Borders, borders, borders: The key concern in Trump-Putin talks

August 15, 2025

Borders, borders, borders: The key concern in Trump-Putin talks

On Friday, President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet in Anchorage, Alaska, for their first face-to-face talks since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. United States officials caution that this summit is primarily a “listening exercise.” But reports suggest Trump may entertain “territorial swaps” to end the Ukraine conflict. […]

Trump puts Israeli fanatic before US interests

American conservatives rightly condemn Hamas for being an antisemitic “kill the Jew behind the tree” death cult, for its use of Palestinian civilians as human shields, and for its use of their bodies as propaganda props. They rightly support Israel’s right to find and kill these terrorists sensibly. Unfortunately, however, too many American conservatives ignore […]

Washington, DC, is unfit to ever become a state

President Donald Trump’s crime crackdown in Washington, D.C., has renewed calls from Democrats to make the district a state. This position has been and remains nothing more than an attempted power grab that cannot be allowed to happen. Washington, D.C., is unfit to be a state for various reasons. For one, it is nothing more […]

Why the Left won’t stop targeting the Little Sisters of the Poor

It’s enraging. More than a decade after the Obama administration tried to force the Little Sisters of the Poor to buy contraception for employees, including abortifacient drugs, states are still hounding the nuns in court. At its heart, Obamacare was a massive welfare program meant to redistribute healthcare costs to the middle class. But it […]

Trump is right to treat the Epstein files as a distraction

If there is anything of note to come from the row on Capitol Hill over the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files, it is that cynicism toward politicians is justified. For Republicans, this saga was a self-inflicted wound. For years, a faction of the GOP demanded the release of the files, cheered on by a […]

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Europe should not abandon monitoring in Armenia

President Donald Trump celebrates the signing of the Armenia–Azerbaijan peace deal, the latest notch in his quest for a Nobel Peace Prize. “For more than 35 years, Armenia and Azerbaijan have fought a bitter conflict that resulted in tremendous suffering for both nations.… Many tried to find a resolution … and they were unsuccessful. With […]

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