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In 1940, Harvard student John F. Kennedy wrote a famous thesis titled Why England Slept. With the help of his powerful father, the thesis was later published in book form and sold 80,000 copies. Kennedy used the U.S. royalties in the most American of ways: he bought himself a Buick convertible. Why England Slept examined England’s response (or non-response) to Adolf Hitler’s rise to power, which began all the way back in 1933, under two prime ministers, Stanley Baldwin and Neville Chamberlain. Kennedy doesn’t condemn either man. Instead, he looks at the many factors that kept Great Britain from stopping…

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump awarded three Medals of Honor, the nation’s highest military decoration, at a White House ceremony on Monday. Trump awarded the Medal of Honor to Army Master Sgt. Roderick W. Edmonds for saving hundreds of American Jewish soldiers in World War II, Army Command Sgt. Major Terry P. Richardson for saving nearly 100 lives in Vietnam, and Army Staff Sgt. Michael H. Ollis for giving his life to save a Polish ally in Afghanistan. Edmonds and Ollis’s medals were bestowed posthumously. Nazis captured Edmonds and his unit in the Battle of the Bulge, taking them as…

Democrats said Monday they have no plans to end their blockade of Department of Homeland Security funding in the face of GOP pressure to capitulate after President Donald Trump’s sweeping strikes on Iran. Congressional Republicans insist the military conflict makes ending the 17-day DHS shutdown even more urgent, given the agency’s role in counterterrorism and domestic security. But Democrats say they’ve been clear from the beginning that if Republicans want their votes, they must agree to changes to how the Trump administration carries out its immigration enforcement agenda. Sen. Dick Durbin, the No. 2 Senate Democrat, flatly rejected the suggestion…

Anti-socialist Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado on Sunday announced that she will be returning to her country “in a few weeks” to continue working towards a democratic transition in the South American nation following the arrest of Nicolás Maduro. Machado — a former lawmaker violently ousted from her democratically elected position as the leader of Venezuela’s only mainstream center-right party, Vente Venezuela — escaped the country in December 2025 with the help of President Donald Trump’s administration, allowing her to receive the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway. She successfully escaped Venezuela after spending over a year in hiding…

First Lady Melania Trump made history on Monday, becoming the first-ever First Lady of the United States to chair the United Nations (UN) Security Council meeting — choosing a neutral, all-business suit for the moment. Melania Trump chose a gray textured wool bar jacket from Dior for the historic occasion, pairing it with a matching gray textured wool skirt, as well as a thin black leather belt from Dior and patent leather stilettos from Christian Louboutin. The Dior jacket retails for about $985. At the UN Security Council meeting, Mrs. Trump championed education for the world’s children, stating that artificial…

Hillary Clinton was subpoenaed to testify about what she knew about convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Instead, she was being asked to answer questions about “Pizzagate.” A former first lady, U.S. senator and secretary of State — not to mention a veteran of congressional grillings — warned lawmakers before her deposition in Chappaqua, New York, last week that she had no memory of ever meeting Epstein. She said early on in her closed-door testimony that her husband, former President Bill Clinton, was the person they should talk to. But when several Republican members of the House Oversight and Government Reform…

The killing of Iran’s leadership has intensified tensions across the Middle East, reviving debate over decades of US intervention – from coups and regime change to wars that reshaped the region Ali Khamenei, Ali Shamkhani, Mohammad Pakpour, and several other senior figures in Iran’s leadership have been killed in the US-Israeli strikes on the Islamic Republic. Their deaths mark a seismic moment in the region: never before has Washington been accused of directly killing a sitting, internationally recognized leader in the Middle East.Yet while the scale of the escalation is unprecedented, the logic behind it is not. For decades, US administrations…

“The art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate but at the longer effects of any act or policy; it consists in tracing the consequences of that policy not merely for one group but for all groups.” – Henry Hazlitt, Economics in One Lesson (1946) The Golden Fleece Have you heard of California’s latest act of economic suicide? Once again, the Golden State’s come up with new and ridiculous ways to turn gold into lead. If you haven’t been watching the headlines, the 2026 California Billionaire Tax Act (Initiative No. 25-0024) is officially making its way onto the…

As missile exchanges intensified across the Middle East and commercial flights were halted amid Operation Epic Fury, Trump adviser Alex Bruesewitz found himself stranded in the Gulf region, where he coordinated with U.S. and regional officials to evacuate a group of Americans to safety. While war broke out in the Middle East and Iran launched missile strikes on Israel and several Gulf nations, Trump adviser Alex Bruesewitz was stuck in the region after flights were suspended. Like thousands of others unable to leave, he sought safety in Qatar. But instead of simply waiting for help, he took action and organized…

We Have Nothing to Fear Except Fed Fears of Oil-Driven Inflation Financial markets on Monday indicated that any damage to the U.S. economy from the military conflict between the U.S. and Iran is likely to be minimal. After futures quivered in the darkness of negative territory all weekend, the major U.S. stock indexes turned flat to slightly positive on Monday. Oil prices rose but not by very much. Brent crude, the global benchmark, climbed by less than seven percent, ending the day around $77.65 a barrel. A lot of attention has been on the price of oil, with traders gaming…