Think Past the Establishment
President Trump announced Friday that the United States has secured majority control of more than 65 billion barrels of proven Venezuelan oil reserves—potentially more than doubling American reserves without requiring taxpayer funding. If developed successfully, the added supply could lower gasoline, transportation and manufacturing costs across the economy.
A federal judge has temporarily blocked new Postal Service requirements for mail ballots little more than two months before the midterms. The rules would require states to provide lists of eligible voters and use barcodes associated with individual voter records.
With record congressional funding available, the administration plans to construct or replace as many as 1,200 miles of barriers along the southern border. Unlike the improvised funding battles of Trump’s first term, the current program has explicit legislative backing.
Twenty-five state attorneys general are urging Washington to suspend funding for the National Academies after a climate guide prepared for federal judges relied heavily on activists and litigants while presenting itself as objective scientific guidance. The disputed chapter was withdrawn, but the scandal shows how…
Earlier generations surrounded themselves with portraits, stories and sayings drawn from regional and national heroes. Modern homes are less likely to display that inherited history, leaving families without visible reminders of the qualities their ancestors admired.
Japan had refused to surrender despite devastating conventional attacks, Okinawa had cost roughly 50,000 American casualties and an invasion of the home islands threatened catastrophic losses on both sides. The decision to bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki must be judged within that terrible reality, not with the moral certainty provided by eight decades of hindsight.