opinion

My take today is on the refugee crisis in Syria and Europe and looks at what the United States should do. Thursday, the White House announced that the U.S. should be prepared to help at least 10,000 refugees. So let’s take a look at the amount of care the U.S. …

On a recent podcast, Jen Fulwiler—author, comedian, and mother of six—said something that stopped me in my tracks. “God, I love being a mom,” she said with the kind of unselfconscious joy that you don’t hear often enough in our culture. She went on: “I was so alone my entire …

In New York, a court revealed that a leading citizen had cooked the books by inflating questionable figures without any support in reality. Moreover, his wild overvaluation was widely viewed as motivated by his self-aggrandizement. The final reported figures are so absurdly inflated that they were rejected in their entirety. …

Each summer and fall, southern states brace for the destructive force of hurricane season. From Florida to the Carolinas, families face a routine ritual: prepare and pray. But the storms are becoming stronger. The flooding is now more severe, and the economic toll increases every year. In2024, the United States …

This summer, I, alongside several fellow detransitioners, spoke to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) about how the medical establishment lied to us as children. We were told we could become members of the opposite sex if only we took the puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones they prescribed us and underwent …

Monday marksthe100th anniversary of Margaret Thatcher’s birth – an occasion that brings together leadersandsupporters from acrosstheAtlantic to pay tribute to her life. We attheRonaldReaganPresidentialFoundation&Instituteare honored to participate inthecelebration, an occasion that also invites us to reflect on her legacyandconnection withRonaldReaganinthecontext of our modern era. Namely, what made her partnership with …

As someone whose life’s work is helping small businesses navigate our nation’s complex tax system, I have witnessed firsthand how the Internal Revenue Service has become an outsized force that too often targets those least equipped to fight back. While the agency has long maintained that its enforcement efforts are …

Any person who can survive captivity under extreme conditions is a hero in anyone’s book. Yes, there are variations in the degree of starvation, torture, mental anguish and deprivation; the degree of exposure to respiratory and gastrointestinal infections; not to mention the compounded torment for those who have been injured, …

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent recentlydeclaredthat President Donald Trump’s administration is considering declaring an emergency situation forhousing.He pointedouttheweakest summer home sales in a decade, withmore than 15%of transactions falling through in July,thehighest cancellation rate since record-keeping commencedin 2017. Prices, though below pandemic levels,arestill too lofty for working- and middle-class Americans. Bessent …

On this, the second anniversary of the massacre in Israel following the invasionfrom Gaza by Hamas and other terrorists, all commentaries about that day of horrors, should begin by recalling the specifics of that attack — its immediate toll, the brutality of the mayhem and the extraordinary cruelty of killers …