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The rumble in the jungle: is Washington punching itself out?

Ron MacCammon · April 26, 2026 6:00 am

The sun rises behind tankers anchored in the Strait of Hormuz.

A US victory in Iran is what Democrats fear most

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Earth Day and the failure of apocalyptic environmentalism

US President Donald Trump mimics firing a gun as he speaks about the conflict in Iran in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House on April 6, 2026, in Washington, DC. (Photo by Kent Nishimura / AFP via Getty Images)

The price of appeasement: $20 billion won’t buy peace with Iran

The aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower and other warships cross the Strait of Hormuz into the Persian Gulf.

Our Navy was built for this moment in the Strait of Hormuz

Cadets turn on their flashlights to commemorate 659 Ukrainian children, who were killed during the war with Russia, in a military lyceum on World Children's Day in Kyiv, Ukraine.

The US can help end the militarization of Ukrainian children

Katya Pavlevych December 31, 2025 3:26 pm

President Donald Trump speaks during a NORAD Santa Claus call at his Mar-a-Lago club.

Trump acts in the Monroe Doctrine tradition

James Rogan December 31, 2025 6:00 am

The Shearon Harris nuclear plant in Holly Springs, North Carolina.

Nuclear waste is not an engineering problem. It’s a governance failure

Edward McGinnis December 30, 2025 11:07 am

An honor guard member of the People's Liberation Army.

China’s military is staring down the barrel of its gun

Sean Durns December 30, 2025 6:00 am

An ambulance parks at the emergency room entrance at Banner Estrella Medical Center.

Medicare for All remains a disaster proposition

Sally Pipes December 28, 2025 6:00 am

Chinese President Xi Jinping makes a toast.

US is boosting China’s defense technology

Sean Durns December 25, 2025 6:00 am

FILE - Sam Nguyen shows a gold bar at her shop in the St. Vincent Jewelry Center in the Jewelry District of Los Angeles, Wednesday, April 30, 2025.

Gold’s rise and the new global arms race

Hugh Hewitt December 24, 2025 12:41 pm

Turning Point USA Cofounder Charlie Kirk.

The DNC thinks it can build a left-wing Turning Point USA — it can’t

Elizabeth Stauffer December 24, 2025 6:00 am

Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik addresses the media after casts his ballot in a snap presidential election of Republika Srpska at a polling station in Laktasi, northwest of Sarajevo, Bosnia, Sunday, Nov. 23, 2025.

New trouble for Bosnia as sanctions are removed on Serb leader

Angela Howard December 21, 2025 5:00 am

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, right, and Germany's Chancellor Friedrich Merz, left, attend a roundtable meeting on migration at the EU Summit in Brussels.

The EU bureaucracy is declaring war on American business

Matt Mowers December 19, 2025 5:00 am

President Donald Trump.

Can Trump save Europe from itself?

John Roberts December 17, 2025 12:00 pm

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

The gas corridor sanctions forgot: Tehran’s quiet expansion into Turkey

Saeed Ghasseminejad, Aidin Panahi December 16, 2025 6:03 pm