The entire artificial, Leftist-propelled controversy over an arm gesture that Elon Musk made at the Inaugural Parade is one of the reasons why Democrats and their media sycophants lost in the last election. The American public just got tired of…
What did President Donald Trump learn during his four-year hiatus from the White House? For one thing, he seems to have learned how to listen. But also, to judge by the first week of his second term, Trump 2.0 seems…
In the summer of 2020, Walid Phares wrote in al Arabiyya about the newly signed Abraham Accords. Phares had spoken with Trump about Middle East peace possibilities well before the first Trump presidency began and he knew that Trump was…
The civilizational inflection point in our cold civil war happened sometime between Donald Trump’s second inaugural address on Monday and the end of his new presidency’s second day on Tuesday. At some indeterminate moment between Monday’s soaring midday speech, in…
As the Senate slouches toward a vote on Pete Hegseth’s nomination as President Donald J. Trump’s secretary of defense, it’s fair to ask: Can this man actually run the Defense Department? Even Hegseth’s critics concede that he is perfectly qualified to preach from the Pentagon’s bully pulpit. He is…
Just before 4 p.m. on Sunday, January 19, Hamas released three Israeli hostages held in Gazan captivity since Oct. 7, 2023. Romi Gonen (24), kidnapped by Hamas from the Nova Music Festival, together with Emily Damari (28) and Doron Steinbrecher…
Exactly 45 years ago, during Ronald Reagan’s first Inaugural celebration, Hollywood legends still lived, and even more amazingly, voted Republican. Reagan was friends with most of them, having been a movie star himself, and they turned out in style to…
On January 19th, the much-debated ban on TikTok, a China-based and CCP-controlled social media platform, officially took effect. This decision by the U.S. government acknowledges TikTok as a national security threat. However, questions remain about the ban’s permanence. Some fear…
On the eve of Donald Trump’s second inauguration, we would do well to pay close attention to what he has said, over and over again about foreign policy — and not the words put in his mouth by others, frequently…