Zohran Mamdani's Office of Mass Engagement draws fierce criticism after a commissioner with DSA ties outlined plans to build leaders and organize people.
President-elect Donald Trump has made clear that negotiating an end to the war in Ukraine will be his top foreign policy priority upon taking office. To be successful, he will need a deal that preserves Ukraine’s sovereignty alongside Russia‘s cessation of both overt and covert military action. It won’t be easy. But if Trump is […]
Homelessness plagues the American city. It is a simple description of a complex reality, and part of what has brought the issue to its current level is an erroneous conception of “community integration.” Make no mistake, the idea of community integration is good. When people are able to live as a cohesive whole — with […]
Let’s say it plainly: The United States needs its fleet of coal-fired power plants. Consider, for starters, the rising demands for electricity driven by the expansion of data centers, electrification, and industrial growth. A year ago, public utilities and grid operators nearly doubled their forecasts of the additional electricity needed to power the U.S. economy over the next […]
When you have to fabricate racism to fight to justify your worldview, you end up doing more harm than good. Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson shows that better than anyone. Johnson is the personification of “antiracist” criminal justice “reform,” and that comes with deadly consequences for Chicago residents. On Tuesday night, Chicago police found 43-year-old Eduardo […]
Joe Biden always wanted to be president. He just never knew why. A president who lacked strong priorities or firm beliefs took the White House in 2021 atop a party dominated by group politics. The groups knew what they wanted and knew what they believed, but of course, the various groups — racial, gender, gay, […]
“A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.” I found myself returning again and again to that cold-hearted quotation, widely attributed to Joseph Stalin, as I read Mark L. Clifford’s stunning new biography of Jimmy Lai, The Troublemaker, How Jimmy Lai Became a Billionaire, Hong Kong’s Greatest Dissident, and China’s Most Feared […]
As Arizona’s state legislature convened this month, our hearts were heavy with the events of the past couple of weeks in California, where thousands of individuals lost their homes or businesses and dozens were killed. We are saddened by the loss of life and property. With this genuine sympathy toward innocent victims, we must work […]
Between wildfires incurring an estimated quarter-trillion dollars of damage in California and Bidenomics delivering a final extinction burst of heightened inflation, financial markets have had an inauspicious start to 2025. So, investors soundly rejoiced as they welcomed the calm, coherence, and competence displayed during the Senate confirmation hearing of President-elect Donald Trump‘s nominee for treasury […]
Gone are the days when reading a book was the preferred means to knowledge, replaced by the rapid consumption of digital media and the allure of screen-based entertainment. This phenomenon is growing in America, and it is pronounced among our youth. The inference is that we appear to be reading less these days, and while […]
Our lives, economies, and politics are lived online. Increasingly, Americans have become aware of the challenges of cybersecurity but tend to see it in personal terms. (“Don’t click on the strange link!”) Those in the U.S. government, whether in the Office of the National Cyber Director or in the defense and intelligence agencies, tend to […]
It is still early. We have not seen Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the nominee for health and human services secretary, or Mehmet Oz, the pick for Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services administrator, testify yet. But so far, from what we have seen, President-elect Donald Trump’s Cabinet nominees look prepared, professional, unified, and, most importantly, […]
EXPORT, Pennsylvania — Despite 16 days of snow causing hazardous driving conditions for shoppers and diners, small-business owners in Western Pennsylvania expressed optimism about their prospects ahead of President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration on Monday. From a bustling mechanic shop to an independent Italian grocery store to specialty boutiques to two family restaurants, conversations with the […]
As President-elect Donald Trump returns to the White House, the future of America’s steel industry looms large. That is especially true in Pennsylvania, where Japan-based Nippon Steel entered into an agreement to buy U.S. Steel. This deal is fraught with risk for the United States. Though U.S. Steel is the fifth largest steel producer in […]
