The Los Angeles Unified School District has been given 45 days to prove it can responsibly manage its own finances or risk losing significant control over its budget to...
For years, some of the loudest voices in the conservative-adjacent influencer class have been defiantly declaring that we are on the brink of a civil war. It now turns out that they were right, but instead of the civil war being of a political, cultural, or religious nature between the Right and the Left, we’re […]
In Luke’s Gospel, Jesus says, “There will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over 99 righteous people who have no need of repentance.” Bill Gates’s recent Damascene conversion after 20 years of climate alarmism brought this to mind. He wrote that Earth’s mildly heating atmosphere “will not lead to humanity’s […]
It’s been an uncharacteristically slow news week for President Donald Trump’s second term. (It’s a very high bar) But we may soon view this week as among the most consequential of his presidency, especially as it relates to the future of the conservative movement. WOKE RIGHT, BROKE RIGHT — LEARNING FROM THE SELF-DESTRUCTION OF THE […]
Most Americans say restaurants are getting too expensive, and they’re not imagining things. “Following seven consecutive months of solid gains,” the National Restaurant Association noted, prices rose slightly in September, and now “menu prices have risen 3.7% since September 2024.” At full-service, sit-down restaurants, the hike is even higher, up 4.2% year-over-year, according to the […]
Remember a few years ago when Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) tried to pretend that California was the state that best represented freedom? Now would be a good time to revisit that sales pitch, as California is once again being sued for compelled speech. The lawsuit comes from Exxon Mobil, a massive oil and gas company […]
The breadth of the Biden administration‘s efforts to spy on its political opponents is only now coming into view, and the picture is alarming. The Justice Department must conduct a full investigation into how such invasive and improper steps were allowed to be taken to snoop on political actors, and those responsible must be held […]
President Ronald Reagan famously once said, “America has always been a land of optimism and opportunity — a grand combination that has seen us through trying times.” It’s a sentiment that has been widely embraced over the years, as it exemplifies America’s greatness. At the crux of Reagan’s quote is the significance of the American […]
If the federal government hasn’t reopened by the time you’re reading this column, then you’ve lived to witness the Democratic Party break a lamentable record of engineering the longest government shutdown in the nation’s history. It’s not as though the political pressure hasn’t been mounting. Democrats’ share of generic congressional polling has fallen since the […]
When we think of those who stood up, spoke out, and took covert action against the Nazis, it is the French resistance, Greek partisans, and other clandestine networks in occupied Europe that usually come to mind. Yet, some brave German souls also sought to undermine or even overthrow the Nazi regime. Most of them were […]
It’s the Groundhog Day of arguments about sports. Some guy in a Steelers jersey is getting red-faced about how Formula One isn’t a real sport because “the car does all the work,” while his buddy, who bowls league every Thursday, is trying to explain that rolling a sixteen-pound ball with precision down sixty feet of […]
The summer before I went to college, a much-admired older boy loaned me a copy of Scorsese on Scorsese, a book-length interview concerning Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, and other pictures from the director’s early oeuvre. I had seen none of those movies. Yet, the volume was a revelation, not only because of its […]
Money has shaped the justice system for centuries through common law tort principles that balance financial restitution with moral accountability. But over several decades, that balance has collapsed. Wall Street and other big investors are now allying themselves with trial attorneys to take stakes in litigation outcomes. They have entered the courtroom through third-party litigation […]
