In the News
May 14, 2025
What can you give a person who already has everything? The usual remedy is something of sentimental value. In Donald Trump’s case, Qatar has found the perfect blend — a $400mn jumbo jet for which he has indicated nostalgia in advance. Trump inspected the plane at Palm Beach airport a few weeks after he was sworn in. Long after he covers the aircraft’s fixtures in gold plating, he will associate his next Air Force One with Qatar’s ruling family. Or so they must hope.
May 8, 2025
What began with a chainsaw is ending in a whimper. Elon Musk’s looming exit from Washington brings the oddest chapter of Donald Trump’s presidency to an early close. By his own metrics, Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency has failed. Far from achieving his touted $2tn in savings, Doge may end up costing the taxpayer. Musk has meanwhile brought harm on Tesla, where he will soon return. Was there a hidden method to his madness?
April 23, 2025
Abe Foxman, the former Anti-Defamation League national director, offered pointed criticism of the Trump administration in a Holocaust Remembrance Day commemoration at the Capitol on Wednesday.
April 19, 2025
For the past four years, I have been delivering a series of lectures on the virtues of Stoicism to midshipmen at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md., and I was supposed to continue this on April 14 to the entire sophomore class on the theme of wisdom.
March 25, 2025
The Czech government has pledged to step in and support Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty after US President Donald Trump’s administration cut funding to the broadcaster, which has been countering the propaganda of autocratic regimes such as Russia and Iran.
March 17, 2025
The Justice Department has informed European officials that the United States is withdrawing from a multinational group created to investigate leaders responsible for the invasion of Ukraine, including President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, according to a letter sent to members of the organization on Monday.
March 14, 2025
DOGE is right: Government agencies need to be ridded of waste, fraud and abuse. Texas' Sunset process shows the right way to do that.
March 14, 2025
Federal student loan borrowers are temporarily unable to apply to income-driven repayment plans, a decades-old safety net that ties their monthly loan payment size to household income levels, as the U.S. Education Department reviews a recent federal court ruling.
March 5, 2025
Rep. Deborah Ross (D-N.C.) and Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas), a top Democrat on the House Ways and Means Committee, led a letter to IRS Acting Commissioner Melanie Krause Wednesday blasting the firings of the new hires and the lack of transparency on where the cuts are happening. These Democrats also asked for clarity on how the IRS plans to mitigate the fallout and what the impact of firings are on compliance and the collection of revenue.
March 4, 2025
President Donald Trump’s new tariff hikes on Canada and Mexico will affect many states and congressional districts he won in the November election — starting with Texas. The Lone Star State, which Trump captured with 56 percent of the vote in 2024, is especially vulnerable to tariffs on Mexican goods. Its two-way trade with Mexico was $272 billion in 2023, or about one-third of total U.S.-Mexican trade that year.