Opinion

On the one hand, President Donald Trump has presided over a 1.3% increase in real average weekly earnings since the start of his second, nonconsecutive term. Median household incomes are up an average of nearly $3,000 in real terms. While inflation did indeed briefly spike in the aftermath of the Iran offensive, all signs indicate […]

Bill Murray tells Joe Rogan that “they framed Nixon” after reading Bob Woodward’s book about his friend John Belushi. Vice President JD Vance claims that “the ‘deep state’ took down Richard Nixon” before an applauding audience. The Richard Nixon Foundation produces dozens of viral videos that set archival footage of the 37th president to modern […]

This spring, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani released a viral video in which he announced his latest “tax the rich” scheme, specifically targeting billionaire Ken Griffin as a poster child for the policy. “This is an annual fee on luxury properties worth more than $5 million whose owners do not live full-time in the […]

The disgrace this week of Dr. Anthony Fauci allows America to look back on the awful COVID year of 2020, aptly with 20/20 hindsight. His stonewalling of Sen. Rand Paul’s (R-KY) homeland security panel — he “pled the Fifth” 111 times — and the release of his diaries allow us to revisit and assess the […]

President Donald Trump made waves the day after his administration announced a bilateral nuclear cooperation agreement with Saudi Arabia. He conditioned the deal on Riyadh joining the Abraham Accords and normalizing relations with Israel, while insisting there would be no uranium enrichment on Saudi soil — a stance also reiterated by his U.N. ambassador, Michael […]

The federal housing bill that became law this summer underscores what is among the top points of bipartisan consensus in American politics these days, which is that more housing is needed in order to bring down costs for both buyers and renters. That the supply of housing units must increase in order to meet rising […]

The demise of freedom of navigation across the global commons, a concept rooted in customary international law and codified in the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, is an unintended consequence of President Donald Trump’s war on Iran, launched on Feb. 28. Iran’s closure on March 2 and the U.S. counterblockade […]

America’s prosperity depends on a simple act of faith. Businesses spend billions of dollars today because they believe tomorrow’s government won’t change its rules after the money has already been spent. Imagine sitting in the boardroom of one of America’s artificial intelligence companies or electric utilities on June 30. On the table is a $15 […]

On Wednesday, the public comment period closed on one of the most extraordinary media proceedings in the history of the Federal Communications Commission. More than 153,000 filings came in from public safety officials, free speech advocates, veterans, food banks, think tanks, and tens of thousands of individual viewers. Nearly all urged the FCC to leave […]

The organization formerly known as the Boy Scouts of America first allowed girls to become scouts almost a decade ago, in 2018. Membership has since fallen by 58%. The New York Times describes this as a “triumph.” To be fair, the op-ed describing this change does not address scouting membership levels at all. Instead, it […]

It may not surprise you that Seattle’s city government is one of the most incompetent in the country, but it may surprise you just how deep that incompetence goes. A shooting at the Seattle Center unfortunately put this incompetence on display. Seven people were shot, with two dying at the scene and another at the […]

Why did New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani publish a list of nearly 1 million homeowners who “may” face his new property-tax surcharge when the city estimates that only 10,000 properties will actually owe it? It may have something to do with the fact that Mamdani wants to raise taxes far higher than Albany Democrats have […]