China is toasting Trump’s repellent Afghanistan rhetoric

January 24, 2026

China is toasting Trump’s repellent Afghanistan rhetoric

President Donald Trump and his most ardent supporters think that his negotiating style is pure genius. But their assessment is puerile. Arrogantly disinterested in the long game and failing to hold anything sacred, Trump has caused immense damage to U.S. alliances over the past 10 days. Chinese Communist Party Chairman Xi Jinping will be laughing […]

Ignoring the TikTok divestment law remains Trump’s biggest abuse of power

One of President Donald Trump’s biggest abuses of power remains how he ignored a law signed by Congress to get a deal on TikTok. The result is a deal that does not even meet the standards that Congress set out in the first place. TikTok on Thursday announced that its U.S. operations would be controlled by a […]

Trump moves forward in Gaza despite Hamas arms

President Donald Trump used the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Switzerland, on Thursday to unveil his so-called “Board of Peace” for Gaza. It comprises around twenty signatory countries and will oversee the National Committee for the Administration of Gaza (NCAG), headed by Ali Shaath, a former deputy minister in the Palestinian Authority. The NCAG will oversee the day-to-day […]

A culture of life begins with virtuous men

Men raised in late-20th- and early-21st-century America were systematically conditioned to shun the procreative aspect of sex. The notion of “safe sex”, drilled into the minds of every teenage boy in health class, framed pregnancy not merely as unfortunate, but dangerous. To be a virtuous man no longer meant to fall in love and remain […]

Why doesn’t Minnesota just fully cooperate with ICE?

If Minnesota Democrats want to put this Immigration and Customs Enforcement trouble behind them, all they have to do is ensure that the state cooperates with federal immigration authorities instead of hiding behind hysterical rhetoric and deflection. The reason ICE is out in full force in Minneapolis is that state Democrats prevent full cooperation with […]

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A year of cronyism and self-enrichment for Trump

Are you better off than you were a year ago? President Donald Trump sure is. And so are his sons and cronies. The New York Times estimates that Trump has made $1.4 billion in the past year, leveraging his name and power to extract payments from foreign governments, major tech companies, and ridiculous cryptocurrency deals. […]

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