American History

AP Images Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. suspended his presidential campaign today and endorsed former President Donald Trump. The former Democrat supports Trump because the Democratic Party has betrayed its ideals, Kennedy said, while Trump opposes neoconservative foreign adventurism, vowed to stop the war in Ukraine, and agreed with Kennedy on important public-health matters. ...

MCCAIG/iStock/Getty Images Plus “If you look for the bad in people, you will surely find it.” This quotation, generally attributed to Abe Lincoln, alludes to a simple truth: Everyone is a sinner — no one is perfect. A corollary of this is that there’s no such thing as a “perfect” candidate (not literally speaking, anyway). Despite this, some people behave...

Faced with ongoing attacks against charter schools from lawmakers and teachers’ unions, “school choice” proponents in Colorado are pursuing a ballot initiative to enshrine a constitutional “right” to “equal opportunity to access a quality education.” Critics on both sides of the issue, though, are concerned it may be a trojan horse. “The people of Colorado cannot afford to wait for...

zimmytws/iStock/Getty Images Plus Is the title of this article “misinformation”? Governor Tim Walz (D-Minn.) certainly would say so. Many observers say the opposite, though, with Walz having stated in a recently unearthed interview that there’s “no guarantee to free speech on misinformation or hate speech.” His defenders would aver here, however, “That’s taken out of context!” That’s the rub, too,...

sleddogtwo/iStock/Getty Images Plus Gun Owners of America (GOA) just filed a lawsuit seeking to vacate a Florida law from the 19th century prohibiting the open carrying of firearms. It is using the recent decision in Bruen to overturn the law.The old law, according to the complaint, makes it “unlawful for any person to openly carry on or about his or...

AP Images Jamie Raskin In video from February that has now gone viral, election denier Jamie Raskin, the radical leftist congressman from Maryland, said civil war could erupt if former President Donald Trump defeats Vice President Kamala Harris on November 5.Raskin, who falsely claimed Trump didn’t win the presidential election in 2016, delivered the irresponsible incendiary remarks at a bookstore...

John Whitehead Q: “How can you tell if a politician is lying?” A: “When his lips are moving.” The First Amendment assures us of a right to free speech.It does not, unfortunately, explicitly assure us of a right to not be lied to by our government and its various officials. Any hope of holding government officials accountable for their lies...

Bill Hahn As President Biden mentioned in his campaign-quit speech, he wasted no time calling for Supreme Court reform after the court repeatedly stepped in during his term to reverse longstanding constitutional abuses, many that were advantageous to the political left. We’ll look at some historical parallels to previous court attacks and what entity can actually bring about the right...

SolidMaks/iStock/Getty Images Plus On the surface, New Jersey District Judge Peter Sheridan (appointed to the bench in 2006 by then-President George W. Bush and who assumed “senior status” five years ago at age 68), got it right: New Jersey’s ban on the AR-15 semi-automatic firearm is unconstitutional.But he didn’t like doing so: It is hard to accept the Supreme Court’s...

AP Images Merrick Garland The Biden Justice Department has weaponized the law to attack pro-lifers who demonstrated outside abortion clinics. And it’s using an obscure law meant to protect the rights of newly enfranchised former American slaves to lengthen prison sentences.One weapon is the pro-abortion Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, a Clinton-era law that punishes pro-lifers for supposedly...

AP Images Vice President Kamala Harris is polling better against President Donald Trump in general election polls than former candidate and President Joe Biden, but she is still forecast to lose on November 5.Election prognosticator Nate Silver gives Harris a better chance of winning the popular vote than Trump. But like Hillary Clinton in 2016, she might well lose the...

Join Alex Newman in this episode of The Sentinel Report as we cover the news of the horrendous mockery of Christianity on display at the 2024 Olympics, the misinformation surrounding Donald Trump’s speech at Turning Point USA’s Believers’ Summit, and much more. Additionally, Sheriff Richard Mack joins the program to emphasize the necessity of voting for a sheriff in your...

Of the 47 employees whom Kamala Harris hired in 2021, only 4 remain without interruption according to the nonpartisan watchdog group Open The Books. Everyone else left or was fired by Harris, who has been described as a “soul-destroying bully.” New York Times columnist David Brooks observes that “from her time as the San Francisco district attorney straight through her time as vice...

Speakers at the Republican National Convention not only shared their support for former President Donald Trump and J.D. Vance but gave a special charge to Generation Z: Revive the nation’s glory.  “Our message to Gen Z is this: You’re going to be the generation that saves this country.” Vivek Ramaswamy, a former presidential candidate, said. “You want to be a...

The incredibly powerful Rockefeller dynasty has been instrumental in building up National Socialism (Nazism), eugenics, globalism, and countless other evils, explains Swedish academic Dr. Jacob Nordangård in this interview on Conversations That Matter with The New American magazine’s Alex Newman. Nordangård, who wrote the hit book Rockefeller: Controlling the Game, highlights the apparent absurdity of an oil dynasty funding the “climate” and...

skynesher/iStock/Getty Images Plus As if cuing ominous music, we hear incessant warnings today about “Christian nationalism” and “fundamentalism.” We’re supposed to fear these forces and, in particular, their alleged inroads into education. In fact, as the Los Angeles Times writes this week, this phenomenon threatens to “destroy” our schools and transform us “from a democracy to a theocracy.”Why, if students...

artas/iStock/Getty Images Plus A federal judge ruled Tuesday that the Biden administration “exceeded its statutory authority” by reclassifying certain types of rapid-firing triggers as machine guns, thereby making them illegal.U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor of the Northern District of Texas vacated the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives’ (ATF) “unlawful” classification of forced-reset triggers (FRTs) as machine guns and...

John Whitehead A failed assassination attempt on a presidential candidate. An incumbent president withdrawing his re-election bid at the 11th hour. A politicized judiciary that fails to hold the powers-that-be accountable to the rule of law. A world at war. A nation in turmoil.This is what controlled chaos looks like.This year’s election-year referendum on which corporate puppet should occupy the...

AP Images Claudia Sheinbaum Sweden long ago became the world’s first officially “feminist” government. Will it now be followed by what some might think is, outside the Islamic world, the unlikeliest of places: Mexico? This may be the case if its president-elect, ex-academic Claudia Sheinbaum, has her way.Focus on FeminismIn fact, while Sheinbaum — a radical who reportedly supported Colombian...

Bill Hahn After a would-be assassin failed in his attempt to snuff out President Trump, some in the media are calling him out for his instinctive rhetoric of telling his supports to fight. Rhetoric that has won him millions of fans and also caused him to be the ire of some of the political Left.We’ll look into this and show...