Category: Israel

For­eign Affairs Trump and the Storm of the Cen­tu­ry The U.S. is sleep­walk­ing into dis­as­ter in the Mid­dle East. Cred­it: saideex/Shutterstock The fear in many nations’ cap­i­tals is that Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump’s return to Wash­ing­ton might make Israel feel more con­fi­dent in attack­ing Iran. Accord­ing to Mike Evans, founder of the Friends of Zion Muse­um […]

Pol­i­tics They’re Lying About Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Con­trary to pop­u­lar belief, the Kennedy scion is any­thing but a health extrem­ist. (Rebec­ca Noble/Getty Images) If there’s one thing most Amer­i­cans can agree on, it’s that most Amer­i­cans are unhealthy. In 2024, more than 40 per­cent of Amer­i­cans are over­weight and near­ly one in 10 are […]

Pol­i­tics Trump’s Sil­ver Bul­let  Increas­ing Amer­i­can ener­gy pro­duc­tion is the sin­gle most sig­nif­i­cant step the incom­ing admin­is­tra­tion can take toward deliv­er­ing on its man­date. Cred­it: ded pixto/Shutterstock Two key aspects of Pres­i­­dent-elect Don­ald Trump’s deci­sive elec­toral man­date are lead­ing a work­ing- and mid­­dle-class eco­nom­ic recov­ery and cool­ing over­heat­ed glob­al ten­sions with the Unit­ed States’ strate­gic […]

Pol­i­tics What Has Changed? Things don’t usu­al­ly hap­pen overnight, but the Trump re-elec­­tion is a water­shed moment. (Twit­ter) Things don’t often change overnight. Change tends to hap­pen slow­ly, then fast, in small incre­ments and then big jumps—but rarely does one night mat­ter that much. So it is with the elec­tion; Amer­i­ca did not change overnight […]

Pol­i­tics Will RFK Kibosh Ozem­pic? The poten­tial HHS sec­re­tary has sent mixed mes­sages about pop­u­lar new weight-loss drugs. Cred­it: image via Shut­ter­stock When Don­ald Trump nom­i­nat­ed Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as sec­re­tary of the Depart­ment of Health and Human Ser­vices on Thurs­day, phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal and processed food com­pa­nies’ stock tanked. The envi­ron­men­tal­ist and phar­ma skep­tic sus­pend­ed […]

For­eign Affairs Trump’s Oppor­tu­ni­ty in Lebanon The deal­­mak­er-in-chief has a chance to make a new, sta­ble Mid­dle East­ern com­bi­na­tion. Cred­it: image via Shut­ter­stock As the Unit­ed States’ Pres­i­­dent-elect Don­ald Trump gears up for his sec­ond term in office, there are indi­ca­tions that Lebanon may be a focal point of his Mid­dle East pol­i­cy. Trump has […]

Pol­i­tics Hon­or Patrick J. Buchanan with the Pres­i­den­tial Medal of Free­dom The TAC founder made the world we’re liv­ing in. Pat Buchanan speaks at a Chris­t­ian Coali­tion Ral­ly in 1996. (Brooks Kraft LLC/Sygma via Get­ty Images) The Pres­i­den­tial Medal of Free­dom is the high­est hon­or a civil­ian can receive, and over the years it has […]

Cul­ture ‘J.D.’s Mom! J.D.’s Mom!’ Let’s cel­e­brate a small vic­to­ry in the bat­tle against the opi­oid cri­sis. Cred­it: image via Get­ty Images In a time of inter­na­tion­al unrest, with cold and hot wars rag­ing between and among the U.S., its allies, and hos­tile for­eign nations like North Korea, Rus­sia, and Iran, it is easy to […]