Capitol, Donald Trump’s insurrection marches on.

Instead of accountability, Trump parlayed the grotesque events that unfolded on Jan. 6 into an incomprehensible return to power and profiteering.

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Listening to President Donald Trump speak on the U.S. military’s decapitation of the leadership in Venezuela, it is clear that the act was more about oil than anything else. Our brazen pursuit of the world’s largest remaining oil reserves should serve as a wake-up call to California and its waning commitment to an independent, renewable ...Read more