Yaakov Kornreich

American conservatives are now engaged in a civil war over American support for Israel and a surge in antisemitism, whose outcome will define the

The finger-pointing within the Democrat party following the end of the 43-day government shutdown last week has highlighted the criticism by many progressive and some moderate Democrats of the ineffective leadership strategy of Senator Chuck Schumer. Senate Democrats have also yet to decide whether they will shut down much of the federal government again when spending authority under the newly passed Continuing Resolution expires in two months, on January 30, 2026.

Last week, the U.N. Security Council Resolution 2803 endorsed President Donald Trump's 20-point plan for Gaza, with 13-0 votes, while Russia and China abstained instead of using their vetoes to kill it. The resolution grants authorization under international law to the plan's demand for the disarmament of Hamas as a condition for the rebuilding of Gaza under the supervision of an International Stabilization Force (ISF) and the overall guidance of a Board of Peace, headed personally by President Trump.

At about 2:15 on Wednesday afternoon, November 26, Rahmanullah Lakanwal, age 29, who came to this country from Afghanistan in September 2021, under the Biden administration's Operation Allies Welcome (OAW), open fired without warning on two members of the West Virginia National Guard who were on patrol at the Washington D.C. metro station at Farragut Square, two blocks from the White House. Staff Sargent Andrew Wolf, age 24, and Specialist Sarah Beckstrom, age 20, were both shot in the head, execution style, with a .357 Magnum revolver.

When the first phase of President Donald Trump's 20-point Gaza ceasefire plan was supposed to start on October 10, the shooting mostly stopped, and all of the remaining 48 hostages being held by Hamas, 20 of them living and 28 dead, were supposed to be returned to Israel within 72 hours. While all 20 of the living hostages were released, as promised, on October 13, Hamas began releasing the bodies of the dead hostages piecemeal, one or two at a time, in a successful attempt to drag out the process to give Hamas more time to recover.

With the release of the 2025 National Security Strategy (NSS), the Trump administration has produced a document that, for the first time, fully and unapologetically expresses the president's America-First strategic worldview. It prioritizes American national interests while rejecting the liberal globalist agenda, which has dominated American foreign policy and international trade policies during the post-Cold War era, often to the economic detriment of American businesses and working-class Americans.

In his latest effort to lower prescription drug costs, President Donald Trump has unveiled “Most Favored Nation” pricing deals with nine major pharmaceutical companies, in addition to five other drug companies that have previously signed similar reduced pricing agreements with the Trump White House. The “Most Favored Nation” pricing standard calls for drug makers to price their medications sold in the U.S. at the lowest cost available in other developed countries around the world, and to extend that reduced pricing policy to other new drugs that they bring to market.

During the unprecedented sixth face-to-face meeting over the past year between U.S. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Binyomin Netanyahu at Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in South Florida on Monday, the two men were careful to present a closely united front and showcased their continued close cooperation and personal friendship. At the same time, they attempted to sidestep and minimize any policy disagreements held discreetly between them on a broad range of regional issues of war and peace, beginning with the delays in the implementation of the second phase of Trump's ambitious United Nations Security Council-approved 20-point Gaza ceasefire plan.

After months of elaborate American military preparations, at 10:46 p.m. (EST) Friday, January 2, President Donald Trump issued an order from his Mar-a-Lago home in South Florida for the U.S. military to begin a lightning attack on Venezuela's most heavily defended military base. The goal of the mission was to arrest Venezuela's illegitimate president, Nicolas Maduro, and his politically influential wife, Cilia Flores, and bring them to the United States to face criminal charges of narco-terrorism in a federal court in New York City.

Two weeks ago, the resumption of joint American-Israeli air strikes against Iran appeared to be imminent until Trump stated on Monday, May 18, that the leaders of the Gulf states had asked him to postpone the attack on Iran that Trump said he had ordered for the next day. Trump said the Gulf state leaders had told him that those now running Iran, facing the threat of another devastating American-Israeli attack, had become “more reasonable” and appeared to be more willing to agree to America's demands concerning the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz and the elimination of Iran's nuclear threat.