Politics

Identity politics and Trump hate lose to Islamist communism in NYC

In New York City on Tuesday night, Democrats learned the hard way that hating President Donald Trump or being a power player in racial identity politics is no longer as important as embracing Islamist communism.

The electoral case against a Catholic-conservative wedding

The push to wed the American right to Catholicism is not new, but it has reached a fever pitch. I’m a friend of both — by all means be Catholic, and by all means be right-wing — but please do not imagine that this marriage is anything short of a blunder.

What is in the Caribbean’s new slavery reparations manifesto?

Caricom Reparations Commission’s Hilary Beckles explains how it will help address the ‘residual legacy of slavery’

Reform UK plan to target EU nationals based in Britain ‘absolutely outrageous’

Exclusive: Rights group says Nigel Farage’s party is reneging on promises made during the Brexit referendum campaign

To protect the Iran peace talks, will Trump finally restrain Netanyahu?

As long as Israel continues its attacks on Lebanon, any deal between the US and Iran will be at risk

Crisis looms for Pope Leo as splinter sect seeks to ordain far-right bishops

Conflict threatens to worsen mounting tensions between the Vatican and rightwing Catholics in the US and globally

Socialism is back. America should remember why it failed

Earlier this week, CNN chief data analyst Harry Enten delivered startling news: Socialism is all the rage in the Democratic Party.

Can the US cancel Iran's Hormuz get-out-of-jail-free card?

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America turns 250. Are we still forming citizens?

This summer, America turns 250. Flags and fireworks will fly, and we will celebrate the genius of the Founding Fathers — the launching of the greatest act of self-governance in history.

The Left is obsessed with race. America has left it behind

If you listen to the ravings of the denizens of the Left in the media, in Congress, in Hollywood, and in academia, you would think it is still 1964 — when the Civil Rights Act was passed — and that racism is not only still prevalent everywhere across the country, but that it is still accepted by our culture and society, morally and legally.

Democrats to propose bill capping out-of-pocket Medicare costs for enrollees

June 25, 2026 / 5:00 AM EDT / KFF Health News

Raising taxes on young people will only make our entitlement crisis worse

Our nation’s ability to project itself into the future is linked to its fertility rate, which is falling fast. This should not be surprising, because the federal government takes trillions of dollars every year from working-age, fertile people and gives the money to infertile seniors. Now Sens. Bernie Moreno (R-OH) and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) want to make the problem worse by passing one of the largest tax hikes on working-age people ever: $3 trillion over 10 years to keep increasingly generous benefits flowing to the elderly.