Fears of Escalating Political Violence After Charlie Kirk’s Murder
Can Democrats and Republicans rise to the occasion after the murder of Charlie Kirk and tone down the rising vitriol of political discourse? Kirk leaves behind a legacy of civil debate with those he d...
11 Sep 202528min
Stalling Jobs Numbers, Biden's Record, and Trump's Economic Mission
New figures show hiring slowed in August, the U.S. economy was worse than reported in 2024, and real wages for the median American barely went up last year. Do the data revisions help explain why vote...
10 Sep 202523min
The GOP's Plan to Tweak the Rules for Senate Confirmation
With Senate Democrats holding up Donald Trump’s picks even for relatively minor jobs, Majority Leader John Thune proposes to speed confirmation by changing the chamber's rules to allow approval of blo...
9 Sep 202524min
The Crisis of Confidence in the Western Tradition
The values of the Western tradition have come under attack for unleashing a variety of sins, but is there a revival on the horizon? Paul Gigot speaks with historian Allen Guelzo about how “self-hatred...
8 Sep 202527min
The GOP's Worries About RFK Jr.'s Health Department Mess
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. gets grilled on Capitol Hill, including by Sens. Bill Cassidy and John Barrasso, both of them physicians, about his agenda on vaccines, views ...
5 Sep 202524min
Trump Strikes Venezuelan Traffickers / China’s Big Military Parade
Donald Trump orders an airstrike on a speed boat in the Caribbean that he says was carrying narcotics, but should Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro also be worried, as the U.S. orders serious naval a...
4 Sep 202522min
A Political Brawl Over DEI at Virginia's Public Universities
Democrats move to eject 22 of Gov. Glenn Youngkin's board appointees at three colleges, which they say is to protect the schools from Trump Administration meddling. But the Education Department accuse...
3 Sep 202523min
Donald Trump’s 'Emergency' Tariffs Lose Again in Court
President Trump has imposed global tariffs by citing a 1977 emergency law known as IEEPA, but a federal appeals court says 7-4 that this is outside of his legal authority. Otherwise, what would stop t...
2 Sep 202521min
