The IRS let more than $100 million a year in tax breaks go to foreign citizens who have Social Security numbers but aren't allowed to work and should not be claiming the credits, the agency's inspector general said.
The Pentagon is releasing a never-before-seen cache of UFO documents, allowing the public to examine evidence gathered on what the government now refers to as Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena.
There is a particular kind of government betrayal that arrives not with a bang, but with an obscure bureaucratic memo. No dramatic announcement, no press conference, no honest accounting to the public. Just a directive, handed down through internal channels, telling scientists to withdraw publication of their work — work they spent years producing; that […]
The Left’s message to wealth creators has hardened into, “Don’t let the door hit you in the ass!” Once upon a time, radicals who achieved or aspired to elected office concealed their fiscal militancy behind a screen of social conscience. They dressed it up as the unavoidable if regrettable consequence of a virtuous desire to […]
Graham Platner, a phony populist, rebranded rich kid, and self-described communist, is now the Democrats’ presumptive nominee for U.S. Senate in Maine. Barring unforeseen events, he will face centrist Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) in November’s general election. He currently leads her in the polling average (though it’s always worth noting that Collins famously trailed in every […]
Tacitus never saw the Teutonic forests, but in his first-century bestseller Germania, he told Romans that the German tribes who lived there had an “inherent love of liberty” and a rude kind of self-government. The men kept their women “fenced-in and chaste, without seductive display,” and if they caught a woman jumping the fence in […]
I wanted Ben Sasse to be president of the United States. Since he has been diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer, that is unlikely to happen. A tragedy for him and his family, obviously, but a tragedy, too, for the country he might have led. I know Ben is a Washington Examiner reader, so I […]
Our age is an extremely individualistic one. This may sound wrong to the observer who sees collectivism on the rise, but collectivism and individualism are not opposites, as philosophers Alexis de Tocqueville and Hannah Arendt explained — they are two sides of the same coin. The less you trust and depend on your fellow man, […]