Amid the myriad challenges that confront us in the coming months, it’s easy to simply pigeonhole African issues under the heading of: “We’ll get around to it, someday, maybe.” That, as I’ve noted previously in writing about Africa, has been…

Editor’s Note: This is the first installment of Scott McKay’s new novel, King of the Jungle, which will be released exclusively at The American Spectator in 10 episodes each weekend in February, March, and early April, before its complete release…

It was totally unexpected, and the journalists present still can’t believe it. The president came out of the White House looking, as usual, like an astronaut floating in the ether. With narrowed eyes, a foggy mind, and his guard down,…

“Yesterday, Mexican authorities arrested Néstor Isidro Pérez Salas, also known as ‘El Nini,’ who we allege is one of the Sinaloa Cartel’s lead sicarios, or assassins” said American Attorney General Merrick Garland on Thanksgiving. El Nini worked for “the Chapitos…

By now it is notorious that President Joe Biden’s choice as vice president and possible successor, Kamala Harris, has dismally failed in her first assignment: to do something about the flow across the American border of Central Americans. She is…

Rosenberg: Working as a reporter and now as a Fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies, you have done a lot of “shoe leather” reporting at the U.S. southern border — covering the Mexican drug wars and, in the last…

Back in 1936, E. Alexander Powell flew to two dozen republics and colonies “fringing and dotting the Caribbean,” in “half that number of weeks,” relying heavily on Pan Am clippers, a flying boat. In his book Aerial Odyssey, he offered…

The tragic killing of two U.S. citizens this week in the border town of Matamoros, Mexico, should, in a just world, refocus American attention on the glaring problem of transnational drug cartels’ de facto control of large swaths of our…

The Dallas Morning News, longtime home of one of The American Spectator’s most beloved columnists, William Murchison, is on target in its editorial approval of Gov. Greg Abbott’s “Operation Lone Star,” which has been busing illegals out of Texas to…

Mexico’s attempt at a government-run wholesale wireless communications network is the latest in a string of costly, inefficient, and ultimately disastrous government-driven communications infrastructure projects worldwide. Since its inception, the “Red Compartida” (or shared network) has been mired in impropriety…