The Senate passed landmark legislation Monday night intended to regulate the Wild West of college sports compensation and transfers, teeing up a vote in the House after the November midterm elections.
When American Eagle released its “Sydney Sweeney Has Great Jeans” campaign last year, I found the outrage ridiculous. I like seeing a beautiful woman unapologetically presented as beautiful. I like even more that Sweeney refused to participate in the familiar ritual in which somebody commits an imaginary cultural offense and is then expected to crawl […]
What does Democratic Party homeless policy look like? Having to fight a legal battle to remove a massive homeless encampment riddled with diseases because the homeless people have a union. Such is the story of the left-wing cesspool of a city that is Berkeley, the cutting edge of progressivism in progressive California. The city has […]
Six years ago this month, Israel, the United Arab Emirates, and Bahrain signed the Abraham Accords on the White House lawn, later followed by Morocco and Sudan. The deal broke the Arab League’s decadeslong policy, in place since 1967, of “no peace, no negotiation, no recognition” with Israel, proving that governments could choose acceptance over […]
The Food and Drug Administration’s approval of an important new drug for patients with advanced pancreatic cancer represents not only a groundbreaking scientific and medical development but also a critical step forward in the Trump administration’s efforts to speed the development of innovative treatment options that can make a meaningful difference in the lives of […]
How do we manage President Donald Trump? He’s our president. A government employee. He works for us. It makes sense to maximize his effectiveness, right? To squeeze every ounce of production out of him — and get the best results possible. That requires management. The trouble is, one of the things that makes Trump, well, […]
A wise political analyst once said that in assessing the state of a political campaign, it’s best to mostly ignore the noise — including polling — and focus instead on the actual behavior of the candidates and campaigns themselves. President Donald Trump isn’t on the ballot this fall, but his party’s governing majorities are in […]
With gasoline at $4.40 a gallon, inflation rising, 30-year mortgage rates above 7%, and the Federal Reserve raising interest rates for the first time in three years, November’s elections are shaping up badly for Republicans. VoteHub, with its respectable methods and data, gives Democrats an 83% likelihood of winning the House and a 52% chance […]
New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman has joined those who seek to demonize Israel, suggesting the values of the hilltop youth who are committing West Bank violence harken back to Nazi ideology and actions. Friedman reported Moshe Ya’alon, defense minister a decade ago, “likening the ideology of extremist Israeli settlers in the West Bank to […]
When I served as the elected county commissioner president, a familiar phrase echoed through local government whenever new regulations were proposed: “Educate, don’t legislate.” It is a philosophy rooted in a healthy distrust of top-down mandates. It builds on the belief that informed, responsible actors manage risk better than a rigid bureaucracy. Today, that exact […]
TOKYO — In this land of wonders, a bastion of liberal democracy in a continent dominated by imperial powers, contradictions abound. The Japanese sit silently in metro cars and stroll noiselessly to work on bustling streets, but cheer raucously at baseball games. Bullet trains whisk by at 200 miles per hour, and impossibly sophisticated toilets […]
Once upon a time, sequels were avoided, dreaded, or looked upon with skepticism for the fear that they might spoil a great movie. There was reason to doubt the wisdom of making sequels to iconic stand-alone films such as, say, Dirty Harry (1971) or The Godfather (1972) — although, in the case of those two franchises, most of the […]
