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

By 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

Elizabeth Stauffer Apr 22, 2026

Earth Day environment regulation

Earth Day and the failure of apocalyptic environmentalism

Jason Hayes Apr 22, 2026

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

Heyrsh Abdulrahman Apr 18, 2026

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

Ali Holcomb and Joel Griffith Apr 18, 2026

Trump must challenge China’s 5G dominance

By Robert L. Maness February 21, 2025 12:12 pm

Members of the Chinese military carry a flag of China during the opening ceremony of the 9th Asian Winter Games in Harbin, China, Friday, Feb. 7, 2025. (Issei Kato/Pool Photo via AP)

The path to China deterrance

By Rep. Pat Harrigan February 21, 2025 10:18 am

Shen Yun Performing Arts creates a new production every year with five separate casts that tour the world.

CCP wields US media against Shen Yun

By Brian Taef February 20, 2025 7:00 am

Trump’s Latin America realignment puts America first

By Maria Salazar February 17, 2025 6:00 am

EMBARGOED UNTIL 2 P.M., EST, THURSDAY, NOV. 29 - This handout image provided by Ian Joughin, shows surface melt water rushing along the surface of the Greeland Ice Sheet through a supra-glacial stream channel on July 4, 2012, southwest of Ilulissat, Greenland. Polar ice sheets are now melting three times faster than in the 1990s, but so far that's added just less than half an inch to already rising global sea levels, a new giant scientific study says. While the amount of sea level rise isn't as bad as some earlier worst case scenarios, the acceleration of the melting, especially in Greenland, has ice scientists worried. (AP Photo/Ian Joughin)

Russia is using Trump’s Greenland rhetoric to boost its Crimea claims

By Ivana Stradner and Marina Chernin February 14, 2025 8:00 am

The European Right is learning from the Trump tornado

By Mike Gonzalez February 13, 2025 8:00 am

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott speaks to reporters outside the West Wing of the White House, Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2025, in Washington.

Texas leads in securing the border

By Robert Henneke February 12, 2025 5:00 am

India is the un-China

By Howard Husock February 11, 2025 12:00 pm

America must lead in AI innovation to counter China

By Nathan Leamer February 9, 2025 10:00 am

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei arrives to vote for the parliamentary runoff elections, in Tehran, Iran, Friday, May 10, 2024.

Putting America first in the Middle East

By Michael Lucchese February 7, 2025 6:00 am

President Donald Trump speaks before signing an executive order in the Oval Office of the White House, Monday, Feb. 3, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump can ‘reset’ relations with Iran’s mullah regime

By John Schindler February 4, 2025 8:00 am

National flags representing the United States, Canada, and Mexico fly in the breeze in New Orleans where leaders of the North American Free Trade Agreement met, April 21, 2008.

What to know about the tariffs and threats imposed by Trump

By Jack Birle February 3, 2025 1:09 pm