FIFA President Gianni Infantino is working on his third World Cup, which spreads across North America this weekend. His first tournaments were held in autocratic countries with governments willing...
Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with Paraguayan President Santiago Peña during Team USA's World Cup opener, combining diplomacy with soccer as California Gov. Gavin Newsom was also in attendance.
Mamdani’s housing plan literally aims to expropriate his class enemies — in this case, mom-and-pop property owners — and hand their buildings over to...
"Why do we have foreign companies owning carriers?" asks Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy. "Why would we allow that? It makes it really challenging to...
The federal courts have been delivering a consistent verdict for the past two years: Diversity, equity, and inclusion programs built on racial and gender quotas violate the same civil rights law they claim to enforce. The cases aren’t close. The verdicts aren’t small. And the legal standard being applied is 60 years old. The legal […]
Over 100 years ago, German sociologist Werner Sombart famously asked, “Why is there no socialism in the United States?” For Sombart, the answer was America’s unusual prosperity, social mobility, and weak class consciousness. It is that weak class consciousness that truly separates America from much of the rest of the world. Like any nation, the […]
Michael Rubin’s case against Azerbaijan is a tidy one: Baku is spending billions on weapons, trades with Iran, and helps Russia evade sanctions — so it must be arming to invade Armenia, and waiving Section 907 only rewards a coming aggressor. It is a convincing argument, right up until you open a map. Azerbaijan is […]
Most constitutional arguments happen in law schools and appellate briefs. This one happened in my clients’ portfolios. Moore v. United States, decided by the Supreme Court in June 2024, asked a question that sounds technical and isn’t: can the federal government tax income that has never been received? The case involved Charles and Kathleen Moore, […]
Last summer, Superman was held in a pocket dimension on the verge of collapsing Metropolis. In 2016, Captain America, the symbol of our nation, was on the run from the government. In 2014, a U.N. body was infiltrated by a Nazi organization that survived from the 1940s. In 2012, the World Security Council dropped a […]
“The reputation of Dawn Powell may be doomed to a perpetual state of revival,” wrote John Updike in the New Yorker in 1995. The underappreciated and somewhat forgotten American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter, who was born in Ohio in 1896 and died in 1965, may not have found the fame she deserved during her lifetime. Reading A Time […]
