Author: John Scott Lewinski, Washington Examiner

From heated political rhetoric between heads of state to loud booing at NHL games, all signs say the relationship between the United States and Canada looks to sour in President Donald Trump’s second term. Whether it’s the threat of tariffs or the president’s use of “the 51st state” to refer to America’s neighbors to the…

The social media app Bluesky wasn’t born out of the storm clouds surrounding Elon Musk‘s Twitter-turned-X, but its growth in popularity is a direct response to a perceived shift to the right for users who prefer to “Tweet.” Bluesky is a microblogging platform that acts, looks, and operates like X. It began as a research…

Controversy continues to build over the use of the Signal social app by top national security officials from President Donald Trump’s administration to discuss an attack against Houthi rebels in Yemen. Questions remain over whether the president’s Cabinet selections and top appointees, made up of less-experienced Washington outsiders, led to such ill-advised communication. The inadvertent…

When Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) shared her opinion on President Donald Trump‘s March 4 joint address to Congress, her objections to his remarks and policies were of no surprise coming from a leading progressive voice. Her comments would’ve seemed unheard of even a few years ago. “Somebody slap me and wake me the f*** up…

It’s election night 2008, and President-elect Barack Obama is speaking before a celebrating crowd. In a flag-waving throng at Chicago‘s Grant Park, with the happy Democrats holding up the winner’s iconic “Hope” poster, some progressive devotees openly weep while others gaze up at the podium in elysian rapture. Jump ahead to July 13, 2024, in…

As America faces the most unusual of elections, with one candidate evading two assassination attempts and another stepping away from the campaign in favor of his vice president due to reduced capacity, the citizenry would not be out of line to wonder who exactly is in charge at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Whether it’s due to…

Since the earliest days of the republic, termed-out or defeated American presidents headed out of the White House issue pardons to a chosen few (or, on occasion, a hefty stack) of accused or convicted applicants hoping to breathe free. The executive branch’s “get out of jail free” cards come out of the fading president’s deck…

Every big campaign event playing out across the United States this election season has its essential ingredients. There’s the chanting crowd, the patriotic festoonery, the smiling candidate, the platitude-stuffed stump speech, and the stirring popular song to start the party. The process of how those songs are chosen, what effect they have, and how they’re…