The Trump administration has started to have a real effect on the size and scope of government, thanks to its focus on wasteful and fraudulent spending doled out to non-governmental organizations (NGOs). The more the administration uncovers, the worse it…
Crazy days! In the spirit of positive thinking the last century’s New Dealers used to say, Happy days are here again! These are nervous days — boom or bust! But I say, with Iris De Ment, “let the mystery be,”…
The foreign aid complex is a racket. The harm it has done over the decades far exceeds its egregious waste of taxpayer dollars. For years, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and its network of taxpayer-funded “partners” have promoted…
The first months of the new Trump Administration have laid bare the web of government technocrats and NGO activists and their public funding. It has never been easier to disregard the narratives these actors have concocted. Hungarians, then, largely rolled…
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…
On this episode of The Weekend Spectator, join hosts Paul Kengor and Grace Reilly as they discuss a variety of pieces recently written for The American Spectator. Paul and Grace expand on the topics of abortion and Europe from Restoration News reporters Hayden Ludwig and…
Finding himself standing astride history and holding a big, beautiful mandate from the voters, President Donald Trump has made his triumphant return to The Swamp to clean things up once and for all. Though Trump repeatedly disavowed Project 2025 throughout…
By attacking the Department of Education and the United States Agency for International Development, President Trump and special government employee Elon Musk are simply hitting fungos at spring training — like a crack baseball team, anxiously awaiting the first pitch…
WASHINGTON — “My uncle started USAID in 1961, for humanitarian purposes, to put our country on the side of the poor,” Robert F. Kennedy Jr. pronounced Thursday at the White House as he was sworn in as Health Secretary. “It…
