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His plan for the country is still vague, but there are clues to what he thinks, on topics from inheritance tax to welfare and social careOne week on from Keir Starmer’s resignation, Britain finds itself in a state of both certainty and ambiguity. It is almost guaranteed that Andy Burnham will be prime minister by the end of the summer, bar sudden scandal or meteorite. And yet, whether Burnham gets his expected coronation or not, the infancy of his return to Westminster coupled with the speed of

An impending clash between Pope Leo and ultratraditionalist Catholics threatens to end the pontiff’s honeymoon.

Venezuela’s natural disaster was unavoidable, but the devastation it has left in its wake was not.

UK Special Coverage The Race to Be the Next UK Chancellor For the prospective prime minister, each candidate has drawbacks. UK Special Coverage The relationship between the prime minister and the chancellor is the most important in British politics. In short, they have to get on, or the government doesn’t. History is littered with examples of administrations th

AVERY COUNTY, North Carolina — If there is such a thing as the classic Appalachian success story, the rise in popularity of the outside-the-box band Cigarettes @ Sunset would be that story. But nothing comes easy in Appalachia. The five-member band, which includes Garrett Dellinger, Ryland Bagbey, Sarah Vann, Wells Whitman, and Ethan Moore, was born in the winter of 2022, practicing their music in the cold, unheated seats of the EDGE of the WORLD Snowboard Shop in Banner Elk, North Carolina. Fou

Latin America The Right Returns to Colombia President-elect Abelardo de la Espriella says he will crush the narcos and the bureaucracy. Clad in the Colombian soccer uniform and accompanied by the rattle of drums and the flash of stadium pyrotechnics, President-elect Abelardo de la Espriella approached the podium in Barranquilla last week Sunday and roared, “Colombia,

Takimag How to Make It to America 500 Uncle Sam should keep his priorities straight. TakiMag (Photo by: Jim West/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) I have spent a lot of time in the Middle East, and think about the place even more when far from its pungent smells and 1,001 Nights mysteries. I was sent there very young because my fath

The country is dependent on the global giants that call Dublin home. Irish ministers can’t be trusted to chair vital European digital sovereignty talksOn the face of it, Ireland behaves like a good European by being a staunch advocate of human rights and a beacon of progressivism on the western edge of the continent. But there is one vital area in which its record is less than perfect – one that should cause concern when the Irish government takes over the rotating six-month presidency of the EU

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Recently in these pages, S. A. McCarthy gave an elegant summary of “The Tragedy of the SSPX,” a tragedy that is about to reach its climax with the Society of Saint Pius X’s consecration of four bishops on 1 July in direct disobedience of the pope. But left unaddressed in McCarthy’s essay was the question I hear most often from the Catholic faithful: Is there an amusing book — a World War II thriller perhaps — that features Marcel Lefebvre, the SSPX founder, as a sympathetic character? I have an

On Thursday, June 25, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down a decision in Wolford v. Lopez, a case concerning citizens’ rights to carry firearms in the state of Hawaii. The court struck down a Hawaii law that sought to prohibit people from carrying concealed firearms unless the property owners had clear signage expressly allowing guns on the premises. The court ruled this violates citizens’ Second Amendment rights. Amy Swearer, a senior legal fellow at Advancing American Freedom, noted that all oth

The headline said it all. “Newsom under fire as California gas tax hike sends pump prices even higher.” The Fox News story report said: California motorists are set to pay even more at the pump starting Wednesday as another gas tax increase takes effect, prompting some of the state’s Republican lawmakers to warn that added costs will further squeeze residents already shouldering some of the highest fuel prices in the nation. California’s GOP congressional delegation, led by Rep. David Vala

On June 24, two severe earthquakes within the span of a minute shook northern Venezuela, completely collapsing dozens of buildings and damaging others. Families of residents in the Belo Horizonte apartment complex in the city of La Guaira searched for 41 hours through the rubble without official rescue support. “Honestly, there wasn’t a single Civil Guard officer, rescuer or police officer there,” recounted one citizen in a missing-persons WhatsApp group last Friday morning. Only half an hour la

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio oversaw the signing of a security framework agreement between Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Yechiel Leiter and Lebanon’s Ambassador Nada Hamadeh at the State Department in Washington on Friday, June 26. The agreement outlined a preliminary security framework for the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) to occupy “pilot zones” in southern Lebanon and begin dismantling Hezbollah under the oversight of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). The bilateral talks between the two

Last year, I wrote on the “myth of magic soil,” an idea blithely trotted out by anti-American leftists — and even many on the more moderate of the political spectrum’s right wing — and hammered into the minds of citizens ad nauseam. According to the myth of magic soil, anyone can become an American just by coming to America. Doesn’t matter if you come from a high-trust Anglo-Saxon community steeped in Christian morality and born from the profound courage and towering thought of the Western tradi

I know, I know. The first half-dozen comments under this piece will provide the criticism that I shouldn’t use mealy-mouthed words like “almost” in a headline like the above. Which is another way of saying that among the American Spectator’s readership, there isn’t a lot of dissent to the idea that our educational system, from bottom to top, has gone to seed. I will defend the use of “almost” only by noting that there are still educational institutions out there providing quality instructi

ICE surges are costing Americans jobs.

The case for Haley Stevens’s candidacy rests on electability, but it’s far from clear how electable she really is.