Political Commentary & Opinion

When does a male quit being a boy and enter manhood? The answer has little to do with his age, Ryan Michler says.  Michler, the host of the “Order of Man” podcast and author of the new book “The Masculinity Manifesto: How a Man Establishes Influence, Credibility, and Authority,” has a simple definition for when…

With the Navy’s eyes set on achieving a goal well above Congress’ mandated 355 manned warships, the American shipbuilding industry has a lot of work to do. Unfortunately, the industry’s current state doesn’t offer much hope for meeting those goals, let alone sustaining a modestly larger fleet. In a 2021 report on U.S. defense supply…

On an Oct. 10, a British prime minister made it clear: “To those waiting with bated breath for that favorite media catchphrase, the ‘U-turn,’ I have only one thing to say: You turn if you want to: The Lady’s not for turning.” Those were the resolute words of then-Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who was speaking…

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics recently reported that the consumer price index rose 8.2% in September compared with the year before, but that national average hides the fact that prices are rising faster and higher in certain parts of the nation. Breaking the country into the same subregions used by the Census Bureau, the…

Giorgia Meloni’s victory in the Italian elections opens a new political outlook in Italy and in Europe, accelerating a trend characterized by the emergence of two increasingly well-defined blocs. On one side, we find a bloc made up of political parties ranging from the Greens and the European radical left to the European People’s Party,…

This week, ABC News reporter Jonathan Karl asked Dr. Anthony Fauci, the soon-departing head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, if it was a “mistake” for schools to be shuttered as long as they were during the COVID-19 pandemic. “We should realize, and have realized,” Fauci answered, “that there will be deleterious…

Over 1,100 adolescents underwent gender transition surgery from 2016 through 2019, according to a new study published in JAMA Pediatrics, the journal of the American Medical Association. No less shocking than the cumulative total is the accelerating rate from year to year. Using data from the Nationwide Ambulatory Surgery Sample, researchers at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine…

In a leaked tape, three members of the all-Democrat (plus one independent) Los Angeles City Council, along with a labor leader—all Latino—used racist, homophobic, anti-white, anti-Asian, and even anti-Mexican slurs as they plotted to redistrict the city council to increase “Latino power.” LA is approximately 50% Latino, but Latinos control “just” 30% of the 15…

Netflix is paying Barack and Michelle Obama millions of dollars to produce shows for them. The latest Obama documentary series is “The G Word.” “G” for government. As Netflix documentaries go, this one is remarkably stupid. It’s big-government propaganda. Obama begins by claiming that he does his own income taxes, saying, “It’s actually easy.” I…

After cosmetics superstore Ulta Beauty released a podcast Oct. 13 featuring a biological male who “identifies” as a woman discussing “girlhood” and “motherhood,” real women are promising to boycott the brand. “I really think more women need to wake up to this nonsense,” wrote one Twitter user. “I think too many of us have stayed…

Seventeen-year-old Shanti De Corte was waiting to board a plane headed to Italy for a school trip in 2016 when an explosion went off in Brussels’ Zaventem Airport. Parts of the airport filled with smoke and panicked people started running before a second bomb went off a few minutes later. Thirty-two people were killed in…