Do the mysterious removals of cabinet ministers and generals signal weakness? Paranoia? Or something else? Several high-profile purges are said to have happened in China over the past few months. What do they mean? Do the mysterious removals of cabinet ministers and generals signal weakness? Paranoia? Or something else? Because China is a tightly controlled...
Biden actions could mean an additional $11 billion in taxpayer funds for California. Much of America’s future is made, tested, and—more often than not in recent years—fails in California. California’s Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom just announced that California would begin providing health care coverage to an additional 764,000 illegal immigrants on top of the 1.1...
Democrats and Mexican officials have responded to Texas’ new law with fear-mongering and threats. President Biden’s border crisis shows no signs of abating as the state of Texas, overwhelmed with would-be migrants, fortifies its defenses with new laws. Chief among the new measures is Senate Bill 4, expected to be signed into law in days by Republican Gov....
The bill aims to reduce the backlog of uncounted ballots, potentially speeding up the final count and enhancing transparency. The gold standard in voting is to vote in person on Election Day while showing a government-issued photo ID to prove eligibility. That said, eight states conduct elections entirely through the mail — California, Colorado, Hawaii, Nevada, Oregon,...
When your lights flicker and your heat fails this winter, remember to thank a climate czar. President Joe Biden’s climate czar, Obama’s former Secretary of State John Kerry, flew his jet into Dubai for the U.N.’s Climate Change Conference to demand that no coal-fired power plants be built anywhere in the world. In the meantime, China,...
Not everyone can care for a loved one at home, but we were able to provide my father-in-law with a sense of love and security. My father-in-law passed away last month, days away from his 99th birthday. He lived with us for 13 years. He was a great man, a World War II veteran who loved his...
The truth is that China’s maritime provocations in the South China Sea will continue until war ensues. As America, and much of the world, remains focused on conflicts in Europe and the Middle East, the People’s Republic of China (PRC) continues to ramp up its bellicose actions in the South China Sea and in the...
With Treasury markets already nearing the brink, could a cyberattack push them over the edge? A ransomware attack hit China’s biggest bank, the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) on Thursday, preventing it from settling some trades in U.S. Treasuries. News of the attack riled some participants in the Treasury market, with news stories citing as...
Editor’s Note: This commentary was published in Arabic. This is a translation. For decades, American foreign policy toward Iran has been caught in a complex web of outdated assumptions and misaligned goals. The United States has traditionally treated Iran as a rational player within the regional and international system, a fallacy that has cast its...
The tumultuous nature of recent elections, particularly the 2020 presidential race, showcased the critical need for attention to election administration. In 2020, the Texas Public Policy Foundation (TPPF), along with writers at The Federalist, had their social media posts flagged, suppressed, and even censored by a government-nonprofit-industry taskforce supposedly designed to combat election “misinformation” from foreign powers....
If the U.S. truly wishes to deter Iran, it must shift from a focus on hitting Iran’s proxies to targeting the disease itself. Recent events have underscored the urgent need for a reconsideration of America’s Iran policy. In response to constant drone attacks on American bases, which resulted in injuries to more than two dozen U.S. military...
Israel is pleading with more than one million Palestinian civilians to flee Gaza City. The vile terrorists in control of that doomed metropolis are telling innocent people to stay put. Hamas has used the Palestinian people as pawns for decades. It’s no surprise they’re now using them as human shields. On Thursday, the Israeli Defense Forces, massing 360,000...