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Two court cases last month illustrate how confusion over legal definitions are feeding into a culture of poor driving standardsIn 2024, 1,602 people were killed on British roads. Only a small proportion of these resulted in a surviving driver being prosecuted. When we hear about the sentencing in such cases, the public reaction is often a mix of sorrow, anger and, increasingly, confusion. Why do some drivers who kill receive only short prison terms? Why are some charged with the lesser offence o

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Casual violent speech, even bluffs, can mask actual danger.

The Vietnam-era legislation is imperfect, but it’s the best we’ve got.

America is best when it looks to increase access to resources, not throttle technological growth.

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Politics MAGA Champion Need Not Apply  The Iran War demonstrates why no “true MAGA” candidate will ever replace Trump. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) Strange bedfellows defined the coalition that carried Donald Trump to the presidency in 2016 and 2024. Evangelicals, libertarians, nationalists, and traditional Republicans, groups with l

Politics Is DEI Still Entrenched at the State Department? The programs engineering a “diverse” Foreign Service are in limbo. Credit: image via Shutterstock Despite President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio working to do away with Obama and Biden-era diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI; the State Department added an “A” for access

Foreign Affairs How the German Right Sees Iran The Alternative for Germany party is rethinking the Western alliance. The Iran war has become a test for Germany’s strategic independence and economic resilience. Germany, so far, appears to be failing the test. As Germans debate the issue and reconsider past policy choices, no party has seized the moment more deliberate

The technology is already leading to rapid changes in the way company accounts are reviewed

Index of under-reported UK equities has done better than the FTSE 100

Efforts to revive the little-known language have been dragged into debates about cultural diversity

Since the earliest days of aviation the seductive siren call of airpower supremacy has fascinated military aviators — particularly in the Air Force — and politicians. Beginning with Italian military theorist Giulio Duhet, airpower enthusiasts argued that bombing alone could win wars and save lives thus avoiding the carnage of WW I. Duhet advocated terror bombing that included the use of poison gas on enemy cities. Italians believed that his theories were vindicated in the 1930s when the Italian

In a recent and viral announcement, Joe Kent resigned as Director of the National Counterterrorism Center. In the letter, he accused the Trump administration of bowing to Israeli lobby pressure on Iran. He also stated that Iran (a nation who regularly proclaims “death to America”), “posed no imminent threat to our nation.” The reactions were mixed: A sharp rebuke from the White House, praise from Marjorie Taylor Greene, and a podcast appearance with Tucker Carlson. In the end, though, this move

As we enter week six of the Iran war, we know a little more than when President Trump took us to war in the Middle East. Mr. Trump’s rather desultory speech on Wednesday night lasted only 20 minutes, which is rather short for him. He jumped around from criticizing former president Obama (who gave Iran about $1.7 billion in cash) to the fact that we are energy independent. He bounced from the ayatollahs’ regime, which he said killed 45,000 of its own citizens, to a conclusion of the war, which he

It was a glorious Easter Sunday to wake up to in America, for three reasons. Christ is risen, Navy Seals rescued a downed airman from behind enemy lines in Iran, and U.S. astronauts neared the Moon. But the people in one area, Hollywood, are not celebrating this Easter, also for three reasons. They hate Christians, who worship the first triumph. They despise Trump, who effected the other two. And they’ll probably soon be out of a job. A Wall Street Journal story last week, See How Hollywood’s Jo

In an age when glass-and-steel monoliths rise like tombstones over the graves of once-human cities, the classical idiom has come to represent an unapologetic act of cultural defiance. Léon Krier (1946–2025), the Luxembourgian architect and urban visionary, and Roger Scruton (1944–2020), the philosopher who taught us that beauty is not a luxury but oxygen for the soul, both understood what the modernists never will: architecture is not merely shelter; it is the visible language of belonging. As p

Virginia’s redistricting referendum is not going as well as the Democrats evidently expected. The official date of the special election is April 21 but early voting began on March 6, and the number of ballots cast in heavily Republican areas of the state has been far higher than in their Democratic counterparts. The Old Dominion doesn’t register voters by party, but the Virginia Public Access Project (VPAP) publishes early vote totals by congressional district. Five of Virginia’s 11 U.S. House d

Detail of a mural in the Richmond campaign headquarters of Abigail Spanberger during her first run for Congress in 2018. In those midterm elections during Donald Trump’s first term, Democrats netted 41 House seats—and Spanberger won her election. (Photo by Julia Rendleman for the Washington Post / Getty Images)FOR A PARTY PERPETUALLY anticipating doom and engaging in acts of self-destruction, Democrats have, in recent weeks, grown shockingly optimistic about the state of the midterms