The American conservative movement has long worked to put the nuclear family at the center of cultural and economic life. Lately, it has added a twist. It wants to make those families bigger. As fertility rates have declined, a “pronatalist” cluster on the right wing has been making the argument that public policy should encourage…
At the foot of glistening Mount Nasaasaaq — “the king of the mountains” — in Sisimiut, Greenland, hundreds of spectators bundled in bright jackets, insulated pants and heavy boots lined a snow-packed trail on Saturday waiting for the racers to glide past. The low sun glinted off the ice. The snow squeaked underfoot, fine and…
US Vice President JD Vance on Friday reiterated President Donald Trump’s plans to take control of Greenland as he blasted Denmark for “not doing a good job” by the people of the territory. Speaking during his visit to US troops at the Pituffik Space Base, alongside his wife and other officials, the 40-year-old, however, assured…
President Trump has been less than subtle in his insistence that the United States will “get” Greenland one way or another, reiterating on Friday that the United States cannot “live without it.” By the time he uttered those words in the Oval Office, the highest-level American political expeditionary force ever to step foot on the…
U.S. Vice President JD Vance landed in Greenland on Friday at a time when President Donald Trump is renewing his insistence that Washington should take control of the semi-autonomous Danish territory. The visit to the U.S. military base at Pituffik in the north of the Arctic island comes just hours after a new broad government…
When he arrives in Greenland on Friday, Vice President JD Vance is not going to get much of a welcome from Greenlanders. Mr. Vance will be the highest-ranking American official ever to visit the island. But the government of Greenland never invited him and after all that President Trump has said about his desire to…
Representative Ro Khanna, Democrat of California, has been busy in the early months of 2025 trying out ways to make himself a counterweight to the Trump administration. In a social-media skirmish in February over the administration’s hiring and firing of an official who had written racist posts, Mr. Khanna drew the ire of Vice President…
Walked into his girlfriend’s building… Late Friday, a senior Houthi military official believed to be the group’s top missile commander was killed in a US airstrike in Sana’a, Yemen. The strike, confirmed by multiple US officials in internal communications, came after the individual was positively identified entering a residential building reportedly linked to his girlfriend….
The Trump administration seems like it just doubled down on Greenland. Vice President JD Vance announced on Tuesday that he was headed to the island later this week, taking over a controversial visit that officials in Greenland have made very clear they don’t want at all. Originally, the Trump administration said that Usha Vance, the…
Greenland’s outgoing Prime Minister, Mute Egede, has strongly condemned an upcoming visit by a US delegation led by Usha Vance, wife of Vice President JD Vance. The delegation, which includes White House National Security Adviser Mike Waltz and Energy Secretary Chris Wright, plans to visit a US military base and attend a dogsled race in…