Opinion

When Vice President Kamala Harris rejected Gov. Ron DeSantis's (R-FL) offer to sit down and hash out their debate over Florida curriculum standards pertaining to the teaching of slavery, Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) saw an opportunity. The governors of Florida and California have now tentatively agreed to debate on prime time, with Fox News's Sean Hannity moderating.

This week, the FBI arrested two Navy sailors whom the Justice Department accuses of spying for China. Both men were paid by China for their efforts. These arrests are a reminder of the vast ambition, scale, and threat Beijing poses in terms of espionage.

The story of the Chinese-linked bio lab discovered operating illegally in California may even be worse than you think, especially when you consider China’s brazen activities on American soil and the country’s role in the coronavirus pandemic.

For a second consecutive month, the unemployment rate has fallen, this time to the near 54-year low of 3.5%. Despite the Federal Reserve tightening interest rates at the fastest clip in 40 years, the labor force participation rate has plateaued at 62.6% for a fifth month in a row. The numbers tell a very clear story. Despite the fulmination of pro-inflation Democrats like Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Bernie Sanders (I-VT), the Phillips curve positing a trade-off between unemployment and inflation is a false dichotomy in the long run, especially in an aging economy stagnated by a bloating welfare state like ours.

Former President Barack Obama once explained how he would have arranged for a third term as president. He jokingly explained how it essentially involved having a puppet as president in which there would be a “frontman or frontwoman” with Obama directing them what to do while in “his basement in his sweats.” Three years into the Biden administration and these comments make Obama look like a soothsayer.

NBA megastar LeBron James once said, “being black in America is tough.” If that’s true, then his “I Promise School” has made it even tougher. The students at the school, 60% of whom are black, cannot pass state-issued math tests. Not one eighth grade student passed an arithmetic test in three years, according to reports. It’s an embarrassment and unmitigated disaster for James, who has been a frequent know-it-all and outspoken critic on social issues.

The threat posed by Iran to civilian shipping, in particular from its Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, is real and unacceptable. Still, it would be a mistake for the Biden administration to deploy U.S. military personnel to guard commercial vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz.

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s assault on the global food supply is continuing in Ukraine, and on Tuesday, it came perilously close to Romania — a NATO member that is also part of the European Union.

Have you ever tried to take the keys away from a senior whose driving was a threat to other motorists and their own well-being? Imagine trying to take the keys away from a senior who has the most powerful military in the world at his disposal.

In one of his most recent Friday morning radio interviews, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban claimed that “big food chains and multinational companies are behaving like price speculators; they are raising prices even in circumstances when there is no basis for doing so.”

If your boyfriend doesn’t like the Barbie movie, you might need to break up with him. At least, that’s what the internet says.

And The O.C. was, despite its auteurist trappings, above all else, great TV qua TV.

1) Which of these is the odd man out?

When I was a teenager — and it’s none of your business when, exactly, that was — there was one unmistakable way to let someone know that you liked them. And when I say “liked” I mean liked liked. (That’s how we put it. We would say: “Do you like her? I mean, do you like her like her?” Or: “I, like, really like him. Like, like him like him.”) The way you communicated this, especially if you were a boy, was to make the object of your affection a mixtape.