More than a year after Hamas’s horrific attack on Israel, antisemitism in the United States is alive and spreading. Recently released FBI data reveal anti-Jewish hate crimes reached a record number of 11,862 incidents in 2023, accounting for 15% of all hate crimes against a community that totals just 2% of the American population. This is over […]
One need not overstate the claims of Jimmy Carter’s supposed post-presidential saintliness or understate the failures of his presidency to recognize three of his signal achievements. Democrats customarily are heavy regulators, but Carter, who died on Dec. 29 at age 100, deregulated the air, truck, and rail industries very much to the public’s benefit. Carter […]
President Joe Biden and his team are trapped in their own delusions about what his legacy will be when the reality is that Biden will never be remembered as anything more than a failure. Biden’s team and supporters flocked to the Washington Post to lament that voters just did not respect his “substance,” as Rep. […]
President-elect Donald Trump has given the Chinese intelligence services a big Christmas present by petitioning the Supreme Court to delay the enforced sale or suspension of TikTok. TikTok is owned by Chinese company ByteDance, which is controlled by the Chinese Communist Party, the United States’s preeminent adversary. Trump’s petition asserts that he “opposes banning TikTok […]
Almost everyone has an opinion about work-life balance. But for many among the highest achieving social classes, work-life balance is a luxury that cannot be afforded. Each moment of leisure is a moment of lost opportunity, lost productivity, and a lost competitive edge over those who devote their entire lives to their work. In a […]
Another win against the pornography industry approaches in the form of a new Florida bill. The law, aiming at online protections for minors, has had the same fortunate result as many others: a statewide self-ban by Pornhub. It has happened in 13 states so far. Louisiana led with an age-verification bill, and then several states […]
Democrats are warning of a surge in the number of uninsured if costly enhanced subsidies for exchange coverage expire as planned at the end of next year. But exchange coverage is borderline useless to many enrollees. It requires beneficiaries to fork over huge sums before it kicks in and confines them to narrow provider networks. […]
When President-elect Donald Trump takes over as commander in chief again on Jan. 20, a bevy of problems and challenges will confront him. People are still battling a cost-of-living crisis. Wars are raging in Europe and the Middle East. Great concern exists across the United States about the growing power of China and what it […]
From the reelection of a nonincumbent president to a sitting president bowing out of the presidential race due to mental incapacity, 2024 was an extraordinarily eventful year, and these pages documented and commented on it all. Below, we have compiled the 10 editorials that attracted the most readers in the year to help recall some […]
