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Marco Rubio has shown he is much more than just the good cop

My first reaction to Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s speech, delivered on Valentine’s Day, at the Munich Security Conference, was, “Last year, President Donald Trump sent the bad cop, Vice President J.D. Vance. This year, he sent the good cop, Rubio. Progress.” In February 2025, the ...

Was climate change our greatest financial scandal?

Environmental scholar Bjorn Lomborg recently calculated that across the globe, governments have spent at least $16 trillion feeding the climate change industrial complex. And for what? Arguably, not a single life has been or will be saved by this shameful and colossal misallocation of ...

Eileen Gu made a terrible choice when it came to competing

It isn’t easy being Eileen Gu. The champion freestyle skier said the other day, after she had to settle for a silver medal in an event at the Olympics, that “sometimes it feels like I’m carrying the weight of two countries on my shoulders.” Gu would be carrying the weight of only ...

Why have anti-ICE activists suddenly taken to building borders?

Anti-ICE activists in Minneapolis are setting up blockades. They’re demanding ID from drivers. In short, they’re setting up their own borders — against America’s laws and law enforcement. It’s not the first time “protesters” have done this. Activists inspired by Black ...

Bad Bunny and the outrage machine

The Super Bowl is one of the highlights of the sporting calendar, attracting millions of viewers worldwide year after year, and sparking the beginning of the long and difficult football-free season where we must survive on a meager diet of non-contact sports such as basketball and soccer. But ...

Sorry, Bad Bunny — U.S. is, indeed, ‘America’

It might be the first time that Bad Bunny has been suspected of cribbing from Irving Berlin. Near the end of his Super Bowl halftime show, the Puerto Rican rapper said, “God bless, America.” For many Americans, they were the only words they could understand and ones they, presumably, ...