Charlie Kirk is gone; the questions he animated remain. As investigators sift evidence from the Utah campus where he was shot, the larger story is not the crime scene but the audience that rose with him—a dissatisfied cross-section of Americans who heard in his certainty something like recognition. In a season when politics often functions […]
Days after Charlie Kirk was shot and killed at a Utah Valley University event, investigators continue their work while a sharper public question takes hold: how the Christianity he professed aligned with the policies he advanced—hailed by supporters as moral clarity, described by critics as punitive—from calls for mass deportations to hard-line positions on Gaza […]
In a single post, Donald J. Trump captured a sobering truth: America’s influence over two great powers has slipped away. The story runs deeper than one president. It is the result of decades of triumphalism, coercion, and missed opportunities. The Post Itself “Looks like we’ve lost India and Russia to deepest, darkest, China. May they […]
WASHINGTON — President Donald J. Trump signed an executive order on Friday authorizing the Pentagon to be styled once again as the Department of War, reviving a name that vanished from official use more than three quarters of a century ago. The move, long floated in Mr. Trump’s speeches as a symbol of what he […]
Middle East A cluster of American guided-missile destroyers has shifted into the Eastern Mediterranean, adding a sea-based layer to Israel’s missile defense while Washington weighs the risk of deeper entanglement. By Jaffa Levy WASHINGTON — The United States has expanded its maritime air- and missile-defense umbrella around Israel, moving a group of Arleigh Burke–class destroyers […]
Artificial Intelligence (AI) / United States
Sam Altman speaks less like a computer scientist than a strategist. He has no doctorate in artificial intelligence, no technical pedigree of the kind that fills the ranks at OpenAI. Yet he has come to occupy a singular position in the field. As chief executive of OpenAI, he is both salesman and forecaster, a man […]
As Gaza slides into documented famine and the International Court of Justice’s provisional measures remain in force, the United States has blocked visas for a Palestinian delegation to the United Nations—an act that collides with the U.N. Headquarters Agreement (1947) and the host’s international law obligations. No number of airport denials will bury the record […]
By Jaffa — 29 August 2025 When the “Russiagate” scandal broke in 2016, America’s most prestigious newspapers treated it as gospel. The New York Times and The Washington Post led the charge, framing Donald Trump’s victory as the product of Kremlin interference. For this coverage, both were awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 2018. Seven years […]