Asking NYC taxpayers to spend record sums on public education, only to have a third of students miss large chunks of the school year, is the ultimate indictment.
Canada, of all places, has decided to issue a travel warning for gay and transgender Canadians visiting the United States. At least, the warning is for the ones who haven’t already been euthanized by the Canadian government.
Ukraine launched ambitious drone attacks across Russia overnight Tuesday into Wednesday. Ranging from Pskov, near the Estonian border, to Sevastopol in Crimea, these strikes damaged at least four Russian military transport aircraft, a microelectronics factory, and a fuel depot. As shown in my annotated Google Map below, Ukraine's drones were able to penetrate various multilayered Russian air defense networks. The red circles indicate confirmed strikes.
Most politicians pander to voters on some issues, even if it means contradicting their previous positions. As he is proud to tell you, Vivek Ramaswamy is not a politician. This apparently means he panders on every issue, not just some, and he contradicts his own positions from just days or weeks ago.
IMOGENE, Iowa — My daughter and I flew into Omaha for a trip that would include a college visit for her and a speech by me, but first, we made it to SportsPlex in Shenandoah, Iowa, for the parish picnic of St. Patrick, the Catholic Church in nearby Imogene.
Inflation is, by design, always regressive, but in a particularly painful demonstration of how this insidious inflationary cycle is specifically penalizing the poor, a new U.S. Census Bureau survey reported that a staggering 42% of households reliant on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program are skipping meals because they cannot afford enough food. The share of those who reported eating less out of financial necessity, 55%, more than doubled over the past year.
Ten years ago, when there was a rash of adult writers being upset about crying babies on planes, I supported the compromise position, that airplanes should offer no-baby sections on some flights.
KANSAS CITY, Missouri — The newest large airport in the country is right here, smack in the middle of America. Aviation nerds get excited about new airports, and the algorithm on Google News decided I was an aviation nerd because I wrote a few pieces about flight etiquette.
While former President Donald Trump remains the front-runner in the Republican primary, his preeminent pollster has warned that the candidate riding the most momentum after Trump skipped the first debate is not Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL), who has seen his second-place margin dwindle over the months. Instead, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley is on the rise, according to Tony Fabrizio.
The moment is fast approaching when Republican presidential contenders must act like Democrats — which means most of them bowing out of the primaries and supporting the candidate best placed to beat the guy they’re all afraid of.
“These rich men north of Richmond, Lord knows they just wanna have total control.” So goes the refrain of singer and songwriter Oliver Anthony’s suddenly famous song. “Wanna know what you think, wanna know what you do, and they don’t think you know, but I know that you do.”
College tuition prices are at an all-time high, burdening families with debt for decades. Student loan forgiveness has been hotly debated in the public sphere and Congress. Very rarely, if ever, are colleges and universities ever blamed for their roles in the tuition and student loan debt crisis.
In 1987, President Ronald Reagan ordered the reflagging of nearly a dozen Kuwaiti tankers. Iran had begun attacking Kuwait’s tankers to restrict shipping in international waters and to coerce the emirate to cease its trade with and loans to Iraq. Reagan ignored criticism that reflagging the tankers could embroil the United States in war because he understood at stake were not only Kuwait’s oil exports but also freedom of navigation and the rules-based order. True, skirmishes did occur, but once the ayatollahs understood Reagan stood firm, Iranian forces suspended their provocations.
The public today has fewer friends than it did a generation ago. Pollster Dan Cox of the Survey Center on American Life has identified a “friendship recession,” particularly among American men.
