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The good, the bad, the undocumented

President Donald Trump is deporting immigrants — 11,000 last month. Some people are unhappy about that. Last week a judge ordered a stop to Trump’s removal of Venezuelan nationals. (Deportation happened anyway.) I definitely want immigrant criminals deported. Trump says migrant crime is “happening at levels that nobody thought possible!” But that’s not true. Researching my new video, I learned that immigrants are actually less likely to get into trouble than native-born Americans. Texas, the only state that tracks immigrant crime, compares convictions per ...

President Putin is on the blitz

The cliche has been that the ball is now in Russian President Vladimir Putin’s court. Not any longer. Putin has responded to U.S. appeals for a ceasefire in the war with Ukraine with a strong backhand, rejecting a ceasefire in his unprovoked invasion. Now the ball is in President Trump’s court. What will he do? On “Face the Nation” last Sunday, Ambassador Steve Witkoff, the U.S. Special Envoy to the Middle East, said Putin and President Trump will hold a phone call this week. Witkoff said he met in Moscow with Putin for more than three hours. He called it a “positive ...

Canada proves it is not boring

Years ago, a contest was run for the most boring newspaper headline. The winner was “Worthwhile Canadian Initiative,” which appeared in the April 10, 1986, edition of The New York Times. “Worthwhile initiative” is a snooze-worthy phrase. Adding a reference to the quiet and restrained country to the north was seen as draining the last ounce of blood out of the header. Canada has since become a news flash as it punches back on Donald Trump’s attacks on its economy and insults to its dignity. Or as they say in hockey, “Sticks up.” Why Trump is heaping all this malice on ...

Deterring Houthi attacks can restore freedom of global commerce

One of the Biden Administration’s worst failures was letting Iran’s terror proxies in Yemen shut down a crucial global shipping lane and shoot at the U.S. military with impunity. President Trump sent a better message on the weekend by ordering significant air strikes against the Houthis that are a step toward restoring deterrence in the region. Mr. Trump on Saturday announced on his Truth Social site “decisive and powerful” military action against the Houthis in Yemen. Its attacks “on American vessels will not be tolerated. We will use overwhelming lethal force until we have ...

Defending Khalil’s rights, not views

Mahmoud Khalil could have been cooked up in a lab to offend — no, worse — to disgust me. And yet, despite temptation, I cannot endorse what the Trump administration is doing to him. Based upon the postings of his group, Columbia University Apartheid Divest, Khalil, who was born in Syria, seems to hold grotesque opinions. CUAD, a leader of the anti-Israel protests on Columbia’s campus, has cheered the Oct. 7 pogrom that killed and maimed more than 1,200 Israelis, writing, “The act of Palestinian resistance on October 7, known as the Al-Aqsa Flood, breached Israeli security and ...

Pants on fire: For Trump, it’s a lying game

Say what you will about Joseph Goebbels, the Third Reich’s Minister of Propaganda: the man lied for a living, and he knew one heck of a lot about lying. Before committing suicide in Berlin in 1945, he left a formidable body of commentary about the art of lying and the psychology of it. “This is the secret of propaganda,” Goebbels observed. “Those who are to be persuaded by it should be completely immersed in the idea of the propaganda, without ever noticing that they are being immersed in it.” And this: “It would not be impossible to prove with sufficient repetition, and a ...