Courage, Strength, and Optimism

People carry their belongings as they leave their office following Russian air attack in Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, Oct. 19, 2026. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Conservatives can’t stay neutral on Russia’s War in Ukraine

Kimberly Ross · October 22, 2026 10:09 am

Flames rise from Notre Dame cathedral.

If France can’t defend itself, why should America rely on it?

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

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

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, second from right, and Border czar Tom Homan, left, listen to a briefing by Army soldiers while visiting the US-Mexico border in Sunland Park,, N.M., Monday, Feb. 3, 2025.

Trump’s Pentagon ignores its own strategy

Daniel DePetris April 3, 2025 6:00 am

This Oct. 18, 2008, file photo shows the Charging Bull sculpture

Don’t panic, keep investing in stocks

James Rogan April 3, 2025 6:00 am

Signalgate is bad. Selective outrage is worse

Michael Rubin April 2, 2025 10:14 am

Trump betrays MAGA with his Greenland obsession

Ian Haworth April 1, 2025 8:00 am

A DC whodunit: Who added Jeffrey Goldberg?

Elizabeth Stauffer March 29, 2025 7:00 am

To save the country, we must deport people such as Mahmoud Khalil

Ian Haworth March 29, 2025 6:00 am

A Chinese soldier stands guard outside the Great Hall of the People.

Reauthorizing the DFC puts China on a belt and road to nowhere

Ted Yoho, Rob Mosbacher March 28, 2025 3:02 pm

A man uses a laptop to interact with AI assistant.

Mutually assured malfunction and the new AI cold war

Sebastien Laye March 28, 2025 6:00 am

President Donald Trump speaks before signing the Laken Riley Act in the East Room of the White House, Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2025, in Washington.

Why the Education Department has to go

John Roberts March 27, 2025 8:00 am

Preserve nuclear energy tax incentives to bolster national security

Tom Graves, Richard Mies March 26, 2025 1:47 pm

President Donald Trump delivers remarks in the Roosevelt Room at the White House in Washington, Monday, March 24, 2025.

Trump’s precision strikes made Houthis pay

Keith Self March 26, 2025 11:25 am

Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te cheers during a ceremony commemorating the 66th anniversary of a deadly attack by China on Kinmen Island, Taiwan, Friday, Aug. 23, 2024.

Taiwan has already lost its China spy war

John Schindler March 25, 2025 8:00 am