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My defense of the filibuster today was partly prompted by this thoughtful post by my friend Mark Strand, a longtime supporter of the filibuster who...
I’m not a fan of the tariffs that Noah criticizes in this post, or of the Iran war he absolves from blame for “sluggish hiring.” But does the...
. . . to stop talking about the issue that clearly animates him most.
I take up the question at the Washington Post. For decades, the United States has been moving away from the version of Congress in which the...
Americans’ approval of the job the U.S. Supreme Court is doing has fallen to a record low of 33%, driven by a steep drop in Republicans’ backing...
Critics of my post on President Trump’s responsibility for the Covid-19 response in 2020 have gotten hung up on the idea that I’m saying that he...
During 2020 and 2021, I thought of Anthony Fauci having three basic jobs. He directed the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, he...
I just ran across a speech that New York Times publisher A. G. Sulzberger gave in June about the impact of AI on journalism. He talked about “the...
PEN America is a venerable organization of writers that, it says on its website, “stands at the intersection of literature and human rights to...
. . . won’t be Francesca Hong, because it was Elmer Benson (governor of Minnesota 1937-39), who was defending Joseph Stalin as late as the 1980s.
“It’s No Longer So Much Fun to Be MAGA in Washington,” claimed the headline in the New York Times. Sally Quinn’s op-ed indeed writes, “The...
Her judicial opinions and votes, like those of the other justices, are fair game for criticism. But the recent wave of attacks on her is bizarrely...
I agree with Jim on this. There’s an additional problem with raising the inflation target from 2 percent a year to 3 (or even 4, as some economists...
MBD notes some of the practical reasons for doubting immigration as a solution to the problems caused by declining birth rates. But there’s another...
In my column today, I mention that the Democratic Socialists of America have taken the official position that the Senate should be abolished. I should...
In Trump v. Slaughter, handed down at the end of June, the Supreme Court ruled that because the Federal Trade Commission exercises executive powers,...
Their candidates are downplaying the group’s extreme beliefs. Darializa Avila Chevalier, one of the victorious New Yorkers, has deleted social...
A friend thinks our Independence Day edition of The Editors podcast praised John Adams insufficiently: I can’t believe the injustice y’all...
Max Richtman, the head of the “National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare” — which are in no danger of extinction — writes to...
Agree or disagree with the Supreme Court’s decision on birthright citizenship today, it leaves the government with many ways to address the...
A core purpose of the Constitution was to protect national commerce from state governments. During the last century, however, the Supreme Court has...
Marcus Nunes on what the late central banker got right and his successor(s) didn't: Tell [Greenspan] he ran a flexible nominal-GDP level target...
A year ago, President Trump was bulldozing his opposition. Now he’s facing setback after setback. My latest column asks what happened: [T]his...
Writing against British bans on cigarettes and social media for young people — although the former will automatically expand to include every Briton...
In the New York Times, the Republican-Democratic duo talk up their plan to eliminate Social Security’s shortfall entirely through tax increases. A...
The supposedly simple and easy solution to the program’s shortfall that progressives are selling would be a record-setting tax increase and further...
In a recent column, I noted that for all the upheaval of the 21st century, 43 states voted the for the same party’s presidential candidate in 2024...
The best and most clarifying thing I’ve read about Magnifica Humanitas comes from Ed Feser, who isn’t trying to explain away anything Pope Leo...
From my Washington Post column on the latest: Progressives, who went all in on “believe women” just a few years ago, have in many cases decided...
Today’s Washington Post column looks at one of the motivations for the Constitution, and why it’s still relevant. Under the Articles of...
Jonathan Chait on the antitrust obsessives remaking the Democratic party. Brian Albrecht on the failure of those obsessives’ theories. Yuval Levin...
I read the DNC report and wrote about it. High inflation harmed the Democratic Party more than any other issue in 2024. In a just-released...
From my column today: Pope Leo XIV and Secretary of State Marco Rubio were diplomatic after their recent meeting. But the conflict between the...
And this isn’t a complicated story: It’s because the money supply in Argentina keeps growing too fast. Scott Sumner: Milton Friedman famously said...
The Brownstein article I mentioned earlier notes that in Democratic primaries, the health-care debate pits advocates of single payer against...
Ronald Brownstein agrees with me both that single payer is coming back as a cause for Democrats and that it is politically perilous for them. I’d...
Some people are reading this line from Pope Leo XIV as a shot at President Trump: “Woe to those who manipulate religion in the very name of God for...
The Iran war is very different from the Iraq war. I mark some of the differences in my Washington Post column today. President George W. Bush was...
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