With the NFL preseason in full swing, I can’t help thinking about the incremental neurological damage that’s being inflicted on the players with each vicious tackle and violent collision. The damage — chronic traumatic encephalopathy, the degenerative brain disease better known as CTE — has often been decades in the making. Chris Nowinski, the former […]
History should be the Federal Reserve’s best teacher in September. It has already shown what happens when central banks answer an energy shock with higher interest rates: employment weakens, investment retreats, and policymakers eventually reverse course after families and businesses have absorbed unnecessary damage. The Fed can learn that lesson now, or make working Americans […]
King Abdullah II is in Beijing this week, his first visit to China since 2015. The instinct in Washington will be to treat that as a warning sign: a treaty ally’s king courting Xi Jinping, right as commentators reach for words like “hedge” and “pivot.” The honest answer to whether Washington should care is: a […]
As FBI director Chris Wray performed his usual smarmy stonewalling in Congress Wednesday, a damning report on his $10 billion agency’s “cult of narcissism”...
The wildly diverging partisan reactions to Wednesday’s Capitol Hill appearance by Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu show that the Left has neither a moral compass nor a sense of U.S. national interests in the Middle East. Netanyahu is a divisive figure in his own land and worldwide, but even his personal detractors here should welcome him as the duly elected […]
The Democratic Party is all about testing candidates through primary contests and giving voters a voice, but Kamala Harris is doing an end-run around...
