LAS VEGAS — Vice President JD Vance has faced skepticism from some in the Jewish Republican community. He waded directly into the fray Monday — and was met with...
Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascon has repeatedly shown that his judgment is severely flawed, which is a problem for someone tasked with keeping the public safe. The latest news in Gascon’s terrible decision-making comes from the California attorney general’s office, which has filed 11 felony charges against Diana Teran. Teran is accused of […]
Columbia University and Yale University appear to be in a competition to see who will be the poster child for antisemitism, intimidation, and polemics trumping serious insight or discussion of world affairs. Historian Martin Kramer warned 14 years ago that Columbia was entering a tailspin. Columbia President Nemat “Minouche” Shafik essentially surrendered to the antisemitic mob […]
The following concludes a series about how State Department age determinations put special immigrant visa applicant Wali Akrami’s son Waheed in needless peril for six years. Afghan refugee Waheed Akrami arrived in Rochester, New York, this month on humanitarian parole after an apparent State Department blunder separated him from his family for six long years. In 2018, […]
President Joe Biden introduced new provisions to his student debt relief plan earlier this month, and the primary beneficiaries are high-income earners, according to a new analysis released by the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. While Biden’s 2023 SAVE Plan already put taxpayers on the hook for $475 billion, the new plans add […]
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer recently stated that passing marijuana banking, the Secure and Fair Enforcement Regulation Banking Act (“SAFER”), remains a high priority. Recent news coverage indicates that SAFER may be traded and inserted into another must-pass piece of legislation at the last minute. After all, elections are coming, and the industries looking to […]
One month after increasing for the first time since September, the personal consumption expenditures price inflation index rose again from 2.5% to 2.8% in the month ending in March, its highest annual level since November of last year. Core PCE inflation, which strips away the volatile categories of food and energy prices, held constant at […]
In his fiscal 2025 budget proposal, President Joe Biden asked Congress to provide an unprecedented $104 billion in additional funding for the IRS on top of its $12.3 billion annual budget and the $80 billion the agency already received through Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act. Worryingly, when I questioned IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel about when the […]
Columbia University has succumbed to the mob. Protesters have encamped on its grounds for the past week, disrupting its staff, faculty, and other students. Especially affected are Jewish staff, faculty, and students, who reasonably fear for their safety. The protesters have been demonstrating against Israel’s war in Gaza, demanding the university “divest” from Israel. By […]
Oral argument before the Supreme Court this week showed why it is nonsense to claim that anti-vagrancy laws violate the Constitution‘s Eighth Amendment provision against “cruel and unusual punishment.” Indeed, in the vernacular sense, what is cruel and unusual is a judicial edict that says law-abiding citizens must put up with public spaces featuring major […]
Most alternate histories are built around a grand conceit: What would have happened if Booth’s bullet missed Lincoln or if the Nazis built an atomic bomb? For All Mankind, which recently concluded its fourth season on Apple TV+, offers a more modest counterfactual: How different would things be if the Soviets beat us to the […]
California environmentalists have discovered that when it comes to renewable energy, you can have too much of a good thing. Thanks to heavily subsidized solar panel installation, the state now has too much power, sending electricity prices negative, but only during the daytime. At night, Californians are out of luck. As spring arrives and summer […]
Salman Rushdie’s 2015 novel, Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights, saw the Indian-born British American author take on the role of Scheherazade by spinning numerous fabulous tales and spawning umpteen exotic characters. It was set in New York in an epoch marked by so-called strangenesses where good and evil genies battled, catastrophic disasters raged, […]
Rwanda is an astonishing country: safe, prosperous, orderly, and open. Its success is remarkable enough given the rough neighborhood in which it finds itself. But when you think that 30 years ago this month, it was in the throes of the worst mass slaughter of the late 20th century, its achievements look miraculous. I have […]
