Spain’s crisis is no longer corruption. Corruption merely steals money. Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez’s machine seeks to cripple the institutions capable of exposing the theft. The Leire Diez affair reveals the architecture. Spanish Civil Guard investigators seized a blue notebook containing almost 100 pages of names, schemes, judges, prosecutors, and investigative targets. The alleged […]

Few Iowans, myself included, would have initially predicted that Zach Lahn would come out on top in Iowa’s Republican gubernatorial primary. Regardless of the factors that shaped the outcome, the race sparked renewed discussion about issues facing rural communities, including the future of family farms, changing patterns of landownership, and the long-term economic health of […]

The comically misnamed Inflation Reduction Act imposed government price controls on prescription drugs by replacing the old non-interference principal, which used market-average prices to set drug reimbursement, with a scheme that allows the Secretary of Health and Human Services to directly set prices via a sham negotiation, in which the manufacturer has to agree or […]

Prescription drug prices are a serious burden in America, and perhaps the chief modern example of why good intentions do not always equal solutions. Take the newly introduced Medication Affordability and Patent Integrity Act, sponsored by Sens. Maggie Hassan (D-NH) and Josh Hawley (R-MO). Conceptually, it’s a modest transparency measure aimed at preventing contradictory statements […]

For a full month now, the streets around the Delaney Hall detention facility in Newark, New Jersey, have belonged to the mob. Federal officers have been savagely bitten and pelted with objects. New Jersey State Police pulled in behind riot lines. Arrests have piled up, and the city has implemented a nightly curfew in the […]

So, when all the votes were counted, the Los Angeles mayoral race was down to incumbent Karen Bass and city councilwoman Nithia Raman.  Spencer Pratt, we are told, entered the race too late and was unlikely to overcome the heavy Democratic Party registration advantage. Yet the question remains — as it has for at least […]

A deal has been struck with Iran, which will reportedly be signed on Friday. On any given day before then, and even after, the United States could launch strikes on Iran, take over Kharg Island, or target the Houthis. President Donald Trump knows how to keep the Iranian regime off balance using media, social media, […]