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 […]
As it passes legislation about pregnancy, postpartum health and lactation, the City Council is doing its best to avoid using the alarming word “woman."
Donald Trump recognizes an important reality: There is nothing immoral about testing US nuclear weapons, and not testing them doesn't make the world safer.
If the Trump administration is really dumping the entire grace period for legal immigrants to renew work permits, the Department of Homeland Security needs...
While President Trump extracted compromises on tariffs, fentanyl and trade, much remained unsaid over the course of the two-hour meeting with Chinese President Xi...
