Last month Mayor Mamdani conveyed his condolences, and that of the city, to the family of Clarence Woodward, an inmate who passed away on Rikers Island while awaiting trial...
Troy Jackson was a longtime labor activist and logger before he unexpectedly became the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Maine. On Monday, he returned to a union hall to tell workers they need to go to the polls this fall - to raise the minimum wage, expand family medical leave and show support for one another.
Americans' continued exasperation with the cost of living crisis is no hoax, but Democrats' affordability theater is little more than a dubious con job.
If jurors aren’t allowed to stick to their own opinions, juries can’t work. Lindsay Clancy's legal team should consider carefully if that’s what it really...
A recent op-ed about electricity prices from the Taxpayers Protection Alliance uses misleading arguments to justify resurrecting monopoly control of electricity generation as a solution to rising prices. It repeatedly asserts that PJM, the regional grid operator for much of the mid-Atlantic, limits who can generate power. That’s patently false. Investor-owned utilities can — and […]
Adolf Hitler was no Bob Ross. “Und vee put zee little tree here. Maybe ah little smoke from ze cabin in za voods.” Long before he built a totalitarian horror, he was a struggling artist in Vienna. He was rejected by the Academy of Fine Arts — first in 1907, and again in 1908. He […]
America is no longer standing outside global football. It is buying into it, at a scale Washington has barely begun to reckon with. Thirteen of the 20 Premier League clubs that competed in the 2025-26 season had at least minority American ownership. Across Europe’s “Big Five” leagues, 32 clubs now carry an American stake of […]
Jemele Hill’s recent argument that capitalism is tied to racism and white supremacy raises a bigger question than whether capitalism works. It raises a question about human nature. Hill is right about one thing: Capitalism has been used to commit racial injustice. American slavery, segregation, and discriminatory housing and employment policies caused enormous harm. Economic […]
When Congress gets back from its August recess, bipartisan permitting reform talks are expected to continue. There’s no reason why our nation can’t develop projects in a timely manner while also protecting the environment in a common-sense manner. Yet for decades, federal environmental statutes have been applied in a manner using little common sense. Even […]
Many college graduates are buried in debt and struggling to find good-paying work — but industries that propel opportunity, like energy, are desperate for...
