Republican Steve Hilton and Democrat Xavier Becerra clashed nonstop for an hour Wednesday in the sole televised debate in their contest for California governor, presenting sharply contrasting visions for how they would deal with homelessness, soaring household costs and high taxes in the nation's most populous state.
A new convergence uniting the radical left, Islamist extremism and the authoritarian far right is taking shape around a shared hostility to the Western...
Clementine Breen’s story is one of thousands. Children steered toward irreversible medicalization on the promise it would fix them and then left to face...
The surrogacy fad has several dark elements, chief among them being the treatment of babies as commodities instead of people. This leads to a contradiction in Democratic Party ideology, where “your body, my choice” becomes the standard for abortion. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton intervened in a surrogacy case involving an Alaska woman who traveled […]
Albeit belatedly and at insufficient scale, European navies are increasingly seizing Russian tankers that are transporting arms and oil in breach of international sanctions. The United States has also seized at least one Russian tanker that attempted to escape the blockade of Venezuela. These Russian vessels operate as “shadow tankers,” sailing under shell companies and […]
For generations, local bank branches served as the center of the community where people could safely hold their deposits, secure a mortgage, or obtain financing to launch a business. Times have changed. Today, more banking than ever occurs online. Onerous federal regulations have shuttered thousands of banks. As the industry evolves, policymakers must ensure regulations […]
“Affordability” has become the buzzword in criticizing both the Trump administration and our longstanding capitalist system. Although I acknowledge the disparate impacts of the K-shaped economy, the Left’s constant harping on fairness and wealth inequality is largely a red herring. It is the Left’s own policies that have caused most of the damage, while free-market […]
The map of global aviation has been quietly redrawn. For decades, airlines crossing Eurasia could choose among multiple routes linking Europe and Asia. Today, military conflict, sanctions, and regional instability have dramatically narrowed those options. Russian airspace remains closed to many Western carriers. Iranian airspace carries growing operational risks. Successive crises across the Middle East […]
President Donald Trump is reportedly considering another powerful tool for America’s pro-growth agenda: indexing capital gains taxes for inflation. The proposal, long championed by Larry Kudlow, deserves serious consideration. It would be the equivalent of adding another log to America’s economic-growth fire. The One Big Beautiful Bill strengthened incentives for businesses to invest, innovate, expand, […]
Imagine a store that, rather than making customers pay for items they break, requires them to pay 24 times the value of the broken item. People would stop shopping there because the rule is unfair. Yet cities across the nation are deceptively imposing a similar unfair system on their citizens through “no-net-loss” ordinances. In theory, […]
History does not repeat itself, but it occasionally rhymes. Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr’s latest broadcast market interventions rhyme much more closely with Franklin Roosevelt’s view of government than with Ronald Reagan’s. This should raise alarms, or as Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) summed it up last week, “Sometimes the FCC scares me right now.” […]
Somewhere in Guatemala City, a labor court has decided that a corporate insider is worth more, by the month, than Cristiano Ronaldo, Stephen Curry, and LeBron James combined. Not a typo. According to his own complaint, a former Tigo Guatemala executive wants his severance calculated on an “average monthly salary” of $4.47 million — a […]
