Boxes to check when home-buying: safe streets, good floor plan, strong school district and … a promise to be nice? At Silverwood, a new large-scale development in the High...
“Sanctuary state” laws kill innocent people. The latest apparent victims are two women and an infant brutally stabbed to death in Modesto, California. The...
This has not gone the way Mark Tushnet thought. Ten years ago, when Tushnet, then a professor at Harvard Law School, sketched out a vision of a resurgent left-wing jurisprudence in a post on the legal affairs blog Balkinization, he was imagining a much different future. A better, brighter one. Hillary Clinton was on her […]
For all the claims “that it’s impossible to rein in illegal immigration” without “comprehensive immigration reform,” observes Jeffrey H. Anderson, “The Congressional Budget Office...
The Issue: Jill Biden’s concerns over President Joe Biden’s health during the 2024 presidential debate. Former First Lady Jill Biden now admits how alarmed...
The anti-data center movement has gained rapid traction across the United States. Often portrayed as a purely grassroots response to local concerns, a recent report from the Bitcoin Policy Institute reveals a more troubling reality: significant foreign influence, particularly from actors aligned with the Chinese Communist Party, is coordinating efforts behind the scenes to hinder […]
What I recently wrote about President Donald Trump for a Beltway political publication unleashed a backlash that strikes me as sadly symptomatic of at least three larger issues at play in our culture. My op-ed in the Hill commended Trump for saying, in the press conference he held right after the latest assassination attempt on […]
Earlier this month, the 4th Circuit denied a motion from activist groups trying to stop construction of our Southeast Supply Enhancement project — a 55-mile, $1.2 billion pipeline expansion that will create jobs and deliver U.S.-produced natural gas to nearly 10 million homes across four Eastern states. The lawsuit, spearheaded by the Sierra Club, was […]
“Emily — that free, wild, untameable spirit, never happy nor well but on the sweeping moors that gathered round her home.” So wrote Elizabeth Gaskell of Emily Bronte in her pioneering 1857 biography of the writer’s older sister, The Life of Charlotte Brontë. While Gaskell presented her subject and friend, Charlotte, as “a noble, true, […]
The woke era that began in 2014 ended in 2024. Wokeness, of course, is not dead — it still hangs over many school districts and colleges and will make a comeback with Democratic victories over the next three years — but it no longer is the default mindset. One supremely harmful dogma of wokeism that […]
Netflix’s The Boroughs, produced by Stranger Things creators Matt and Ross Duffer, begins life at a comparative disadvantage. Whereas its predecessor could take forever between seasons, losing nothing but its child stars’ cherubic looks, the new show has no such luxury. With each passing day, its oldster cast — including Alfred Molina, Alfre Woodard, and […]
