Category: News

The scene was shocking and almost unbelievable. In the middle of a legislative hearing in Wisconsin, a state senator, consumed with rage, lunged across the dais to grab the chairman’s gavel. This was more than a moment of lost tempers. This was a stark and worrying symptom of the decay of our democratic institutions. It…

Does the First Amendment protect a senior FBI agent’s right to express contempt for a political candidate he is actively investigating? In a powerful and constitutionally significant ruling, a federal judge has just delivered a definitive answer: no. The dismissal of former FBI agent Peter Strzok’s wrongful termination lawsuit is more than just the end…

A young Ukrainian refugee named Iryna Zarutska fled a war zone to find safety in America, only to be stabbed to death on a public train in Charlotte, North Carolina. The revelation that her accused killer, a career criminal, had been released from jail 14 times has ignited a furious and deeply emotional national debate.…

What happens when the most basic and essential duty of our government – to simply keep itself open – becomes just another weapon in a partisan war? With a September 30 funding deadline looming, the nation is once again careening toward a government shutdown, with both parties engaged in a high-stakes, constitutional game of chicken.…

A horrific, random act of violence on a Charlotte commuter train – the murder of a 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee named Iryna Zarutska – has sent shockwaves through North Carolina and ignited a furious legislative response. Lawmakers in the state have now passed “Iryna’s Law,” a sweeping criminal justice bill that promises to get tough on…

In an event that will reverberate through American history, a former Director of the FBI, James Comey, has been indicted by a federal grand jury. The charges of making false statements to Congress and obstruction of justice are the explosive culmination of a political and legal war that has raged for nearly a decade, spanning…

How do you force a powerful, multi-billion dollar global industry to bend to your will? The President has just announced his answer: the threat of a massive, 100% tax on their imported products. This new tariff on the pharmaceutical industry is not just another move in the administration’s trade wars. It is a high-stakes, constitutional…

On the world’s biggest diplomatic stage, the President of the United States was momentarily foiled by a stopped escalator and a broken teleprompter. He immediately seized upon the mishaps to portray the United Nations as a symbol of global dysfunction. But the strange and revealing truth behind these minor technical glitches tells a much deeper…

The reading of a jury verdict is meant to be a moment of solemn finality, the point at which the chaos of a crime is met with the sober, deliberate conclusion of the law. But in the trial of Ryan Routh for the attempted assassination of a president, that final moment was itself consumed by…

Flanked by his top health officials, President Trump began a press conference Tuesday not with policy, but with a personal story of a two-decade-old conversation with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. about the alarming rise of autism in America. That personal concern has now been translated into a radical and deeply controversial shift in official U.S.…