Confronted with a series of polls indicating a historic cratering of support among black men, Vice President Kamala Harris unveiled a new “Opportunity Agenda for Black Men,” hoping to entice one of the Democratic Party’s most critical voting blocs to show up to the polls in November. The agenda would give black men “and others” […]
The Cato Institute on Tuesday published its 17th biennial Fiscal Policy Report Card on America’s Governors, evaluating 50 state leaders and their tax and spending policies since 2022. A half a dozen governors — Kim Reynolds of Iowa, Jim Pillen of Nebraska, Jim Justice of West Virginia, Sarah Huckabee Sanders of Arkansas, Kristi Noem of […]
If Alexis de Tocqueville returned to America after nearly 200 years, what, once he had freed himself from the tender ministrations of the TSA, would the author of Democracy in America think? It would not take long to discover that he had been right to worry that time would turn two American strengths into weaknesses. Democracy had […]
Jason Reitman’s new film, Saturday Night, dramatizes the behind-the-scenes chaos of the making of the first episode of Saturday Night Live in 1975. The movie, timed to release shortly before the show’s 50th anniversary, is an odd, if entertaining, duck — a bit inside-baseball for SNL fans and a bit of nostalgia for a time […]
Americans are increasingly certain that their political opponents aren’t merely wrong, but evil. Now, accusing your neighbor of being a moral degenerate is generally frowned upon. For good reason. In the real world, we still need to live together peacefully. And anyway, my liberal acquaintances and friends are delightful people. It is because my liberal friends are […]
The more interviews Kamala Harris does, the more one understands her original decision to do as few as possible. They keep revealing her weaknesses as a candidate or — heaven forfend! — a future president. Her interview with Fox News anchor Bret Baier on Oct. 16 was not an immediate disaster. She was still standing […]
President Joe Biden will attend a European Quad leaders meeting in Berlin on Friday. The other leaders being United Kingdom Prime Minister Keir Starmer, French President Emmanuel Macron, and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz. If not in their China policies, Starmer and Macron are reliable allies for European security. Not so Scholz. Indeed, if elected, Donald […]
America’s legacy media institutions again disgraced themselves when CBS 60 Minutes edited Vice President Kamala Harris‘s jumbled answer to a question about the turbulence in the Middle East to make her seem more articulate. Instances like this, which expose Harris’s struggle to engage in meaningful policy discussions, are a big part of why her staff has shielded […]
Under the Constitution of the United States, Congress has broad power to regulate commerce among the states and the power to prevent the individual states from interfering in the free flow of commerce. Today, in too many respects, Congress has ceded political and economic power to the state of California. That delegation of power harms […]
Do not ask questions. Do not challenge established dogma. Do not confront favored subjects. These are the rules at legacy media outlets in 2024. In order to be a journalist at one of these favored institutions, one essentially has to agree not to do any journalism at all. On Sept. 30, CBS Mornings anchor Tony […]
As war clouds loom over the Western Pacific, there are alarming signs that America has already lost the intelligence war to China. Communist China’s intent to forcibly overturn America’s historic dominance in the waters of east Asia, sooner rather than later, is not in doubt. The People’s Liberation Army’s most recent maneuvers around Taiwan, involving more […]
It’s important, health nuts and dieticians will tell you, to eat simpler. Try to eat locally sourced food, goes the advice, and choose foods that are minimally processed. The fewer the ingredients, the better, experts will tell you, so check the list of ingredients on every box or bag or frozen package of food you […]
In the final weeks leading up to Election Day, most presidential nominees hope to be comfortably campaigning to the center of undecided and lower-propensity voters. Alas, the Democratic presidential nominee, Vice President Kamala Harris, is stuck trying to stop record bleeding among her base. Despite promising voters a cornucopia of continued free (read: taxpayer-funded) credits […]
Once upon a time, the voters elected a president named George W. Bush. They liked him well enough to elect him a second time. He was far from perfect, and his competition was not exactly stiff. One of the men he ran against was John Kerry, for heaven’s sake. Even so, he managed to convince […]
