Opinion

Disgraced former television host Tucker Carlson has announced that he has left the Republican Party. It should be met with a resounding “good riddance,” and an acknowledgment that President Donald Trump has pushed extremists out of the GOP while Democrats have embraced their own. Carlson made his announcement on his show, claiming that “I would […]

Former NBC host Chuck Todd declared today that President Barack Obama was not in fact a liberal, but was merely black. “The only reason people think he’s a liberal is because he’s black,” Todd declared on a podcast with Chris Cillizza. Todd asked, “What policy was he liberal on?” There are a thousand possibilities, but […]

The new federal student aid formula punishes families with more than one child in college at a time. As with the old law, the Education Department determines a family’s ability to pay, declares the expected parental contribution for the coming school year, and then tries to meet the family’s financial need. Under the new law, […]

Welcome to Tuesday’s edition of Washington Secrets, which takes a deep dive into a new history of the Biden presidency. The verdict is brutal, even among writers who are willing themselves to find some wins. So given all that, why is Gavin Newsom talking up his relationship with a president who is even less popular […]

Healthcare costs are weighing heavily on Americans’ minds. A new Pew Research Center survey found that 73% of Americans consider the affordability of healthcare a “very big problem” for the country. Congress has noticed. In recent months, lawmakers have held a series of healthcare affordability hearings examining why healthcare costs are rising — and what […]

New polling from the Market Institute and President Donald Trump’s pollster Fabrizio Ward finds that an overwhelming 87% of voters believe fighting Alzheimer’s should be a priority. Nearly 4 in 5 say they are more likely to support candidates who prioritize better access to Alzheimer’s detection, diagnosis, and treatment. The good news is these results […]

The United States and Israel have earned the right to say they hurt Iran. They have not earned the right to say they changed it. That distinction is now in danger of disappearing. The recent campaign against Iran produced real gains. Iran’s nuclear program was set back. Military infrastructure was damaged. Senior figures in its […]

The prime minister of the United Kingdom is a technocrat who is inept, a would-be despot who doesn’t believe in anything, and a career politician who lacks all charm and political skill. That is, Keir Starmer was the man for the U.K.’s dreadful moment. Starmer is resigning. He had no grand fatal flaw. He was […]

Socialist Janeese Lewis George won the Democratic nomination for mayor of Washington, D.C., presenting her victory as one brought by and for the working class. But an analysis by the Washington Examiner found that many of her small donors are located in progressive enclaves. “I’m honored to be the presumptive Democratic nominee for the mayor […]

The downside of the Supreme Court’s 2022 decision overturning Roe v. Wade has been the rise of chemical abortion and the way it allows abortion sellers to circumvent state laws designed to protect unborn children and their mothers. While exact numbers are hard to pin down, the accepted wisdom is that chemical abortion now accounts […]

In the 2022–2023 school year, the Montgomery County Board of Education in Maryland introduced a set of LGBT-inclusive storybooks into its elementary curriculum, kindergarten through fifth grade. The books featured story lines built around sexuality and gender identity for children as young as five. Initially, the board offered parents the choice to opt out. But […]

At 17, I was an aspiring ballerina with my whole life ahead of me. That all changed when I met Jeffrey Epstein. I was brought into Epstein’s orbit under the guise of being a masseuse to make a little extra money on the side.  It didn’t take long for Epstein to use one of the […]