The U.S. plastics industry is often overlooked in policy discussions, but its impact on our economy, national security, and technological leadership is undeniable. Across the country, millions of jobs depend on plastics manufacturing, and the materials we produce are foundational to everything from modern infrastructure to medical advancements. Yet, misguided efforts to restrict domestic production […]
“We are committed to bringing the Iranians to going back to the 100,000 barrels a day of oil exports,” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Feb. 14. “If we get [Iran] back to Trump 1.0 levels, I think they will be in severe economic distress,” he added. While Bessent’s first statement may be too ambitious, his second […]
Since the end of January, there has been a measles outbreak in West Texas and now New Mexico. This week, an unvaccinated child in Texas died of measles. According to news reports, the school-age child is from a largely Mennonite area of the state. Mennonites usually favor religious exemptions for vaccinations. While measles outbreaks are not new, […]
In an agreement that shocked Hollywood, the rights to James Bond have gone to Amazon. 007 fans are freaking out, but Amazon may do Bond right. The key is to return to the source material: the books of Ian Flemming. In recent years, Daniel Craig has depicted James Bond as a killing machine, an orphan with […]
One of my favorite moments of Mitch McConnell’s tenure as Senate Republican leader came after Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) unveiled the Green New Deal. Recall that the initial plan peddled by Ocasio-Cortez was so astoundingly socialistic — bans on gas-powered cars, meat, air travel, and free housing and salaries for […]
America is coalescing around nuclear energy as a cornerstone of the nation’s future power strategy. From the Trump administration’s pro-nuclear policies to recent legislation earning broad bipartisan support, for the first time in decades, there’s a shared commitment to expanding nuclear capacity to meet growing energy demands and environmental goals. But if the U.S. is […]
At the Battle of San Jacinto, Texas, revolutionaries faced Mexican Gen. Santa Anna and his men in a fight that not only secured Texas independence but lived on in glory. Nearly 200 years later, Texans are fighting another war with Mexico: The war for water. Under the 1944 Water Treaty, the United States and Mexico […]
President Donald Trump moves like an ocean. It is often violently stormy on the surface, so tempestuous that it is dangerous to get anywhere near it. But that apparent and sometimes real danger does not determine whether the tide is coming in or going out — ebbing toward failure or flooding toward success. The Trump […]
The second and third words of the title of a new book from policy wonk and former Clinton Foundation and Democratic congressional hand Marc Dunkelman, Why Nothing Works: Who Killed Progress―and How to Bring It Back, make quite the assertion. Nothing works? Based on the results of last year’s presidential election, reams of polling showing […]
At the Hippocrates Wellness Resort in West Palm Beach, Florida, sick people spend small fortunes on a suite of exotic treatments: revitalizing lasers, crystal sound baths, hand-pressed wheatgrass shots, even something called colon hydrotherapy, “a natural method of removing waste from the large intestine without the use of drugs.” The on-site store provides a range […]
The broader job market has remained largely robust amid the Federal Reserve‘s monetary tightening, but you wouldn’t know it if you looked only at the latest headlines about the news media. MSNBC recently fired nearly 100 staffers across nine different shows, including progressive panjandrum Joy Reid, after CNN announced in January that it would cut […]
There was seemingly no end to the rhetorical indignities women suffered under the Biden administration. First, their federal government referred to them as “birthing people.” Then, they were “menstruators.” They have also been known as “people with vaginas” and other vulgar terms, reducing them to their parts and bodily functions. Under the Trump administration, women […]
Huey Pierce Long Jr. met an early demise nearly 90 years ago from an assassin’s bullet, but he remains an enduring figure in U.S. politics. A left-wing Democrat with a populist edge, he became a folk hero in Louisiana while serving as governor and senator and toying with an independent presidential run. He criticized Big […]
ExCeL London is a convention center by the Thames in what used to be the London docks. Once the busiest port in the world, it is now called Docklands, a regenerative marketing concept from the 1980s. The ExCeL could be anywhere, but it had to be here because it had to go somewhere, and nowhere […]
