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Economy
Lara Trump Tries to Fix Her Party’s Woman Problem
Last week, one month before she was set to give birth to her second child, Lara Trump came to King of Prussia, Pennsylvania to kick […]
Party, Personality, a Big Name, and a Primary in Western Michigan
Peter Meijer’s decision to run for Congress in Western Michigan was a surprise to no one who knows the 31-year-old Grand Rapids native. He is […]
The Left’s Industrial Counter-Revolutionaries
George Santayana famously said, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” He should have added that the ahistorical are also immune […]
Democrats 2020: Trillions and Trillions and Trillions More
We’re currently witnessing one of the greatest attempts at mass bribery in history. With each passing week the Democrats running for the 2020 nomination offer […]
Street Smarts in the White House
President Trump went to an Ivy League school, but he came out still talking like a New Yorker, with his street smarts intact. What does […]
From Bake Sales to Boardrooms, ‘Woke’ Is Good For Business
Historically, Republicans have been known as the “party of the rich” making them the “oligarchs” and “fat cats” of American politics in the eyes of […]
Why Free-College Schemes Won’t Fly
In their newest attempt at mass bribery, Senator Bernie Sanders (D-Vt.) and his fellow socialists are now loudly touting their plans to erase $1.6 trillion […]
Richard Trumka and Big Labor Try to Come Home
Richard Trumka needed to come home. Walking into the union hall at the Pittsburgh Federation of Teachers building along the Monongahela River, the AFL-CIO president […]
Free Trade and the ‘Cheap Goods’ Delusion
Between 1348 and 1352 a monstrous plague—the Black Death—ravaged Europe. The disease struck young and old, men and women, saint and sinner alike. Half the […]
2020 Has Echoes of 1996 for the Opposition Party
The Democrats have assembled a field of candidates for 2020 as large as it is unimpressive. From the slick Robert “Beto” O’Rourke and the media […]
How the Left Embraced Globalization
On November 30, 1999, the largely theoretical question of globalism exploded into reality with the spectacle of 50,000 demonstrators shutting down a major meeting of […]
Hasn’t the Government Done Enough for Elon Musk?
Elon Musk may very well be one of the largest beneficiaries of America’s generous system of corporate welfare. Between his two companies—SpaceX and Tesla—Musk has […]
Cure for America’s Socialist Mania: Prosperity
America, President Donald Trump vowed during his State of the Union in February, “will never be a socialist country.” Well, we have some good news […]
The China Problem—Or Is It the Joe Biden Problem?
Joe Biden is a nice guy, they say, but his statement on China should alarm not just his campaign staff but the rest of us […]
A New Way to Deal With Green Oligarchs
As it stands today, more than half of the Democratic candidates for president support the Green New Deal, a “deeply ambitious” plan that backers say […]
The U.S. Doesn’t Need China to Prosper
The latest numbers on U.S. economic growth are astonishingly good. The land of the free enjoyed 3.2 percent annual real GDP growth for the first […]
Freedom at Stake in the Emerging U.S.-China 5G Fight
As the China trade talks apparently have stalled, we would do well to remember what a very real part about this struggle with Beijing is […]
Public-Sector Unions: The Other Deep State
When government fails, public-sector unions win. When society fragments, public-sector unions consolidate their power. When citizenship itself becomes less meaningful, and the benefits of American […]
How to Talk to Capitalists About Millennials
Being a Millennial is a gorgeous morphine joy. We explore ourselves through vivifying and unpaid internships, usually beached in unapologetically expensive cities like London, New […]