https://pjmedia.com/feed/PJ Media is a leading news site covering culture, politics, faith, homeland security, and more. Our reporters and columnists provide original, in-depth analysis from a variety of perspectives.en-usSun, 21 Jun 2026 14:46:56 -0400<![CDATA[Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) appeared on Fox News Sunday and made a very telling admission. He said he believes the women who say Graham Platner abused and mistreated them. Then, without missing a beat, he told America he's still standing behind the man.]]>Sun, 21 Jun 2026 12:44:18 -0400<![CDATA[Matt Margolis]]>https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2026/06/21/ro-khanna-believes-graham-platners-accusers-but-is-still-backing-him-anyway-n4954209<![CDATA[Greetings and welcome to Sunday, June 21, 2026. Today is Father’s Day. Today is also the summer solstice, the longest day of the year in terms of sunrise to sunset. It’s also National Skateboarding Day, National Yoga Day, National Smoothie Day, National Peaches ’n’ Cream Day, and National Cookie Dough Day.]]>Sun, 21 Jun 2026 11:30:08 -0400<![CDATA[Eric Florack]]><![CDATA[Anthony Fauci]]><![CDATA[Big Pharma]]><![CDATA[COVID-19]]><![CDATA[National Security]]><![CDATA[Tulsi Gabbard]]>https://pjmedia.com/eric-florack/2026/06/21/fauci-and-the-origins-of-covid-19-n4954202<![CDATA[President Donald Trump apparently confirmed the rumors that British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is resigning, amid wide unpopularity in the UK and controversy within his own leftist Labour Party.]]>Sun, 21 Jun 2026 11:15:49 -0400<![CDATA[Catherine Salgado]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[Keir Starmer]]><![CDATA[United Kingdom]]>https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2026/06/21/trump-says-uk-prime-minister-starmer-is-resigning-n4954206<![CDATA[According to multiple news sources, Scottish police arrested and charged a man in Edinburgh after he allegedly stabbed at least five people, and are treating the incident as an anti-Muslim hate crime.]]>Sun, 21 Jun 2026 10:00:39 -0400<![CDATA[Tim O'Brien]]><![CDATA[Islam]]><![CDATA[Keir Starmer]]><![CDATA[United Kingdom]]>https://pjmedia.com/tim-o-brien/2026/06/21/police-actually-responded-scottish-man-arrested-for-anti-muslim-hate-crimes-n4954204<![CDATA[The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is catching up on the Biden administration’s massive enforcement backlog and establishing fair housing standards.]]>Sat, 20 Jun 2026 23:29:16 -0400<![CDATA[Catherine Salgado]]><![CDATA[Civil Rights]]><![CDATA[Democrat Party]]><![CDATA[Department of Veterans Affairs]]><![CDATA[Joe Biden]]><![CDATA[Woke]]>https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2026/06/20/hud-cuts-biden-enforcement-backlog-by-27-n4954194<![CDATA[The Obama Presidential Center finally opened to the public on Friday (not that you care), and the verdict from the internet was swift and brutal. People are calling it a "monstrous insult to architecture," a "concrete nightmare," and simply a "monstrosity." Social media has spent the week comparing the thing to a trash can and a dystopian movie set, which, having seen the photos, feels generous.]]>Sat, 20 Jun 2026 23:20:22 -0400<![CDATA[Matt Margolis]]><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]><![CDATA[Chicago]]><![CDATA[Fox News]]><![CDATA[Healthcare]]>https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2026/06/20/now-we-know-why-the-obama-center-is-so-ugly-n4954198<![CDATA[David Hearn, a 67-year-old former U.S. Olympic canoe racer from Bethesda, Md., now stands at the center of an ugly fight over the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.