Clayton, a smart but extremely level-headed guy, is perfect as Trump’s point man and a nice contrast to the . . . eccentric characters who helm the top AI firms.
I lived in Montgomery County, Maryland, for 15 years. My new book, Family Unfriendly, begins in Montgomery County. The final anecdote occurs in Montgomery County. One of the times I lost my son, which I describe in the book, involved the Montgomery County Police Department being good and helpful. I wrote much of the book […]
The less important English becomes in America, the less American it becomes as well. On Tuesday, Democrat Ismail Mohamed was elected as an Ohio state representative. The Somali immigrant prioritized support from the large Somali population in his district, which is home to the second largest one in America. His victory speech was entirely given […]
Pre-pandemic, Christopher Rim’s average high-school client would apply to 12 schools. Now, the college admissions consultant said, it's 20 or more schools.
SCOTUS is pondering whether the Biden White House infringed on Americans' First Amendment rights. Naturally, The New York Times stepped in to save the...
AUSTIN, Texas — The 2023-2024 school year is almost over, and the Texas legislature doesn’t meet until January 2025. But Texas Republicans haven’t forgotten about school choice, why it failed, or how to pass it next year. Texas is the most prominent red state without a voucher or education savings plan for families. At a […]
All across the nation, people voting with their feet are choosing Texas. The Census Bureau recently announced that eight of the 10 counties leading the country in population growth were in the Lone Star State. Harris County gained nearly 54,000 residents, the biggest increase in the nation. Other big winners were Collin, Montgomery, Denton, Fort Bend, Bexar, Tarrant, and […]
In early February, I had the opportunity to represent the United States as an international observer of the municipal elections in Costa Rica. I attended at the invitation of the constitutional body responsible for organizing and assuring the integrity of elections in that country, the Supreme Electoral Court of Costa Rica. Overall, there were 58 […]
The modern political impulse to insult not just enemies but erstwhile allies, too, now has infected the Never Trump ranks. The impulse, wherein Never Trumpers adopt one of former President Donald Trump’s discreditable behaviors, is extremely counterproductive. Trump has made a self-harming habit of continuing to insult Republican adversaries and their supporters after they have […]
Author Rob Henderson coined the powerful term “luxury beliefs” to describe certain altruistic beliefs held by upper-class elites that, when paired with public policy, actually severely damage lower classes. One such belief is opposition to school choice. It particularly harms vulnerable children, as my seven siblings and I experienced ourselves. Our family spent time on […]
Washington, D.C.’s Union Station is supposed to be the “gateway to the nation’s capital.” But after eight years and millions of dollars, it has become one of the nation’s greatest symbols of bureaucratic and regulatory dysfunction. Nine years ago, the Federal Railroad Administration began jumping through all the legal hoops necessary to redevelop the capital’s […]
In the grand theater of the upcoming NFL draft, as exhaustively covered a meat market as exists anywhere in the sporting world, individual combine performances can dramatically alter the monetary value of a young athlete’s career. Take Ricky Pearsall, for instance, a senior wide receiver from Florida. His performance at the combine turned heads and […]
In a worst-case scenario, Virginia Woolf said, Renaissance women writers would wind up like Judith, Shakespeare’s sister, who, although she was as clever and talented as her older brother, did not amount to anything. Feeling depressed and rejected, she killed herself. But Woolf was wrong. Shakespeare had a daughter named Judith. His sister was Joan, […]
