Opinion

Democrats want to bring Infantino to heel

Gianni Infantino has enjoyed a good relationship with Trump. That is now proving costly. Democrat Jamie Raskin has summoned Infantino to testify before Congress and is demanding answers to a series of questions. He is requesting correspondence and visitor logs. The Democrats intend to subject Infantino to the same methods they have honed against Trump. They are preparing for a final reckoning with Trump—if they return to power.

Victor Davis Hanson: Trump is a counter-revolutionary

For 50 years, a revolution has been under way in which the Left has imported welfare-dependent voters, says Victor Davis Hanson. What Trump has set out to achieve is the counter-revolution, the American historian maintains. One wonders whether Europe will one day do the same.

British trans group that advocates political violence should be banned

Lord Walney, the British government’s former adviser on political violence, believes that the trans activist group Bash Back should be banned because it repeatedly incites violence against its political opponents.

Zohran Mamdani ‘globalises the intifada’ in New York City

Under the Islamist Zohran Mamdani’s clammy leadership, Jew-hatred is spreading across the USA’s largest city, New York. The mayor and his ideological followers are playing with the antisemitic fire, and they are fully aware of what they are doing.

Trump completely dominates the room

Trump’s address to the White House press corps is well worth watching. He speaks for an hour and completely dominates the room. The cameras capture numerous journalists looking away and down. They do not want to look at the president. Yet he surveys the room and speaks in a way they still cannot digest, even after five and a half years. Trump’s directness and forthrightness are something the journalists simply cannot stomach.

Rubio: ‘The Left is driven by hatred’

“A distinct and unique evil.” That was how US Secretary of State Marco Rubio described the radical left in a remarkable speech in Washington. In uncompromising terms, he accused left-wing extremist movements of seeking to destroy society, arguing that they are driven by a profound hatred of the civilisation built by previous generations.

The Future of Free Speech

Private companies with ideological interests and advanced AI tools will pose a serious threat to freedom of expression even if the EU’s Digital Services Act is averted and the authorities are prevented from censoring online. Freedom of expression will readily be sacrificed whenever it creates difficulties for social harmony.

JD Vance stakes out his own position on the Iran war

In a lengthy interview with Joe Rogan, JD Vance sets out a position that diverges somewhat from what we have otherwise come to expect from the White House. Vance says the war is not in America’s interest. What is the solution? Is it simply to bomb, bomb, bomb? Vance asks, recalling the wave of refugees that poured out of the Middle East in the wake of the Syrian civil war.

Once Conservative, Aftenposten touts the left-wing line: Iran is winning

When you watch and listen to Fox News and read Aftenposten, you are presented with two diametrically opposed versions of reality. Both cannot be right. In Fox’s America, the United States has degraded Iran’s military capabilities to the point where the regime is making its last desperate attempts to strike back. In Aftenposten, it is the United States that is being defeated.

Marco Rubio: “The West must focus more on left-wing terrorism”

After two decades of focus on Islamist terrorism, the United States now seeks to broaden the fight against political violence. During an international conference in Washington, Secretary of State Marco Rubio argued that far-left terrorism has become a serious and underestimated threat that requires a coordinated international response.