The fact that Chicagoans have elected not a reformer, but a deformer, suggests that inner-city residents still don't get it—or they don't care.

A conservative’s argument to stay and fight.

And the next earthquake could send it all crashing down.

If the ruling class has its way, the nation as we knew it could be making a French exit. That’s what happened in Detroit, where people once lived well.

Don’t be surprised when bad things happen in New York, or in any other corrupt, big-government town or state. Bad things need to happen.

The problem is much closer to home. Take a good look at your own city or county, find out what’s wrong, then do something about it.

You can’t be a good leftist unless you have someone else’s money to live on. And most of the country is busy paying for the lifestyle of the small remainder.

When it comes to bad and destructive ideas, big cities almost hold a monopoly. 

Everything the present Democratic administration is allowing to happen, and which creates chaos and aggravates violence, is aimed at increasing its control.

How have we become so callous?

Lyndon Johnson had it right; woke progressives have it wrong. 

Chicago’s problems can’t be the result of any systemic racism, unless you wanted to argue that Chicago’s Democratic Party black elite officialdom don’t give a damn about Chicago’s black population.

The pandemic has simply accelerated a phenomenon that was already underway. But there’s nothing wrong with the city that a whole lot of liberty can’t fix.

Eric Garcetti’s homelessness policies are destroying Los Angeles and provide a window into the way the donor class uses “woke” compassion to enrich themselves.

Suburbs are not racist. They are not ecologically unsustainable. They are beautiful, and we need more of them.