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The midterms put Trump's economy on trial
The midterm elections are a referendum on the Trump presidency.
Scorecard: Trump's address to the United Nations General Assembly
President Trump's address to the United Nations General Assembly was actually well-crafted, calmly delivered and, in total, on target. It even managed to draw some applause from the normally stoic U.N. audience a couple of times.
Programs for HBCU alumni can violate federal law
Should a college limit a scholarship to students of a particular race? Of course not. In fact, it is against the law. Still, that does not always stop college officials.
Fox pulled the plug on Trump; the administration can now pull the guests
On Friday, President Trump banned CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House, saying they report "fake news" and "shouldn't be able to constantly write or report FICTION and LIES."
Venezuela: Oil, democracy or both?
President Trump's proposed oil agreement with Venezuela has left pundits and politicians around the world intrigued and confused.
Ed Sheeran, celebrities should learn the power of 'no comment'
Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to be all politically correct and use our musical platform for something other than music.
Partnership with Chavez-era oil baron Alejandro Betancourt complicates Trump's Venezuela oil gamble
Washington's removal of Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro has created the first strategic opening in a generation, but that opportunity should not be mortgaged to Alejandro Betancourt.
A presidential appeal to release unjustly detained U.S. citizens
President Trump and General Secretary Xi Jinping will meet in Washington this week with trade, technology, Taiwan and Iran on a crowded agenda.
Appointment of Liz Magill as Georgetown University Law Center dean a national embarrassment
I have been an adjunct law professor at Georgetown University Law Center for about 20 years.
Consistently wrong AI alarmists will be wrong again
Artificial intelligence promises great leaps in science, healthcare, agriculture, climate and mathematics.
7-OH needs science-based regulation, not regulatory panic
The Food and Drug Administration is taking meaningful steps to regulate lower-risk nicotine products based on science, not fear and moral panic.
Artificial intelligence should not become a substitute for education
I have a theory about the artificial intelligence craze that delights some and scares others. It is that we are losing natural intelligence and thus risk seduction by something that can do the thinking for us.
Progressive affordability policy keeps chasing its own tail
For a century, progressives have tried to solve affordability problems by using the very tools that mathematically guarantee scarcity, and then demanded even more intervention to fix the damage they caused.
Why Israel's elections matter to the U.S.
Oct. 7 marks the third anniversary of the worst single-day massacre of Jews since the Holocaust, and Oct. 27 is the day Israelis head to the polls to choose a new government and prime minister.
Xi's new mobilization law prepares China for prolonged war
On Oct. 1, a new mobilization law will take effect in China -- one that puts Xi Jinping's stamp on mounting war preparations.
In American culture, death unites more than life
Every culture on planet Earth has its own quirks. In America, one of its most pronounced oddities is a fascination, possibly even an obsession, with death.
Democrats bet on AI apocalypse politics for the midterms
A whiff of the apocalypse is in the air. It is similar to that of climate change hysteria, when we were told by Al Gore and Greta Thunberg that we faced an unspeakable fate unless we gave up fossil fuels.
James Talarico should be saying "Thank God for the Bible"
James Talarico recently said that including Bible stories in the school curriculum for young children is akin to "indoctrination" and that it is "deeply immoral."
What's more important than the price of gasoline?
The good news for the administration is that there is a simple, immediate solution to reduce gasoline prices: suspend the ethanol mandate (also known as the Renewable Fuel Standard).
On Yom Kippur, America needs atonement
Yom Kippur, which began at sundown Sunday, is Judaism's holiest day.