You start by arguing against “market fundamentalism,” “neoliberalism,” and “extreme libertarianism,” and you end by arguing against economics. Vice President JD Vance is the latest postliberal to embrace what is now, for all intents and purposes, an anti-growth position. In his latest book, Communion, Vance inveighs against those perennial straw men, the GDP-obsessed economists. We keep […]
Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) is right about one thing: The Supreme Court has a legitimacy problem. He is wrong about what to do about it. The House minority leader recently called for “dramatic” Supreme Court reform and refused to rule out expanding the court or imposing term limits on justices. His argument reflects Democrats’ growing […]
I’ve spent 30 years drafting disclosure language for private placement memoranda. A disclosure has one job: warn the reader before he relies on something that might mislead him. New Mexico just tried to point that same tool at a joke. The Babylon Bee, the Christian satire site known for headlines no one mistakes for news, […]
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine began this war. But assigning responsibility for how the war started is different from determining how it can end. After more than four years of fighting, the central question is no longer whether either side can impose a perfect outcome. It is whether a settlement can change the strategic calculation that […]
Two constant goals in the Trump administration’s tariff policies have been to bring the manufacturing industry back to the United States and to reduce U.S. dependence on China. In President Donald Trump’s words, “Jobs and factories will come roaring back into our country.” Vice President JD Vance said U.S. dependence on China is “the very […]
While running for president in 2016, then-candidate Donald Trump once famously boasted, “I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn’t lose any voters, OK? It’s, like, incredible.” What’s incredible is that neither Trump in his hypothetical nor Luigi Mangione, the confessed killer of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, could […]
Turkey no longer confines its neo-Ottoman ambitions to the Middle East or North Africa. Yıldırım Holding’s Yilport recently secured a $1.62 billion deal to modernize and jointly operate El Salvador’s Acajutla and La Union ports under a 50-year concession. The agreement ranks as the largest private investment in Salvadoran history, and it aims to triple […]
So-called “Democratic socialism” is no longer just an argument over taxes, healthcare, or the size of government. In the form now advanced by the Democratic Socialists of America, it reaches into nearly every institution that underpins American national power: the Constitution, private property, law enforcement, border control, energy production, technological leadership, military deterrence, and the […]
Climate alarmists treat fossil fuels as the producers of soot and environmental damage, yet the record is more complicated and quite positive. New research shows nitrogen deposition from the burning of hydrocarbons has helped to expand plant growth and the greening of large parts of the planet. A nutrient hidden in emissions A 2026 global […]
The University of Michigan wants to help address the mental health struggles of college students by making first-semester grades matter less. The policy raises a question that extends well beyond Ann Arbor: When did feeling anxious about something become a reason to make that thing less consequential? Treating anxiety over grades as a mental health […]
President Trump on Sunday accused vandals of damaging the ground near the World War II Memorial where thousands gathered for a July 4 celebration hosted in conjunction with the White House. Trump, in a post on Truth Social, the president shared pictures of a grassy field with patches of brown across the lawn. “Look what...
