Syndicated columns

New data has come out showing that Gen Z men across the world hold some pretty regressive views about women – even more than those of the older adults whose relationships they’re trying to emulate.

The most famous query in the history of modern warfare came from David Petraeus, then a major general, in an interview with Rick Atkinson, then a reporter, during the initial assault on Iraq: “Tell me how this ends.”

A Republican U.S. representative dropped his re-election bid after revelations about a sexual relationship he had with a staffer, but the GOP still cannot address the real elephant in the room.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has been without a permanent director since the removal of Susan Monarez in August. Its recently installed acting director, Jay Bhattacharya, is also running the National Institutes of Health, located hundreds of miles from the CDC’s headquarters in Atlanta. The CDC has also lost scores of senior staff and shuttered key programs, including those focusing on tobacco control and injury prevention.

President Donald Trump announced on Thursday that Kristi Noem is out as head of the Department of Homeland Security and will be replaced by Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-Oklahoma, effective March 31. Mullin, like Noem, will need to be confirmed by the Senate.

So it turns out Americans don’t love widespread cruelty.

Killing the tyrant doesn’t assure the tyranny will end.

On Tuesday, Texas Democratic voters selected state Rep. James Talarico to be their party’s U.S. Senate nominee come November. He defeated U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett, who conceded Wednesday, and in doing so sealed the party’s doom to a mediocre existence.

In 2023, JD Vance, then a freshman senator from Ohio, endorsed Donald Trump for president in a Wall Street Journal column headlined “Trump’s Best Foreign Policy? Not Starting Any Wars.” It suggested that despite his impolitic rhetoric, Trump was a statesman who understood that “the U.S. national interest must be pursued ruthlessly but also carefully, with strong words but great restraint.”

Critics say President Donald Trump’s decision to strike Iran is a violation of his promise not to engage in “forever wars.” In fact, the opposite is true. Trump is not starting a forever war in Iran; he’s ending one.

At January’s World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney announced the collapse of the rules-based order. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz likewise declared at February’s Munich Security Conference that the rules-based “order, imperfect as it was even at the best of times, no longer exists.” Meanwhile, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who led the American delegation in Munich, was more forward-looking, announcing a “new era in geopolitics” ahead of the trip and outlining a vision for a NATO that retains what works while adapting to new realities.

Institutions across the country are being asked to choose between their transgender patients and keeping their doors open. Hospitals have been ending their gender-affirming care programs for minors after President Donald Trump’s administration threatened federal funding for any hospital providing such treatment.

As the United States celebrates its 250th birthday, the nation is suffering a crisis of patriotism. A Gallup poll last year found that just 41% of Americans say they are “extremely proud” to be American – down from 70% in 2003.

A solid indicator of the State of the Union could be found in who was and who wasn’t in the U.S. Capitol when President Donald Trump arrived Tuesday to deliver his annual address to Congress.

By curtailing the president regarding tariffs, the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday perhaps applied a defibrillator to Congress. Its weak contemporary heartbeat threatens the constitutional architecture of powers separated, checked and balanced. But Congress’s fluttering pulse requires a stronger jolt than last week’s 6-3 decision. It addressed only part of the problem that Congress has created by behavior that fuels today’s rampant presidency.