Republican Sen. Susan Collins vowed she won't be "intimidated" after her Biddeford office was vandalized, while her Dem rival Troy Jackson stayed silent on the act.
Civil society has deteriorated over the last three decades as people have withdrawn from civic life. The root cause of this trend lies in our failed education system, which has substituted nation-building civic education with destructive activism. I’ve seen the results of this failed education firsthand in the classroom as a political science professor. Today’s […]
The rot runs deeper than we thought. In May, the public received another update from the Social Security trustees confirming that the Social Security Trust Fund will be insolvent in nine years. But buried in the data was the alarming statistic that the total cost of Social Security insolvency has ballooned to $615 trillion in […]
Determined to subjugate Taiwan under Chinese Communist Party rule, China is building warships and weapons at a vast pace and scale. Our military — and economy — simply is not ready. If Taiwan falls, the American alliance structure in the Pacific will suffer a potentially deadly blow. China will be able to compel the political […]
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 […]
Industrial policy is back in Washington, D.C., and its supporters are already crediting it with an American manufacturing “boom.” In one narrow sense, they have a point: Shortly after Congress and the Biden administration authorized trillions of dollars in federal subsidies for renewable energy and semiconductors under the Inflation Reduction Act and the CHIPS and […]
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 […]
