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AP Images Secret Service agents at Trump rally, July 13, 2024 After the Secret Service failed to protect former President Donald Trump from a would-be assassin in July, the agency did what all government agencies do when caught with their pants down: blame it on a lack of funding. Congress, naturally, obliged by giving the agency another $231 million.But, as...

John Whitehead You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.—Bob DylanA water main breaks every two minutes somewhere in the U.S., resulting in contaminated drinking-water supplies and boil-water notices.One out of three bridges in the U.S. needs repair, endangering hundreds of millions of commuters. More than 42,000 bridges across the country, carrying about 167 million vehicles...

bruev/iStock/Getty Images Plus Georgia’s parliament passed legislation that imposes restrictions on “gender-affirming” procedures, changing gender designations in official documents, same-sex marriages, adoptions by same-sex couples, and media representations publicly affirming LGBTQ+ relations.Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili did not veto the bill, but refused to sign it, sending it back to the Georgian Parliament. Speaker of the Georgian Parliament Shalva Papuashvili announced...

AP Images Tim Walz The shellacking that GOP Senator J.D. Vance gave Democratic Minnesota Governor Tim Walz during Tuesday’s vice presidential debate apparently triggered a panic attack among the leftist Mainstream Media.Case in point: Politico. Having witnessed a confused, walleyed Walz blow the debate — “I’m a knucklehead,” he declared in a refreshingly candid moment — the website rushed out...

danielfela/iStock/Getty Images Plus It’s bad enough that Vice President Kamala Harris, trying to look presidential, announced that the federal government would give victims of Hurricane Helena a whole $750.But adding insult to injury is what every citizen of Ukraine has received in federal aid since 2022: almost $5,000, nearly six times what the needy Americans who have lost everything will...

The Post Millennial/X Sign at the Food Trap Project Bodega in Minneapolis From each according to his skin color and, well, to each according to his skin color? That’s right,Forget the old Marxist formula. Now, in our diversity-über-alles society, calls to equity from the morally bent have a racial bent. This would explain, too, a couple of recent stories.The first...

Culture Who Is the Man Behind Bitcoin? A new HBO documentary claims to have solved one of the great mysteries of the internet age. (Have a nice day Photo/Shutterstock) In the 15 years since Bitcoin was created, a question has stalked the greater cryptocurrency space—who (or what) invented the pace-car digital currency that has forcefully woven itself into the financial...

Bet_Noire/iStock/Getty Images Plus Conservatives, let not your heart be troubled. You are being censored more on social media, a new study has found. But the researchers can help you solve the problem because, they say, they have identified it.You.The study has “found,” you see, that conservatives endure social-media suspension more only because they share more “misinformation.” The remedy?Just echo mainstream...

sabthai/iStock/Getty Images Plus Federal prosecutors have asked the judge in their case against Ryan Wesley Routh, accused in the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump, for an indefinite delay in the would-be assassin’s trial.The reason is the complexity of the case, which permits a judge to waive the speedy-trial provisions of federal law.The filing in the U.S. District for...

Foreign Affairs ‘Grand Strategy’ Misses the Point The fixation on grand strategy neglects the fact that foreign policy is the product of politics. Credit: image via Shutterstock As the United States prepares for the November presidential election, political commentators and security analysts are no doubt also preparing for what now seems like the obligatory ritual of providing grandiose plans, roadmaps,...

AP Images After having fallen hilariously short of their of their preseason prediction of more that 30 named storms for this Atlantic hurricane season (there have been 11 named storms as of this writing, with peak season quickly coming to an end), climate cultists have jumped on Hurricane Helene and the tragic flooding in Asheville, North Carolina, as somehow proving...

Oleksii Liskonih/iStock/Getty Images Plus President Joe Biden spoke with reporters at the White House earlier today, stating that Israel and the U.S. are discussing a response to Iran’s recent attack. When asked if he supported an Israeli attack on Iranian oil infrastructure, he answered, “We’re discussing that. I think that would be a little… anyway.”Following the attack earlier this week...

TAEMiller/iStock/Getty Images Plus Firearms sales, according to the Firearm Industry Trade Association (NSSF, formerly the National Shooting Sports Foundation), jumped again in September. Violent crime, as reported by the FBI, fell precipitously last year to levels not seen since 2017.The obvious connection: More private ownership of firearms in the country is translating into lower crime.The NSSF reported on Wednesday that...

AP Images While the mainstream media is making much out of the issue of wages in the strike called by the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) on Tuesday, the real issue is one that goes back more than a century: automation.Said ILA’s Executive Vice President Dennis Daggett: “Automation, which I believe we are going to be battling for the rest of...

AP Images Doug Emhoff Doug Emhoff, the husband of Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris, has been accused of slapping his former girlfriend and causing his nanny to miscarry his love child.The devastating report in the Daily Mail couldn’t have landed at a more inauspicious time for Harris. It comes a day after vice presidential candidate Tim Walz took a beat...

Foreign Affairs Hezbollah: Down But Not Out Despite the gap in its command-and-control structure, the group has been galvanized by Israeli operations. Credit: image via Shutterstock That Hezbollah was dealt an unprecedentedly painful blow with the assassination of its leader Hassan Nasrallah is not up for debate. While Israel succeeded in taking out the Lebanese movement’s former leader, Abbas al-Musawi...

The United Nations and its member governments have been busy planning out your future–a future of censorship, tyranny, global governance, indoctrination of children, and more–explained The New American magazine Senior Editor Alex Newman in this episode of Behind The Deep State after returning from the UN Summit of the Future. The summit, which received very little publicity, adopted the UN...

A new report uncovers the troubling ties between top VPN services like ExpressVPN and the Israeli security state, raising alarms about how much control Israel’s Unit 8200 has over your online privacy. An estimated 1.6 billion people rely on VPNs to carry out the most sensitive tasks online, from watching illegal videos to engaging in sexual or political activities. But...

AP Images Vuhledar from February 2023 Russian military forces have captured the small mining town of Vuhledar in the disputed Donbas region of eastern Ukraine. After two years of fighting, the Ukrainian defeat is significant strategically, as Vuhledar served as a fortified stronghold located between the eastern and southern regions annexed by Russia in 2022.The Ukrainian Khortytsia operational-strategic group announced...

Daniel J. Flynn Follow Their Stories: View More Daniel J. Flynn, a senior editor of The American Spectator, serves as a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution for the 2024-2025 academic year. His books include Cult City: Harvey Milk, Jim Jones, and 10 Days That Shook San Francisco (ISI Books, 2018), Blue Collar Intellectuals: When the Enlightened and the Everyman...