Graham Platner won the Democratic nomination for Senate and quickly turned his booming, populist message against Susan Collins, the Republican incumbent in perhaps the top battleground in the country.
Lt. Gov. Pamela Evette, backed by Trump, and state Attorney General Alan Wilson will advance to a runoff in the South Carolina Republican gubernatorial primary.
Bill Gates was set to appear before a congressional panel investigating the Jeffrey Epstein files, becoming the latest powerful figure linked to the disgraced financier to testify
Unscathed by pandemic-era school closures, the nation's 9-year-olds showed progress in math and reading. It's a different story for 13-year-olds, however.
In one of the most competitive races for governor this year, Nevada Democratic Attorney General Aaron Ford will challenge Republican Gov. Joe Lomardo for his office in November.
The countries that have borne the brunt of Iranian retaliation have an incentive to diversify their security structures. The post Is the Iran War Tipping the Gulf Away From the U.S.? appeared first on The American Conservative .
Foreign Affairs Is the Iran War Tipping the Gulf Away From the U.S.? The countries that have borne the brunt of Iranian retaliation have an incentive to diversify their security structures. (Photo by AFP via Getty Images) / On June 3, as messages continued to pass between Iranian and American negotiators, the U.S. endangered diplomacy with renewed aggression against Iran. Enforcing the blockade on Iranian ports, U.S. forces fired a Hellfire missile into the engine room of a Botswana-flagged oil tanker. Moments earlier, per CENTCOM, they had “conducted self-defense strikes on an Iranian military ground control…Open
Republicans’ “leftward” economic drift has been overstated, to say the least. The post Mike Pence’s ‘Progressive GOP’ Delusion appeared first on The American Conservative .
Politics Mike Pence’s ‘Progressive GOP’ Delusion Republicans’ “leftward” economic drift has been overstated, to say the least. (Photo by John Lamparski/Getty Images) The now-irrelevant Mike Pence still knows how to get back in the news. The former vice president has a new book out warning America of the GOP’s “dangerous” lurch to progressivism. Among his complaints is that he believes his old party is at risk of abandoning the fiscal conservatism it was built on in favor of left-wing economics. “Some right-wing populists have decided that American families need the support of industrial policies…Open
The Trump administration must require that dual-national officials renounce any second citizenship as a condition of holding a security clearance. The post The Rocha Spy Case: Espionage and Conflicted Loyalty appeared first on The American Conservative .
Politics The Rocha Spy Case: Espionage and Conflicted Loyalty The Trump administration must require that dual-national officials renounce any second citizenship as a condition of holding a security clearance. (Photo by James Manning/PA Images via Getty Images) The U.S. Department of Justice has filed suit to revoke the naturalized citizenship of Manuel Rocha, the former American diplomat exposed in 2023 as a long-running espionage asset of Communist Cuba. Not since Alger Hiss was unmasked as a Soviet spy has the State Department—and the nation—suffered such a profound betrayal by a senior diplomat. Rocha was a…Open