Ben Domenech is a US editor-at-large of The Spectator and a Fox News contributor.
On a cold January night in New York City, Chris Hayes walked off the set of CBS’s Late Show with Stephen Colbert only to face a pressing ethical dilemma. As he left the Ed Sullivan Theater and walked on to Broadway, he got a text from a friend who covers technology for NPR with a
It began, as most things do under Donald Trump, with an idea that struck outside observers as a lark. An interested party – in this case, billionaire Ron Lauder – suggested to the President during his first term that the United States should acquire Greenland, a move that would represent the largest expansion of US
It required an incredible amount of sophistication to achieve the desired result in Caracas: a dictator detained and transported alive. The mission had been planned and mapped out for months, worked and reworked at the behest of the Commander-in-Chief. No American casualties would be tolerated. Special Forces had been circling and at the ready for
Pete Hegseth’s Saturday begins with personal training. The Secretary of War, @SecWar on your socials, is very fond of working out with the troops – something most defense secretaries have done without someone dutifully filming the experience for Instagram. Then he heads off to the Reagan National Defense Forum, the annual gathering of war hawks,
Inside Roger Goodell’s bid for global power
A year after Trump’s reelection, is his coalition starting to implode?
His aphoristic style fits the era of short attention spans
The Jewish state has won. But at what cost?
They view him as a traitor to their class
Now Trump has announced it, is CIA covert action in Venezuela really covert?
The old guard of the left, the neoliberal and corporate-friendly media, has lost control
The Riyadh Comedy Festival bought compliance not comedy
Charlie was unafraid to go anywhere and make the case for what he believed
The murdered activist exemplified a belief in the American values of civil debate
Mexico is one area where the MAGA base and its brain trust seem open to the idea of more aggressive action
We were promised seven hours of commercial-free football. Enter greedy executives…
The war footing this administration is adopting now toward the cartels is still in its early days, but the die is cast
Nearly two-thirds of Democrats aren’t
Carjackings and vehicle theft are three times the national average, and the homicide rate is six times that of New York City
The Democrats’ antics are holding up aid to damaged communities
