Courage, Strength, and Optimism

Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and U.S. President Donald Trump's special envoy Steve Witkoff, left, shake hands prior to their talks in St. Petersburg, Russia, Friday, April 11, 2025.

Witkoff praises Putin as a humanitarian — to his shame and ours

Ali Holcomb · October 21, 2026 6:00 pm

A protester wraps a French flag around them in front of a burning tourism office.

France has fallen. America can’t be next

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth gives a State of the Force address at Marine Corps Base Quantico, Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2026 in Quantico, Virginia.

Hegseth’s Pentagon initiatives hold promise

Opposition leader Maria Corina Machado, left, and opposition presidential candidate Edmundo Gonzalez address supporters from the top of a truck during a protest against the official presidential election results declaring President Nicolas Maduro the winner in Caracas, Venezuela.

Venezuela needs more than an election date

A person pastes a heart-shaped sticker on a banner with pictures of Israeli hostages during a a gathering at a plaza known as hostages square in Tel Aviv.

After Trump brought him home, an Oct. 7 hostage family member tells his story

The Iraq War looks better with time

Michael Rubin March 20, 2023 6:00 am

Tom Cotton sounds the alarm on China â is anybody listening?

Tom Cotton sounds the alarm on China â is anybody listening?

Salena Zito March 17, 2023 3:04 pm

In this May 21, 2014, photo, Russia's President Vladimir Putin, and China's President Xi Jinping, right, smile during signing ceremony in Shanghai, China. China signed a long-awaited, 30-year deal Wednesday to buy Russian natural gas worth some $400 billion in a financial and diplomatic boost to diplomatically isolated President Vladimir Putin. The Obama administration is playing down an increasingly warm relationship between its main global rivals, China and Russia, that it may have inadvertently encouraged.

Russia is helping China speed up its nuclear buildup. The US is unprepared to counter it

Patty-Jane Geller, Jack Kraemer March 17, 2023 1:24 pm

The trillion-dollar hole in the president’s budget

Matt Weidinger March 16, 2023 1:30 pm

In this Tuesday, Jan. 25, 2011 photo, U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Marc Krugh, left, from the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment, looks on as a comrade peers through the scope on his weapon during a patrol near Iskandariyah, 30 miles (50 kilometers) south of Baghdad. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

Biden administration supports repealing authorization for wars in Iraq

Mike Brest March 16, 2023 11:23 am

Has America been too slow to wake up to the China threat?

Hugo Gurdon March 16, 2023 9:46 am

Basic fixes to start saving Medicare

Joe Albanese March 16, 2023 6:00 am

Secretary of State Antony Blinken.

Is Blinken repeating Biden’s Iraq mistake in Africa?

Michael Rubin March 15, 2023 1:50 pm

A North Korean man carries his country's national flag after celebrations of the "Day of the Shining Star" or birthday anniversary of late North Korean leader Kim Jong Il on Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2016, in Pyongyang, North Korea. The celebrations of Kim's birthday anniversary, a revered national holiday, came as South Koreaâs president warned that North Korea faces collapse if it doesnât abandon its nuclear weapons program, amid an international outcry over Pyongyangâs January nuclear test and the Feb. 7 rocket launch.

North Korea signals more provocations and tensions

Bruce Klingner March 15, 2023 1:42 pm

Biden’s Alaska oil project approval is a gift to the environment

Tom Joyce March 15, 2023 10:23 am

Biden accuses people who oppose mutilating children of being ‘close to sinful’

Zachary Faria March 14, 2023 2:01 pm

Former Rep. Barney Frank speaks.

Barney Frank’s bank tanks: Government is just the word for the businesses we shut down together

Timothy P. Carney March 14, 2023 12:46 pm