President Donald Trump hit the ground running on immigration, deploying 1,500 active-duty troops to the southern border and ordering military deportation flights to Central and South America. Two of those flights were to arrive in Colombia on Sunday. Gustavo Petro, the nation’s president and a former member of the Marxist M-19 guerrilla group, stopped them
The Biden administration quietly awarded $15 million in taxpayer funds to Taliban-controlled Afghanistan to help distribute “oral contraceptives and condoms,” a non-public congressional funding notice reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon shows. In doing so, the administration acknowledged that “some coordination” with the Taliban would be “necessary for programmatic purposes.” The United States Agency for
JERUSALEM—President Donald Trump declared on Saturday that he wants to resettle residents of the Gaza Strip in Arab countries, shaking up Middle East diplomacy in signature style. The president told reporters on Air Force One that he had asked King Abdullah II of Jordan in a phone call earlier in the day to “take people”
President Donald Trump announced sweeping punitive measures against Colombia on Sunday after its Marxist president, Gustavo Petro, denied entry to two U.S. military deportation planes filled with migrants. Trump in turn imposed an “emergency” 25 percent tariff on Colombian goods and will raise that tariff to 50 percent in a week, he said. Other measures
We are barely a week into the second Trump administration and the outrage is spilling forth. It’s almost too much to grasp, really. Norm violations are busting out all over. And I’m just talking about Lauren Sanchez’s inaugural outfit. But speaking of norms, Tal Fortgang has a review of Olivier Roy’s The Crisis of Culture: Identity Politics and the Empire of Norms. “When
In my second semester of law school, just after the upheavals of 2020, I studied criminal law under a visiting professor whose progressive bona fides were stellar. She was a full-on prison abolitionist who had imbibed and presented for discussion every critical feminist and race theory imaginable. But she was a good teacher and maintained
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 B.C.) came into the world with a penchant for eloquence, and over the years he developed, honed, and polished it to the point where he became the most renowned of Roman orators. Much of his oration was displayed in the courts. If in the later days of the Roman Republic, you