&nbsp;]]>Sat, 20 Jun 2026 23:20:00 -0400<![CDATA[David Manney]]><![CDATA[Crime]]><![CDATA[Washington]]>https://pjmedia.com/david-manney/2026/06/20/former-olympian-arrested-in-reflecting-pool-damage-case-n4954197<![CDATA[I joke with my wife that, while she gets Mother’s Day, I have to settle for Father’s Hour. Meaning I get an hour of praise and celebration, but after that, it’s back to work. The house doesn’t maintain itself just because it’s Father’s Day, you know. There are yards to mow, cars to wash, clogged drains to clear, garages to clean, and dinners to grill. And hey, it’s Sunday, and since you’re not doing anything anyway…]]>Sat, 20 Jun 2026 23:14:04 -0400<![CDATA[A.J. Christopher]]><![CDATA[Parental Rights]]>https://pjmedia.com/aj-christopher/2026/06/20/to-be-a-father-n4954196<![CDATA[British Prime Minister Keir Starmer entered No. 10 in July 2024 with a Labour majority big enough to bury the Conservatives for a generation. Less than two years later, Britain is waiting to see whether he leaves office on Monday.]]>Sat, 20 Jun 2026 20:26:00 -0400<![CDATA[David Manney]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[Keir Starmer]]><![CDATA[United Kingdom]]>https://pjmedia.com/david-manney/2026/06/20/keir-starmer-took-power-in-triumph-now-britain-may-watch-him-leave-n4954193<![CDATA[A Houston-area university, not content with brainwashing college students, also held an event to indoctrinate high school students into unscientific, woke climate alarmism.]]>Sat, 20 Jun 2026 20:18:00 -0400<![CDATA[Catherine Salgado]]><![CDATA[Academia]]><![CDATA[Climate Change]]><![CDATA[Education]]><![CDATA[Woke]]>https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2026/06/20/houston-university-indoctrinates-high-schoolers-into-climate-alarmism-n4954190<![CDATA[By now, y’all know that I enjoy bourbon and love to explore new whiskeys and spirits. My Whiskey Wednesday columns have blessed me with offers for things to try, and this week I received a bottle of something entirely fresh and different: Waterloo Barrel-Aged Gin.]]>Sat, 20 Jun 2026 17:42:00 -0400<![CDATA[Chris Queen]]><![CDATA[Conservatism]]><![CDATA[Entertainment]]><![CDATA[USA]]>https://pjmedia.com/chris-queen/2026/06/20/spirits-saturday-waterloo-barrel-aged-gin-is-a-whiskey-drinkers-detour-n4954191<![CDATA[Controversy over the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool is drawing national attention again after “Pro-Algae” protesters began a demonstration opposing the Trump administration's cleanup and restoration of the historic landmark. Independent journalist Emily Miller interviewed the self-described “Team Algae” protesters who reportedly return every day to protest the Reflecting Pool's cleanup.]]>Sat, 20 Jun 2026 17:05:00 -0400<![CDATA[Bryan S. Jung]]><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]><![CDATA[Washington]]>https://pjmedia.com/bryan-s-jung/2026/06/20/pro-algae-eco-activists-oppose-cleanup-of-lincoln-memorial-reflecting-pool-n4954186<![CDATA[One look at Kyle "I'm Antifa" Wagner using every conceivable grammatical use of the F word, and one can find how getting death threats, stalking, and conspiring to harm or kill federal officers appears to be a real threat. The feds sure think so, which is why the feds rolled up tough guy Kyle "aka Kaos," in Minneapolis this week and netted him a hat trick of charges.]]>Sat, 20 Jun 2026 15:14:00 -0400<![CDATA[Victoria Taft]]><![CDATA[Antifa]]><![CDATA[Domestic Terrorism]]><![CDATA[ICE]]><![CDATA[Minnesota]]><![CDATA[Transgender]]>https://pjmedia.com/victoria-taft/2026/06/20/tough-guy-minnesota-antifa-dude-feds-rolled-up-loves-to-be-a-little-girl-in-flouncy-dresses-n4954183<![CDATA[Even America’s top leaders (including our vice president) are repeating disgusting jihadi propaganda against Israel, the ONLY country in the Middle East whose government tries to avoid civilian casualties instead of maximizing them.]]