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-usFri, 24 Apr 2026 14:02:19 -0400<![CDATA[In the first three months of this year, 97 people were killed in the city of Chicago. That’s on pace with the same numbers last year. Of course, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson doesn’t take the blame for that. He believes he's doing his best, because he believes one killing is one too many. That’s why he says we need more “safe spaces for young people.”]]>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 13:30:00 -0400<![CDATA[Tim O'Brien]]><![CDATA[Chicago]]><![CDATA[Crime]]><![CDATA[Gun Ban]]><![CDATA[Gun Control]]><![CDATA[Guns]]><![CDATA[Illinois]]>https://pjmedia.com/tim-o-brien/2026/04/24/does-the-mayor-of-chicago-really-need-a-150-member-30-million-security-detail-n4952152<![CDATA[At least four women have now reportedly revealed inappropriate behavior and harassment from Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.), and he is also in hot water for defying U.S. Embassy instructions so he could party in Colombia.]]>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 13:00:00 -0400<![CDATA[Catherine Salgado]]><![CDATA[Arizona]]><![CDATA[Congress]]><![CDATA[Democrat Party]]><![CDATA[Ruben Gallego]]><![CDATA[Senate]]>https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2026/04/24/rep-luna-says-4-women-accuse-gallego-of-harassment-as-colombia-scandal-gains-attention-n4952148<![CDATA[There is something almost magical about healthy masculinity when it is aimed right.]]>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 12:46:00 -0400<![CDATA[Jamie K. Wilson]]>https://pjmedia.com/jamie-wilson/2026/04/24/eliminate-toxic-masculinity-marry-men-and-have-kids-n4952142<![CDATA[The prime minister of Israel has set the record straight on the unending rumor mill about his health.]]>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 12:24:00 -0400<![CDATA[Catherine Salgado]]><![CDATA[Healthcare]]><![CDATA[Iran]]><![CDATA[Israel]]><![CDATA[Operation Epic Fury]]>https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2026/04/24/netanyahu-says-he-is-healthy-after-malignant-tumor-treatment-n4952145<![CDATA[Question: If you sought to destroy Israel’s reputation in America and Europe, how would you do it?]]>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 12:20:00 -0400<![CDATA[Scott Pinsker]]><![CDATA[Antisemitism]]><![CDATA[Gaza]]><![CDATA[Holocaust]]><![CDATA[Israel]]><![CDATA[Media Bias]]><![CDATA[TikTok]]><![CDATA[United Nations]]>https://pjmedia.com/scott-pinsker/2026/04/24/the-greatest-con-in-political-pr-history-the-blood-libel-lie-of-israels-genocide-n4952144<![CDATA[Some Democrats definitely need an intervention. Or a straitjacket.]]>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 11:32:00 -0400<![CDATA[Rick Moran]]><![CDATA[Democrat Party]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[Hakeem Jeffries]]><![CDATA[House of Representatives]]><![CDATA[Polling]]>https://pjmedia.com/rick-moran/2026/04/24/democrats-already-looking-to-impeach-trump-on-day-one-if-they-take-control-of-congress-n4952141<![CDATA[I love Pittsburgh. It’s my hometown and still the closest major city to where I live. For my entire life, I’ve been a part of it, and it is a part of me. So, when I tell you Pittsburgh never looked better, I’m proud of that, but I’m also somewhat disgusted.]]>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 10:40:00 -0400<![CDATA[Tim O'Brien]]><![CDATA[Democrat Party]]><![CDATA[NFL]]><![CDATA[Pennsylvania]]>https://pjmedia.com/tim-o-brien/2026/04/24/nfl-draft-democrat-run-pittsburgh-never-looked-better-thats-the-problem-n4952140<![CDATA[The USA and other countries have sent billions of dollars in aid to Somalia, with no major positive results.]]>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 10:26:00 -0400<![CDATA[Catherine Salgado]]><![CDATA[Africa]]><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]><![CDATA[USA]]><![CDATA[Rare Earth Minerals]]>https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2026/04/24/2-billion-in-annual-aid-kept-somalia-a-failed-state-n4952138<![CDATA[Ayaan Hirsi Ali has been under attack by Muslim groups for more than two decades. Her work in trying to free Muslim women from the tyranny, the beatings, the forced genital mutilation by Muslim men has resulted in death threats against her, too numerous to count.]]>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 10:02:00 -0400<![CDATA[Rick Moran]]><![CDATA[Antisemitism]]><![CDATA[Islam]]><![CDATA[Islamic Terrorism]]><![CDATA[Terrorism]]>https://pjmedia.com/rick-moran/2026/04/24/the-vindication-of-ayaan-hirsi-ali-and-a-long-overdue-reckoning-for-the-southern-poverty-law-center-n4952137<![CDATA[Top O' the Briefing]]>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:23:00 -0400<![CDATA[Stephen Kruiser]]>https://pjmedia.com/stephen-kruiser/2026/04/24/the-morning-briefing-trumps-flex-on-the-sinaloa-cartel-gives-me-third-term-vibes-n4952098<![CDATA[President Donald Trump has directed a major renovation of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, giving Secretary of Interior Doug Burgum the lead on the project. The pool badly leaked and looked neglected for years.]]