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WASHINGTON -- "Washington is still operating as if it's March 2020. The headquarters of most agencies remain largely abandoned," Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, wrote in a report released Thursday that paints a dystopian picture of the federal workforce inside the vaunted beltway.

It's been nearly five years since COVID knocked on America's door. ...Read more

I keep reading and seeing stories in the media explaining how Donald Trump won the 2024 election. As usual, they're all wrong.

The media credits Joe Rogan, hip podcasters, influencers, rappers and the young American males who they convinced to vote for Trump.

They're partly right. Those votes certainly helped put Trump over the top. So did a ...Read more

On Wednesday, the Supreme Court heard oral argument in this term's marquee case, United States v. Skrmetti.

The case, out of Tennessee, nominally involves a state law banning minors' use of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones for purposes of so-called gender-affirming care -- which, stripped of all euphemism, means genital mutilation and ...Read more

President Joe Biden is right about one thing. Hunter Biden has always been "treated differently."

If Hunter had a different last name, he would never have been able to launch a career in corrupt influence-peddling or launder millions through his "art" or write a self-serving memoir about crack-fueled whoremongering or dump a gun next to a high ...Read more

President-elect Donald Trump has nominated Fox News host Pete Hegseth to be Secretary of Defense. Hegseth left a well-paid Wall Street job to deploy with the Army National Guard to Guantanamo Bay in 2004, and then to Iraq shortly afterward. He then worked for military nonprofits before joining Fox in 2014.

There are some real problems with ...Read more

At a New York rally in October, Donald Trump promised the crowd that if elected, he would let Robert F. Kennedy Jr. "go wild" on health, food and medicines. It delighted the crowd, who imagined they were cheering for better health and better medicine. They're in for a bitter surprise.

Some who should know better are offering cautious approval...Read more

The anti-Trump media have already congratulated themselves for destroying the Matt Gaetz nomination for attorney general and are now attempting to destroy the Pete Hegseth nomination for secretary of defense.

Vetting the records of cabinet nominees is a legitimate journalistic function. It is not a legitimate journalistic function to kill a ...Read more

Whatever happened to the Democrats' reputation as the party favoring the working man? Put another way, what happened to the Democrats as the party promising economic redistribution from the rich to the average man?

Those are questions that Democrats are asking after Vice President Kamala Harris' decisive, but not landslide, loss to President-...Read more

WASHINGTON -- President-elect Donald Trump's pick to serve as secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth, is in the hot seat.

I fear Hegseth, a combat veteran and "Fox & Friends" weekend anchor, is not up to the job. I'd rather see someone like Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who successfully has run the Sunshine State.

But the campaign to slime Hegseth ...Read more

SAN DIEGO -- More evidence has just rolled in proving once again that the American people and the two major political parties that claim to represent them really do live on completely different planets.

At a time of deep political acrimony, when American voters have divided themselves into teams -- one blue, one red -- it is increasingly ...Read more

My initial reaction to the issuance of a full pardon by President Joe Biden to his son Hunter was emotional. What father wouldn't pardon his own son, if he could?

I suspect that the president has harbored these paternal thoughts even while he denied numerous times that he was planning on doing so. We have come to expect lying in politicians. ...Read more

The way America thinks about health care is terribly wrong. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report that a staggering 74% of adults in America are obese or overweight. Don't search for a scapegoat like McDonald's or Kentucky Fried Chicken. The problem is that we ignore prevention and fixate on cures, defying the wisdom that an ...Read more

The new year will bring a new administration, and I'll be watching to see if President-elect Donald Trump's team finally puts an end to the worldwide taxation of individual Americans' income. Fixing this is imperative. It would not only be sound fiscal policy but could keep millions of law-abiding Americans living overseas from being treated ...Read more

During its Baltic Sea transit, the Chinese merchant ship Yi Peng 3 dropped an anchor -- or at least dragged an anchor-like device with slicing effectiveness.

According to Reuters, the Chinese bulk carrier left a Russian seaport on Nov. 15 and "was responsible for severing the two undersea cables in Swedish economic waters between Nov. 17 and ...Read more

This week, I visited Buenos Aires, Argentina, to speak about free markets and socialism at the Conservative Political Action Conference. It was a fitting location: Argentina is now Ground Zero for the revitalization of capitalism in the West. In a time when the right often laments "late stage capitalism" in terms reminiscent of Noam Chomsky, ...Read more

Dean of the nation's political analysts, Michael Barone, sat down with The Wall Street Journal to discuss the 2024 election.

The headline that emerged from that discussion was "Donald Trump's Rainbow Coalition," noting that the monopoly of the Democratic Party over the nation's Black vote seems to be over.

If this is true, and it indeed ...Read more

There are over 660,000 illegal migrants already convicted of felonies or facing charges who have come across the southern border and been released into the U.S., according to newly released federal data provided by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Some are in jail -- on the taxpayers' tab, of course -- having been nabbed for committing ...Read more