RFK junior and Tulsi Gabbard, set to sail through a cowed Senate

TWO OF Donald Trump’s most controversial cabinet choices appear to be heading for confirmation after winning critical Senate ...

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Elon Musk is shredding America’s government as he did Twitter

JUST PAST midnight on February 3rd Elon Musk appeared on X to explain what he is doing to the federal government. He had to s...

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Elon Musk is shredding America’s government like he did Twitter

JUST PAST midnight on February 3rd, Elon Musk appeared on X to explain what he is doing to the federal government. He had to ...

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An alternative theory to explain America’s murder spike in 2020

You might call it a new golden age. America’s economy is strong, overdose deaths are falling and crime rates are down. For th...

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Donald Trump’s Defining Decade

Donald Trump invoked the 1890s in laying out the agenda for his second term. But from his demand for the Panama Canal to his ...

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Donald Trump’s defining decade

Donald Trump invoked the 1890s in laying out the agenda for his second term. But from his demand for the Panama Canal to his ...

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Donald Trump revives ideas of a Star Wars-like missile shield

IN THE LATE 1980s Edward Teller, the father of the hydrogen bomb, and Lowell Wood, an astrophysicist, proposed a seemingly bi...

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America’s foreign aid pause puts lives at risk

THE SPRAWLING al-Hol camp in north-eastern Syria is part of a network of prisons holding tens of thousands of detainees and f...

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Donald Trump goes to war with his employees

TO GET a sense of what Donald Trump’s first week did to the federal government, talk to people who work in it. “I’ve been wit...

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Kash Patel is a crackpot

Kash Patel likes conspiracy theories. Luckily for everyone else, conspiracists are normally kept far away from America’s fede...

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