Trump

Trump's ultimatum to Thune isn't a power grab. It's a president demanding that the legislative branch do the job it was hired to do.

Every point the oil price climbs costs American small businesses real money. The Iran escalation is now an economic policy whether Washington calls it one or not.

A presidential announcement of a major international agreement carries economic weight before a single term is defined. Here's what to watch.

Americans were stranded in a war zone while the federal apparatus ran its paperwork. That's not a crisis — it's a Tuesday.

When a president announces a military strike date in advance, it's not a threat. It's a message. The question is who's receiving it.

Nancy Pelosi wants you to forget what happened in 2011. She's counting on it.

Trump isn't just picking candidates. He's rebuilding the Republican Party from the primary up, and establishment critics still don't understand why it's working.

Sixty-five years of communist misery on an island 90 miles from Florida, and Washington spent most of that time looking the other way. Trump isn't looking away.

While critics demand endless diplomatic theater, Trump's pressure campaign against Iran has achieved more in months than a decade of nuclear deals failed to produce.

Suddenly Democrats care about military readiness. The same party that gutted defense budgets for a decade is now fretting about munitions stockpiles.

The press frames congressional division on Iran as a crisis. It isn't. It's the constitutional system working as designed — and the executive branch is the beneficiary.

A dermatological non-event became a 48-hour media frenzy. The coverage says nothing about Trump's health and everything about modern political journalism.

Every foreign policy establishment figure says Trump needs a clear Iran strategy. They're wrong. The ambiguity is the strategy.

American bombs are falling on Iranian soil. The question isn't whether this was justified — it was. The question is whether Washington has a day-two plan.

The departure of Gail Slater from the DOJ's antitrust division isn't a setback. It's a recalibration — and the distinction matters enormously.

Every major newsroom sent correspondents to the State of the Union. Most of them filed stories that told you what their editors already believed before Trump spoke a word.

Trump talked for two hours and Democrats sat there proving his point. The opposition has grievances but no governing vision.

Forty years of expert-approved half-measures gave us a nuclear-threshold Iran. Trump took a sword to the problem. The experts are mad he didn't use a scalpel.

Iran has been at war with America for 47 years. Only now is America fighting back. Darla Jean Pickett says what too many Christians are afraid to say out loud.

The President just told every regime on Earth exactly how long he's willing to sustain combat operations to get what he wants. That's not recklessness. That's a message.