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Canada doesn’t love Trump back

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney aced the Oval Office Exam during his sit-down with President Donald Trump Monday. Washington's relations with Ottawa have been testy of late. During the 2024 campaign, Trump delighted his die-hard base to no end with his talk about making Canada America's "51st state." It was a classic Trump troll that got spicier every time Trump referred to then-Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as "governor." Canadian voters were not amused. As the Liberal Party standard-bearer, Carney won his country's top office by challenging Trump's taunts. Thus Trump took ...

Alcatraz not a great idea

“The name of Napoleon,” said the French emperor Napoleon III, “is a program in itself.” The same is true of Alcatraz, or as President Trump put it in a Truth Social post announcing his intention to re-open the prison in San Francisco Bay, “ALCATRAZ.” In his post, Trump declared, “We will no longer be held hostage to criminals, thugs, and Judges that are afraid to do their job,” and re-building Alcatraz “will serve as a symbol of Law, Order, and JUSTICE.” Trump is given to exemplary displays of strength and toughness, so it’s no wonder that he’s drawn to ...

The good, bad, and ugly in new budget

President Donald Trump’s 2026 “skinny budget” is out, and at first glance it gives small-government advocates reason to cheer. It proposes deep cuts to domestic agencies, calls for eliminating redundant programs and gestures toward reviving federalism by shifting power and responsibility back to the states. It promises to slash overreaching “woke” initiatives, end international handouts and abolish bureaucracies that have outlived their usefulness. But this budget is more rhetorical than revolutionary. As impressive as Trump’s envisioned cuts are — $163 billion worth — ...

A strange exchange: Civil War, writ small

Scene: walking in Washington at dusk, looking around an old market neighborhood made new again. I’m coming from a book talk, searching the lively sidewalks for the Metro station. A guy sees my shop bag and asks what book I’m reading. I show him: “Uncharted: How Trump Beat Biden, Harris and the Odds in the Wildest Campaign in History.” Chris Whipple is the author. It’s on the vicissitudes of the 2024 campaign, I say, how Joe Biden, by bowing out so late in the game, helped Donald Trump win. (OK, I didn’t say vicissitudes.) I look sideways. He’s not exactly my type: ...

The purely progressive Pulitzer Prize parade

The latest announcement of the Pulitzer Prizes brought great anticipation — not about who would win awards but about what topics would be honored. Once again, the awards were dominated by the leftist brands — The New York Times and The New Yorker. Pulitzer Prize juries tend to hand out awards based on which causes they want to honor, and who they feel needs to be exposed. In Donald Trump’s first term, four Pulitzer Prizes for reporting were handed out for investigating Trump, most notably for the phantom menace of Russian collusion in the 2016 campaign. As that conspiracy theory ...

Team Trump’s baby mandates getting creepy

Natalism. Elon Musk won’t stop posting about it. Vice President JD Vance won’t stop talking about it. Which is odd, because neither of them has a uterus. Or a clue. Which is why we women on the right need to step in and help our brothers out with an intervention. Check yourselves before you wreck yourselves, guys. “Our people aren’t having enough children to replace themselves. That should bother us,” Vance once told a crowd at a political event. “We want babies not just because they are economically useful. We want more babies because children are good. And we believe ...