>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 21:28:00 -0400<![CDATA[David Manney]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]><![CDATA[Washington]]>https://pjmedia.com/david-manney/2026/04/23/trump-restores-a-landmark-and-saves-millions-n4952135<![CDATA[Xavier Becerra, Katie Porter, and Tom Steyer stood on stage during the recent gubernatorial debate in San Francisco, where moderators pressed them on whether California Highway Patrol officers should enforce English proficiency requirements for commercial truck drivers.]]>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 21:03:00 -0400<![CDATA[David Manney]]><![CDATA[California]]><![CDATA[Democrat Party]]>https://pjmedia.com/david-manney/2026/04/23/democrats-defend-non-english-truckers-as-safety-questions-grow-n4952132<![CDATA[Athletes betting for or against themselves and their teammates is something that's been going on for decades. We regularly see insider trading in the finance, corporate, and political worlds. But active duty military members betting via prediction markets on matters of national security is kind of new.&nbsp;]]>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 20:57:24 -0400<![CDATA[Sarah Anderson]]><![CDATA[DOJ]]><![CDATA[FBI]]><![CDATA[Military]]><![CDATA[National Security]]><![CDATA[Venezuela]]>https://pjmedia.com/sarah-anderson/2026/04/23/a-guy-won-400000-betting-on-maduros-capture-he-was-a-us-soldier-n4952131<![CDATA[My generation is stressed.]]>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 19:58:00 -0400<![CDATA[Reagan Wilbanks]]><![CDATA[Bible]]><![CDATA[Christianity]]><![CDATA[Mental Health]]><![CDATA[America 250]]>https://pjmedia.com/reagan-wilbanks/2026/04/23/im-part-of-americas-most-stressed-generation-but-a-growing-movement-gives-me-hope-n4952115<![CDATA[In today’s legacy media newsroom, there are two sides to every story: the one they want the public to see, and the one they’re trying to hide. As often as not, the one they want the public to see is untrue, and the one they are trying to hide is true.]]>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 19:33:42 -0400<![CDATA[Tim O'Brien]]><![CDATA[Fake News]]>https://pjmedia.com/tim-o-brien/2026/04/23/southern-poverty-law-center-story-sends-the-media-into-a-schizophrenic-fit-n4952127<![CDATA[My deep-seated loathing of the United States Department of Education and all that it has wrought is well known to people who have been reading my stuff for a long time. I've been writing about school choice for a couple of decades now. On the most recent episode of "Faith All Over the Place," I told my friends Chris Queen and Ashley McCully something to the effect of, "I can blame most of the societal ills that plague America on federal involvement in public education." (Side note: for the precise quote, please listen to the podcast! It's always all-access.)&nbsp;]]>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 19:21:00 -0400<![CDATA[Stephen Kruiser]]><![CDATA[Democrat Party]]><![CDATA[DOE]]><![CDATA[Education]]>https://pjmedia.com/stephen-kruiser/2026/04/23/dem-one-party-rule-is-inevitable-unless-dept-of-education-is-dismantled-n4952119<![CDATA[Greg Gutfeld absolutely destroyed Jessica Tarlov on The Five on Thursday, and boy did things get crazy. It was the kind of television that makes you put down your phone and actually pay attention. The two went back and forth, screaming at each other over the question of whether the American right-wing threat narrative has always been overblown, ginned up, or an outright fabrication.]]>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 18:42:15 -0400<![CDATA[Matt Margolis]]><![CDATA[Domestic Terrorism]]><![CDATA[Fox News]]><![CDATA[Greg Gutfeld]]><![CDATA[Jessica Tarlov]]>https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2026/04/23/greg-gutfeld-absolutely-shreds-jessica-tarlov-and-it-was-vicious-n4952128<![CDATA[On its surface, a dinner in honor of the president of the United States isn’t exactly unusual — except when the president is Donald Trump and the dinner is being planned by one of Hollywood’s major movie studios.&nbsp;]]>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 18:35:15 -0400<![CDATA[Julio Rivera]]><![CDATA[CBS News]]><![CDATA[CNN]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[Hollywood]]>https://pjmedia.com/julio-rivera/2026/04/23/what-cbs-news-dinner-to-honor-trump-means-for-the-future-of-news-n4952095<![CDATA[April 23 is the anniversary of both the birth and the death of the greatest English writer, William Shakespeare. One of the most fervent American admirers of the 16th century Bard of Stratford-on-Avon was America’s 16th president, Abraham Lincoln.]]>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 17:30:15 -0400<![CDATA[Catherine Salgado]]><![CDATA[Bible]]><![CDATA[Christianity]]><![CDATA[England]]><![CDATA[History]]>https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2026/04/23/lincolns-favorite-soliloquy-from-shakespeares-hamlet-n4952120<![CDATA[With operations in at least 47 countries around the world, the Sinaloa Cartel is largely considered one of the most powerful criminal organizations in the Western Hemisphere. One of the first things the Donald Trump administration did in 2025 was designate it as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO). &nbsp;]]>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 16:45:32 -0400<![CDATA[Sarah Anderson]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[Fentanyl]]><![CDATA[Marco Rubio]]>https://pjmedia.com/sarah-anderson/2026/04/23/rubio-and-bessent-go-after-sinaloa-and-its-fentanyl-pipeline-n4952110