Opinion

Somehow we are still capable of surprise and even shock when it comes to President Donald Trump’s behavior, despite all he has done throughout his public life and throughout his time as the dominant figure in American politics. This tells us something about our psychology and about our expectations for the office of the president. […]

With Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) dropping out of the race, the new Democratic front-runner to be the next governor of California is Tom Steyer, an incompetent climate zealot who will fast-track California’s decline. Steyer, a hedge fund billionaire who ran for president as a Democrat in 2020, has been the top polling Democrat outside of […]

Much has been made about the recent social media post made by President Donald Trump criticizing Pope Leo XIV as being “WEAK on Crime, and terrible for Foreign Policy.” In typical Trump-responsive fashion, many expressed outrage at the gall of the president to criticize the leader of the Catholic Church. Political charlatans rebuked Trump, accusing […]

PITTSBURGH — On April 19, 1926, an above-the-fold story in the Pittsburgh Gazette Times detailed the Pittsburgh Catholic Diocese’s Bishop Hugh Boyle officiating at the dedication of a new church and school in the city’s upper north side neighborhood off of Perrysville Avenue. “The services, which began shortly after 10:30 a.m. consisted of a procession […]

Graham Platner is a leftist Democrat running for U.S. Senate in Maine. He is a self-described communist, holds all manner of radical policy stances, and admittedly views white, rural Americans with outright contempt. He wrote that “all” police are bastards and appeared to endorse political violence. As his ideological and personal baggage have mounted, the […]

The following is an installment of “On This Day,” a series celebrating America’s 250th anniversary by following the actions of Gen. George Washington, the Continental Congress, and the men and women whose bravery and sacrifice led up to the signing of the Declaration of Independence. April 14, 1776 Gen. George Washington has arrived in New […]

After decades in the world of accounting and finance, including my time leading PricewaterhouseCoopers, I know all too well the complications of the U.S. tax code. But I’ve also seen firsthand how well-designed tax policy can drive investment, expand opportunity, and strengthen communities. The most effective policies align individual incentives with broader societal goals. The […]

For years, Americans were told that strict controls on who could own and build power plants would foster competition and lower prices. But in large parts of the mid-Atlantic, including Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Maryland — PJM; this area also includes other states — the reality has been far different since the 1990s restructuring wave. […]

Campus antisemitism doesn’t persist because universities are unaware, but because they make placating statements and gestures while refusing to meaningfully act. Last month, Jewish students testified before the United States Commission on Civil Rights. Numerous witnesses painted a bleak picture that should have settled the question, but it didn’t. The evidence that campus antisemitism remains […]

Peter Magyar’s landslide election victory in Hungary has brought down Viktor Orban after 16 years in power. It’s a defeat for Moscow and Beijing, both of which counted Orban as a partner. But it’s also a defeat for the Trump administration, which openly and enthusiastically endorsed Orban. This American endorsement and Trump’s regard for Orban […]

Imagine a statute criminalizing the placement of curtains in home windows. After all, people regularly commit terrible crimes in the privacy of their own homes — perpetrating domestic violence, cooking up deadly drugs, storing illegal contraband, harboring fugitives, running kitchen-table scams, etc. If at-home conduct were made visible to the police and the public, the […]