At the Munich Security Conference, J.D. Vance delivered a bold speech challenging European elites on democracy, censorship, and election integrity, defending free speech and citizen rights.

By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – February 16, 2025 The allies receive bracing, if not always helpful, warnings from the U.S. Start with the Ukraine war. This is the largest military conflict on European soil since 1945, and the Continent’s leaders recognize the stakes for their security. But Mr. Trump’s message is that the U.S. doesn’t care what Europeans...

Hysteria has erupted here and abroad over President Donald Trump’s threats to level trade tariffs against particular countries. Both American and foreign critics blasted them variously as either counterproductive and suicidal or unfair, imperialistic, and xenophobic. Certainly, tariffs are widely hated by doctrinaire economists. They complain that tariffs burden consumers with higher prices to protect weak domestic industries that, shielded...

President Trump’s obsession with the U.S. trade deficit is misplaced, as trade balances don’t matter and tariffs are a tax increase on U.S. businesses, which could lead to higher prices…

Trump is cutting deals — from Central America to Canada. Source: Trump’s Deal With Panama is Welcome News | National Review

President Donald Trump has agreed to delay the imposition of sweeping tariffs on neighboring Mexico and Canada by one month after Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau promised to send troops to protect their borders with the United States.

During a trip to El Salvador on Monday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio told reporters he has been named acting director of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), effectively subsuming the agency into the State Department. RUBIO: I’m the acting director of USAID. I’ve delegated that authority to someone, but I stay in touch with him. And again, our...

By: Rich Lowry – nationalreview.com – February 3, 2025 Yes, it’s been shamefully entangled with the cartels. The Mexicans don’t like President Trump’s currently delayed tariffs, but they really hate what he said about their government’s collusion with the drug cartels. The White House fact sheet announcing imminent tariffs on Mexico, Canada, and China said, by way of justifying the action, that “the Mexican...

By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – February 2, 2025 Canada and Mexico vow retaliation in response to Trump’s tariffs, amid new economic uncertainty. “WILL THERE BE SOME PAIN? YES, MAYBE (AND MAYBE NOT!). BUT WE WILL MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, AND IT WILL ALL BE WORTH THE PRICE THAT MUST BE PAID,” Mr. Trump posted on Truth Social on...

Mexican nationals, likely cartel members, recently crossed the border and shot and wounded an American hiker. Did they assume that Joe Biden was still president, and so it was still a veritable open season on Americans without consequences?