Progressives have been relentless in their assault on successful school choice programs this year, recently targeting Wisconsin’s popular programs. Fortunately, the litigation attack against Wisconsin’s voucher programs has just been defanged, though certainly the political offensive continues. Wisconsin teachers’ unions and their allies recently filed a lawsuit claiming the Wisconsin legislature has failed to provide […]
In September 2008, in the woods outside the occupied Georgian town of Kareli, the fighters under my command demanded to see my documents. They refused to believe that a sitting member of parliament and former chief of the military police was fighting beside them as an ordinary rifleman. I produced my parliamentary credentials. They passed […]
The twin earthquakes that struck Venezuela on June 24, killing more than 1,700 people and leaving entire neighborhoods in ruins, have become more than a natural disaster. They have exposed the deep structural failures of the Venezuelan state — failures that have been decades in the making and that no political rebranding can conceal. As […]
American citizenship has been defined, officially, by one’s birthplace. It must also include one’s sense of belonging. This week’s Supreme Court ruling has answered, at least for now, the constitutional question: Who qualifies for citizenship under the law? But a more difficult question remains: What does citizenship require once it is conferred? Over time, American […]
The United States, Mexico, and Canada approached the first review deadline for the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement this week. Policymakers faced a straightforward choice. Either extend the agreement and preserve at least some semblance of stability in North American trade, or open the door to years of economic uncertainty and potentially higher tariffs. President Donald Trump has […]
As America celebrates 250 years of freedom, the question is whether we can win the global race against China in artificial intelligence, the newest technology. The country that generates the most reliable electricity fastest will train the most powerful models and set technological terms for the rest of the century. China is building dozens of […]
Memory chips store the data and instructions that power Nvidia’s accelerated computing platforms, as well as the world’s computers and smartphones. These chips are, put simply, the filing cabinets of the digital economy. Since the late 1980s, the memory semiconductor market has been characterized by boom-and-bust profit cycles. Periods of strong profitability have routinely been followed by […]
The various agencies of the United Nations are a peculiar beast. Their quality and contributions are a mixed bag. Even among the best agencies, quotas and cash matter. Internal U.N. appointments are akin to affirmative action on steroids, with the added complication of appeasing donor nations that expect their donations to equate to influence and […]
You read the headline correctly. To some people, those two facts seem contradictory. But I think they point toward a better path forward. For decades, climate advocacy has focused heavily on individual behavior: what we drive, what we eat, how often we fly. Personal responsibility matters. It shapes how we vote, how we engage in […]
The Supreme Court handed down its decision on Tuesday in West Virginia v. B. P. J. concerning transgender athletes. The case involved two states, West Virginia and Idaho, and their respective bans on sports separated by biological sex. The issue before the court was whether these bans violate Title IX and the equal protection clause […]
The U.S.-brokered peace agreement between Israel and Lebanon might be one of the Trump administration’s great foreign policy achievements. Naturally, Iran is trying to sabotage it. On June 26, the United States announced that it had brokered a trilateral framework with Lebanon and Israel in which the two Middle Eastern nations declared their “ambition to […]
The Trump administration announced last week the first criminal charges against a skin substitute executive accused of committing Medicare fraud on an outrageous scale. Providers who exploit Medicare or endanger patients should be investigated and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. But holding bad actors accountable and preserving access to medically necessary wound […]
