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The lawfare deployed against France’s Marine Le Pen is a shot across the bow of Europe’s populist right and all who oppose Europe’s ruling class.

The high-stakes drama and academic charade at this supposedly venerated institution of higher education continues apace—threatening funding, public respect, and sanity.

The left-wing legacy media’s obsession with the Signal leak story distracted them from real events that will weaken the Democrats’ power base.

Inconsistent and unequal standards in medical training abroad raise questions about our priorities in addressing America’s physician shortage.

Trump is right to pressure law firms to avoid falling into the trap of lawfare.

A new film about the famous Irish writer captures her feminine energy and brilliance and, perhaps unintentionally, shows how such qualities are missed by modern feminism.

There is nothing to be gained in capitulating to critics who feign outrage over counterfactuals. Trump is right to fight on.

The AI revolution may not lay the golden egg we’ve been led to believe is coming.

The novelist John Dickson Carr was a master mystery writer and a product of a now-lost age in which reading was an unsurpassed pleasure.

The simplest explanation in “Signalgate” is that a staffer messed up—badly.

A judge who ordered the president not to discuss a law firm involved in the Russiagate hoax is getting very little pushback from the Justice Department.

Groups seeking to shield illegal immigrants from deportation by suggesting that churches can serve as a refuge are playing a game with the law.

On subjects such as the use of the ‘Latinx,’ California’s budget, and his minimum wage hike, Newsom retreats but his record speaks for itself.

Judges will rule on procedure and technicalities, but the people will evaluate the legitimacy of our institutions and credibility of our leaders.

Reforms are only going to be as lasting as the threat of real punishment.

A year after Claudine Gay’s resignation as president of Harvard, wokeness is still entrenched in university faculties and administrations. It needs to go.

Democracy is at stake, but the threat is from the courts.

Ebrahim Rasool found out that the Trump administration does not welcome fanatics who lecture Americans about the supposed moral superiority of third-world nations.

David Sullivan’s experience exposing the treachery of a KGB spy inside the CIA, John Arthur Paisley, shows how the deep state is more interested in protecting itself than in national security.

The more America acts like an imperial power, the more nationalist movements in other countries will treat us like one.

The era of original, tough-minded, and seriously cultivated magazine journalism is over, replaced by an age of random digital ephemera.

Trump’s defiance in the face of the federal court judge’s special pleading on behalf of Venezuelan gang members and terrorists is a political winner.

The 1997 film adaptation was enjoyable but failed to take the source material seriously for political reasons. A new adaptation has the chance to correct that.

The ungrateful audience members who booed JD Vance are not likely to disrupt Trump’s plans to improve D.C.’s premier arts center.

Roberts has a history of prioritizing—in ham-handed and self-aggrandizing fashion—what he believes to be the judiciary’s integrity.

A showdown between the White House and courts over “impoundment” will determine the fate of the republic.

The Times’s own willingness to be misled, and to mislead the public, calls into question whether the paper can be trusted to “follow the science.”

One-time heroes of science and technology become pariahs to the left when their observations become politically inconvenient.

Canada is critical of talk of U.S. expansion, but its own history involves coercing Newfoundland into union and away from U.S. influence.

The world that made Andrew Tate a phenomenon has moved on without him.

Is the deep state trying to push the Trump administration to become actively hostile to Ukraine?

Only if we’re using weird in the sense of being too timid to take on the weirdos of the left in any kind of meaningful way.

While the Democratic Party base demands strong opposition to Trump. their clever and unprincipled leaders know that it is smarter to be more like him.

Former Washington Post editor Marty Baron’s acknowledgment that George Stephanopoulos’s journalistic mea culpa was necessary rings hollow.

It’s time for the U.S. to cut ties with the UN for good.

Stanley Fish’s promotion of Judith Butler shows how well-meaning but muddled liberals end up protecting our captured institutions from democratic discourse and accountability, often in the name of “defending democracy.”

Contrary to the wishes of some American critics, the orchestra still chooses its performers through blind auditions, testing only for musical excellence and scorning DEI considerations.

The drama over Khalil’s arrest and detention is not really about Khalil but about sovereignty of the United States over its borders.

The Trump administration is redesigning the Biden administration’s infamous CBP One phone app that facilitated illegal immigration into an instrument for self-deportation.

America’s culture is damaged not so much by the low standards of the entertainment industry as it is by the calculated strategy of anointing these vandals as moral authorities.

If America is serious about reversing the chronic disease epidemic and restoring public trust in science, confirming Jay Bhattacharya as NIH director is not just the right move—it’s essential.

Luigi Mangione has become a cultlike figure to certain segments of both the revolutionary left and right. But even by the standards of these deluded people, he is a fraud.

Elon Musk and his band of DOGErs have exposed those in government who are not working in the interest of the American people but have their attentions turned elsewhere.

It will not do for the right to make lazy appeals to tradition when the American tradition now includes a long history of support for the administrative state.

Some thoughts on Justin Trudeau, Pierre Trudeau, and the USA-Canada alliance.

President Trump understands that American foreign policy is rooted in interests before values.

Good economic policy calls for a cool head, and Wall Street fears the president is letting his passions set the nation on a dangerous course.

Many of the same characters involved in lawfare against President Trump are implicated in the untruthful ambush of me and Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.