Betting on appearances over reality is a weak long-term strategy, especially when those appearances are false. Fictions quickly wear thin, allowing people to see through to reality, to facts that stay stubbornly in place. President Abraham Lincoln put it more pithily: “You can fool all of the people some of the time, and some of […]

Love him or loathe him, one thing is undeniable: Donald Trump is the most dominant president of our generation. Six months into his second term, he’s not just occupying the White House — he’s reshaping the American political order. This Fourth of July, while most Americans watched fireworks, Trump signed into law a sweeping tax […]

Zohran Mamdani’s campaign to become the next mayor of New York has made front-page news, capturing public attention both locally and nationally with its surrounding controversy. While some critics of Mamdani are simply Islamophobic, others have raised valid concerns about aspects of his past. Most notably, it has been widely reported that Mamdani co-founded a chapter […]

My former boss, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), and the House Freedom Caucus have been excoriated for pushing for some fiscal sanity in the Big Beautiful Bill Act. But for the pressure put on House and Senate leadership by conservatives, the legislation would have been molded by centrist senators and House members in a way that […]