>Sat, 20 Jun 2026 15:00:00 -0400<![CDATA[Catherine Salgado]]><![CDATA[Antisemitism]]><![CDATA[Islamic Jihad]]><![CDATA[Islamic Terrorism]]><![CDATA[Israel]]>https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2026/06/20/senator-war-scholar-confirm-israeli-aid-to-lebanese-civilians-especially-christians-n4954184<![CDATA[Disney purists (like me) wince a bit when the rides that have direct connections to Walt Disney get changed. Some things sound promising, like the long-overdue updates to Walt Disney’s Carousel of Progress.]]>Sat, 20 Jun 2026 14:36:00 -0400<![CDATA[Chris Queen]]><![CDATA[California]]><![CDATA[Entertainment]]><![CDATA[Green Energy]]>https://pjmedia.com/chris-queen/2026/06/20/california-is-making-disneylands-autopia-go-electric-whether-fans-like-it-or-not-n4954185<![CDATA[When it comes to modern American politics, truth is stranger than fiction — such as a mafia hitman-turned-councilman who is once again in trouble with the law.]]>Sat, 20 Jun 2026 13:33:00 -0400<![CDATA[Catherine Salgado]]><![CDATA[Crime]]><![CDATA[Law and Order]]><![CDATA[New Jersey]]><![CDATA[Republican Party]]>https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2026/06/20/ex-hitman-and-new-jersey-councilman-back-in-handcuffs-n4954180<![CDATA[A few years back, we went to a July Fourth picnic hosted by some very liberal friends of ours. We were surrounded by mostly classical liberal friends (not extreme leftists) and acquaintances and had a great time. No one talked politics, and everyone was decked out in their red, white, and blue.]]>Sat, 20 Jun 2026 12:48:00 -0400<![CDATA[Tim O'Brien]]><![CDATA[USA]]><![CDATA[World Cup]]><![CDATA[America 250]]>https://pjmedia.com/tim-o-brien/2026/06/20/liberal-us-soccer-fans-and-their-fake-patriotism-n4954181<![CDATA[Before she left her job as Director of National Intelligence (DNI), Tulsi Gabbard declassified documents that she claims show the Biden administration covered up the real origins of the COVID virus, that Dr. Anthony Fauci lied about it to Congress, and that it implemented a censorship campaign to kill the lab leak theory. Read about this in Matt's piece:&nbsp;Tulsi Gabbard Drops Bombshell Documents on Her Way Out, Exposing Fauci’s COVID Cover-Up. The documents also show that then-Health and Human Services Secretary (HHS) Xavier Becerra, who is now the Democrats' nominee for California governor, proved to be key in censoring the theory by smothering whistleblower testimony that would out Fauci.]]>Sat, 20 Jun 2026 12:41:00 -0400<![CDATA[Victoria Taft]]><![CDATA[Anthony Fauci]]><![CDATA[California]]><![CDATA[COVID-19]]><![CDATA[Gavin Newsom]]><![CDATA[HHS]]><![CDATA[Joe Biden]]><![CDATA[Tulsi Gabbard]]>https://pjmedia.com/victoria-taft/2026/06/20/declassified-covid-cover-up-docs-show-democrat-candidate-for-california-governor-should-lawyer-up-n4954177<![CDATA[The terrorist Iranian regime is once again breaking its agreements and preventing an end to the conflict, just before peace talks were supposed to begin in Switzerland.]]>Sat, 20 Jun 2026 11:22:00 -0400<![CDATA[Catherine Salgado]]>https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2026/06/20/irans-regime-violates-deal-majorly-as-talks-to-begin-n4954178<![CDATA[My wife of over 20 years is a blonde-haired, blue-eyed citizen of Holland. (And, according to 23andMe, she also has a high percentage of Neanderthal DNA. That’s probably why she really likes bananas.) But even though she’s as white as skim milk, mayonnaise, and polka music, her father aspired to be the next Gauguin and relocated her family to Tahiti when she was still a baby. She was raised as an ethnic minority.]]>Sat, 20 Jun 2026 11:19:00 -0400<![CDATA[Scott Pinsker]]><![CDATA[Antisemitism]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[Iran]]><![CDATA[Israel]]><![CDATA[JD Vance]]><![CDATA[Republican Party]]><![CDATA[YouTube]]>https://pjmedia.com/scott-pinsker/2026/06/20/should-pro-israel-conservatives-trust-jd-vance-n4954179