What does the working class really want? That is the headline of George Packer’s review of seven recent books on politics and the economy for the Atlantic. And while the article gives a surprisingly fair hearing to the role mass migration has played in the decline of America’s working class, it still suffers from a […]
The state legislature of California has run out of ways to legalize abortion and the sterilization of children and now wants to ban youth tackle football. State Assembly Bill 734 would ban children under the age of 12 from taking part in the great American tradition of tackle football, and the Assembly committee tasked with […]
Washington, D.C., has a revolutionary idea on how to combat its crime crisis: arrest and incarcerate violent criminals. Councilwoman Brooke Pinto, chairwoman of the City Council’s Judiciary and Public Safety Committee, has proposed more stringent laws and penalties for the council to consider. The proposal would increase the maximum sentencing for gun crimes from one […]
Gov. Josh Shapiro (D-PA) campaigned on being a centrist when he ran for office in 2022. Many politicians, pundits, and journalists celebrated Shapiro as a centrist candidate who was a welcomed relief in an era of division and political tribalism. However, since his time in office, all Shapiro has done is illustrate just how left-wing […]
A lot of people spent this morning trying to make Thursday’s inflation numbers sound fine. This is part of a yearlong public messaging campaign arguing that the President Joe Biden economy is perfectly perfect and that anyone who doesn’t like it is divorced from reality. The main evidence behind this argument was that inflation was […]
A third year in a row has begun with inflation on the rise as investors cling to delusions that the Federal Reserve does not actually care about the data. Both the “Summary of Economic Projections” and minutes from the last Fed meeting of 2023 indicated that the central bank only sees about three interest rate […]
The European Union is so afraid that the upcoming European Parliament elections will bring more far-right lawmakers to Brussels that it is turning to Taylor Swift for help. In a recent statement, Margaritis Schinas, the vice president of the European Commission, urged the American pop star to use her upcoming concert tour in Europe to […]
Some people claim it is a problem that many others treat politics like sports, but there are many ways in which doing so would be an improvement. That includes moving on from elderly leaders who have lost a step. College football legend Nick Saban retired on Wednesday from his position as the head coach of […]
On Wednesday night, cable news broadcast a tale of two contests. On CNN, two Republicans spent the better part of two hours exchanging pejoratives, attacking each others’ motivations and political records, and accusing each other of being dishonest in general and fake conservatives in particular. On Fox News, the other Republican was uplifting, on message, […]