Biden administration officials are reportedly mulling whether or not to grant blanket pardons to a laundry list of political allies, a move that, if enacted, would be a tacit admission that the Justice Department has been tainted by politics. President Joe Biden already brought scrutiny to the prosecutorial process when he issued a blanket pardon […]
For eight years, the Syrian civil war appeared over. Turkish-backed rebel fighters held their lines, but Bashar Assad’s regime controlled most major cities. Though Syria might not have been united under a single government, Assad’s adversaries considered the war over. Many in Congress considered Assad anathema, but even his Arab adversaries had begun to consider […]
In his new, much-talked-about Atlantic essay, George Packer contends that journalists “will have a special challenge” in the era of President-elect Donald Trump. “We’re living,” he writes, “in a world where facts instantly perish upon contact with human minds.” For those unfamiliar with Packer’s work, he’s a celebrated author of numerous books, including one that […]
It’s pointless to rehash whether Donald Trump should be taken seriously or literally. Particularly when it comes to the former and future president’s economic policies. Rather, Trump’s words are best understood through a prism of the broader story about the markets and the broader U.S. economy. The Republican may toss out contradictory policy proposals, seemingly […]
The Biden administration is less than two months from its end, which cannot come soon enough. As a final insult to his staunchest defenders, those who long insisted he was a paragon of decency, President Joe Biden pardoned his convicted felon and all-around wastrel son Hunter. A more appropriate final chapter to his tenure, one […]
Absurdly and inexcusably, votes are still being counted even though polls closed more than a month ago, on Nov. 5. You’d think a developed country such as ours, which sees itself as a beacon of democracy, could get Election Day right. But, no, we make a hash of it every time. We’ve escaped chaos now […]
A new kind of tennis sport is slowly breaking out across the country. Created by tennis coach Nate Gross, “Spec Tennis” aims to find a midway point between the increasingly popular pickleball sport and conventional tennis. “I came up with Spec Tennis in 2016,” Gross explained to the Washington Examiner, “when I was looking for […]
HENDERSONVILLE, North Carolina — Two months to the day after the remains of Hurricane Helene brought unprecedented devastation into the mountains of North Carolina, the remarkable damage is still plain to see. So, too, though, is the good old American pluck. On a steep curve a few miles up Finley Cove Road, to the west […]
It is an all-too-familiar story: A president is pursued by his political enemies who target his family and use deep-state actors to engage in lawfare. That was the narrative last week, but it was not coming from President-elect Donald Trump. The victim of what the White House press secretary called “war politics” is none other […]
President-elect Donald Trump, no laissez-faire Republican, likes to use the government to steer the ship of the economy, punishing what he sees as bad behavior and rewarding behavior he likes. Trump’s fondness for economic intervention and rejection of any consistent policy framework may be annoying for CEOs, but it’s gold for the lobbyists who are […]
A healthy majority of unmarried adults, 55% according to the exit polls, voted for Vice President Kamala Harris. You need to slice this more finely, though, because Harris and President-elect Donald Trump tied among unmarried men. Harris won 61% to 38% among unmarried women. To get even more specific, among young single women, Harris won […]
The electorate voted overwhelmingly in support of taking the federal government in a new direction last month, but thanks to the undemocratic power of government unions, the new administration will be limited in its ability to deliver more efficient services for citizens. In a last-second move designed to thwart the will of the voters, Social […]
If nothing else, this week's Supreme Court hearing on Tennessee’s ban on sex-reassignment procedures for minors exposed the utter unreality of the pro-child-mutilation gang.
