No, Low-Wage Workers Aren’t Lazy. They’re on Strike.
I write these words on Labor Day, a holiday that President Grover Cleveland decided should come around in September rather than May because he worried about the socialist connotations of May Day, and...
View ArticleIt’s Good That Elizabeth Holmes Failed
As the criminal trial of Elizabeth Holmes—the disgraced former CEO of the defunct blood-testing startup Theranos, who allegedly defrauded investors, physicians, and patients—unfolds in San Jose,...
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Can Fashion Help Small Farmers Preserve the Amazon?
On a rainy March afternoon, Rogério Mendes strides through the dripping vegetation of a tract of virgin Amazonian forest and stops at a tree with scars arranged in neat diagonal rows across its trunk....
View ArticleKevin McCarthy Really Doesn’t Want the January 6 Committee to See Those Phone...
Over the last week or so, congressional Republicans, with increasing audacity, have vowed that there would be repercussions for tech companies that complied with a request by the congressional...
View ArticleHow Is the Media Still Screwing Up Covid Stories?
There is already so much bad news about Covid-19 that no one needs to look very hard to find it. On Memorial Day, the United States was hovering around 25,000 new cases a day; on Labor Day, the figure...
View ArticleThe Case Against Humane War
In May 2013, Barack Obama delivered a speech at the National Defense University in which he defended the war on terror, then in its twelfth year. Though remembered as an antiwar candidate, Obama...
View ArticleA Legendary Abortion Rights Activist on What Comes After Texas
When Heather Booth helped a friend’s sister obtain an abortion in 1965, she thought it would be a one-off situation. Instead, it became the start of a legendary underground operation known as the Jane...
View ArticleThe Supreme Court Will Decide if Congress Can Ban Cockfighting in Puerto Rico
The United States of America is this country’s formal name, but it would be slightly more accurate to call it the United States and Territories of America. Roughly 3.6 million people live on American...
View ArticleThe Texas Abortion Law Could Juice Democratic Turnout in Virginia
A law that went into effect in a state more than 1,000 miles away may have the power to reshape the November election in Virginia.When the Supreme Court refused to block a Texas law banning abortion...
View ArticleRegulating Amazon’s Warehouse Algorithms Is About More Than Injuries
Early last year, 24-year-old Jaclyn Castro graduated from college with a degree in history and began working as a counselor at the University of California, Los Angeles. Then the pandemic hit. Millions...
View ArticleWhy the “Bernie Bill” Will Not Increase Unemployment
A growing worry as Congress takes up the reconciliation bill is that expanding the welfare state as the Democrats hope to do will drag American civilization down to the level of Western Europe,...
View ArticleImpeachment: American Crime Story Has an Unlikely Main Character
Here’s how much I enjoyed the first seven out of 10 episodes of FX’s Impeachment: American Crime Story: As soon as I ran out of screeners, I spent Labor Day weekend marathoning all 10 episodes of The...
View ArticleDemocrats, Don’t Go Wobbly on the Estate Tax
The budget reconciliation bill now before Congress raises the exciting possibility that the Democrats will become once again the party of the working class. To get there, though, they’ll have to...
View ArticleRepublicans Are Road-Testing Trump’s Reelection Strategy in California
“It’s probably rigged.” That was Donald Trump’s assessment of the effort to recall Democratic California Governor Gavin Newsom, during an appearance on the dutifully sycophantic network Newsmax....
View ArticleIs It Finally Curtains for Roe?
The new Supreme Court term is about to begin, and it promises to be a blockbuster. With cases involving abortion and guns already on the docket, and the possibility that an affirmative action case may...
View ArticleBiden Finally Gets It Right With New Vaccine Mandates
President Biden is imposing the most comprehensive Covid vaccine mandates thus far, requiring federal employees and more than 25 percent of all private sector workers to get vaccinated.The new mandates...
View ArticleBiden’s Justice Department Takes Aim at the Texas Abortion Ban
The Justice Department sued the state of Texas on Thursday to block a controversial statute that had effectively banned most abortions in the state, opening a new front in the legal war over the...
View ArticleNow It Gets Serious: Whom Will the Democrats Tax, and How Much?
The hard part of Democrats’ massive $3.5 trillion reconciliation package kicked off Thursday with multiple congressional committees beginning their markups of the proposal. Democrats are sure they’re...
View ArticleCharter Schools’ Scary Future
In 2019, when West Virginia passed legislation that allowed for the creation of charter schools, it represented yet another feather in the cap of the school-choice movement. Nearly three decades after...
View ArticleThe 33-Year-Old Tour Guide Exposing the Absurdity of the California Recall
One candidate wants to fight for freedom. Another wants to protect children, families, and small businesses. And almost everyone running in California’s gubernatorial recall election wants to restore...
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