American History

Max/flickr Just when you thought the woke crowd — which sees racism and white supremacy under every bed — could not get any more weird, Smithsonian magazine published an article last week arguing that the Indiana Jones series, starting with Raiders of the Lost Ark in 1981, is based on several “myths,” one of which perpetuates both racism and sexism....

Wishful thinking is still the rule among Biden’s foreign policy team, as the slaughter in Ukraine continues. It’s been weeks since we looked into the adventures of the Biden administration’s foreign policy cluster, led by Tony Blinken, Jake Sullivan, and Victoria Nuland. How has the trio of war hawks spent the summer? Sullivan, the national security adviser, recently brought an...

AP Images Gavin Newsom Governor Gavin Newsom’s quest to replace the U.S. Constitution continues, as California’s chief executive is sponsoring legislation calling for a federal constitutional convention to rewrite the Second Amendment. Senate Joint Resolution 7 seeks “to call a constitutional convention under Article V of the Constitution of the United States for the purpose of proposing a constitutional amendment...

Rather than send troops in response to the coup, France and the U.S. seem to favor a “Rwanda” type solution applied in Mozambique earlier this year, writes Vijay Prashad. Only this time ECOWAS would apply force.     On July 26, Niger’s presidential guard moved against the sitting president — Mohamed Bazoum — and conducted a coup d’état. A brief contest among the...

Marco Verch/flickr The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA) and the Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC) filed a friend of the court brief on Wednesday urging the Third Circuit Court of Appeals to make permanent its temporary injunction imposed against New Jersey in May. Rather like a child being told “no,” New Jersey anti-gun politicians enacted...

AP Images A new law-review article written by two law professors, William Baude of the University of Chicago and Michael Stokes Paulsen of the University of St. Thomas, which argues that Donald Trump is already disqualified by the U.S. Constitution from ever becoming president again, is making the rounds in Washington. According to the article, Section Three of the 14th...

Alpha Stock Images “A vast majority of Convention of States supporters are also firm supporters of the Second Amendment,” a recent Convention of States (COS) blog post declares. Really? A vast majority? So, not all, then, right? If I’m reading their own article correctly, they are saying that not all of those who support COS are “firm supporters” of the...

Koele/iStock/Getty Images Plus A recent blog post published by the Convention of States (COS) reports that “only 10 percent of Americans think our democracy is working.” After reassuring his readers that he knows “we’re not a democracy,” the author goes on to insist that “the message is still valid.”  The fact that 10 percent of Americans don’t think our democracy...

AP Images AfD leaders at a party meeting in Germany Unhappy with its growing popularity among German citizens, some German politicians and media outlets are calling on the right-leaning Alternative for Germany (AfD, Alternative für Deutschland) Party to be banned. AfD is currently leading in polls, with the nation’s next general election scheduled for June of next year. Founded in...

AP Images Steve Womack Multiple Republican chairmen of the 12 House Appropriations subcommittees are voicing frustration about conservatives’ demands to reduce federal spending in the pending fiscal 2024 appropriations bills. Congress is currently working to draft and pass its fiscal 2024 appropriations bills, which must be passed before September 30 to avoid a partial government shutdown. On the House side, one appropriations...

i>Some 57% of Ohio voters refused to change the rules of the game on the eve of a referendum on abortion rights. In American politics, it is not just the Donald Trump circus that matters. Since the Supreme Court opened the door to the criminalization of abortion in 2021, the issue is at the heart of partisan battles at the...

Readers of the The New American magazine are well aware of the Deep State menace facing our Constitution, our culture, and our very lives. However, knowing that the problem exists does no good unless we take action to defend our God-given rights from the malicious tyrants who threaten them. That is why Robert Welch founded The John Birch Society 65 years ago....

nito100/iStock/Getty Images Plus On August 8, Iraq’s official media regulator instructed all media and social-media companies operating within its territories to cease using the term “homosexuality” and substitute it with “sexual deviance,” according to a document from the regulator. With U.S. influence in Iraq waning, this latest piece of news illustrates how traditional Islamic values are staging a comeback in...

The past week the National Education Association, the largest teachers union in the US, issued guidance on the use of leftist activist symbols in public school classrooms. As part of their advice to teachers, they recommended violating district and state rules and hanging items such as pride flags and BLM flags. This is generally cited as a means to “start...

Michael B./flickr The Illinois Supreme Court on Friday narrowly upheld the “Protect Illinois Communities Act,” which was signed into law by Governor J.B. Pritzker earlier this year and bans the sale or possession of new assault weapons, including some semiautomatic firearms, along with high-capacity magazines and rapid-firing devices. The weapons-ban legislation was driven by state Democrats shortly after a gunman killed seven...

BAlvarius/Wikimedia Commons Gray Mountain, Arizona The White House has claimed control over more than 900,000 acres of land in Arizona. President Biden insists that the land grab was necessary to “tell a more complete story of our nation” and to “strengthen climate resilience across America’s National Parks system,” but the real reason is likely a little less noble. As reported...

olegda88/iStock/Getty Images Plus According to results of a Ukrainian public-opinion survey about attitudes toward the current crisis with Russia, most Ukrainian respondents harbored misgivings toward the military bloc NATO and the European Union (EU). The survey, which was conducted by phone from July 25 to 27 in all of Ukraine presently unoccupied by Russian forces and provided exclusively to The...

Stakon/iStock/Getty Images Plus Hawaii’s ban of butterfly knives has been declared unconstitutional by a federal court. In Hawaii, it is a misdemeanor knowingly to manufacture, sell, transfer, transport, or possess a butterfly knife — no exceptions. The judges of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held that “Hawaii has not demonstrated that its ban on butterfly knives is consistent with...

Robert J. Oppenheimer (AP Images) Was J. Robert Oppenheimer, head of the atomic bomb project at Los Alamos during World War II, a Soviet agent? And why does it matter? “History is a set of lies agreed upon.” So, supposedly, said Napoleon Bonaparte. Well, the liars have certainly gotten the upper hand since Napoleon’s day. Our “history industry” has been...

Anderson Piza/iStock/Getty Images Plus The city of Beverly Hills, California, has ordered an Orthodox Jewish rabbi to stop holding small religious gatherings at his home, evidence of which it gathered via police stakeouts and drone surveillance, the rabbi’s attorneys allege. On June 12, Rabbi Levi Illulian received a “Notice of Violations” letter from the city ordering him to “terminate all...