I Stand for Freedom

For nearly a year and a half, the office of the U.S. Surgeon General has resembled a waiting room with no doctor on call. In a country where chronic disease is surging and trust in public health institutions has cratered, that empty chair isn’t just an inconvenience — it’s a crisis of credibility. You’d think filling a medical position would be simpler than, say, brokering a ...

Seventy-six days is a long time to hold your breath — especially when it’s someone else’s oxygen you’re cutting off.

That’s exactly what congressional Democrats did when they triggered the longest Department of Homeland Security shutdown in American history. Their demand was simple: strip immigration enforcement funding from the DHS spending bill, or nobody gets paid. ...

There’s an old saying that pressure doesn’t build character; it reveals it. When the world turns chaotic and instincts take over, we discover who people truly are. Last Saturday night, in a ballroom filled with Washington’s elite, that truth was demonstrated once again.

The White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner was supposed to be an evening of glamour and poli...

For more than two years, a small network of faith-based pregnancy centers in New Jersey faced an unrelenting campaign from the state’s attorney general.

Matthew Platkin wanted their documents — ten years’ worth. He demanded personnel records, copies of every advertisement they’d ever run, and perhaps most chillingly, the names and contact information of their private d...

They say comedy is all about timing. But there’s a difference between bad timing and no conscience at all — and somewhere in the last decade, a whole generation of late-night hosts stopped being able to tell the two apart.

It was a brutal week in Washington. On Saturday night, gunfire erupted at the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner in what authorities hav...