While President Biden has been distracted by a climate-change conference and sagging approval at home, President Vladimir Putin is building up Russian forces along the Ukrainian border. The Biden administration must respond to this provocation and do what President Obama didn’t—deter Russian aggression against its Western neighbor—before it’s too late.Russia’s war against Ukraine started in 2014, when Russian forces invaded, seized the Crimean Peninsula, and occupied the eastern regions of... Read More

Only 42% of Americans approve of Joe Biden’s presidency and as few as 15% approve of Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi’s Congress. The reason for this abysmal approval rating is simple; Democrats in Washington do not represent the interests of the American people. Instead, they appear hellbent on bankrupting our government, derailing our economy, and dissolving our border. Their multitrillion-dollar spending bill would do all three.No provision is more pernicious than the immigration proposal... Read More

Qualified immunity is essential to effective and diligent policing. It shields good police officers from bankruptcy while still subjecting individual bad actors to personal financial repercussions. Any effort to abolish or significantly curtail this indispensable protection is a veiled attempt to defund, defame, and disarm the police in the midst of the worst violent-crime wave in a generation. Qualified immunity safeguards police officers from personal lawsuits, unless they... Read More

Joe Biden has created the worst border crisis in American history. In the midst of a once-in-a-century pandemic, soaring inflation, and skyrocketing street crime, the border isn’t just open, it’s the most open it has ever been.  It is time for President Biden to face the reality of what he has created: a national emergency. The Border Patrol has encountered an all-time record of more than 1.7 million illegal aliens this year. That’s more than triple the number from last year and... Read More

The promise of American higher education has always been that it equips young people with the skills and the knowledge to be wise, productive members of society.Today, going to college is less promising and more perilous for the thousands of young people who head to campus and immediately encounter angry activists and administrators intent on stifling the speech of anyone who dares to question liberal orthodoxy.Consider a recent story from Yale Law School, where out-of-control administrators... Read More

President Biden recently named Suffolk County District Attorney Rachael Rollins to be the U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts. Rollins has nothing but contempt for the rule of law. If she is confirmed by the U.S. Senate, the residents of Massachusetts, New Hampshire and all of New England would suffer the consequences.Rollins became Suffolk District Attorney in 2019, with the backing of leftist billionaire George Soros. Soon after being sworn in, she declared that she was “going to battle” against... Read More

By now, you may be aware that President Biden and congressional Democrats are trying to force through a $4 trillion spending package that would hurt Arkansas and radically transform the United States. What you may not know is that this spending binge might also empower the IRS to snoop on your bank account.The Democrats want to require all banks to inform the IRS about any accounts worth more than $600 or whose transactions total more than $600. Yes, $600. That means Arkansas banks would be... Read More

China’s most loyal and lucrative partner is not a foreign government or national leader. It’s a group of multi-national businesses, Hollywood elites, ivory-tower intellectuals, weak-kneed diplomats, and entrenched bureaucrats located here in the United States. This group has championed economic integration and appeasement for decades, relentlessly demanding that America forgive every act of aggression committed by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), no matter the cost to the American people. Some... Read More

Equality before the law is our nation’s most fundamental principle. Victims of crime, no matter their background, income, or political affiliation, must be protected, and criminals, no matter who they are, must face the consequences of breaking the law.Today, the scales of justice are slanted against victims, against the most vulnerable, and against the politically unfashionable. The rise of “Soros prosecutors,” lawless big-city mayors, and politically motivated prosecutions pose a dire danger... Read More

New nationwide data from the Federal Bureau of Investigation reveals that last year the number of murders rose by 29 percent, drug overdose deaths increased 30 percent, and the number of gang-related killings skyrocketed more than 55 percent. To put this carnage into context, a 29 percent increase in murder isn’t simply bad, it’s the worst single-year increase in American history. Similarly, the drugs flooding into our communities aren’t only deadly, they are the deadliest drugs ever sold. For... Read More

