Opinion

AN ALARMINGLY NARROW HOUSE MAJORITY. It’s a truism that it is extremely difficult to govern with a tiny majority in the House of Representatives. When there are no vacancies, there are 435 members; if everybody shows up, it takes a bare majority, 218 votes, to pass a bill. In practical terms, a majority party needs well […]

Disaster is looming over universities affected by President Donald Trump’s executive order that halted government diversity, equity, and inclusion programs and spending. Or not: The policy might just bring higher education back to a normal balance of power. Despite a grim outlook from universities with concerns over “suspending research projects, canceling conferences and closing offices,” […]

The Democratic National Committee has decided that there are no lessons to be learned from the 2024 elections. If anything, it is lining itself up to back a Kamala Harris rerun. All of the candidates to replace outgoing DNC Chairman Jaime Harrison supported the notion that “racism and misogyny” played a key role in Harris’s […]

As part of their ongoing assault on monogamous marriage, the Democratic Party and their media allies constantly try to undercut the primacy of the nuclear family as the fundamental building block of American society. Take New York magazine’s family life columnist Kathryn Jezer-Morton, who recently accused conservatives of “raging nostalgia for a fake past.” “They’re […]

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday ordering the departments of Treasury and Commerce to create a sovereign wealth fund, which is a federally owned investment entity that takes stakes in various financial assets “We’re going to stand this thing up within the next 12 months,” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said. “We’re going to […]

Thousands of demonstrators reportedly took to the streets of Los Angeles on Sunday to protest against the illegal immigration enforcement actions implemented by the Trump administration. These agitators vandalized walls, blocked traffic on highways, and disobeyed law enforcement officials who were protecting their First Amendment rights to free speech. They broke laws to express their […]

New White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt didn’t spare any feelings in the briefing room on Friday. When answering a question about the White House’s response to the CIA’s announcement that it believes, with low confidence, that COVID-19 originated from a lab in Wuhan, China, Leavitt made representatives of the legacy media squirm in their […]

The Senate held a trio of high-profile hearings for Tulsi Gabbard, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and Kash Patel last week. Patel, President Donald Trump’s nominee for FBI director, will likely face the easiest confirmation path of the three. He appears to have the support of the Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee. Also, the three […]

President Donald Trump‘s much-anticipated deregulation executive order, signed last week, goes further than anything he did in his first term. Not only does it require agencies to eliminate 10 regulations for every new one, but it also directly targets guidance documents, the unaccountable tools federal bureaucrats have long used to impose regulations without going through […]

After four years of utter lawlessness at the southern border, people have been granted a reprieve with the inauguration of President Donald Trump. Now, it’s time for Republicans and Democrats across the country to come together on a whole-of-government approach to secure our border for the interests of our great nation and its people, and […]

If the sharper writers and thinkers who support President Donald Trump want to find their original source, they could look to the Jewish intellectuals of postwar America.  As is explored in the fascinating new book Write Like a Man: Jewish Masculinity and the New York Intellectuals, in the years following World War II, America saw […]