Congress passed a “prevailing wage” law in 1931 specifically intended to favor white workers and white-only labor unions over nonunionized and minority workers.
Brazil's former president Jair Bolsonaro ended up being a clownish autocrat. Still, he generally supported the United States in international affairs. The same definitely cannot be said of Brazil's current returner president, Luiz Inacio "Lula" da Silva. Indeed, the only apt comparison between Bolsonaro and Lula is that both men have little regard for democratic norms.
California’s periodic wildfires have grown so regular and so damaging that one of the biggest home and car insurance companies will no longer sell new home policies due to the risk and rising construction costs.
It has long been clear that the ideology and mindset of the hyper-woke are quite distinct from mainstream liberals and conservatives. The preoccupation with both guilt and shame, the rituals, the reflexive censoriousness, and the refusal to entertain other points of view are all telltale signs that “woke” — primarily characterized by the desire to tear down existing structures and institutions due to perceived moral corruption, evidenced through disparities between groups — is something more than just another political ideology.
Reciprocal drone attacks on Moscow and Kyiv underline the present intractability of the war in Ukraine on Monday. Neither Vladimir Putin nor Volodymyr Zelensky are willing to make concessions toward peace. Instead, the war's trajectory is set only for escalation.
The debt ceiling fight should teach Republicans a lesson about how to pick their 2024 presidential nominee. It’s a lesson about unity, the limits you face when you’re out of power, and the stupidity of self-inflicted and self-righteous powerlessness.
THE PREGAME IS OVER FOR TRUMP VS. DESANTIS. There's been a huge amount of commentary on former President Donald Trump's big lead over Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) in national polls. In the current RealClearPolitics average of polls, Trump has a 30.8-point lead — 53.2% to DeSantis's 22.4%. That lead, while enormous, has been shrinking in the last week. On May 20, it was 36.9 points. Now, it's 6 points smaller. That is something to watch in the days ahead.
The city of Chicago will do anything to stop crime other than supporting police officers and putting criminals in jail. Unsurprisingly, that leads to several dumb, ineffective proposals that are making the crime issue worse.
Attacks on Florida have increased sharply since Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) announced he was running for president. They have been focused on everything from housing to guns to Disney. However, the most frequent area of political attack on Florida recently has been education. Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) tweeted out a picture suggesting Florida was keeping children from reading books, Politico ran a headline reading “Ron DeSantis upended education in Florida. He’s coming for your state next,” and travel advisories for Florida coming from the NAACP and others focused on DeSantis’s education policy. I could go on.
In February, a Chinese People's Liberation Army strategy paper disclosed plans to build 13,000 satellites in low Earth orbit. Its explicit mission: to "suppress Starlink" and, if desired, "destroy Starlink satellites that pass over China or other sensitive regions."
