The best indicator of the waning influence of the WASP is that most people no longer know who the term refers to. Stripped to its barest terms, “white Anglo-Saxon Protestant” could mean anyone from an Appalachian bootlegger to a recently naturalized citizen who grew up in the Cotswolds. But these disparate figures, while white, of […]
This week, on a Zoom call with some colleagues, I told the group that I have been traveling around Europe and the Caucasus since May. One of my colleagues responded with a flattering shout. Wow! she said. You’re not just a tourist, you’re a traveler! Which was gratifying, of course, but also made a complicated […]
Teachers unions suffered yet another deserved but embarrassing defeat this week. In Arizona, the state Supreme Court found that not only did unions fail to submit enough valid signatures to get their anti-school-choice proposition on the fall ballot, but they also broke the law by hiring felons to collect signatures. This is just the latest […]
Trump faces a stronger North Korea with 50-70 nuclear weapons and a powerful new partner in Russia, leaving denuclearization increasingly out of reach.
Sen. John Fetterman rejected "AI doomsdaying" and echoed President Donald Trump's push for AI development, warning that U.S. overreaction could benefit China.
One of the funniest political Saturday Night Live sketches I have ever seen was during the Democratic primary in 2016, when Hillary Clinton, played by Kate McKinnon, slowly morphed into her opponent, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT). The sketch was styled as a Clinton campaign ad and showed the then-candidate telling everyone that she believed what […]
If you like giving government handouts to illegal immigrants, then you will love the Democratic vice presidential nominee. Throughout his tenure as governor, Tim Walz (D-MN) has put illegal immigrants before America’s middle class. Walz created a program that provides free, taxpayer-funded college for illegal immigrants. He also made illegal immigrants eligible for government-subsidized health […]
PITTSBURGH — What if we began looking at nuclear energy in a different way? What if those new perspectives worked and brought people from all sides of the energy equation together for the first time in a generation? That is the genesis behind the Kentucky-based energy group, the Nuclear Company, which brought its vision on […]
For all of its efforts to forgive student loans over the past three years, the Biden administration has made precious little effort to address the runaway college tuition costs that are at the core of the student loan and college affordability crisis. But that hasn’t stopped officials in the Justice Department and the Education Department […]
NO, KAMALA HARRIS CANNOT ‘FLIP THE SCRIPT’ ON THE BORDER. You may have seen reports that Vice President Kamala Harris, currently running for president without an agenda, plans to “flip the script” on the border. “Harris tries to flip the script on Trump on the border during raucous Georgia speech,” NPR reported after the vice president’s […]
“Sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast,” the White Queen famously declares in Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking Glass. Nearly all of the best children’s books are full of impossible things: talking bears and spiders, magical wardrobes and toll booths, or crayons that turn imagination into reality. Harold and the Purple […]
Homeless encampment sweeps in San Francisco this week bring renewed attention to Social Security policy. It is especially salient given the presidential election season. Numbers of homeless seniors may seem dire or dramatized depending on one’s home city. Still, it is sensible to conclude that seniors are ending up homeless at far greater rates than […]
An old saying suggests that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. If that holds, then all the wonderful, virtuous mothers in Moms for Liberty should feel very flattered at the moment. This is because the Democratic nominee for president stole the group’s slogan. Vice President Kamala Harris dubbed herself and her dangerously far-left running […]
When former President Donald Trump announced that Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) would be his running mate, few people in Republican political circles were happy about it. Rupert Murdoch, the billionaire owner of several right-of-center news outlets, was not happy with the choice, nor were establishment Republicans such as Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC). Republican political operatives […]
Proposition 1 would not only write the most extreme "trans rights" into the state Constitution, it would legalize rank discrimination on the basis of...
Voters in Minneapolis have a chance in Tuesday’s primary to defeat Rep. Ilhan Omar’s (D-MN) bid for renomination, thus extending a growing voter backlash against the most radically leftist Democrats in Congress. The Minnesota voters would be following the lead of Missouri Democrats who voted to evict Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO) on Aug. 6, as […]
