Benny Melendez voted for President Donald Trump in 2024. But since Trump returned to the White House, it has been increasingly difficult for Melendez to run his small construction...
This nation owes much of its greatness to immigrants, yet at the very moment it commemorates its 250th anniversary, fierce political rhetoric risks closing the door to highly skilled global talent. America’s constitutional system has long rewarded enterprise, protected property, and encouraged risk-taking, but this machine of innovation also depends on the intellectual energy of […]
I grew up in a country where “ghost projects” is a phrase everyone understands without explanation. In 2025, government auditors confirmed 421 of them among roughly 8,000 flood-control contracts inspected — infrastructure that existed only on paper while public money vanished into it. I’ve watched this pattern my whole life as a student journalist covering […]
Whether conservative, liberal, or independent, most Americans want broadly similar things: lives that are happy, healthy, prosperous, and meaningful for those they love. We also want what we believe is best for our country. With over 340 million citizens in the United States, there are likely more opinions than citizens about how best to govern […]
The recently concluded Supreme Court term was a blockbuster and, on balance, a victory for conservatives. While the Trump administration lost its birthright citizenship case, the Right scored victories on transgender athletes, gun rights, and campaign finance. Yet a pair of cases illustrates the massive power of the contemporary court, and calls into question its […]
As Poland marks its National Day of Remembrance for the Victims of the Volhynia Massacre on July 11, history and politics have once again moved to the forefront of Polish-Ukrainian relations. Poland and Ukraine have forged one of Europe’s most consequential strategic partnerships since Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022, but their latest dispute over historical […]
For decades, academic and popular histories have treated political violence as a phenomenon defined largely by its distance from the naturally occurring liberal center. “The rise of the right” is cast in apocalyptic terms — more Darth Vader than ordinary politics, its actors, many of whom bear little resemblance to traditional conservatism, depicted as aberrations: […]
Memorial Day is behind us. It-girl clothing brands recently acquired by private equity firms are making a killing on ’90s-inspired viscose satin slip dresses with a complex relationship to undergarments. A certain kind of conscientious woman, between the ages of 25 and 38, with a remunerative project manager job and a reasonable skincare regimen, is […]
Few contemporary writers are as adept as Ann Patchett at opening a novel. Her first chapters are alluring invitations, intriguing introductions. Bel Canto (2001) starts with a bang: In an unnamed South American country, a grand party is thrown in honor of the president of an electronics company, but after a renowned soprano has finished […]
As America celebrates its 250th birthday, it only seems right to pay reverence to the gentleman farmer from Mount Vernon who helped make this nation great. This, of course, refers to the “father of his country,” George Washington. He was a highly respected and beloved general, who took a ragtag outfit and turned them into […]
A week after the most recent killing of an American by an illegal immigrant truck driver, the Trump administration announced that Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers will be deployed to truck weigh stations nationwide in a coordinated effort to get the more than 200,000 noncitizen truck drivers, many of whom can’t speak English, off the […]
