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The tale of Paul Revere's Ride remains very much worth telling — 250 years later
Like all legendary events, Paul Revere’s Ride and the Battles of Lexington and Concord have been encrusted with myth.
Trump will destroy a world economy that has us at the apex
It’s dangerous to disrupt willy-nilly a system that has ourselves at the apex, and getting stronger rather than weaker.Â
Unless we spike military spending — and FAST — the next major war could be catastrophic
It is President Donald Trump's wont to declare national emergencies, whether a given situation warrants it or not, but the state of our defenses is a true crisis.
Science resurrects the dire wolf — and our world is richer for it
The "Game of Thrones" canine species that went extinct more than 10,000 years ago has been revived in a stunning act of de-extinction, a marvelous sci-fi scenario come to life.
Trump is playing with fire in declaring an 'emergency' to roll out his tariffs
The Trump administration is using Humpty Dumpty rules to justify its new tariffs.Â
Free seas matter — and only the US can protect them
President Trump’s decision to hit the Houthis toward the goal of fully freeing the Red Sea to shipping again was fundamentally American.
How Trump caught big-government fans in their own trap
None of the mechanisms the president is using to push his agenda were put in place by conservatives for leverage against progressive institutions.Â
Woke Boston mayor coddles rapists as 'part of the family'
Michelle Wu's obsessive defense of illegal immigrant criminals is still in line with much of her party, and its a near-theological commitment to the disastrous open border.
President Trump's right: If our Navy doesn't get more ships, we'll never beat China in a war
The great 19th-century strategist and navalist Alfred Thayer Mahan would be shocked and mystified that we have allowed the country with which we are most likely to fight a devastating...
If AOC is their future, the Democrats are hopelessly lost
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is a cartoon version of the Democratic Party that the GOP would love to run against — and Democrats say she embodies their philosophy.
Tesla terrorism only reveals the left's impotence
The agitation is meant to exact a price on Musk for DOGE and get him to abandon the effort: No one wants to buy an expensive vehicle and then become...
Blame Canada? Trump's trade tiff is way out of whack — and harming US, too
The madman theory has much to recommend it when dealing with Hamas or the Houthis — but no one heretofore has thought it has similar benefits when handling our once-friendly...
This lone district judge has no right to run US foreign policy
Judge Amir Ali has no authority over the conduct of US foreign policy, but that's not stopping him in his escalating conflict with the Trump administration over USAID spending.
How English makes us stronger: national language brings unity
It’s no disrespect to speakers of, say, Tagalog to enforce English as our predominant language — and not learning it excludes them from the mainstream of American life.
Bezos' Washington Post overhaul reveals the weakness of the woke
The furious reaction to Jeff Bezos reveals the left’s intolerance of any dissenting news source — but his changes will make the legacy media less monochromatic and more interesting.
In general, a major shakeup at the Pentagon is admiral
President Trump and his defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, have outraged the Beltway by dismissing top generals, including Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Charles Q. Brown.
Europe finally gets it: pony up and help defend yourselves
Serious countries need serious militaries, but Europe has preferred to spend on everything else while relying on the might of the United States for security and power projection.
Trump's war on woke is tearing down the left's cultural sway
Fashionable progressive ideas that have long been ascendant, including DEI and gender ideology, have received hammer blows since Trump’s inauguration, and there’s more to come.
Dems suffering from Musk Derangement Syndrome
Democrats have finally found someone they hate more than Donald Trump.
Panama's canal cave-in a triumph of Trump's brash diplomacy
Right now Marco Rubio has the easiest job in the world: President Trump is throwing his weight around in our hemisphere in a way we haven’t seen in a century,...