Rich Lowry
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In general, a major shakeup at the Pentagon is admiral
President Trump and his defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, have outraged the Beltway by dismissing top generals, including Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Charles Q. Brown.
Europe finally gets it: pony up and help defend yourselves
Serious countries need serious militaries, but Europe has preferred to spend on everything else while relying on the might of the United States for security and power projection.
Trump's war on woke is tearing down the left's cultural sway
Fashionable progressive ideas that have long been ascendant, including DEI and gender ideology, have received hammer blows since Trump’s inauguration, and there’s more to come.
Dems suffering from Musk Derangement Syndrome
Democrats have finally found someone they hate more than Donald Trump.
Panama's canal cave-in a triumph of Trump's brash diplomacy
Right now Marco Rubio has the easiest job in the world: President Trump is throwing his weight around in our hemisphere in a way we haven’t seen in a century,...
Media claims of 'racist' deportations are bogus — here are the numbers
The leftist logic is that it’s racist to keep out non-white illegal immigrants, racist to make them go — and racist to have a country that takes its borders seriously.
Talk loudly and swing a yuge stick: the new Trump doctrine
Donald Trump is practicing not deterrence but 'compellence,' making a threat to coerce foreign actors into doing things we want.
Trump's bold strike against DEI ends 60 years of discrimination
We’re only days into the Trump administration, and we can already identify one of his top five achievements.
Disco was waiting for Trump: he's seized culture AND politics
How did a Democratic Party that has long prided itself on its hipness lose the culture fight to Donald J. Trump? Voters concluded that he made more sense than his...
Whatever Coca-Cola's politics may be, the drink's a gift to the world
In 1942, the Nazi apparatchik Otto Dietrich sniffed, “America never contributed anything to world civilization but chewing gum and Coca-Cola.”
LA fires lay waste to DEI agenda: race, gender don't matter
Los Angeles for years has been in the grips of a bizarre obsession with recruiting more women firefighters, as if gender diversity somehow makes it easier to rescue people and...
Location, location: Why Trump's Greenland push is smart geopolitics
To understand the world, and to a large extent the behavior of nations, you need to look at a map — which is why Donald Trump is talking up Greenland.
Forget Biden's shameful drilling ban — energy will be Trump's superpower
The offshore oil and gas drilling ban is a sad attempt by Joe Biden to impose his green policy on Donald Trump — but it's bound to fail.
No, Canada! Despite Trump's trolling, 51st state would drag the US down
The United States doesn’t need another huge, misgoverned blue state. We already have California, where the climate and the surfing are much better.
Forget Musk's H1-B spat — let's admit immigrants on merit
The H1-B visa program is scammy and poorly designed — but it's the least of the problems with our scandalously stupid immigration system.
Biden's commutations are a grotesque abuse of US justice system
President Biden, or whoever is running the White House, has grotesquely abused the pardon power, yet again.
GOP's budget revolt signals fiscal sanity — but it's just the start
The house has yet to pass a budget after Speaker Johnson's first proposal was heavily criticized by President-elect Donald Trump and Elon Musk.
Trump's tough talk on Hamas hostages delivers America's righteous fury — at last
About time: Donald Trump is the first official of the US government — or a soon-to-be one — has sounded appropriately outraged and harsh about an ongoing crime perpetrated against...
Elon Musk's energy helps Trump forge a new brand of populism
Elon Musk is the paladin of a future ripped from the covers of paperback science-fiction novels circa 1950s — and with Donald Trump he's putting the GOP on an optimistic,...
Trump must resist lawfare — to let success be his best revenge
The most foreseeable early pitfall for the Trump presidency would be an effort to go after his adversaries: another round of lawfare will make partisan justice an entrenched part of...