The midterm elections are over, but for some Americans, the anxiety is just beginning. For months, campaign ads, fundraising emails, and cable news panels have warned voters that their freedom, safety, and the country’s future hang on the outcome. Now those whose candidates lost may be wondering just how bad things are going to get. […]
Nazi! Fascist! Dictator! Authoritarian! King! Those were just some of the many, many insults that liberals, Democrats, socialists, and communists hurled at President Donald Trump over the years. And they’ve been doing it for nearly 10 years. Yet, here we are in 2026, and the Fourth Reich has not been established. No monarchy was ushered […]
Four hundred or so years ago, on Nov. 5, 1605, a plot to blow up the British Parliament failed. It was known as the Gunpowder Plot, and I’ve been burning Guy Fawkes, one of the culprits, in effigy at my home in Arlington for the past few years. The police are gracious enough to stop […]
The Supreme Court may soon tell 401(k) savers to bring a “meaningful benchmark” to court. Before it does, savers should be able to get the numbers to build one. On Oct. 6, the justices heard Anderson v. Intel Corp. Investment Policy Committee, a challenge to private equity and hedge fund holdings inside Intel’s custom retirement […]
Tuesday night’s results should force a serious reckoning inside the Republican Party. Not just with candidates who underperformed, and not just about the political environment, but with the consulting class that spent this election cycle insisting to donors and candidates they could win by just drumming up their base — “Socialism!” — and turning out […]