Opinion

Sometimes it’s hard to know if a reporter’s question comes from an antagonist lamely trying to expose supposed hypocrisy in President Donald Trump or from a sycophant teeing up a softball for him to knock out of the park. At his White House Cabinet meeting on March 26, Trump was asked why he voted by […]

A little over a year into President Donald Trump’s second term, the economy is strong. Core inflation is down to the lowest point in years, and real earnings for the private sector are up: far outpacing inflation and putting money back in American workers’ pockets. Despite these wins, healthcare costs remain a significant concern for […]

BLUFFTON, Ind. — There are no hotels in Bluffton, population 10,308. So ahead of my visit, I wrote to Kathy Gardner, proprietress of the Washington Street Inn bed & breakfast, requesting a room for two nights. “I’m so sorry,” Kathy wrote back, “but I am in the midst of shutting down.” I settle for an […]

The Democratic Party’s shutdown of the bulk of the Department of Homeland Security is now the second-longest funding gap in history. It’s delaying paychecks for millions of federal workers until there’s a resolution to the impasse, with congressional Democrats clamoring for restrictions on Immigration and Customs Enforcement deportation tactics, meeting resistance from President Donald Trump […]

Generals always prepare to fight the last war. So do armchair generals. Most commentators on the American-Israeli war with Iran see the conflict through the prism of the War on Terror. We are told that the war is “neoconservative,” but also that it is the end of neoconservatism. We are told that this is Israel’s […]

One of the big cultural differences between Britain and the United States, alike in so many other ways, concerns the public status of religion. “I think I can see the whole destiny of America contained in the first Puritan who landed on those shores,” wrote Alexis de Tocqueville in 1835. Protestantism is by its nature […]