Can the United States come up with an immigration policy that will prove sustainable? Two writers whom I respect and take delight in reading, despite their widely differing views, Tyler Cowen, who favors more immigration, and Christopher Caldwell, who favors less, have their doubts. Both, incidentally, are writing for The Free Press, Bari Weiss' eclectic startup.
Survey results released last week are as stark as they are unsurprising. According to Rasmussen Reports, 80% of likely U.S. voters say the federal government is corrupt, and 44% declare it “very corrupt.” Only 14% believe corruption in Washington is minimal. How many of the 14% are employed by or benefit from this corruption?
Google settled a racial bias lawsuit for $50 million.
Merrill Lynch paid $20 million.
What will it take to get crime under control in our subways and public transit systems?
On Monday, news broke of another passenger set on fire in New York City's subway -- though this story wasn't all it seemed.
Polls show that the age group of Americans most worried about "affordability" are the 20- and 30-somethings. That's young millennials and Gen Z.
The word that best describes how former Vice President Dick Cheney, who wielded the responsibilities he undertook in public affairs over a long career, began improbably early in life and extended into years of repudiation by his fellow partisans, is "unintimidated."
Trial lawyers have been the bane of U.S. employers for many decades, sucking blood out of the economy like a swarm of mosquitos.
People are turning to socialism. Two-thirds of Americans ages 18-29 hold a "favorable view" of it.
Marjorie Taylor Greene is a singular politician -- a maverick, though not in the John McCain sense.
Whence cometh the conviction, in America and even more in Britain and Europe, that open borders is the only moral immigration policy? Of course, not everyone believes that, and many who do stop short of saying so. But the contrast between the rhetoric and policies of the first two decades of the century and those that have prevailed since President Donald Trump's election is unmistakable.
Young Americans are living in a micro-world of rising costs, precarious jobs, and deferred dreams. At the same time, the political class continues to speak in macro-terms of grand strategy and ideological crusades.
Is President Donald Trump losing the winning coalition he built just a year ago?
We media types obsess about America's problems.
But we should acknowledge that today, life in America is better than life has been anywhere, ever.
For most of history, the norm was hunger, disease, illiteracy, slavery and war.
The buzzword of the month is "affordability," and based on the election results from New York, New Jersey and Virginia, voters think that's declining. Democrats think they've found a winning issue here to win back the hearts and minds of voters after the Trump sweep last year.
Success breeds failure. Policies and practices well suited to society at one juncture in history are often poorly suited to the world they have beneficially transformed. If you carry a good thing too far, it can turn out not to be a good thing anymore.
"America will never be a socialist country!" says President Donald Trump.
Time is short for the Trump administration.
Virginia and New Jersey, the two states that voted for governor in 2025, both voted for then-Vice President Kamala Harris over then-candidate Donald Trump by 52%-46% margins in 2024. Democrats ran significantly better in both states on Tuesday. One reason is that Trump Republicans, as an increasingly downscale party, see their turnout sag in off years than when the presidency is up. But that wasn't their only problem this time.
A recent Rasmussen Reports survey found that 67% of likely voters support ending so-called “corporate welfare,” with only 17% opposed. The idea sounds simple enough – stop giving handouts to big business. But corporations aren’t Ritchie Rich or the Monopoly guy with the top hat.
When there's crime, I blame the criminal.
