Published August 11, 2026 MANILA, Philippines — China is once again calling on the Philippines to pull back from what Beijing describes as “provocative” activities in the South China Sea, as tensions continue to build [...]
Houthis threaten to shut the crucial Bab Al- Mandeb through which 7% of Global oil passes Published August 11, 2026 SANAA, Yemen — A Saudi strike targeting an Iranian flight bound for Yemen has triggered [...]
Published August 11, 2026 BEIRUT, Lebanon — Israeli forces are demolishing homes in southern Lebanon as tanks and military vehicles move through the area, alarming residents and adding fresh pressure to U.S.-mediated negotiations between Israel [...]
Published August 11, 2026 HOUSTON, Texas — An Iranian woman living in the United States is issuing a stark warning to Americans, arguing that the country should pay closer attention to what she describes as [...]
Smoke from the wildfire spreads to heathland from the dual carriageway at Ringwood Published August 11, 2026 NEW FOREST, HAMPSHIRE, U.K. — More than 120 firefighters are battling a “devastating” wildfire tearing through internationally protected [...]
Prime Minister Andy Burnham can’t do that—because it would mean blaming himself. The post Blame Blair, not Thatcher, for British Decline appeared first on The American Conservative .
Takimag Blame Blair, not Thatcher, for British Decline Prime Minister Andy Burnham can’t do that—because it would mean blaming himself. TakiMag Photo by Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images Just before becoming Britain’s prime minister in July, Andy Burnham revealed his father has late-stage dementia. Politically speaking, so does much of the Labour political class, including Burnham: its impressions of the 1970s and its lessons are foggy. In northwest England , whence Burnham hails, political dementia is a transmissible disease, particularly regarding the legacy of the former prime minister Margaret Thatcher.…Open
The Arday saga provides hope for confabulists everywhere. The post The Cambridge Con-Rag appeared first on The American Conservative .
Takimag The Cambridge Con-Rag The Arday saga provides hope for confabulists everywhere. TakiMag OK, you lazybones out there, read what follows and blush like you’ve never blushed before. Imagine you were diagnosed with autism from age 3. You could not speak until you were 11 years old. Then, at 18, you learned to read and write. This was in 2003. Things got better after that. Out of the blue, you earned a BA in education and PE. Two master’s degrees and a teaching qualification followed, and then, miracle of miracles, you were awarded a PhD by Liverpool John Moores University. No Hollywood hack would ever dream of…Open
Wokeness isn’t the only problem at war colleges and service academies. The post Do Hegseth’s Reforms to Military Universities Go Far Enough? appeared first on The American Conservative .
War Do Hegseth’s Reforms to Military Universities Go Far Enough? Wokeness isn’t the only problem at war colleges and service academies. (Heather Diehl/Getty Images) In his crusade to exorcise “wokeness” from the military and imbue it with a new spirit of lethality, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is waging battles on the nation’s storied war colleges and service academies. But is he fighting the wrong war? The American Conservative spoke to several former and current instructors at such institutions, plus retired senior officers who have attended these schools. All said that Hegseth’s reforms may not go far…Open
By setting up a curling rink in the shadow of the Colosseum, sports officials hope to capitalize on the fresh popularity of the Winter Olympics phenomenon. Even in a heat wave and without any ice.
Trump reportedly underwent an elaborate plan to hide his flight from Turkey to the United Kingdom last month using a catering food truck and a military aircraft