Colt Braddock

Google searches spike every year. Churches fill. Families gather. And our institutions act like none of it is happening.

Jet fuel prices are spiking because of the Iran conflict. Airlines are canceling flights. Travelers are paying more. This was preventable.

Israel wants regime change in Tehran. Trump wants a deal. The gap between those two positions is where American strategy either holds together or falls apart.

The Department of Homeland Security inches toward shutdown while Congress pats itself on the back for buying time. Our border isn't a scheduling conflict — it's a war front.

Francis Mauigoa is about to join his brother Kiko in the NFL. Their story is everything the coastal press claims to love — and somehow never tells right.

Jayapal and Meeks want to defund any military action in Cuba. Ask them what they've done for the people Cuba has been brutalizing for sixty years.

Hard-liners in the diaspora are watching Trump equivocate on regime change while their families rot in Maduro's prisons. Their frustration is the correct response to a policy failure.

The Florida special election near Mar-a-Lago is getting framed as a referendum on Trump. It's actually a test of whether Republicans can turn out voters when the president isn't on the ballot.

They're asking whether PreCheck and CLEAR still work during DHS funding chaos. The real question is why we're letting a bureaucratic standoff turn our airports into bottlenecks.

A Hollywood actor retreated from online harassment after a public breakup. The instinct to hide is understandable. The culture that produced it is not.

When March Madness arrives, the country stops arguing. That silence says more about what we've lost than any pundit ever could.

Kent's resignation from a key intel role isn't a crisis for the Trump coalition. It's proof the coalition can still think.

The missiles hitting Iranian infrastructure aren't just a military story. They're the invoice for years of American energy surrender — and working families are about to pay it.

Republicans have a Senate majority, a president who wants the bill, and a country that voted for exactly this agenda. Yet here we are, watching them shoot each other.

Polling dips during military operations are a feature, not a bug. History shows they recover — but only when the mission has a coherent objective.

Republicans are fighting about procedure while Democrats are unified against the substance. This is not a complicated situation. It just requires people willing to act like they mean it.

The Illinois Democratic primary wars aren't just internal drama. They're a map of the contradictions that are pulling the left apart at the seams.

Trump says he's not ready to declare victory on Iran. Good. The graveyard of American foreign policy is littered with premature end zones.

Two years after the PACT Act, wait times are longer, claim backlogs are deeper, and the only thing that changed is the user interface. Mission failed.

The latest gun control push uses 'community safety' framing to avoid saying what it means. The Constitution doesn't care about their rebranding.