From the Wall Street Journal, Costa Rica elects a conservative as Latin America shifts to the right. I’ve been documenting this phenomenon for a while now: worldwide, politics appear to be moving to the right, especially in…
In recent days we have seen the appearance of witnesses to Minnesota’s monstrous public-programs fraud. This is a selective compilation of some recent testimony. Minnesota’s Department of Human Services is the swamp from…
Something has happened to the Department of History at Harvard. The former chairman of Harvard’s history department is boasting that he helped transform the faculty from a “white male affinity group” into a more globally…
Sure, but follow it where? There may have been a time when scientists were objective thinking machines, like Dr. Spock. No biases, just rationality: follow the facts wherever they lead. If there was ever such a golden age, it…
Friends from around the country have asked me how Tim Walz could possibly think he could win a third term, with perhaps the worst record of any governor in American history, topped off with the $10 billion (my conservative…
The adage holds that if you rob Peter to pay Paul, you can always count on the support of Paul. For a long time–during the 1980s, for example–I thought this saying was too cynical. There were lots of Americans who didn’t…
From The Hill newspaper, A federal judge in Texas on Saturday ordered the release of the 5-year-old boy and father who were transported to a detention center in the state amid the Trump administration’s immigration…
NOW a warning? The lead headline on The Hill right now, Minnesota standoff with Trump administration stokes fears of civil war. The article reads like it should have been written at least a month ago. The Hill quotes…
For decades, Europe’s NATO countries were largely free riders when it came to national defense. The United States mostly bore the burden of defending all NATO members against the Russians and whatever other threats might…
News from Washington: the “shutdown” has been kicked down the road for two more weeks. From Politico, Senate passes $1.2T government funding deal — but a brief shutdown is certain. The “T” stands for “trillion.” If the U.S.…
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