Among the classified records taken to Mar-a-Lago by President Trump were documents so sensitive that one had been distributed to just six people, while another set was relevant to his business interests. The disclosure, made to the House Judiciary Committee as part of its investigation into the probes into Trump, offers new details about the...
Chicago Alderwoman Maria Hadden apologizes after 'wrong place at the wrong time' remarks about slain Loyola University Chicago student Sheridan Gorman.
Billionaire George Soros backed scores of elected DAs who effectively eliminated criminal justice, putting more criminals — even repeat offenders — back on the...
On Wednesday, the Government Accountability Office released the results of a covert test that found a jaw-dropping 90% of fake applications were approved without...
Christmas came early for Washington gossips this week with the running saga of Olivia Nuzzi and Ryan Lizza, two accomplished political writers who just...
Can the United States come up with an immigration policy that will prove sustainable? Two writers whom I respect and take delight in reading, despite their widely differing views, Tyler Cowen, who favors more immigration, and Christopher Caldwell, who favors less, have their doubts. Both, incidentally, are writing for the Free Press, Bari Weiss’s eclectic startup. […]
People all across the internet are once again at each other’s throats over a minor incident that’s morphed into the latest fuel for the culture war. This time, it’s a controversy out of the University of Oklahoma, where a college student received a zero from a transgender instructor on an assignment in which she cited […]
A public school district in an idyllic beach town north of San Diego is finally acknowledging a Supreme Court decision to allow opt-outs for parents and students when schools are promoting leftist gender ideology. The Encinitas Union School District was sued by a fifth-grade student, Shea Encinas, who was forced to teach a fellow student […]
It’s not inflation or recession that has blindsided traditional macroeconomists, but irrelevance. Artificial intelligence has not just transformed markets but made our dominant frameworks for understanding them obsolete. For over a century, macroeconomics has relied on tools honed in the industrial age: GDP to measure growth, yield curves to signal recessions, and productivity metrics built […]
Congressional critics of President Donald Trump’s tactics in the war on drug cartels are badly confused. Because the Department of War, instead of the Drug Enforcement Administration, is now engaging the cartels, members of Congress on both sides of the aisle are demanding that the U.S. follow rules of engagement for combat with foreign armies. […]
If you take his comments at face value, President Donald Trump’s objectives in Venezuela seem clear enough: dictator President Nicolas Maduro needs to pack up his things and get out of Caracas before it’s too late. Trump reportedly reiterated that demand during last week’s phone call with Maduro, even as he rejected the Venezuelan dictator’s demands […]
Alexander Hamilton defended the unilateral presidential pardoning power as a practical necessity for a young republic. He argued that it enabled the chief executive to act with the speed and secrecy required to offer timely mercy and restore tranquility “during seasons of insurrection or rebellion.” He also argued that the power was needed to soften […]
