MINNEAPOLIS — When Jody Abramson enlisted in the resistance, volunteering to ferry kindergarteners to and from school, she knew little about the experiences of new immigrants in her community.

One afternoon an Ecuadorian boy fell asleep in the backseat of her old Toyota, so there was Abramson, a stranger, gently carrying him over a snowbank ...Read more

President Donald Trump has made strides in paring back the corpulent administrative state, but a new analysis highlights significant work remains.

Last week, the Competitive Enterprise Institute released its annual Ten Thousand Commandments report on the proliferation of federal laws, rules and regulations. The cost of excessive red tape is ...Read more

When the people of Hungary decided clearly on Sunday to vote out their right-wing populist leader, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, he had the decency to concede his defeat. Too bad that America’s right-wing populist leader, President Donald Trump, doesn’t have that same sense of decency about fair play and winning and losing. Being a gracious ...Read more

Every parent should be paying attention to what’s been going on at Lake Zurich High School.

In an April 2 communication to families, school officials said police are investigating allegations that students used artificial intelligence to generate and share explicit, pornographic images using the likeness of other students.

District ...Read more

With gasoline prices over $4 a gallon, the highest level since 2022, it’s clear that the war with Iran is inflicting economic pain. And not just at the pump: Food prices are poised to rise significantly if federal lawmakers do nothing to address a fertilizer crisis that was, in part, their own making.

The problem stems from countervailing ...Read more

Here they come again.

The left-leaning legal intelligentsia — the crowd that spent four years weaponizing the Department of Justice against Donald Trump, his associates and anyone who dared support him — has now cooked up a scheme to torch the American justice system from the inside out.

Jury nullification.

Rogue judges’ rulings to ...Read more

Earth Day (April 22) arrives this year in the shadow of endless doomscrolling: Record-shattering heat, cities swallowed by rising waters, devastating wildfires and conflicts around the globe seize the headlines, each catastrophe sliding into the next with the flick of a thumb.

It’s no surprise that we’re anxious. And yet, when we do ...Read more

The last year has seen an unprecedented stress test for the American rule of law. While much of the public discourse has focused on the targeting of political rivals for criminal prosecution — facts and evidence notwithstanding — a less noticed but equally vital shift is occurring. Federal grand juries and trial juries are exercising a...Read more

It was just six months ago that Senate Democrats shut down the government rather than address the failures of ObamaCare. Their rhetoric was dark, warning of disaster for millions of people and families who might be forced to pay more for their own health care unless the GOP agreed to extend subsidies for those who purchased coverage on state ...Read more

Why now? Why now?

Every time a woman comes forward with her story of sexual assault, this is the first question she faces. OK, maybe the second — after some variation of "Are you a lying slut?"

At least we are consistent. But on behalf of all survivors everywhere, of any gender, identity or age, let me give you some blanket answers to "Why ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Eric Swalwell is out— of the California gubernatorial race and Congress, spending time with family, as they say, after allegations of rape and sexual misconduct. That could be considered good news for the slew of Democrats who remain in the running, and even the two Republicans currently polling near the top.

But this ...Read more

The lightning-fast downfall of Eric Swalwell is a testament to the astonishing, often-denigrated “soft power” of public shame.

Swalwell was shamed out of politics in recent days after being accused by multiple women of sexual misconduct. He ended his campaign for California governor and resigned his House seat representing a district in ...Read more

As an American Catholic who has sat in a church pew my entire life, received the Holy Eucharist, marked more than 50 Lents with ashes, and been taught from childhood that the pope is the Vicar of Christ on earth, I never thought I would have to say this: The president of the United States has no business attacking our Holy Father — and even ...Read more

The American blockade in the Strait of Hormuz alters the strategic equation in the Iran conflict. It also has the attention of our enemies.

Peace talks between the United States and Iran broke down over the weekend as the latter made a number of demands after mistaking President Donald Trump’s desire for a quick end to the conflict as a ...Read more

Hungary’s Viktor Orban pulled almost every lever available to extend his 16 years in power. In the end, neither an in-person endorsement from U.S. Vice President JD Vance nor a captive media machine was enough to save the man who admits playing “mouse” to Vladimir Putin’s “lion.”

While more of a tilt back westward for the country ...Read more

For a man who understands the power of leverage, Donald Trump is being remarkably slow to recognize the influence Iran has gained in the Strait of Hormuz. The U.S. president’s threat to complete its closure by blocking Iranian exports through it, too, is far more likely to drag him deeper into a politically damaging war than to force Tehran’...Read more

Just when you thought Democrats couldn’t sink any lower, along comes retread Kamala Harris to kiss the ring of Al Sharpton and adopt a fake mafia boss accent to tease another presidential run.

You can’t make this stuff up.

Harris, the failed 2024 White House nominee, said over the weekend she just “might” run again.

“Listen, I ...Read more

Twenty-two years ago, the U.S. was at war, just as it is today, and a president visited the pope at the Vatican.

President George W. Bush’s meeting with Pope John Paul II was reported to be an awkward one. With the war in Iraq raging, the 84-year-old pope, weakened by Parkinson’s disease and less than a year from his death, condemned the ...Read more

“Abolish ICE” makes for red-meat copy on the side of a Chicago street sweeper. But neither Mayor Brandon Johnson nor Democratic Senate candidate Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton really wants to abolish immigration and customs enforcement in the United States.

Having a say over who comes and goes into a country is an intrinsic part of what defines ...Read more

Since Trump and his followers make such a show of honoring the flag, how can I say that he desecrates the flag? The answer comes from the Pledge of Allegiance itself, which clearly states the meaning of the flag. Republicans recite the pledge at every gathering, and many Trump supporters fly the flag outside their homes; indeed, that is how they...Read more