Opinion

The Cheeriest Midterm Take for Republicans You’re Going to Find

Democrats are currently on track for a good midterm election year, maybe a great one, but Democratic excitement has likely reached the overhyped stage.

As party rifts deepen, Democratic group offers a new framework for the U.S.-Israel relationship

A pro-Israel Democratic advocacy group on Thursday released a framework intended to help the party better articulate its vision for the U.S. relationship with Israel, an issue that has deeply fractured Democrats this year and could lead to further divisions heading into the next presidential campaign.

Trump and Vance hit the campaign trail in deep-red areas where GOP candidates seek a boost

President Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance will both hit the campaign trail on Thursday, but they will be heading to heavily Republican areas to shore up lagging enthusiasm in their party ahead of next month's midterm elections.

Inside Ken Paxton’s jet-setting lifestyle: California wineries, European hot spots and ski resorts

When Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton launched his campaign for Senate last year, he skipped the local pageantry.

Trump’s SBA wants to give $500 million corporations ‘small business’ status — that’s a disaster

The Small Business Act tells the federal government why small business contracting exists: to preserve free competitive enterprise, ensure small businesses receive a fair proportion of federal contracts, and strengthen the nation’s economy. If firms with $500 million in revenue are allowed to position themselves as “small” to access set-aside contracts, it would undermine the core […]

‘White Nights’ starring Marcello Mastroianni rereleased in restored version

Who would have guessed that an Italian film made in 1957, starring one icon of that nation’s cinema (Marcello Mastroianni) and directed by another (Luchino Visconti), and based, of all things, on a short story by a long-dead Russian master (Fyodor Dostoevsky), would speak more urgently to contemporary audiences’ needs, fears, and hopes than any […]

Spain’s socialist border chaos

If you want to know what the Democratic Socialists of America’s mass-amnesty and open-borders policies would look like in practice, just look at what is happening right now in Spain, where Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, head of the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party, has implemented their vision. Tens of thousands of military-aged men invaded the Spanish […]

Britbox’s mystery ‘Gone’ is good, old-fashioned entertainment

Write a decent script — not a masterpiece but one with enough misdirection to keep us guessing. Hire a compelling lead. Imagine your ideal number of episodes, then lop off two or three of them. No, it really isn’t difficult to make a better-than-average TV murder mystery.  ITV’s Gone, now streaming on BritBox following a […]

Attention Gavin Newsom: Donald Trump’s war on fraud is no bluff

California and Minnesota officials may have to shake down state taxpayers for a billion dollars to pay for their states’ Medicaid programs this year. 

Gavin Newsom’s tax return bait-and-switch: An attack on democracy

Gavin Newsom promised to "release" his tax returns. He did no such thing.

Gavin Newsom’s latest utility bailout — bad policy, bad for democracy

Gavin Newsom is secretly pursuing an 11th-hour push to shield California's three for-profit utility monopolies from the financial consequences of the wildfires they cause,...

A few questions about the new hopeful Gaza peace plan

One enforcement arm is supposed to be the International Stabilization Force, but it's meant to have a mere 5,000 troops — and so far...

Gore’s ‘truth’ aged badly, a disastrous discipline ‘reform’ and other commentary

Al Gore’s alarmist documentary “An Inconvenient Truth” 20 years ago triggered the “inculcation” in “millions of Americans” of the belief that “climate change poses...

Mamdani beware — Cleveland’s forgotten folly holds a warning for NYC

If not for a staggering Ohio tax demand in 1913, New York’s rise as the nation’s undisputed center of capital, commerce and culture may...

California’s automatic minimum wage hikes hurt ‘affordability’

California’s minimum wage is rising to $17.40 per hour, starting next January 1. It’s an automatic increase, though Gavin Newsom is trying to take...

Trump is facing a major Iran war hurdle — this time on the homefront

An Iran war that was supposed to be brief, and then was supposed to be over, is imposing an increasing price on Donald Trump’s...

Mamdani’s pied-à-terre tax: Letters to the Editor — Aug. 1, 2026

The pied-à-terre tax foolishness by Mayor Mamdani that includes harassing thousands of New Yorkers who have to prove the city is their primary residence...

Democrats’ swing state ‘blue wall’ becomes a haven for socialists

The Democratic Party’s surrender to socialism is not just taking place in deep-blue cities. The socialist wing is taking over in the Midwestern swing states that have decided the last three presidential elections. Former Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes dropped out of the Wisconsin governor’s race, acknowledging the reality that the Democratic primary is socialist Francesca […]

A multipolar world would be disastrous for international security

Writing in The Guardian this week, Yale Law professors Ash Bâli and Samuel Moyn celebrate what they suggest is the end of the unipolar American-led international order. To borrow from Mark Twain, I suspect that news of America’s superpower death is exaggerated. Still, in their optimism about how a new multipolar order might be established, […]

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