American History

ViewApart/iStock/Getty Images Plus Every generation in every place has its perils. There was the fall of Rome in 476; the medieval Black Death; the ninth-century Viking occupation of England; and, generally, continual periods of privation, pestilence, and oppression throughout history. Today is no exception, either, and one of the latest challenges, we hear, is plaguing Gen Z: menu anxiety. No,...

AP Images Shenna Bellows In a surprise decision released on Thursday afternoon, Maine’s Secretary of State Shenna Bellows, a Democrat, ruled that former President Donald Trump is ineligible to run for the office again because of the 14th Amendment’s “insurrectionist ban.” Maine is the second state to attempt to exclude Trump from the ballot after Colorado’s Supreme Court voted to...

AP Images Nikki Haley Courtesy of an obvious plant for the Democrats or a GOP rival who appeared at Nikki Haley’s recent town hall in Berlin, New Hampshire, the new gotcha question for GOP political candidates is this: “What caused the Civil War?” And as Haley just learned, any answer but “slavery” will blow up like a plugged Confederate Howitzer...

Jacques Delors in 2007 (AP Images) The architect of the European Union is dead. Jacques Delors, president of the European Commission (EC), the predecessor of the European Union, from 1985 to 1995, died Wednesday at age 98. Just as another Gallic visionary 1200 years ago, the Emperor Charlemagne, is credited with being the father of Europe, so Delors is considered...

As the Israeli attack on Gaza, Lebanon and Syria intensifies, the U.S. public watch on aghast. A new poll finds that Americans support a permanent ceasefire by a more than 2:1 ratio (including the vast majority of Democrats and a plurality of Republicans). And yet, despite this, only 4% of elected members of the House support even a temporary ceasefire,...

Podcast: Play in new window "https://thenewamerican.com/video/tv/globalist-publication-promotes-haley-christie-calls-for-conservative-internationalism/Download ()Subscribe: Google Podcasts "https://thenewamerican.com/video/tv/globalist-publication-promotes-haley-christie-calls-for-conservative-internationalism/Android "https://thenewamerican.com/video/tv/globalist-publication-promotes-haley-christie-calls-for-conservative-internationalism/ "https://thenewamerican.com/video/tv/globalist-publication-promotes-haley-christie-calls-for-conservative-internationalism/More The latest issue of the Council on Foreign Relations’ publication Foreign Affairs says it’s time to get the Republican Party and its constituents back into the globalist camp. It yearns for the old days when the GOP was fully controlled by internationalists and led the war machine. It also...

AP Images Democrats are making much ado about Trump’s immigration rhetoric and its supposed ramifications for his candidacy among Latino voters. But the anticipated outrage among the important Latino Republican voting bloc of Florida has thus far failed to materialize. As Politico reports, Trump’s recent remark that illegal aliens are “poisoning the blood” of America may cause some discomfort among...

Tsyb_Oleg/iStock/Getty Images Plus On December 19, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk warned that Kyiv’s push to outlaw the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) would breach freedom of religion. Türk gave his remarks during a meeting of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland, addressing the Kyiv government’s persecution of the UOC in the context of the crisis...

The Colorado Supreme Court voted 4-3 to ban Donald Trump from the state’s ballot on Tuesday, according to the Associated Press. The Colorado Supreme Court, made up of justices all appointed by Democratic governors, declared Trump ineligible for the White House, supposedly under the U.S. Constitution’s insurrection clause.   The Court majority wrote: We do not reach these conclusions lightly,”...

StephanieFrey/iStock/Getty Images Plus Dean Weingarten, a journalist at Ammoland, has been fighting to restore the Second Amendment to its fullest and broadest understanding: that sovereign citizens have the unalienable right to defend themselves against a tyrannical government with firearms. In November he wrote: “This correspondent has been involved in the struggle to restore Second Amendment rights for more than 50...

Library of Congress/public domain Scene of 1921 Tulsa Race Riot Senator James Lankford (R-Okla.) introduced legislation this past week to establish Tulsa’s historic Greenwood District as a national monument, as the site of the infamous 1921 Tulsa Race Riot (or, as it has recently been called, the Tulsa Race Massacre). In 1921, Greenwood, known as the Black Wall Street due...

AP Images Mike Johnson The recently passed resolution to authorize an impeachment investigation of Traitor Joe Biden doesn’t list the high crimes and misdemeanors for which the House of Representatives might impeach him. It merely authorizes probes by three committees. But buried in the not-so-fine print is the reason why the GOP is called “The Stupid Party.” As The New...

howard_morland/flickr Bill of Rights Day commemorates the ratification of the first 10 Amendments to the U.S. Constitution that congress adopted on December 15, 1791. The Bill of Rights  guarantees civil rights and liberties such as freedom of speech, press, and religion, and the right to bear arms. It sets rules for due process of law and reserves all powers not delegated...

“He who dares not offend cannot be honest.” ― Thomas Paine I’m sure many of you have heard of the United Nations Agenda 21 and, more recently, Agenda 2030. If you are like me, back in the 90s when I heard about this, I thought the likes of Glenn Beck were decent people, but a bit crazy. This increased for...

JackF/iStock/Getty Images Plus That would be the effect if the latest proposed infringement of the Second Amendment by the anti-gun Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) is allowed to stand. On August 31, the rogue anti-gun agency, under directions from Joe Biden, issued a press release heralding a “new regulation to update definition” of what it would arbitrarily...

With inflation, debt, and financial instability continuing to make headlines, a new national scorecard exposes Vermont, New Jersey, Maine, and Minnesota as America’s absolute worst states for sound money… …while Wyoming, South Dakota, Alaska, and New Hampshire came out on top in the rankings. Money Metals Exchange, the top-rated precious metals dealer and depository in the United States, has partnered...

John Whitehead He says, “You’re not going to be a dictator, are you?” I said: “No, no, no, other than day one. We’re closing the border, and we’re drilling, drilling, drilling. After that, I’m not a dictator.”—Donald Trump to Sean Hannity on being asked if he would abuse power after being re-elected Once a dictator, always a dictator. Power-hungry, lawless...

Victor Manuel Rocha was born on October 23, 1950, in Colombia. He served 40 years in the Department of State, the White House’s National Security Council, and as an advisor to the Pentagon’s Southern Command in Doral, Florida. On December 4, 2023, Rocha was charged with spying for Communist Cuba. He faces at least three criminal counts: conspiracy to act as...

AP Images Rand Paul As Congress debates whether to reauthorize the unconstitutional FISA program, U.S. Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) has introduced legislation to rein in the federal surveillance state and restore Americans’ Fourth Amendment-protected rights. Congress is debating the fate of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), which is scheduled to expire at the end of the...

The United Nations Conference of the Parties (COP28) Climate Summit continues in Dubai throughout the rest of the week. In addition to destroying America’s prominence and sovereignty, U.S. leaders scoff at the idea of an elected leader, like President Trump, or concerned citizens stopping their global climate “transformation,” explains international journalist Alex Newman. When confronted by Alex Newman, Senator Chris...