Wisconsin state Rep. Francesca Hong, who is running in the Democratic gubernatorial primary, was asked about U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's "Woke 1" comment.
You would never pay a restaurant bill without an itemized check. And if that bill charged you twice for the same steak, you would dispute it on the spot. Unfortunately, federal programs don’t always operate using this kind of common sense. In fact, the 340B drug discount program, which moves more than $100 billion a […]
Discredited ideologies rarely disappear all at once. They usually shed their language before they surrender their instincts. After World War II, fascist successor movements in Italy would later recast themselves as national conservatives. In the 1970s, Western communist parties adopted “Eurocommunism,” distancing themselves from Moscow while retaining ambitions for radical socialist transformation. More recently, France’s […]
When Nippon Steel put a $14.9 billion offer on the table for U.S. Steel in December 2023, the American steel industry looked like this: roughly 89.7 million net tons of raw steel produced that year, about 83,950 workers employed across iron and steel manufacturing, and a United Steelworkers union representing roughly 540,000 reported members across […]
Throughout school, I was taught to revere our Constitution and that the United States is an exceptional nation. The Constitution’s preamble alone was revolutionary for the 18th century and established the U.S. as the torchbearer of the free world. But somewhere along the way, tens of thousands failed their civics classes and came to despise […]
Conservatism rests on enduring principles: the sanctity of human life, religious freedom, accountability, and skepticism toward unchecked government power. That is why Ian Kingsbury’s recent Washington Examiner article criticizing my lecture on Gaza at the American Psychiatric Association deserves a response. Kingsbury’s position is fundamentally at odds with both conservative and Judeo-Christian principles: it places […]
I tuned into my first WNBA game this weekend for one reason: the growing noise around Indiana Fever guard Sophie Cunningham. The headlines, the viral clips of physical play, the debates over whether certain players were being targeted, and it all pulled me in. I wanted to see for myself. In the first quarter of […]
I’ve spent 30 years advising clients on risk they can quantify: interest rate risk, market risk, counterparty risk. None of that prepared me for the specific anxiety a friend described to me last month, driving his late father’s shotgun from Oregon to a memorial service in Pennsylvania. The gun was unloaded. It was locked in […]
During 15 years leading Americans for Prosperity, I witnessed many announcements about government regulatory reform. A governor, often well-meaning, would name a blue-ribbon commission. The commission would meet a few times, issue a report with a nice cover, and then quietly disband. Usually, within a couple of years, the state’s regulatory rulebook was longer than […]
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) wants America to laugh off the radical, censorious, and destructive policies she and her ideological allies demanded before they lost the 2024 election and decided they should behave more normally. On ABC News, AOC was trying to shield Wisconsin gubernatorial hopeful Francesca Hong from any accountability for her calls to literally […]
America leads the world in biopharmaceutical innovation, but China is competing hard for that title. The greatest threat to American leadership isn’t Chinese competition. Instead, it’s American policy gradually weakening our own innovation base while Beijing strengthens theirs. Just recently, China’s drug regulator moved to fast-track cell and gene therapies, cutting its trial-approval clock to […]
For years, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic has been maligned in Europe as Russian President Vladimir Putin‘s man in the Balkans. There is only one problem with this portrayal: reality keeps getting in the way. Last week, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky made his first visit to Serbia. Ukraine’s president came to Belgrade to discuss economic cooperation, […]
Every election cycle, political campaigns ask the same question: Where will the next votes come from? The answers are usually predictable. Campaigns spend millions persuading swing voters, increasing turnout among their base, and competing for demographic groups that both parties have pursued for decades. These efforts matter, but they often overlook a more fundamental reality: […]
What is the first thing that comes to mind when you think of North Korea? Most likely, it is missiles. News that North Korea has launched a missile is no longer extraordinary. Ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, short-range projectiles — the names and types vary, but the sheer fact that Pyongyang has tested another weapon no […]
The ongoing geopolitical standoff between Washington and Tehran is frequently analyzed through a traditional lens of military strategy, but its most defining feature is actually behavioral. Observers are routinely baffled by a recurring cycle of communication: The American presidency issues warnings of total destruction, only to transition seamlessly within days to declaring that an historic […]
