Democrats are at each other’s throats about Graham Platner after his latest scandal. They don’t know what to do about it.
The New York Times released a report Thursday...
Smithsonian Institution Secretary Lonnie Bunch III survived another meeting of the governing Board of Regents this week. The secretive conclave took place Monday, and according to a spokesperson who clearly didn’t want to talk: “They didn’t vote on anything.” The next scheduled meeting is June 8, less than a month before the nation celebrates the […]
In a February meeting with the Trump administration, United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby floated the idea of a merger between his company, United Airlines, and American Airlines. Most analysts and antitrust experts quickly rejected the proposal, arguing it would harm competition. But antitrust law is about more than simply preserving the largest number of competitors. It is about efficiency […]
Iran is moving to charge the world for passing through the Strait of Hormuz. The last time the United States faced something similar, Founding Father and America’s third president, Thomas Jefferson, went to war to stop it. In 1801, Jefferson refused to pay tribute to the Barbary States — regimes that taxed maritime passage through […]
Sometimes it’s important to zoom out. As much of the news media microanalyzes specific elements of the U.S.-Israeli military operation against Iran’s regime, it’s vital not to lose sight of the overarching case for, and purpose of, the conflict. The regime has been violently anti-American since its very inception, nearly half a century ago. “Death […]
If you’re not worried by the war, you’re not paying attention. No, not the war in the Middle East. The war in Africa. The Red Cross says there are more than 50 active conflicts in Africa right now. But the only one that interests our media is a civil war in Uganda between two troops […]
I began this Easter season at the vigil Mass at a Catholic parish in Northern Virginia that was not my own. I was at another church because I was the confirmation sponsor for a dear friend from college who was entering the Catholic Church after a 47-year spiritual journey that included a nominal Protestant upbringing, […]
The tenous Pakistan-brokered ceasefire between Iran and the United States was quickly followed by Iran’s unwillingness to bend in any negotiations with American envoys. President Donald Trump decided he had had enough of waiting for the Shia Islamic theocracy to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, as promised to the ayatollah, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, or whoever […]
In an era when content creators say increasingly outrageous things to stand out from the crowd and politicians must reach potential voters wherever they are, how far is too far? This past October, Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts ignited a wave of resignations at the storied conservative think tank after posting a video defending Tucker […]
“Exposure to infants in the social environment,” economists Sebastian Galiani and Raul Sosa write in a recent paper, “activates neurobiological mechanisms that increase the desire for parenthood.” That is, babies are contagious. We’ve long known that. As a culture of rational sophisticates, we try to laugh off “baby fever” as an old wives’ tale. As […]
The United Nations General Assembly, led by Ghana, recently passed a resolution by a 123-3 vote declaring that the “transatlantic” slave trade was the “gravest crime” ever committed against humanity. The resolution demands “reparatory justice” for “Africans and people of African descent” due to its “scale, duration, systemic nature, and brutality.” Why focus just on the transatlantic […]
Many American progressives of different faiths, or no faith, celebrated the message delivered by Pope Leo XIV at St. Peter’s Basilica for the April 11 Prayer Vigil for Peace that, in other circumstances, they might have balked at. “Thoughts and prayers,” is shorthand for a kind of consolation after gun-related tragedies in the United States […]
The world is not short on bad news. Gas prices remain stubbornly elevated. Congress has lurched from one standoff to the next, the SAVE America Act is still grinding through the Senate, and a partial Department of Homeland Security shutdown is dragging into its fourth month. Overseas wars grind on. Americans looking for something to […]
When the Trump administration announced its Most Favored Nation policy, it was portrayed as a simple, sensible idea. Drug companies were supposed to lower prices for Americans to match the lower prices paid by other nations. But industry analysts and economists warn that the policy is making it harder for smaller firms to compete while […]
The war between the United States, Israel, and Iran has yielded a significant amount of uncertainty, but it may also have produced an unalloyed and unprecedented good: peace between Israel and Lebanon, its neighbor to the north. On Thursday, April 16, President Donald Trump announced that a 10-day ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon was to take effect […]
