Opinion

I just returned from vacation to an island off the coast of Maine, where I took my family to the island’s museum on Friday. It’s an excellent museum featuring artwork, history, and plenty of maps and old photographs of this old fishing and lobstering island that also became a summer vacation haven. Monhegan Island is […]

Last week, Chinese authorities detained Chenyue Mao, a U.S. citizen and former Wells Fargo executive, during what was supposed to be a short family visit to Shanghai. Wells Fargo clarified that Mao was placed on an exit ban unrelated to her work, but this tactic is nothing new. This is the latest reminder that when […]

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey pandered to radical left-wing activists after the death of George Floyd. It is now being revealed to him that none of it mattered, because he is still too much of a white man for those race-obsessed radicals. The Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, which is the Democratic Party in Minnesota, did not choose to endorse Frey in […]

Andrew Tate, the self-described professional pimp who has become a niche celebrity for the dregs of the alt-right, posed a question that has now been seen over 10 million times on X: What’s the benefit of marriage for a man? The question was purely rhetorical, of course. Tate has long made his contempt for the […]

MEASURING WHAT AMERICANS THINK ABOUT IMMIGRATION. Over the weekend, CBS News published a new poll with the headline, “Poll finds support for Trump’s deportation program falls.” The story seemed straightforward. But the story behind the story is worth looking into. The poll found that 44% of those surveyed approved of the way President Donald Trump is […]

In a recent Washington Post op-ed, Perry Bacon Jr. argued that we don’t have an education crisis in America. If we’re judging by international test scores or long-term NAEP trends, maybe he’s right. But there is an underlying problem that we need to address: When we define success by yesterday’s metrics, we miss the deeper […]

President Donald Trump’s insistence that Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell is behind the curve and should lower interest rates immediately has been criticized by the usual suspects. A close examination of the inflation record since Trump’s inauguration, though, shows he’s right. The Fed has a dual mandate to maintain stable prices and encourage low unemployment. […]

President Donald Trump has accomplished something that every elected Democrat and some Republicans, such as Sen. James Lankford (R-OK), said was impossible. He has secured the southern border against illegal immigration without needing Congress to pass a new law.  Now, unfortunately, some Republicans are trying to undo his success. Rep. Maria Salazar (R-FL), a former […]