Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy has made commercial-driver safety a major priority, tightening the rules governing non-domiciled commercial driver’s licenses and requiring more reliable verification that foreign-domiciled drivers are legally eligible and qualified to operate enormous commercial vehicles on American highways. That raises an important parallel question: If we care about who is operating an 80,000-pound […]
Working families and small businesses are already paying the price of higher interest rates. Mortgage payments are harder to afford. Car financing is more expensive. Business owners are paying more to borrow, invest, and hire. The Federal Reserve has a difficult job and price stability matters, but before it raises rates again, the threshold for […]
Our civil justice system rests on a simple premise: Every claim represents a real person, with a real injury, who chose to seek redress. When that premise fails, everyone pays, beginning with the people who were actually hurt. For decades, the fight over lawsuit abuse has centered on what happens once a case is underway: […]
I run a nonpartisan think-tank, so, for the most part, I don’t offer public opinions because that’s the nature of the job. I’m taking a break from those duties today to let the Albanian Kosovar refugee take the keyboard. The ruling on Sept. 16 by the Kosovo Specialist Chambers, a project run by The Hague, […]
When a government raids LGBT organizations, arrests activists, silences advocates, and invokes religious doctrine to justify persecution, America’s LGBT movement should be among the loudest voices demanding accountability. So, where is the outrage over Turkey? Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is no longer merely attacking LGBT rights rhetorically. His government is putting that ideology into […]
Calling November a midterm election is a Washington habit that diminishes what many voters will decide. The label describes where the date falls in a president’s term. Here in Michigan, it says almost nothing about the choices on the ballot. This is a general election. For Republicans, the stakes could hardly be higher. Michigan has […]
On Sept. 15, federal Judge John Tharp in Chicago handed down a ruling that will shape what homes American buyers can find online. Almost no one outside the industry noticed. Tharp denied Zillow’s request to block Midwest Real Estate Data (MRED) from enforcing its listing rules, dissolved an earlier restoration of Zillow’s access to Chicago-area […]
Since the founding era, Alexander Hamilton has had both committed defenders and passionate detractors. His detractors have dismissed him as elitist and antidemocratic; a mouthpiece for the rich and well-born, despite Hamilton’s own humble origins; and a militarist. Today, conservatives and libertarians often dismiss him as an anti-free-trade protectionist and the forefather of national industrial […]
On one hand, the Texas economy is a thing of beauty, a thrilling example of free enterprise at work. Its GDP sits at nearly $3 trillion, just trailing California’s and larger than Italy’s. Texas is home to at least 57 Fortune 500 company headquarters, more than any other state. Texas’s economy is booming for many […]
My brother and I were almost barred from the Montgomery Mall for life. We were about 10 and 12 years old, visiting my grandparents in Bethesda, Maryland. As I recall it, Mike and I were first busted for going up a down escalator, and soon thereafter, the same security officer caught us riding down a […]
When Roy Cohn died of AIDS in 1986, Donald Trump was among the few to attend his burial at Union Field Cemetery in Queens. He also attended Cohn’s public memorial later that year in Manhattan, along with Rupert Murdoch, George Steinbrenner, Barbara Walters, and William F. Buckley. Apart from his legions of well-connected friends and […]
Every spring, Peter Santenello’s parents would have a dump truck come down their long driveway, deep in the Vermont countryside, to unload a fresh pile of sand for their young son’s enjoyment. Santenello would spend hours creating sand roads for his toy trucks, his vast network of roadways weaving through the forest and fields surrounding […]
At a certain age, everyone you know starts going through things. That’s the phrase we use — “He’s going through something” — and I’ve noticed it’s deployed the same way regardless of what’s actually happening. We say a hushed, slightly ceremonial “She’s going through things,” which could mean anything from a divorce to a diagnosis […]
