Political Commentary & Opinion

The following Q&A with Ryan T. Anderson was conducted by Jonathan Last of The Weekly Standard. It has been republished here with permission. Congratulations on regaining your title as History’s Greatest Monster! How does it feel? I’m kidding, but only sort of. One of the things I admire most about you is your ability to…

An Iranian drone flying into Israeli airspace Saturday triggered a mushrooming crisis involving retaliatory strikes and counterstrikes in Syria. After its provocative violation of Israeli airspace, the drone was destroyed by an Israeli helicopter, and Israel responded with airstrikes on an Iranian command-and-control trailer from which the drone was launched from a base in Syria….

Since Republicans passed the tax bill last December, the country has seen a wave of hand-wringing and hysteria. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., gave voice to the opinion of many when she recently declared that the Republican tax plan is “the biggest tax giveaway to giant corporations in modern memory.” But if we really want to get our heads around the Republican tax bill, our best guide…

People say that we live in a postmodern age that has rejected metaphysics. That’s not quite true. We live in a postmodern age that promotes an alternative metaphysics. As I explain in “When Harry Became Sally,” at the heart of the transgender moment are radical ideas about the human person—in particular, that people are what…

In his State of the Union address, President Donald Trump described the goal of his infrastructure plans: to cover the nation with “gleaming new roads” built with “American grit”—to emulate the great projects of the past, such as the Empire State Building. This presents a much-needed opportunity for the president to fundamentally retool the outdated…

Old liberal media liars never fade away. They just rage, rage against the dying of their dinosaur industry’s light. I’m looking at you, Dan Rather. After years of trashing alternative media, which exposed the veteran CBS News reporter’s monumental Memogate fraud in 2004, Rather has joined the ranks of pajama-clad online broadcasters. The 86-year-old grandfather…

On Monday, Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., and several other Democratic congressmen introduced a bill in the House that they say is necessary to protect journalists from violent attacks caused by the Trump administration’s “toxic culture.” The bill, called the Journalist Protection Act, would make it a federal crime to intentionally cause bodily harm to a…

China’s official news agency on Jan. 21 criticized the U.S. government shutdown, claiming that it exposed “chronic flaws” in the U.S. political system. China has often extolled its political and economic system as a potential alternative to the U.S. free-market republic, but serious human rights abuses in China are an ever-present disqualifying challenge to that…

So poisonously partisan is the climate in Congress these days that even something as basic as renaming a strip of federally controlled land next to an airport divides along party lines. A proposed bill to rename Gravelly Point Park in Arlington, Virginia, (which connects to Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport) Nancy Reagan Memorial Park passed…

The Heritage Foundation’s Monica Burke joins us to share her own story of friendship with a woman with Down syndrome, as well as talk about how, sadly, many babies with Down syndrome are aborted in the United States. Plus: we talk about whether President Donald Trump’s military parade is a good idea.