Opinion

Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill celebrates the Divine Liturgy for Christmas in the Christ the Saviour Cathedral in Moscow on Jan. 6, 2022.

What it means for Russia’s fight in Ukraine to be a ‘holy war’

Emily Hester, Ivana Stradner · August 10, 2026 10:37 am

U.S. President Donald Trump, accompanied by CIA Director John Ratcliffe (C-L), Secretary of War Pete Hegseth (2nd-R) and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Dan Caine (R), speaks during a news conference in James S. Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House on April 06, 2026 in Washington, DC. President Trump spoke about the successful military mission to rescue a weapons systems officer whose F-15E Strike Eagle was shot down in Iran. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Trump’s frustration and Iran’s delaying tactics

Lead singer and guitarist Billy Corgan of American alternative rock band The Smashing Pumpkins performs at the 26th edition of the Vive Latino music festival in Mexico City, Sunday, March 15, 2026.

Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan just offered a great lesson in economics

Power transmission towers line a street in Redondo Beach, California.

Utility companies want to shift risks on struggling families

Network of Enlightened Women 2026 Essay Contest college winner

U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks during the Western Governors' Association meeting Thursday, Nov. 20, 2025, in Scottsdale, Ariz. (AP Photo/Rebecca Noble)

The science wasn’t settled. The CDC finally admitted it

Monique Yohanan November 30, 2025 9:54 am

This file photo shows a closeup of a beam scale in New York.

Competition, not price controls, just slashed GLP-1 prices

Sally Pipes November 30, 2025 9:31 am

Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) smiles.

When will Newsom’s spending bubble burst?

Washington Examiner November 30, 2025 5:00 am

The U.S. Department of Education building is seen in Washington, Monday, Nov. 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

An insane anti-Trump conspiracy theory goes viral

Brad Polumbo November 29, 2025 9:32 am

Students sit on the front steps of Low Memorial Library on the Columbia University campus.

Trump’s immigration crackdown already benefiting American students

Washington Examiner November 29, 2025 5:00 am

Wolf next to Sen. Edward Kennedy

Anti-Trump judge enjoys cushy retirement in the name of ‘free speech’

Shaun McCutcheon November 28, 2025 5:12 pm

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., and fellow Democrats speak on the health care funding fight on the steps of the House.

Congress needs to think beyond Affordable Care Act subsidies

Troy Downing November 28, 2025 2:32 pm

national-guard-shooter-and-victim

What drove the DC shooter?

Byron York November 28, 2025 1:21 pm

Two farmers talk in a field.

Trump plan to cut farmworker wages hurts America’s competitiveness

Mark Krikorian November 28, 2025 11:48 am

Russian President Vladimir Putin arrives to a wreath laying ceremony at the Victory Square, on November 25, 2025 in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. Vladimir Putin makes a three-day state visit to the Kyrgyz Republic. During his stay he takes part in a regular session of the Collective Security Council of the Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO). Putin will also hold talks with President of Kyrgyzstan Sadyr Japarov to discuss development of the strategic partnership and allied relationship between Russia and Kyrgyzstan. (Photo by Contributor#8523328/Getty Images)

The fall of Ukraine means the end of the post-1945 Western order

Dan Hannan November 28, 2025 10:02 am

Members of the Ukrainian community in Rome, Italy, on November 23, 2025, gather to commemorate the Holodomor, the great famine of the 1930s orchestrated by Stalin, which decimates the Ukrainian population, and to march in solidarity with the Ukrainian people in response to the peace plan proposed by US President Trump. (Photo by Andrea Ronchini/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Ukraine peace? Not in our time

Hugo Gurdon November 28, 2025 6:10 am

Black and white portrait of Frank Meyer

Of Fission, Fusionism, and Fuentes

James P. Pinkerton November 28, 2025 6:00 am