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 […]