Romina Boccia and Tyler Turman The ongoing government shutdown—now the longest in US history—has brought renewed attention to Washington’s biggest non-healthcare welfare program: the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) or food stamps. With a shutdown deal in sight, legislators are planning to fund SNAP for the entirety of this fiscal year, while other parts of […]

Nearly 100 of the most prominent faith leaders in the United States urged President Donald Trump in a Friday letter to pressure Syria’s new president, Ahmed al-Sharaa, to prevent the further killing of Christians and Druze in southern Syria. The letter came ahead of Trump’s meeting with al-Sharaa — a former al-Qaeda and Islamic State […]

After doing my best to ignore the latest Tucker Carlson saga, I find I must say something. “Go the hell away,” for starters.  I’d said pretty much everything I thought I’d ever need to say about Carlson early last year, following his context-free interview with Palestinian Authority propagandist Reverend Munther Isaac. So when the […]

Some of the people who are the most excited about Zohran Mamdani’s victory in the New York City mayoral election are the ruling mullahs of the Islamic Republic of Iran, who see the triumph of their fellow Twelver Shi’ite Muslim as a marvelous harbinger of even better things to come. America is on the […]

Exactly two and a half centuries ago today, in Philadelphia’s Tun Tavern, the Continental Marines came into being. We know them now as the tough and daring fighting force, the U.S. Marine Corps. With Marines surrounding me, from a stooped old campaigner to fresh-faced young recruits, I stood today on […]