This the second of two columns to post this week in which author, historian and occasional CHQ contributor Diana West shares the discoveries she made on a recent journey through the fast-evolving landscape of podcasters and “influencers” who have come to have an outsized influence on conservative audiences, perhaps the most puzzling and troubling is the […]

When the White House invoked the “Immortal Chaplains” to illustrate the history between the United States and Greenland, it touched on a theme emerging in the second Trump administration: the importance of courage. On Feb. 3, 1943, the American steamship SS Dorchester embarked with 902 souls—soldiers, merchant seamen, and civilians—bound for a U.S. Army base in southern Greenland to […]

Dear Kruiser friends, I swear Kruiser is fine. He could be back tomorrow. In fact, if I were a betting man, I would wager a crisp $5 note that he will indeed return for the Wednesday Morning Briefing, but then again, I also believed New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo would never be punished for […]

One would have been hard-pressed to imagine, just a few years ago, a sitting United States senator suggesting that Building 7 may have been a controlled demolition — a testament to the populist sea-change in American politics over the past few years (thanks in large part to President Trump blowing up the GOP Old […]

Federal authorities announced charges Monday against more than two dozen people they say were associated with Tren de Aragua in a list of mayhem ranging from robbery and sex trafficking to murder of women who tried to escape. Prosecutors charged two different groups — one involving six people alleged to be current TdA members and […]