“The science is settled.” It’s Sacramento’s answer to every climate question. And if we’re talking about economics, also known as the “dismal science,” that’s right: California’s climate change policies...
95 DAYS AND COUNTING. Nov. 3, 2026, seemed a long time off back in December, when President Donald Trump started the first, short-lived “pivot” to campaigning for the midterm elections. It still seemed a long time off in January, when Trump’s venture into Venezuela eclipsed any attention the White House was paying to the midterms. And […]
A United States cybersecurity agency is investigating a coordinated cyberattack on over 30 municipal water facilities in Minnesota which contains details of possible Iranian hackers. The Minnesota Information Technology (MNIT) agency released an advisory Tuesday about the attacks, saying it was coordinating its investigation with federal agencies including the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA),...
As the GOP budget bill moves to “require states to enforce a work requirement” for some able-bodied individuals on Medicaid, liberals "claim Republicans are...
There is no mistaking the left-wing themes of the Disney+ Star Wars series Andor. Set five years before the movie Rogue One, Andor shows the Empire strip mining planets, exploiting workers, arresting innocent people, and massacring civilians. At a time when the Democratic Party is claiming that the Trump administration is arresting U.S. citizens and […]
This morning, I was driving the elementary school car pool, and my tactic of choice was playing classical music. This may have made the five children a little less wild, but it didn’t lull them into a reverie. Right after 8 o’clock, between Beethoven’s First Symphony and a symphony by Frederick the Great, WETA, D.C.’s […]
“All my n***** Nazis, n*****, heil Hitler.” This Shakespearean line is the chorus of Kanye “Ye” West’s latest song, “Heil Hitler,” in which he explains his descent into Nazism. The song begins with, “Man these people took my kids from me, then they froze my bank account. I got so much anger in me, got […]
PITTSBURGH — For the second consecutive Democratic primary cycle, an incumbent city of Pittsburgh mayor fell to a member of his own party. Last night, Mayor Ed Gainey lost to fellow Democrat Corey O’Connor in a race that wasn’t even close by the end of the night. Just four years earlier, Gainey, then a representative […]
How does a political party with overwhelming advantages, including increasing support from the growing bloc of highly educated and affluent voters, almost monopoly support from the press and broadcast media, and with burgeoning financial and high-tech sectors of the economy, manage to lose just about everything across the board? The Biden administration has been repudiated […]
Centrist Republicans from swing districts usually deserve a lot more leeway when it comes to their ideological purity versus the things they must do or say to keep their seats. Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) has exhausted that leeway, demanding that taxpayers across the country subsidize the Democratic tax system in his own state. This has been the core of the […]
Members of the European Union have joined the United Kingdom in charting tougher paths than the United States toward Russia and Israel. Let’s start with Russia. On Tuesday, the EU and the U.K. introduced a new raft of sanctions targeting Russian individuals, energy tanker ships, and financial institutions. The sanctions follow a phone call between […]
EVEN AS HE FIGHTS CANCER, BIDEN OWES AMERICANS AN EXPLANATION. Former President Joe Biden‘s announcement that he is suffering from advanced metastatic prostate cancer landed awkwardly amid a debate about Biden’s physical and mental infirmity during his years as president. All of a sudden, people who were arguing that it was a scandal that Biden served […]
American women have never been healthier, wealthier, or better educated than they are today. Young women outnumber men at universities by a 60% to 40% margin, they get 66% of all higher education degrees, and young women are far more likely to own homes than their male counterparts. But to hear former Secretary of State […]
News broke last month that the federal Head Start program might be eliminated in next year’s congressional budget. Officials later changed course, but as the federal government searches for new ways to cut spending, it’s likely that Head Start could be on the chopping block again in the near future. That would be disastrous for hundreds of thousands […]
A stable family life benefits any child. Pope Leo XIV, who calls his siblings at least weekly, is one good example. Then-Bishop Robert Prevost would call his older brother, John, daily from his post at the Vatican as Prefect of the Dicastery for Bishops. So too with his oldest brother, Louis, in weekly phone calls. […]
ESPN has built a culture of racism at the network, leading its personalities to become some of the most toxic in all of media. The latest example of this comes from the latest Caitlin Clark nontroversy. In her first game of the season, Clark fouled Angel Reese, who flopped and then tried to start a […]
The late Sen. Everett Dirksen of my own state of Illinois is reputed to have complained about ballooning federal spending, saying, “A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon, you’re talking real money.” It was funny 75 years ago. Today, it’s not even entirely true anymore. Last week, the House Ways and Means Committee unveiled […]
