Opinion

For years, progressives have whined about prosecuting crime, what they dub “mass incarceration,” as a woe to society. They complained it was racist, perpetuated broken families, and did little for either rehabilitation or deterrence. So an experiment was born.  Billionaire George Soros promoted candidates for district attorney (the main prosecutor in a city) who would […]

America’s space shuttle program burned through almost $200 billion over the course of three decades from 1981 to 2011, but it failed to live up to expectations. A new examination has arrived at a sobering conclusion: “By every measure, the shuttle had fallen short of even the modest hopes that had surrounded it. And the […]

When President Joe Biden took office, some in the media claimed that the “adults are back in charge.” This narrative suggested that former President Donald Trump’s unpredictability had finally given way to officials who practiced a more serious statecraft. The adults most certainly are not in charge this week. Addressing a joint session of Congress […]

The Supreme Court’s decision to overturn the “Chevron deference,” which gave bureaucratic agencies enormous power to determine how to implement laws, has been widely celebrated by conservatives as a blow against federal regulatory overreach. But unless Congress reasserts its primacy in regulatory policy, the end of Chevron may simply shift the most important economic decisions […]

The border crisis, on par with inflation, is perhaps the worst domestic failure of the Biden-Harris administration. It is the result of dumb policymaking and chronic inattention. So it is startling that, having forced out the incumbent president who is their leader, Democrats appear bent on filling the vacuum with their lamentable border czar. In […]