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NYTIMES (Mark Walker) - Travel Math: When Flying Costs as Much as the Train, Who Wins?

Amtrak says dynamic pricing has helped strengthen its finances, but travelers often grumble at the cost, especially for last-minute travel. Still, the train has a secret weapon: avoiding the airport.

THEAMERICANCONSERVATIVE (Joseph Addington) - New National Defense Strategy Emphasizes Homeland Defense, not Countering China

State of the Union: The U.S. is adopting a policy of “hardnosed realism,” the document states. The post New National Defense Strategy Emphasizes Homeland Defense, not Countering China appeared first on The American Conservative .

The Pentagon released its long-anticipated National Defense Strategy late Friday. The new document presents a sharp shift in U.S. military priorities by elevating defense of the homeland and the Western Hemisphere above countering China. The 34-page strategy breaks with approaches taken during both the Biden administration and President Donald Trump’s first term, arguing that past governments diluted U.S. power by pursuing “grandiose” global strategies rather than concrete American interests. It emphasizes securing U.S. access to the Panama Canal, the Gulf of Mexico, and Greenland in order to end the possibility of potentially hostile actors gaining influence over “key terrain” in the Western Hemisphere. China remains a central…Open