Volodymyr Zelensky flew to Great Britain on Saturday morning after he was kicked out of the White House for disrespecting the American people and President Trump on Friday. Good riddance! What was supposed to be a simple, public signing ceremony between the United States and Ukraine turned into a…
The best way to understand Trump is also the simplest: he’s a businessman. From that perspective, little of what he’s doing is as inexplicable or surprising as many make it out to be. The inexplicability arises from general ignorance of business. Most Americans have little knowledge or understanding of…
For most of his first term, President Donald Trump was a relatively lonely figure on the world stage. Establishment figures considered him vulgar, and his unabashed nationalism found few allies among the political bien pensant of the day. In Europe particularly, things were more placid than they are now;…
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered an additional 2,500 to 3,000 active-duty troops to the southern U.S. border, including soldiers from a motorized brigade equipped with 20-ton armored Stryker combat vehicles, defense officials familiar with the effort said. The defense secretary approved the orders Friday, the officials said, speaking…
I have never been much for schadenfreude: It is always best to occupy one’s mind with worthier matters. But I cave to temptation as Volodymyr Zelensky, the puffed-up buffoon who has paraded flamboyantly across the world stage as a hero these past half-dozen years, is publicly cut to…
It’s been just over two weeks since Robert F. Kennedy Jr. took the helm at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), and already some companies are adopting policy recommendations aligned with the MAHA agenda. In what might be the biggest shift yet, the CEO of Chicago-based Mondelez…
This week, a transgender “woman” was named Sydney, Australia’s Local Woman of the Year by an Australian state PM. Brianna Skinner reportedly won the award despite being a biological male. Per Daily Mail: Sydney MP Alex Greenwich announced Ms Skinner as his award winner as…
This past week, the venerable Martin Wolf, chief economics commentator for The Financial Times, used his column to declare the Trump administration and, by extension, the United States “the enemy of the West.” “Today,” Wolf wrote, “autocracies [are] increasingly confident,” and “the United States is moving to their side.”…
Any claims of Russia “backstabbing” or “selling out” China are absurd and driven by a desire to sow discord. The “New Détente”, which refers to the ongoing efforts between Russia and the US to enter into a rapprochement in the New Cold War similar in spirit to what they agreed to…
Does the pleasure you get from scrolling your cell phone compensate you for the frustration from the absence of customer service? The same digital revolution that gave you a cell phone gave the companies the opportunity to drive up profits and executive bonuses by replacing customer service with AI that…
