By Carl R. Trueman, Voices Contributor Wednesday, September 09, 2026Trafalgar Square in London, England | LUNAMARINA/iStockLeslie Poles Hartley famously dubbed the past “a foreign country.” This summer, for the first time, I sensed that the present can be one too. My annual visit to the land of my childhood and…

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In 1953, author L.P. Hartley began his novel The Go-Between by asserting, “The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.” Now that the 9/11 attacks on the United States are just a couple days away from being 25 years old, a growing number of Americans have not…

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Neither group sees it, but DSA and MAGA have a lot in common.CATO accurately comments: Democratic socialists of America (DSA) and MAGA nationalists both want sweeping government control of the economy.History shows where that road leads, and how it undermines prosperity and democracy itself. Democratic socialism is a terrible ideology.…

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The New Hampshire primaries on Sept. 8 failed to produce another victory for the insurgent socialists. Whether anything can be read into that, at this point, is debatable. Still, it appears that in even a blue state like New Hampshire, the new wave of extreme left-wing candidates that have seemingly…

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In my recent series for Unlimited Hangout—the concluding Part 4 is due for publication shortly—I have explored the activities of a group of Silicon Valley-rooted oligarchs who state that they are in “control” of the Trump administration. Through a network of investment firms, such as Pronomos Capital, Paradigm Operations, Alameda Research, Arch…

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European efforts to “bury” Trump’s Ukraine peace proposal reveal deep transatlantic rift, Lavrov says Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov accused European leaders of being “scared to death” by Trump’s 2025 Alaska peace proposal with Putin and working to sabotage it. Lavrov claimed French President Macron boasted at a NATO summit…

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Public confidence in large technology firms has fallen to record lows, according to pollsters, as opposition to the industry’s footprint spreads across the political spectrum. The backlash has moved beyond party lines, drawing together governors, lawmakers and activists who have found common cause in resisting corporate overreach. A Gallup poll…

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(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) New court filings appear to paint a very different picture of convicted killer Karmelo Anthony than the one his supporters and defense attorneys have presented, with new alleged racist, homophobic and gun-related images and messages emerging.The documents, reported by the Daily Mail on Monday, were part of…

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In a display of power that ought to be used for public benefit, California’s public servants have instead prioritized their personal financial interests. Unions representing the state’s police and firefighters pushed a bill through the state legislature that will increase their pension benefits, despite the state’s pension systems barely achieving…

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Amy Acton, the Ohio version of Fauci, has struggled to gain traction and a widely circulated fair clip of her seemed to be showing a Howard Dean style meltdown. And then the media was suddenly ablaze with headlines claiming that an “armed attacker” had “lunged” at Acton and been taken…

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A round of severe thunderstorms will organize Wednesday across a 1,000-mile stretch that ranges from the Central Plains to Upstate New York.Across the Canadian Prairies, a powerful low-pressure area will continue to shift with a cold front associated with it, which will trigger thunderstorms ranging between strong and severe.According to…

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Federal cybersecurity and intelligence agencies on Tuesday accused six China-based artificial intelligence companies of running industrial-scale campaigns to extract proprietary features from leading U.S. models.DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, Alibaba, MiniMax, StepFun, and Z.AI were all named in the joint advisory. Officials alleged the companies, “likely with Chinese government awareness,” pulled billions of…

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President Trump is treating narrow Supreme Court orders as major victories, as procedural rulings keep his ballroom and broader administration agenda moving.The Hill reported that the Supreme Court found a preservation group likely lacked standing to stop construction of Trump’s White House ballroom. The decision allowed above-ground work to continue.…

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President Donald Trump says renovations at Washington’s Meridian Park are complete, tying restored statues and repaired water features to a broader capital-beautification effort. The Washington Examiner reported that Trump announced the completed work, which included polished statues and infrastructure repairs at two memorial sites. The project followed an executive order…

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I spent the past weekend as a participant in the annual Ron Paul Institute conference that takes place in the Washington area, in northern Virginia. This year the theme was “Front Row at the Revolution” and the circa 500 attendees that filled the Hilton Hotel ballroom certainly got what the gathering’s theme sought to…

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Property rights are defined in many ways. It often happens that academics who are interested in the scope, regulation, or protection of private property rights debate endlessly at cross purposes because they do not share the same definition of property rights in the first place. Some debaters attempt to beat their opponents…

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Interior Secretary Doug Burgum testifies on Capitol Hill on April 29, 2026. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch TimesPresident Donald Trump expanded the number of Cabinet officials who can independently exercise emergency powers involving the nation’s energy supplies for the second time in six months.An executive order issued Sept. 8 gives the interior…

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