Since before the nation’s founding, Americans have engaged in political speech and advocacy anonymously. Anonymity helps to protect speakers from reprisals, violent or otherwise. It also removes a possible distraction from the contents of the message: the identity and reputation of the speaker. But private and public actors alike around the country are chipping away […]
Start with the week itself, in order. On Aug. 14, at a police training center in Garden City, New York, President Donald Trump told a room of law enforcement officers that once Iran is finished, “pretty soon I’ll be declaring the Hormuz Strait a territory of the United States.” He added the sentence that was […]
Following reports that Ukraine had used drones made by two British companies to strike oil and logistics facilities inside Russia, Moscow’s embassy in London accused the United Kingdom of deliberately escalating the war. It promised “consequences” would follow. The deeper the U.K. became involved in the war, Russia said, “the higher the price it will […]
Vic Mellor wants to represent Rhode Island’s 2nd Congressional District. In late May, mid-campaign, he flew to Havana, delivered humanitarian supplies, and met twice over lengthy dinners with Raul Guillermo Rodriguez Castro, grandson of former Cuban leader Raul Castro. Three weeks later, he registered with the Justice Department as a foreign agent for two arms of the Cuban […]
Supposedly “evidence-based” bail reforms, diversion programs and alternatives to incarceration aren't nearly as successful as America was told — and a new analysis reveals...
News that the national debt has risen above $40 trillion resonated like a ringing bell in my mind. It registered that America is 16 times deeper in its fiscal hole than it was when I first reported on this chronic ailment back in the late 1980s. I’ve just reread one of my dispatches from Wall […]
The Democratic Party as we know it is on the verge of collapse, nearly ready to capitulate to the ideology responsible for more deaths in the 20th century than 10 COVID-19 pandemics. It’s not just a small fringe of leftists anymore — according to a new poll, 58% of Democrats have a positive view of […]
A small moment in Hulu’s riveting new series Furious reveals the depth of the show’s preoccupation with female revenge. Investigating a crime scene with an officer who is also her abusive former boyfriend, FBI agent Alice Black (Emmy Rossum) secures a pair of blood-stained scissors and hands them over to her ex. Yet, just for […]
Infrastructure for the future economy is being built, but not in states controlled by the Democratic Party. Gov. Josh Shapiro (D-PA) joined Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-NY) this week in banning new data center construction. They join Democratic governors in 10 other states that have passed legislation or signed executive orders making it harder for investors […]
DEMOCRATIC VOTERS REJECT RESISTANCE STARS. There has been a lot of commentary on the differences between Resistance 1.0, the effort by anti-Trump activists to bring down President Donald Trump in his first term, and Resistance 2.0, the effort by anti-Trump activists to bring down Trump in his second term. There are some tactical contrasts, but the […]
