The partial government shutdown hit its 23rd day Thursday, yet much of Washington has been consumed with rage because President Donald Trump tore down the East Wing of the White House to make way for ...

The efforts of the Trump administration to bring Lebanon into the Abraham Accords have been frustrated by the realities of Lebanese politics. Granted, in August, in a statement supported by the Trump ...

When I returned to Canada in 1981, after having lived in the United States for 15 years, then-Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau was in the process of what was called “repatriating” the Canadian ...

Beloved American Spectator contributing editor Dov Fischer died on September 29, 2025. This is the essay he wrote for the American Spectator’s fall print magazine. By now, the Biden–Harris years ...

In one of his Spectator A.M. letters this week, our Dan Flynn noted that Taylor Swift occupies eight of the top ten slots on ...

In recent months, what seemed to be a hardening U.S. position on Russia suddenly softened again. After a two-hour phone conversation between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump in mid-October, whose ...

I write from a quiet, mountainous part of Central Europe. The scenery is idyllic, and the fall air is crisp. But much as the case has been in my other recent trips to the European continent, the ...

Leighton Woodhouse is a filmmaker who wants to be a historian but writes like a preacher for the coastal elite. In his New York Times essay, “The Right-Wing Myth of American Heritage,” he paints ...

Suddenly — make that again — the Trump critics are aghast. The reason this time? President Trump — the only president in history whose private sector career was centered around building buildings and ...

Plenty of words have been written this week about the mayoral race for New York City — and why not? We’re just over a week away from the election, and the man most likely to walk away with the win has ...

After Planned Parenthood shut down its abortion clinic in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula this April, owing to the Trump administration’s funding cuts, the peninsula was left without an abortion clinic.

U.S. Vice President JD Vance arrived in Israel on Tuesday, October 22, and held a press conference at the new international Civil-Military Coordination Center (CMCC) in the southern city of Kiryat Gat ...