Opinion

Sixteen years after passage of the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare), America has accumulated enough experience to ask a question that extends beyond any one administration or political party: Where did the money go? The Affordable Care Act fundamentally reshaped American healthcare. Millions gained health insurance, and protections for patients with pre-existing conditions became permanent law. […]

Heading into Aug. 11’s primary elections in a pair of Upper Midwest states, the conventional wisdom led many observers to expect certain outcomes. In Wisconsin, socialist Francesca Hong was running away with the Democratic gubernatorial nomination, we were told, with multiple polls showing her in a dominant position. In Minnesota, pillow magnate Mike Lindell received […]

President Donald Trump has made a clear promise on military artificial intelligence: move faster without breaking the constitutional chain of command. His June 5 national-security AI memorandum orders the Pentagon to accelerate adoption of advanced systems while making them reliable, steerable, controllable, and accountable. It also gives the Pentagon 90 days to update its directive […]

North Korea has launched yet another missile. On Aug. 6, Pyongyang fired an unidentified projectile into the East Sea. South Korean and Japanese authorities immediately assessed the situation, and military authorities braced for the possibility of further provocations. Yet, this news no longer halts South Korean society in its tracks. A breaking news alert flashes, […]

ROME — For years, the European commentariat has warned that Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni would drag her country back toward dark traditions. The real test of that prophecy may now arrive in the form of a former army general whose politics make Meloni look like a liberal. Roberto Vannacci’s new far-right party, National Future, […]

The inspector general for California‘s high-speed rail project has an update: The project is going broke (again), is being delayed (again), and is not being transparent with the public (again). Benjamin Belnap’s report highlighted several missing details in the project’s 2026 business plan and concluded that the project would again run out of money as early as […]

For more than a decade, Democrats have watched Donald Trump succeed with a brand of politics that is crude, often coarse, and always volatile. They have agonized, mostly unproductively, about how to defeat it. They tried various strategies, and all ultimately failed. Now they are trying another that is doomed. First, before it was clear […]

Though I once checked email in a room where others watched Elf (2003), I have otherwise not seen a Will Ferrell performance since his 2000 turn as George W. Bush (“Strategery!”) on Saturday Night Live. Those wishing to relitigate the merits of Anchorman (2004) or Step Brothers (2008) will need to look elsewhere. What I […]

Imagine a neighborhood restaurant that hires an up-and-coming star chef, but then doesn’t get her the ingredients she needs, lets the other kitchen staff hassle her, barely mentions her in the restaurant’s own advertising, and does little to protect her when the rest of the staff starts taking swings at her. What would you call […]

There are two big points to make about Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s (D-NY) suggestion that “Woke 1 was crazy.” The first is that “Woke 1” inexorably suggests Woke 2 is on the way or already here. As with software, later versions of woke will be more sophisticated, but unlike software updates, the advances of woke will […]

Public health is not built on executive decrees. It is forged through decades of clinical trial data, independent peer review, and trust between physicians and parents. On Aug. 10, President Donald Trump issued an executive order titled “Delivering Gold Standard Childhood Vaccine Recommendations for Americans.” This directive disrupts our entire medical framework. By compressing the […]

California Democrats have spent nearly two decades insisting that the state’s high-speed rail project needs just one more appropriation, one more redesign, and one more permit to succeed. But a new report from the project’s inspector general should finally end this charade. California High-Speed Rail Inspector General Benjamin Belnap has warned lawmakers that the rail […]