As it stands, the Houthis are well-positioned to attain five overlapping objectives in their intervention on behalf of Hamas as Israel fights to dislodge it from Gaza following the October 7 attacks. When the Houthis began launching drones, rockets, and missiles at Israel and maritime traffic in the …

Lewis Andrews It’s no secret that Americans are moving from blue states to red ones. According to recently released Census Bureau data, the five with the largest population loss to other states between July 2022 and July 2023 were California (-338,371), then New York (-216,778), Illinois (-83,839), New …

Over a century ago the Progressive leadership of the Democrats seceded philosophically from the Founding Principles of the American experiment.[i]  Rejecting the principles of natural law and unalienable individual rights, they adopted the statist relativism of Jeremy Bentham’s Utilitarianism and that of his philosophical heirs. They embraced the …

A defining feature of a democracy that sets it sharply apart from autocracy is that no citizen is above the law. Donald Trump believes he enjoys unique impunity. U.S. Attorney-General Merrick Garland disagrees. Despite years of attempts by public prosecutors and U.S. Congressional committees to bring Trump to …

Eng. Saleem Al Batayneh Amidst the gloom and the pervasive sense of conspiracy theories that permeate our thoughts and surroundings, a crucial question lingers: What awaits us in the aftermath of the Gaza tragedy? Despite the weightiness of the current atmosphere, it is imperative to address this concern …

Russians are frustrated because they lost the Cold War. But why would right-of-center Americans, long proud to be the victors, feel a similarly deep resentment? In the 1970s, Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov developed his theory of convergence – how the Soviet and U.S. systems would draw closer together. …

Republicans who claim to put country before party must rise up along with their Democratic colleagues to save the United States from Donald Trump. I am still at pains to internalize what sinister schemes Republican leaders in the House and Senate are concocting only to retain power, at …

Instead of hungering for power and party control, U.S. politicians should be hungering for solutions to the economic problems that vex the country. For U.S. Republicans and Democrats, default is a game of chicken where no one veers off course until the last minute. Rather than finding a …

Donald Trump’s possible return to the presidency could bring a sense of unpredictability and volatility to the Middle East. As the U.S. presidential elections loom later this year, current polls point to the possibility of another term for Donald Trump. Given the tumultuous impact of Trump’s previous presidency, …