On Tuesday, I questioned Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley, and U.S. Central Command Gen. Kenneth McKenzie about the fall of Afghanistan, which occurred on their watch. We learned from that hearing how President Biden heedlessly ignored the advice of his military advisers, cut and ran from Afghanistan, and left thousands of Americans and allies trapped behind Taliban lines.Biden’s missteps also sowed the seeds of a domestic disaster by bringing... Read More

The past month has been full of heartbreak, disappointment, and anger for thousands of veterans and Gold Star families. Through his actions, our commander-in-chief has disrespected 20 years of selfless American sacrifice in Afghanistan and has shown more interest in a photo-op than in honorably completing the mission our service members gave so much to accomplish. We are now more vulnerable to a terrorist attack planned in Afghanistan than we were on Sept. 11, 2001. Many in public life have been... Read More

President Biden pleaded at the United Nation’s General Assembly last week that "we are not seeking a new Cold War." Though too diffident even to speak the name "China," one supposes that’s what he meant. Unfortunately, whether we seek it or not, Communist China has waged a Cold War against us for years. Our only choice is to win or lose.Last century, our Cold War with Soviet Russia was a decades-long struggle between two great powers for global economic, military, technological and ideological... Read More

Contrary to what you will hear in the mainstream media or on college campuses, the United States does not have an “over-incarceration problem”; it has an under-incarceration problem. Ill-conceived anti-prison policies rooted in platitudes, lies, and misleading statistics have unleashed thousands of criminals onto the streets. As a result, our nation is grappling with a de-incarceration crisis that is costing lives and eroding the rule of law.Any honest discussion of incarceration levels must... Read More

Last year, our nation experienced the largest single-year increase in murder in American history and endured some of the worst riots in a generation. It’s no coincidence that this appalling death and destruction surged at the same time as the virulently anti-law-enforcement “Black Lives Matter” movement became more popular, powerful, and pervasive. The consequences of the “BLM Effect” continue today.The current crime wave has many similarities to the infamous “Ferguson Effect” that gripped our... Read More

On his first day in office, President Biden rescinded the proclamation declaring a national emergency at the southern border. Then he cut off funding for the border wall and gutted virtually all Trump-era policies to reduce illegal immigration, including the successful Remain in Mexico policy.The consequences of Biden's "see no evil" approach to chaos at the border have been predictable. Record numbers of illegal aliens from Central America and elsewhere are now streaming across the border,... Read More

The conventional wisdom about the coronavirus pandemic’s origins has changed rapidly, as conventional wisdom often does. Even skeptics and apologists have finally begun to acknowledge the Chinese Communist labs in Wuhan as a possible — even the likely — source of this plague.But those with open eyes and an open mind could see from the beginning that this virus might have spilled out of a lab. Last January, I pointed out that the outbreak’s supposed epicenter, a food market, was just miles from... Read More

One year ago tomorrow, President Trump launched Operation Warp Speed (OWS), a bold scientific initiative that resulted in one of the greatest medical achievements of the modern age. It ranks alongside President Kennedy's Moon Shot in its audacity and is virtually unrivalled in its results. Thanks to OWS, our nation developed three safe, effective and life-saving vaccines at record speed. This incredible feat of science and medicine should be celebrated and our nation should seek to codify it and... Read More

Last month, Georgia's Republican governor, Brian Kemp, signed legislation to make the state's election process more secure, accessible and fair. Contrary to the avalanche of criticism from the media and the Democratic Party, this law takes sensible steps to improve the state's elections process.The New York Times called the law "the most extensive restriction of voting access in generations and a "breathtaking assertion of partisan power in elections," while President Biden... Read More

When President Harry Truman ordered the desegregation of the military in 1948, he invoked the United States’ commitment to “equality of treatment and opportunity for all” as his reason for doing so.Unfortunately, more than 70 years after Truman’s executive order, racist and un-American ideas of unequal treatment are creeping back into the Armed Forces under the guise of so-called critical race theory.Critical race theory repudiates the principle of equality under the law that is articulated... Read More