Elon Musk’s role in DOGE is misunderstood: he’s an appointed auditor with legal authority to find waste, not cut programs, and foreign aid isn’t ending, though USAID’s inefficiencies may be restructured. Here are some of the untruths told about Elon Musk and DOGE. “Musk has no right to cut USAID.” Elon Musk and his team […]
CPS profits from family separation, turning child welfare into a billion-dollar industry where courts, agencies, and service providers cash in on every removal. It’s a racket that must end. Child Protective Services (CPS) and its various counterparts—such as the Department of Children, Youth, and Families (DCYF), the Department of Family Services (DFS), the Department of Children and […]
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy accused former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton of “distorting facts” to cover up her family’s “obscene grifting via USAID” after she baselessly tried to blame the Trump administration for the two plane crashes that happened after President Trump took office. On January 29, an American Airlines plane and a military Black […]
DEI policies are facing scrutiny amid recent disasters, raising concerns about their impact on competence, meritocracy, and public safety. The diversity, equity, and inclusion project, often seen as a major element of the so-called “woke” creed along with green fanaticism, keeps popping up as a possible subtext in a variety of recent tragedies. In the […]
In his last address, Joe Biden offered a Parthian shot at “oligarchs” and the dangers these “billionaires” pose to the republic. At the same time, left-wing senators hammered Trump cabinet nominees on the grounds that they would be too complacent in the face of a supposed takeover of the country by Trump’s “billionaires” and their […]
Biden’s farewell boasts ring hollow as his foreign policy missteps—from emboldening Iran and Hamas to the chaotic Afghanistan withdrawal—undermine his claims of global achievement. Departing President Joe Biden offered a farewell brag this week to his State Department about how his tenure had improved America’s stature abroad. In his now accustomed weird mix of whispering […]
By Victor Davis Hanson, American Greatness. This discussion explores various Trump conspiracy theories and their impact on political discourse. Over the decade of Donald Trump’s political career, the left—as exemplified by Democratic politicos, the media, academics, the Washington military hierarchy, and the permeant bureaucratic state—illustrated a level of furor, venom, and near madness unprecedented in modern […]
Eighty years ago, Germany’s former conquerors rejected wrecking the defeated nation as too harsh. But now Germany is willfully pastoralizing, disarming, deindustrializing—and destroying—itself. By Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Less than a year before the end of World War II, then U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau drew up a nightmarish plan for Germany, called […]
Trump’s 2024 resurgence marks a dramatic shift from his 2016 vilification, fueled by Biden’s unpopularity, a longing for normalcy, and Trump’s endurance through relentless opposition. By Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness In the weeks before the 2016 Trump Electoral College victory, Trump was polling between 35 and 40 percent. He would average only about 41 percent […]