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Gavin Newsom’s tax return bait-and-switch: An attack on democracy

Gavin Newsom promised to "release" his tax returns. He did no such thing.

Attention Gavin Newsom: Donald Trump’s war on fraud is no bluff

California and Minnesota officials may have to shake down state taxpayers for a billion dollars to pay for their states’ Medicaid programs this year. 

Gavin Newsom’s latest utility bailout — bad policy, bad for democracy

Gavin Newsom is secretly pursuing an 11th-hour push to shield California's three for-profit utility monopolies from the financial consequences of the wildfires they cause,...

A few questions about the new hopeful Gaza peace plan

One enforcement arm is supposed to be the International Stabilization Force, but it's meant to have a mere 5,000 troops — and so far...

Gore’s ‘truth’ aged badly, a disastrous discipline ‘reform’ and other commentary

Al Gore’s alarmist documentary “An Inconvenient Truth” 20 years ago triggered the “inculcation” in “millions of Americans” of the belief that “climate change poses...

Mamdani beware — Cleveland’s forgotten folly holds a warning for NYC

If not for a staggering Ohio tax demand in 1913, New York’s rise as the nation’s undisputed center of capital, commerce and culture may...

Bipartisan senators press Rubio to unlock family planning funding for women in Ebola outbreak

A bipartisan pair of senators pressed the Trump administration to release family planning funding and supplies to aid women affected by an ongoing Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). In a letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Thursday, Sens. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) requested to lift the...

Amazon received $600M in Trump tariff refunds, will return some to customers

Amazon said this week that it received hundreds of millions of dollars in refunds from President Trump’s tariffs and pledged to return some of the profits to its customers.  This follows a Supreme Court decision earlier this year that many of the Trump administration’s tariffs were illegal, prompting the U.S. government to start a process...

US planning renewed strikes on Iran: Reports

The U.S. is reportedly planning to reopen strikes against Iran as soon as this weekend, U.S. officials told several outlets on Friday. CBS News reported that Israel is also involved in the plans to launch “one of the harshest bombing campaigns to date” against Iranian energy infrastructure targets, citing multiple sources. The Israeli and U.S....

Mamdani not called to speak at NYC funeral of Army sergeant killed in Iranian attack: report

NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani was reportedly blocked from speaking at Army Sgt. Angel Sarah Rampersad's funeral as her family sought to avoid political distractions.

Ceuta and Constantinople

Ceuta’s population today is ethnically and religiously mixed but has a clear preference to stick with Spain.

How Do Words Work? A Reply on the Common Good

Our individual liberties thrive precisely when they stand on a rich surfeit of common goods.

Peggy Noonan on Fauci’s 5th/Diaries and Our Societal Chernobyl

Our culture needs renewal. Some of our institutions need revival, others retirement — or at least some reinvention.

Trump appeals court ruling blocking IRS settlement

President Trump and his sons said Friday they are appealing a court decision that blocked the deal he reached with his own administration settling his $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS.

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