American Thinker

Political elites in Europe and the United States regard rising populism as an existential threat to their power and wealth. We have witnessed in recent years the establishment’s efforts to defeat its opponents by prosecuting them…

British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher once reprimanded President George H.W. Bush with: "This is no time to go wobbly."A variation of those words, for MAGA now, seem appropriate. Thatcher's words occurred in 1990 when Bush considered how…

Well, we now know that President Trump’s Liberation Day on April 2, when he announced a new regime of tariffs, was really World Bunker Buster Day.I’m still a little flummoxed that the wise stock market traders decided that stocks were…

Earlier this week I was called a “Nazi” online. This isn’t new. I get this at least once a week. As a published historian, I find the misuse of that label a mark of ignorance. I found that a few of my colleagues also had been called the…

Stop the presses! When I originally wrote this article – way back around midnight last Friday, April 4th – I noted that five countries had already come to the bargaining table to see what could be done to create zero-based tariffs…

Let’s be honest—anytime the word “tariff” shows up in the news, most folks either glaze over or get caught up in the shouting matches about trade wars. But if you strip away the noise, something pretty interesting is happening. President…

This is a question I recently posed to a friend: Why do politicians (on both sides of the fence) keep asking how tax cuts are going to be paid for?It seems to me that recent history has shown that tax cuts pay for themselves. Am…

In an age of relentless division and 24/7 news cycles, the media often prioritize sensationalism over substance. With Donald Trump now serving as the 47th president of the United States after a decisive victory in the 2024…

Twenty-five years ago, President Clinton used his remaining time in office to advocate on China’s behalf. He argued that the communist regime should be admitted to the World Trade Organization and that the United States…

I grew up in the '80s in what many today might call a “Mayberry” kind of world. It was the last breath of something simple, safe, and rooted in values that now feel more like folklore than fact. We lived in neighborhoods where you knew…