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After Elon

When President Donald Trump convened his Cabinet for a meeting on the 100th day of his second term, his message was that he was just getting started. But for one of the high-profile figures in the room, it had the feeling of a swan song. Elon Musk,...

Trade war hits bottom lines at home

President Donald Trump capped a tumultuous week in Washington and Wall Street by suspending most of his aggressive tariffs regime for 90 days, acknowledging investors and the general public “were getting a little bit yippy, a little bit afraid.” Trump...

Trump’s Tariff Tsunami

In 1759, British Adm. John Byng was executed by firing squad for “failing to do his utmost” to relieve Minorca, a Mediterranean island besieged by the French navy. This minor episode in the Seven Years' War, known in these parts as the French and...

The Axemen Cometh

It’s not often that champions of a smaller federal government cheer the creation of a new department. But the Department of Government Efficiency isn’t like the Department of Motor Vehicles. It will be run by two businessmen who have made billions of...

The Humanization of Trump

Roasts are not usually vehicles for deep introspection, but during his remarks at this year’s Al Smith dinner on Oct. 17, Donald Trump’s lips issued something that sounded suspiciously like an apology. It concerned his own joke that he judged had gone...

Get Used to It

In the days leading up to the 2024 presidential election, Democrats were worried that Donald Trump would declare victory prematurely based on early returns. “We are sadly ready if he does, and if we know that he is actually manipulating the press and...

Disunited Kingdom

The new president was an ex-prosecutor with a middling record and a trail of dubious judgments. He ran a negative campaign that emphasized the flawed personality of the opponent and masked his own poor record. He had entered politics late and risen to...

The Moral Vacuum

Americans are increasingly certain that their political opponents aren’t merely wrong, but evil. Now, accusing your neighbor of being a moral degenerate is generally frowned upon. For good reason. In the real world, we still need to live together...

A Tale of Two Economies

A top obstacle to Democrats in the 2024 election is that voters are unhappy with the economic stewardship of President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee. For much of Biden’s presidency, consumer sentiment...

Coates Beats The Drum Against Israel

Ta-Nehisi Coates begins the Israeli-Palestinian section of his new book, The Message, with a visit to Yad Vashem, the Holocaust museum in Jerusalem. The excursion, taken on the last day of his 10-day junket to the Palestine Festival of Literature,...

They Stole It!

Before President Joe Biden abandoned his reelection bid in July, there was a broad consensus about where the 2024 race for the White House was headed. Former President Donald Trump was going to win and Biden was about to lose, with the only remaining...

“For a certain kind of liberal, The West Wing remains an eternal standard. What it has to teach about politics is truer, to them, than reality itself.”

Graham Hillard takes stock of the pathbreaking show on the 25th anniversary of its premiere,

A Vietnam Aviator’s Memoir That Flies Higher

Red Dawn (Mis)Remembered

If ever a film has been ripe for rediscovery and reevaluation, it is Red Dawn, John Milius’s 1984 movie about a group of Colorado children who become guerilla resistance fighters during a Soviet-Cuban invasion of mainland America. Received and...

Kamala Harris’s far-left platform

Inflation and immigration remain the voters’ top concerns heading into the contest between President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris this November, and the policy platform put out by the Democratic National Convention would only make both...

The New ‘Golden Rule’: Mind Your Own Damn Business

Aassisntandt former football coach at a Lutheran school, Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) surely knows the Gospels. In Matthew 7:12, Jesus says, “So in everything, do unto others what you would have them do unto you, for this sums up the Law and the...

Public assistance cannot keep you healthy

Wealthy people tend to be healthier, so kindhearted souls tend to argue that we can improve the health of the poor by handing them cash. But it doesn’t work. Public assistance may be capable of many things, but making poor people healthier is not one...

Trump Before and After

The Republican National Convention was supposed to mark the transformation of Donald Trump from presumptive GOP nominee to of icial standard-bearer of the party. But it turned out the real transformation took place 48 hours before the convention began,...

A Blue-Collar GOP

Of the conventional wisdom, this much is true: When Donald Trump took over the Republican Party in 2016, it was the most momentous political revolution in at least a generation. What’s not true is that Trump completely transformed the party or reversed...

Restoring America’s Economy 2025’s Big Tax Fight

Next year is going to see an epic showdown over tax policy. Many provisions of Republicans’ 2017 tax law are set to expire, and most people’s taxes will go up if Congress doesn’t step in. Of special interest to parents, and to Republicans’ growing...