Congress is sliding toward a "no-pressure" shutdown , with both parties content to claim political wins as a department backfilled with billions of dollars experiences a funding lapse. Why it matters: The lack of urgency to try to prevent the Department of Homeland Security shutdown at day's end Friday underscores how routine funding interruptions have become. - It also reveals the lowered political stakes both sides see in allowing the latest one to take hold. - Lawmakers left Washington on Thursday for international trips and a weeklong recess, despite circumstances that in a previous era would have precluded them from taking a break without fear of political consequences. Now, each side sees an upside to letting DHS shut down. - For…
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The USS Gerald R. Ford carrier strike group is expected to leave the Caribbean and head towards the Middle East in the coming days, according to three U.S. officials.
Sanctions and embargoes have immiserated Cubans without bringing regime change. The post Trump’s Cuba Policy Is a Humanitarian Disaster appeared first on The American Conservative .
Foreign Affairs Trump’s Cuba Policy Is a Humanitarian Disaster Sanctions and embargoes have immiserated Cubans without bringing regime change. Credit: Jan Willem von Hoffwagen/Shutterstock On January 25, 1960, President Dwight D. Eisenhower proposed a U.S. naval “quarantine” of Cuba. “If they are hungry,” the president fumed, “they will throw Castro out.” His ambassador to Cuba, Philip W. Bonsal, chided him with a moral reminder: “We should not punish the whole Cuban people for the acts of one abnormal man.” If it was hard for the U.S. to hear that restraint then, it has become deaf to it now. For over 65 years, U.S. policy has been to employ an embargo to pressure Cuba until the regime collapses. By 2018, that embargo…Open
Carrie Prejean Boller had questions about the definition of antisemitism. The post White House Religious Liberty Commission Member Pokes the Zionist Bear appeared first on The American Conservative .
Foreign Affairs White House Religious Liberty Commission Member Pokes the Zionist Bear Carrie Prejean Boller had questions about the definition of antisemitism. Donald Trump’s White House Religious Liberty Commission is composed of members from various religious communities. The former Miss California USA Carrie Prejean Boller entered the Catholic Church during the Easter vigil in 2025. Less than two weeks later, Trump appointed her to the commission. This week, the new Catholic had questions. Speaking to the panelist Yitzchok Frankel, a law student and former defendant in a case over anti-Jewish harassment against him, Boller wanted to know, “So I need to ask you, in a country built on religious liberty and the First Amendment, do you…Open
Conservatives must offer something better. The post The Future Is Bad Bunny appeared first on The American Conservative .
Culture The Future Is Bad Bunny Conservatives must offer something better. BUDAPEST—I was on a plane to Europe Sunday night as the Seahawks defeated the Patriots in what apparently was a very boring Super Bowl. Upon landing, I scrolled X and discovered that the halftime show, performed in Spanish by a Puerto Rican rapper named “Bad Bunny,” had drawn more attention than the game itself, and much outrage on the right. That was not an altogether surprising discovery. This September, Bad Bunny’s selection as halftime star had irked many conservatives because of his tendency to wear dresses and complain about America’s enforcement of immigration law. Springing into action, the conservative Turning Point USA whipped up some…Open
Senate Democrats refused to move ahead with a spending bill needed to keep the Department of Homeland Security running because it lacked limits they have demanded on federal immigration agents.
