Conventional political wisdom dictates that Republicans have no shot at securing the support of the vast majority of labor unions. But a few cracks are starting to appear in the union love affair with the Democratic Party and offer the GOP a unique opportunity. This week, Axios reported that the political action committee associated with […]
Why was America in the Revolutionary War era, with 3 million people, able to generate leaders of the quality of Benjamin Franklin and George Washington, while today’s America, with 333 million people, generates the likes of Joe Biden and Donald Trump? That’s a question I keep asking, as I alternate between writing about current affairs […]
A school in northwest London might seem to have little bearing on our culture wars in the United States. But the nature of the Michaela Community School, located in the unfashionable district of Wembley, and of a lawsuit it won this month in Britain’s High Court offer lessons for other countries struggling to accommodate large […]
President Joe Biden may be a little bleary-eyed after spending Tuesday night in his former hometown of Scranton, Pennsylvania. For three hours, a group of about six anti-Israel protesters chanted with a loudspeaker outside of his hotel. The group gathered around 9 p.m. and stayed until just after midnight, chanting a series of slogans including […]
The Biden administration has announced its opposition to the Fourth Amendment Is Not For Sale Act ahead of Wednesday’s vote on the bill. The House is scheduled to have a stand-alone vote on Wednesday evening on the act, which began as an amendment to a previous bill reauthorizing the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. Sponsor Rep. […]
Maryland‘s open Senate seat contest is more competitive than expected, leading Democrats and Republicans from across the country to pour millions of dollars into the state. With Sen. Ben Cardin (D-MD) retiring from Congress, both Democratic and Republican candidates are spending millions of dollars just a month ahead from the state’s primary. The top contender […]
Former President Donald Trump will not be in court in Manhattan on Wednesday or subsequent Wednesdays for his hush money trial. The trial will not have proceedings scheduled on Wednesdays to allow Judge Juan Merchan to deal with other court proceedings he has outside of the hush money trial. The procedure to mark one day […]
From the minute they set foot on campus, college students are thrown into a political cauldron. Diversity, equity, and inclusion offices, which “believe the university should be used to re-engineer American society away from color-blind meritocracy and toward equality of outcomes,” consequentially fracture student communities on the basis of politics, gender, and race. These offices […]
Across the country Monday, thousands of United States citizens were detained against their will by criminal protesters. In Seattle and Chicago, travelers were blocked from entering the airport. In New York City, the Brooklyn Bridge was shut down. In Philadelphia, all of Center City came to a standstill. In San Francisco, commuters on the Golden […]
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) accused Sen. Jon Tester (D-MT) of leaving the Senate when the articles of impeachment were presented against Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. “Jon Tester was standing on the floor before the managers arrived, but as soon as the managers arrived, Tester turned and ran, presumably into the cloakroom,” Cruz […]
If someone says, “Trust the science!” these days, it’s usually an effort to short-circuit debate over weighty policy issues. “Trust the science” has been deployed in the past five years to prevent debate over COVID school closures and mask mandates, over electric-car subsidies, and over sex changes for boys and girls. For my entire time […]
THIS WEEK’S OTHER TRUMP LEGAL STORY. The trial of former President Donald Trump, the paperwork case over the nondisclosure agreement he had with a porn star, continues with jury selection in Manhattan. It’s been extensively covered; this newsletter wrote not one but two previews last week, plus more discussion yesterday. So enough about that for a […]