Debra J. Saunders
WASHINGTON — “I realized I am a guinea pig,” Forrest Smith said of his transition from male to female at age 19. After five years, Smith detransitioned. He spoke about his personal journey at a briefing on Capitol Hill on…
WASHINGTON — Kudos to President Donald Trump’s administration for canceling $400 million in grants and contracts to Columbia University “due to the school’s continued inaction in the face of persistent harassment of Jewish students.” “Since Oct. 7, Jewish students have…
When Stanford epidemiologist Jay Bhattacharya challenged COVID lockdown orthodoxy in 2020, critics glued posters of his face across the campus — which he saw as an incitement to violence — and colleagues tried to marginalize him for spreading misinformation. It…
WASHINGTON — This column is about how Washington and Kyiv got to that moment Friday when President Donald Trump told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to leave the White House after a contentious meeting. The rift between Trump and Zelenskyy, according…
WASHINGTON — I don’t like the way President Donald Trump abruptly fired swaths of federal workers during his first weeks back in office. But I know why he did it this way. Trump campaigned on a promise to cut the…
WASHINGTON — Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos sent a wake-up call to Big Media on Wednesday when he announced on X “a change coming to our opinion pages.” “We are going to be writing every day in support and defense…
WASHINGTON — A madness swept the nation during President Joe Biden’s term in office: the unfettered promotion of gender transitioning, even among children and, oddly, in the wide world of sports. President Donald Trump quickly put an end to that….
Kudos to President Donald Trump for moving to cut off the spigot of federal funds for the California High-Speed Rail project during the first month of his second term. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced Thursday that $4 billion in funding,…
WASHINGTON — The number of border apprehensions was down in January — 29,116 illegal aliens were apprehended along the border, the lowest number since May 2020. In January 2022, the number of southwest border encounters exceeded 150,000. The White House…
