The same crowd that’s incensed by President Donald Trump’s business dealings has made few public objections to corruption sleaze involving close allies of Gov. Gavin Newsom and his heir...
The fallout from Venezuela's powerful twin quakes has evolved into a major test for acting President Delcy Rodriguez, sending her scrambling to prevent the humanitarian disaster from becoming a political one as her mandate as interim leader expires Friday.
The same crowd that’s incensed by President Donald Trump’s business dealings has made few public objections to corruption sleaze involving close allies of Gov....
Mamdani mentions he’s an immigrant himself, but completely ignores the fact that this country, which he says is so unwelcoming, made him the youngest...
America at 250 has never been wealthier or more powerful. It has grown two-thirds faster than Western Europe over the past 20 years. Rival ideologies from Chinese authoritarianism to Islamism look deeply unappealing. There is a reason so many people are hammering at the republic’s borders. Yet, at the same time, the U.S. is starting […]
KAMALA AND THE COMMUNISTS. There are reports former vice president and 2024 losing presidential candidate Kamala Harris has been touching base with New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and other leaders of the socialist/communist vanguard making deep inroads inside the Democratic Party. It makes sense. Harris appears to believe she can be the 2028 Democratic nominee, […]
I’ve spent 30 years structuring transactions in which ownership must be provable, documented, and defensible before a dollar changes hands. Civil asset forfeiture inverts that premise. The government doesn’t have to prove you did anything wrong. It just has to seize the property and let you spend the next year proving you didn’t. Halima Culley […]
American consumers wandering the grocery store aisles never think about where the fresh mushrooms on display come from. Perhaps it’s time they should. A trade dispute now unfolding between the United States and Canada may sound like an obscure fight over the relatively small mushroom industry, but it has implications for all of agriculture: Does […]
If you are a citizen of the United Kingdom, I ask that you keep a stiff upper lip whilst reading this from an American across the pond this Fourth of July. Britain increasingly displays a pattern in which its institutions fail, inquiries identify the causes, reports are written, recommendations are issued, apologies are made, and […]
In June 2019, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Tennessee Wine and Spirits Retailers Association v. Thomas that Tennessee’s two-year residency requirement for alcohol retailers was unconstitutional. This marked the first time since the 2005 Granholm v. Heald decision that the Supreme Court directly addressed the relationship between the 21st Amendment and the dormant Commerce […]
