The New American

Undermining Allies

While everyone's attention seems to be focused on the crisis in Egypt, a bombshell revelation about the administration's foreign policy in Europe has...

Thomas Sowell February 8, 2011

Hu Gets Red-carpet Treatment at White House

William P. Hoar February 8, 2011

Item: “Chinese leader Hu Jintao,” reported the Associated Press on January 16, “is being feted in Washington this week with a lavish state...

Beck Is Correct on the Islamo-Communist Connection

Daniel Sayani February 8, 2011

The latest controversy between William Kristol and Glenn Beck reveals two fundamentally different approaches to understanding the global threat faced by the United...

Dangerous Gardasil Vaccine Could Become Mandatory

Kelly Holt February 8, 2011

Even as stories continue to surface about young girls who have suffered a host of side effects, including death, after taking the Gardasil...

Are Living Standards Improving?

Bob Adelmann February 8, 2011

Five years ago Donald Boudreaux, Economics Professor at George Mason University and author of the website Café Hayek, bought a used 1975 Sears...

The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America

Sam Blumenfeld February 8, 2011

Charlotte Iserbyt has put her great exposé of the dumbing-down agenda of American education on the Internet, so that anyone can now read...

Egypt’s Vice President Agrees to Concessions

Raven Clabough February 8, 2011

As expected, Egypt’s Vice President Omar Suleiman met with opposition leaders on Sunday for the first time and agreed to a number of...

Senate Report Fingers FBI In Fort Hood Massacre

R. Cort Kirkwood February 7, 2011

The U.S. Senate committee investigating the massacre at Ford Hood in November 2009 has blamed the FBI for not stopping the Muslim Army...

Socialist Roots to Yemen’s “Days of Rage”

Christian Gomez February 7, 2011

As the world focuses its attention on the events transpiring in Tunisia and Egypt, the flames of revolution continue to sweep through the...

Chinese Segregation: No Caucasian Mummies Need Apply

Selwyn Duke February 7, 2011

The Chinese exhibition “Secrets of the Silk Road” ran without incident in California and Texas. But now Chinese authorities have decided that parts...

Death Remains Pakistan’s Penalty for Blasphemy Against Mohammed

James Heiser February 7, 2011

A Pakistani lawmaker who had worked to reform her nation’s harsh blasphemy law has abandoned that effort, at least for the moment. Sherry...

Obamas Spending Cuts Use Scalpel Where Ax Is Needed

Michael Tennant February 7, 2011

Touting President Barack Obama’s “responsible, sensible and achievable plan to put the country on a fiscally sustainable path” in a New York Times...

Normalizing the Surveillance Society

Beverly K. Eakman February 7, 2011

The District of Columbia, like other metropolitan areas, has been using traffic cameras to catch motorists who speed or run red lights. It...

Israeli Economists Agree with Rand Paul: End Foreign Aid

Daniel Sayani February 7, 2011

The question of foreign aid is one that has pitted economists against politicians, special interest groups, and foreign policy demagogues for decades. No...