The American Spectator

U .S. Vice President JD Vance and Iran's parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf met in Burgenstock, Switzerland, on Sunday, June 21, with mediators from Pakistan and Qatar to inaugurate a sixty-day negotiating period aimed at finalizing the preliminary U.S.-Iran memorandum (MOU) and to flesh out the fate of Iran's nuclear program.

J ohn Lee (Ka-chiu), Hong Kong's Chief Executive, has entered his fourth year in office. He spends much of his time promoting foreign investment — “to develop the economy well so everybody benefits from it,” he recently declared. However, his more important, though less publicized, role is as head factotum for Chinese President and Communist Party General Secretary Xi Jinping, governing the Special Administrative Region as if it were any other subject city in the People's Republic of China.

I 'm not going to make too big a production out of this, because the headline does most of the work, but in the aftermath of Tuesday's primary elections in a number of places and specifically in New York, where in more than a half-dozen congressional races a bunch of unemployable communist revolutionaries — rank pillagers if ever any existed — knocked off more establishment-type Democrat incumbent pols, it's worth asking a question or two.

W hen someone tries to end an argument by insisting they're on “the right side of history,” remind them how often history has proved such confidence wrong.

T he U.S. Senate joined the U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday in passing a war-powers resolution . The resolution directs President Trump to remove U.S. forces from hostilities with Iran unless Congress expressly authorizes their continued use. The measure passed 50-48, with four Republicans — Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, and Rand Paul of Kentucky — joining all Democrats in support. Sens. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and Dave McCormick (R-PA) did not vote.

C alifornia lawmakers can't get their talking points straight when it comes to government-funded healthcare programs. They want to expand them — and there's always some ongoing effort to convert the entire state to a single-payer system — but whenever more people sign up for existing public programs, they get agitated. The latest example involves Assembly Bill 2729, which would penalize large companies if their employees participate in Medi-Cal , which is the state's version of the federal Medicaid system for low-income families, seniors, and the disabled.

Five arrests have been made regarding the assassination attempt at the White House UFC event, but speculators are pointing towards more culprits than the media is reporting.

W hen President Donald J. Trump not only won the 2024 presidential election, but won it with a popular majority, it seemed like the Left was finally dead.

A s I contemplate the end of my life, which has to come sooner or later, I try to share with my friends the smartest, most useful thoughts that have come my way in the past 81 years.

Last week, nearly every elite men's tennis player skipped one of London's marquee tournaments. Only one of the world's top 10 showed up at Queen's Club, the traditional Wimbledon warmup; stars including Alexander Zverev, Daniil Medvedev, Taylor Fritz, and Ben Shelton were playing 300 miles away in Halle, Germany. A…