Today’s report on inflation further confirms my assessment, written here in May, that the Federal Reserve Board should keep intact its pause on interest-rate hikes.

It’s not often that you hear crying in a legislative chamber, but what happened in California’s state capitol yesterday certainly made it excusable.

Rep. Lance Gooden (R-TX) showed House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) how best to question an FBI director on Wednesday. Gooden showed that productive congressional oversight rests on questions centered in the national interest rather than the pursuit of TV sound bites.

Randi Weingarten, the leader of the country’s second-largest teachers union, can always be relied on to make claims that are equal parts absurd and untrue.

Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred has essentially admitted that he is either a Democratic hack or he is a gullible fool. You can draw your own conclusions about which characterization is more sympathetic.

EXCLUSIVE — During the National Safer Communities Summit in June, President Joe Biden claimed people in Philadelphia were selling AR-15s out of trucks. It was a preposterous claim predicated on hysteria and misinformation. Biden said it to appeal to his audience and anti-gun-loving base. Yet I knew his statements were not based on reality. Recently, I contacted the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives and the Philadelphia Police Department, and they confirmed that they couldn’t corroborate Biden’s claim that AR-15s sold out of trucks.

HereTogether, a homelessness nonprofit organization in Portland, Oregon, has just petitioned city leaders to contribute $828,000 in taxpayer money to the Clackamas County Office of Equity and Inclusion. The organization’s insistence that DEI-related issues are at the core of Portland’s homelessness crisis could not be any more out of touch with reality. The exuberant fiscal decision will only decrease necessary resources and cause more harm to homeless Portlanders.

The United States and Israel are conducting the latest iteration of their bilateral Juniper Oak military exercise. The intention is to deter Iran from further moves toward weapons-grade purity enrichment of its uranium stocks. Still, Tehran is unlikely to be intimidated.

We can save Social Security by by having the wealthy begin contributing their fair share,

Fox News host Piers Morgan is urging former President Trump to participate in the first Republican presidential primary debate next month, which is slated to air on the network. “Donald Trump is many things,” Morgan said on Tuesday evening during a discussion with former Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway. “But in all the time I’ve known...