Florida Conservative

New York City has adopted leadership and personnel practices that predictably degrade public-safety capacity. The outcome—talent flight, command dilution, and declining service effectiveness—is already observable in the New York City Police Department. The same structural choices now place the Fire Department of the City of New York at similar risk.

Venezuela’s oil crisis is not the result of a single policy failure or sanctions alone. It is the outcome of geology, economics, and governance colliding. Venezuela possesses enormous oil resources, but they are overwhelmingly extra-heavy, capital-intensive, and unforgiving of mismanagement. When the country nationalized its oil sector and expelled international oil companies (IOCs), it removed the only actors capable of operating such assets sustainably.

There is an unmistakable pattern whenever Donald Trump attempts to elevate strong, patriotic leaders inside the U.S. Armed Forces: suddenly, anonymous sources appear, allegations harden into “facts,” and the entire Washington bureaucracy works overtime to destroy that individual before he can rise.

The individual identified publicly as “Rahmanullah Lakanwal” is either misidentified, traveling under a substituted identity, or has had a backstory artificially assigned to him for political or bureaucratic reasons.

Trump’s rebuke of absentee air traffic controllers was blunt, divisive, and politically risky — but it was also revealing.It exposed a tension at the heart of American civic life: between self and service, belief and obligation, individual discomfort and public safety.

In the esteemed chambers of the House of Representatives, a new era has begun with the election of Mike Johnson (R-LA) as Speaker of the...