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-usSat, 20 Jun 2026 21:09:46 -0400<![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<![CDATA[Hello and welcome to Saturday, June 20, 2026. Today is National American Eagle Day. It's also National Vanilla Milkshake Day, National Kouign Amann Day, National Hike With A Geek Day, and National Ugly Dog Day. It's also World Martini Day.&nbsp;]]>Sat, 20 Jun 2026 10:44:00 -0400<![CDATA[Eric Florack]]>https://pjmedia.com/eric-florack/2026/06/20/keith-ellison-is-feeling-the-heat-and-doesnt-like-it-n4954174<![CDATA[On June 18, 2026, a photograph of a massive, gray institutional building went viral. The caption was blunt: “Truly just a disgusting monstrosity of a building.” The image showed the newly opened Obama Presidential Center in Chicago — a 225-foot granite tower, blocky, nearly windowless, engraved with hard-to-read text.]]>Sat, 20 Jun 2026 10:09:00 -0400<![CDATA[Jamie K. Wilson]]>https://pjmedia.com/jamie-wilson/2026/06/20/beauty-is-obvious-ugliness-comes-with-a-lecture-n4954176<![CDATA[The Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool has become the latest target in the left's war on anything Donald Trump touches, and the radical left isn't even trying to hide it anymore.]]>Sat, 20 Jun 2026 09:29:00 -0400<![CDATA[Matt Margolis]]><![CDATA[Crime]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]><![CDATA[Truth Social]]><![CDATA[Washington]]>https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2026/06/20/the-left-hates-trump-so-much-that-its-trying-to-sabotage-the-reflecting-pool-n4954173<![CDATA[Rep. Wesley Hunt (R-Texas) emphasized to Congress the importance of passing the election integrity SAVE America Act and rejected woke arguments against voter ID as racist and condescending.]]>Fri, 19 Jun 2026 23:02:00 -0400<![CDATA[Catherine Salgado]]><![CDATA[Congress]]><![CDATA[Democrat Party]]><![CDATA[Republican Party]]><![CDATA[Texas]]><![CDATA[Voter ID]]>https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2026/06/19/rep-hunt-racial-argument-against-voter-id-is-insulting-n4954167<![CDATA[As Americans celebrate the 250th anniversary of our nation’s founding, we have an opportunity to reflect on more than our history. We have an opportunity to remember the values that made America possible.]]>Fri, 19 Jun 2026 19:59:00 -0400<![CDATA[Aaron Evans]]>https://pjmedia.com/aaron-evans/2026/06/19/america-at-250-supporting-israel-is-supporting-our-nations-foundations-n4954160<![CDATA[President Joe Biden fought to keep the ghostwriter tapes unreachable, and a federal judge just told him no:]]>Fri, 19 Jun 2026 18:35:00 -0400<![CDATA[David Manney]]><![CDATA[DOJ]]><![CDATA[Joe Biden]]>https://pjmedia.com/david-manney/2026/06/19/judge-ruling-on-the-biden-tapes-is-a-big-win-for-open-government-n4954165<![CDATA[The good people of Colombia go to the polls on Sunday to vote in the run-off election for the next president. Will the winner be Iván Cepeda, the leftist candidate hand-picked by the current clown who holds the office, Gustavo Petro? Or will it be Abelardo de la Espriella, aka "El Tigre," the outsider whose idols are Donald Trump, Javier Milei, and Nayib Bukele? &nbsp;]]>Fri, 19 Jun 2026 18:12:37 -0400<![CDATA[Sarah Anderson]]><![CDATA[2026 Elections]]><![CDATA[Argentina]]><![CDATA[Colombia]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[Javier Milei]]><![CDATA[Law and Order]]><![CDATA[Marxism]]><![CDATA[National Security]]><![CDATA[Nayib Bukele]]><![CDATA[Trade]]><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]><![CDATA[Venezuela]]><![CDATA[World Cup]]>https://pjmedia.com/sarah-anderson/2026/06/19/el-tigres-moment-all-eyes-on-the-election-the-world-cant-ignore-n4954156<![CDATA[President Donald Trump stepped onto the tarmac at Joint Base Andrews and did what he often does best: he turned a government asset into a message.]]>Fri, 19 Jun 2026 18:03:00 -0400<![CDATA[David Manney]]><![CDATA[Boeing]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[Qatar]]>https://pjmedia.com/david-manney/2026/06/19/trumps-new-air-force-one-turns-the-presidency-back-into-a-statement-n4954164