President Donald Trump signed an executive order Wednesday banning biological males from competing in women’s sports regardless of what gender they identify with. The order declares it U.S. policy to rescind funding from educational programs “that deprive women and girls of fair athletic opportunities, which results in the endangerment, humiliation, and silencing of women and […]
Foreign Affairs What Was That? Marketing considerations likely motivated President Trump’s statement that Washington “will take over the Gaza strip.” Credit: image via Shutterstock Among those who have known and worked with him, Donald Trump is said to be an almost compulsive raconteur. His penchant for off-the-cuff pronouncements and, at times, off-color stories, which have […]
Politics Territorial Expansion—and Its Naysayers—Are as Old as America Nor everyone has been onboard with expanding American borders. The last time the United States expanded its territory—gaining the Northern Marianas and some other Pacific islands—President Donald Trump was just a year old. The fact that so much time has passed makes it easy for critics […]
South Korea is populous and prosperous, ahead of the North on almost every measure of national power, other than possession of nuclear weapons. Yet despite enjoying 50-plus times the economic strength and twice the population of its northern antagonist, the Republic of Korea remains dependent on the United States for its security. However, Washington’s policy […]
Pam Bondi was sworn in as U.S. attorney general Wednesday in the Oval Office. Bondi was confirmed by the Senate on Tuesday in a 54–46 vote, with Democratic Senator John Fetterman of Pennsylvania joining Republicans in support. She is the third woman to hold the position. “I will make you proud and I will make […]
President Donald Trump on Tuesday reimposed a “maximum pressure” campaign against Iran. The move brings back the tough-on-Tehran policy that Trump enacted in his first term. As Trump signed the presidential memorandum that restores the policy, he told reporters that he was torn on whether to issue it. “We don’t want to be tough on […]
President Trump sounded like the GOP of old. During a joint press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday evening in Washington D.C., the 47th president of the United States announced plans for Gaza to essentially become a U.S. protectorate. In Trump’s own words, the U.S. “will take over the Gaza Strip” and […]
Race DEI Seems to Be Cooked for Good The latest wave of racial utopianism failed on its own terms. (Shawn Thew-Pool/Getty Images) There has been no front on which President Donald Trump has been more active or aggressive than in rolling back DEI—diversity, equity, and inclusion—initiatives throughout the federal government since returning to office. He […]
To tariff, or not to tariff, that is the question to which President Donald Trump has, in recent days, given different answers. On Monday, hours before tariffs on Canadian and Mexican imports were scheduled to take effect, Trump paused them for 30 days. The next day, yet another tariff, this one on goods from China, […]
Politics The People’s Choice: Why DOGE Needs Ron Paul The departure of Vivek Ramaswamy at DOGE is a perfect opportunity to deal in libertarianism’s eminence gris. Credit: image via Shutterstock The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), a brainchild of our newly inaugurated President Donald Trump and Elon Musk, stands as a beacon of hope for […]
