“Reform prosecutors” are starting to flounder in California, exposing just how unpopular criminal justice reform is in reality once it moves past the half-baked platitudes of the campaign cycle. Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price will soon be facing a recall election, with the Alameda Registrar of Voters confirming that recall supporters secured enough signatures. […]
It’s no secret that we live in a polarized world. Even if you ignore politics (good luck trying that), you’d also have to ignore entertainment news (exes or coworkers squabbling), sports news (rivals or teammates bickering), and social media (dislikes, trolls, goofs gone viral) to escape polarization. But one impressive group is trying to ratchet […]
April means Tax Day, a yearly reminder that most people don’t like our tax code. As a recent Tax Foundation poll found, people don’t understand it either. With a looming tax battle on Capitol Hill, the need for tax policy education has never been higher. We shouldn’t let tax education end with Tax Day. The public […]
For the longest time, it was generally assumed that high-turnout elections would benefit the Democratic Party. But recent polling and election data suggest that this conventional thinking is disconnected from reality. According to a recent poll of the 2024 presidential election, those who had voted in multiple elections since 2018 were more likely to vote […]
Fascism is alive and well in Belgium, as the mayor of Brussels has opted to suppress an assembly of conservative academics, politicians, and commentators. The National Conservatism Conference started on Tuesday with a who’s who roster of prominent conservatives from all over Europe. British politicians Suella Braverman and Nigel Farage, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, […]
Democrats, and the opinion-makers who support them, just can’t seem to figure out why voters are still sour on the Biden economy. Writing for New York Magazine, Jonathan Chait made the case that “Paul Krugman Is Right About the Economy, and the Polls Are Wrong.” “One of the most uncomfortable arguments to make in America […]
The past week has illustrated that “pro-Palestinian” protesters aren’t just delusional enough to think they are protesting against a “genocide.” They are also delusional enough to think that they are above the law in every way. Demonstrators in Chicago, Philadelphia, San Francisco, and Oakland, California, illegally blocked traffic on Monday, protesting against Israel after Iran […]
In 1797, a year after revolutionary France abolished paper money following a disastrous inflationary experiment, U.S. President John Adams delivered a warning on government debt. “The consequences arising from the continual accumulation of public debts in other countries ought to admonish us to be careful to prevent their growth in our own,” Adams told Congress. […]
