Politics

Out of the Shadows: Venezuela's Opposition Emerges from Hiding but Remains on Political Sidelines

Months after Nicolás Maduro’s removal, pro-democracy activists struggle to turn hope into influence

Congress wants to tie the United States to Israel with new piece of legislation. It’s a trap

Israel and its lobby will use section 224 of the National Defense Authorization Act to bind the US to a state that has gone rogue

Will Marco Rubio help this Afghan warrior rescue his family?

In May, Afghan Special Mission Wing pilot and U.S. asylee Wahidullah Wahdat learned that his wife was killed in a gunfight outside a money exchange in Kabul. The tragedy has now left Wahdat’s children, all under the age of 13, without parents inside Afghanistan. News of his wife’s death and Wahdat’s ties to the former Afghan military have run rampant on social media. American benefactors from the Afghan American Development Group are attempting to keep Wahdat’s children safe. Without action from the State Department, however, the children have no chance of being reunited with their father.

Democrats sell their souls to defeat Susan Collins, of all people

Insomuch as it ever did, character matters less now in American politics than ever. Our history is littered with deeply flawed men. Andrew Jackson was wildly corrupt, and JFK had his many thinly veiled issues with women. Heck, Grover Cleveland married a woman 28 years his junior, whom he had known since birth. Scandals are nothing new.

My city says I need a license to pray at home. The Constitution says otherwise

In America, no one should need a governmental permit to pray. The Creator has already given us that right, and the First Amendment protects it. I learned this lesson through a fight I never expected — a fight that has resulted in an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Congressional Republicans lose patience with Trump

Longtime Republican pollster Frank Luntz recently declared, “There is zero doubt tonight that Donald Trump is in complete and total control of the Republican Party.” His statement came after the president’s preferred candidate, Ken Paxton, primaried Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) in late May.

Graham Platner is unfit for duty

Some aspects of this affair reflect particularly on the Democrats, but certainly Platner’s vulgarity, boorishness, fecklessness, and defiant rejection of decent norms do not. As Jessica Tarlov, a Democratic Fox News contributor, noted this week, members of her party can hardly be blamed for rejecting lectures from Republicans, who have embraced President Donald Trump and who more recently gave the odious Ken Paxton a thumping victory over the decent and respectable Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) in the Texas primary.

Democrats nominate jihadi associate in 9/11 hero’s congressional district

The “red-green alliance” refers to the political Left’s reliance on Marxists and Islamists as vital, sometimes-overlapping electoral constituencies. This phenomenon is now common in Europe, and perhaps its most vivid American manifestation to date arrived in New Jersey’s 12th Congressional District, where Democrats nominated a Squad-style socialist and Islamist for Congress.

'They are disturbing the dead': reconstructing the site of the forgotten first genocide of the 20th century

At least 3,000 Herero and Nama people died in a German concentration camp at Shark Island, Namibia. A new forensic exhibition in Berlin is using digital technology to unearth how colonisers scarred a landscape, and a community

Blame DEI for Fairfax’s crazy school schedule

Millions of school children across the country are enjoying their summer vacations, but not the students of Fairfax County Public Schools, in Virginia, who still have almost two weeks of school ahead of them. A mid-June release date is not that uncommon for schools elsewhere, but those that end in June usually begin after Labor Day. That is not the case with Fairfax County Public Schools. Its schools start in August and run through June, the longest school year in America.

'I almost forgot how to date'

In many countries, dating seems to be on the decline, with many young people either dating less, or finding it harder to have meaningful relationships. In 2024, one in five of South Korea's 52 million citizens were living alone. In the third episode of our series, reporter Haeryun Kang is in Seoul on a journey to find out what’s stopping people from coupling up.

Senate passes immigration enforcement funding

Senate Republicans approved $70 billion for immigration enforcement in the early hours of Friday morning, overcoming a grueling voting marathon that became a referendum on President Donald Trump’s “anti-weaponization” fund.