Elon Musk is donating big to help repeal Alaska’s ranked choice voting system. Considering how big an abomination ranked choice voting is, it may be the best thing Musk has done since he left his role at the White House. Musk donated $1.5 million to a PAC that, in turn, donated $1 million to the […]
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) is the youngest woman ever elected to Congress. She’s engaged to the same man who’s stood by her side for over a decade, and, with Forbes estimating her net worth as of a year ago at $125,000, she’s wealthier than at least two-thirds of her peers. So when the socialist superstar […]
The Russian Supreme Court has banned the country’s only true opposition party from standing in the Duma parliamentary elections. The ruling against Yabloko ensures that President Vladimir Putin’s governing United Russia party faces no risk of serious embarrassment come the Sept. 18 elections. This decision wasn’t surprising, of course. Russian Supreme Court justices are utterly […]
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 […]
