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American precarity

Americans are wealthier than ever before by some measures, but there’s evidence that we’re all walking close to the edge, thanks to the post-COVID-19 Biden-Era inflation. While off its record highs, the stock market is still far higher than in the recent past. In late March, the S&P 500 was 20% higher than its late […]

Total recall: Administrative overreach stifles small businesses and limits mothers’ choices

When I gave birth to my first baby over a decade ago, I had many options for baby products to put her down in. Baby bouncers, baby pillows, baby rockers — all manner of vessels that could contain her little body so I could do things like go to the bathroom, cook dinner, or simply […]

Dem Sen. Mark Kelly fires back after Musk stands by ‘traitor’ accusation

Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona responds after Elon Musk stands by calling him a "traitor" for arguing that the U.S. should support Ukraine.

The nation’s cartoonists on the week in politics

Every week political cartoonists throughout the country and across the political spectrum apply their ink-stained skills to capture the foibles, memes, hypocrisies and other...

Elon Musk to give talk in Wisconsin ahead of closely watched state Supreme Court contest: ‘Super important’

Elon Musk says he will be giving a talk to voters in Wisconsin this weekend ahead of the state’s highly anticipated state Supreme Court election.

The curdling of California and Gavin’s party

In November 2023, downtown San Francisco underwent a sudden transformation. Its streets were power washed, graffiti was erased, trash was cleared, and the city’s sizable homeless population was relocated. For a city grappling with a mass exodus fueled by these very problems, the cleanup revealed that it was never a matter of feasibility but rather […]

Andrea Dworkin’s unfinished business 

“We will know that we are free when the pornography no longer exists,” Andrea Dworkin concludes in her book Pornography: Men Possessing Women, originally released in 1981 and rereleased this year by Picador. It is easy to read the book nearly 45 years later as a well-meaning but quixotic and doomed quest. Even Dworkin seems […]

The Katherine Maher case for defunding NPR

Taxpayers should have stopped funding the Corporation for Public Broadcasting long ago, but National Public Radio CEO Katherine Maher’s cowardly, disingenuous, and dishonest testimony before Congress on March 26 must surely convince reluctant lawmakers that now is the time to cut the cord. Long before Maher took the helm, defenders of NPR and the Public […]

Gov. Youngkin says Biden turned US into a ‘sanctuary country’

Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin told Fox News’ “Hannity" Thursday that former President Biden tuned the United States into a "sanctuary country" with his open border policies.

Trump’s newest executive order moves to end collective bargaining at agencies safeguarding national security

President Trump has signed an executive order to end collective bargaining with federal labor unions in agencies with national security missions across the federal government.

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