The Treasury Department sanctioned Palestine Action, Autistici Inventati and Masar Badil, freezing U.S. assets tied to violent far-left terror networks.
Democratic Rep. Debbie Dingell's demand that reporters stop asking about Hasan Piker backfired as conservatives seized on her comments as a weak point.
President Donald Trump signed an order to rename Lake Ontario as 'Lake America,' asserting the U.S. holds most of its volume as trade tensions with Canada escalate.
As we celebrated the Fourth of July last week and reflected on the past, present, and future of our nation, I was reminded of something Thomas Jefferson once wrote: “It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes.” This is a fiscal imperative and moral obligation that has gone ignored […]
Next year is going to see an epic showdown over tax policy. Many provisions of Republicans’ 2017 tax law are set to expire, and most people’s taxes will go up if Congress doesn’t step in. Of special interest to parents, and to Republicans’ growing working-class base, will be how the final compromise treats marriage and […]
This Fourth of July felt particularly ironic. We celebrated the anniversary of America’s Founding Fathers declaring independence from a monarchical ruler, yet we find ourselves in a similar situation today. While the Founders risked everything to free the country from tyranny and succeeded in doing so, President Joe Biden has reversed their advances in liberty. […]
“The Constitution which we now present,” George Washington wrote in 1787 after completing his duties as the presiding officer over the Constitutional Convention, “is the result of a spirit of amity, and of that mutual deference and concession which the peculiarity of our political situation rendered indispensable.” If it seems like the Constitution’s spirit of […]
Americans need less “have a nice day” and more “strive hard.” Tolerance of mediocrity and an openness to slouching through each day is not the route to productivity growth. It’s the path to Western European-style economic stagnation. The United States is the world leader in advanced technologies and possesses the world’s most productive economy. But […]
President Joe Biden‘s slack-jawed, rasping, floundering, and all-around incoherent dumpster fire debate performance has drowned out any iota of substance from the news cycle in the aftermath. Not even barbs about former President Donald Trump‘s pending criminal sentencing or whether the soon-to-be 2024 Republican nominee once had sex with a porn star have penetrated the […]
I never planned on writing about literary it-girl Honor Levy. I knew Levy would get tons of press in the lead-up to the publication of her first book, the brilliantly titled My First Book, marketed as “A Most Anticipated Book of 2024 by Good Morning America, W, Nylon, SheReads, and LitHub.” So I wasn’t particularly […]
The picture neoconservative foreign policy intellectual Robert Kagan paints in his new book, Rebellion, is dark and foreboding. As he sees it, a competition between liberalism and anti-liberalism has “been fought within the American system since the time of the Revolution.” And things are now coming to a head. Although the present crisis “seems unprecedented, […]
Jimmy Breslin was an archetype, a white ethnic working-class New York journalist who spoke his mind, stuck his thumb in the eye of authority municipal, financial, and criminal, and found his story in the people of his city. Except that archetypes are supposed to be eternal. It’s not just that cities change fast and New […]
When a biographer is confronted with a reclusive or recalcitrant subject, there are two ways to proceed. One option is to charm, cajole, or at least play along with the subject to achieve cooperation. The other is to hector and pester the subject, and when the subject shows some signs of interest, to refuse to […]
In his biography of Franz Kafka, Max Brod declared that his friend never wrote a “single word” that was not “infused with a special magic charm.” Ever since the posthumous publication of Kafka’s work, work that only saw the light of day because of Brod’s refusal to carry out Kafka’s request to burn his manuscripts […]
During Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s visit to Europe in May, China and Hungary signed several agreements, including a $2.1 billion rail project that will be part of the Belt and Road Initiative. Announced in 2013 under the name One Belt, One Road, the initiative has been central to Chinese foreign policy, even though the program […]
As you may have gotten from our lead essay, this Summer Books issue, alongside a rich compendium of seven reviews of new titles, we are stepping away from the publication calendar to look at old books that we return to. In the special Winter Books issue to come, you can look forward to recommendations from […]
Listen to any Democrat spinning President Joe Biden’s disastrous debate performance last week, and one of the lines you’ll hear is, “Yes, Biden had a bad night, but Donald Trump repeatedly lied.” To be fair, falsehoods poured from Trump much as usual, but the dichotomy Democrats wish to suggest is a false one. Biden was […]
