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For most of the postwar era, the United States has gone to war with partners whose military contributions ranged from moderately helpful to mainly symbolic. Britain in Afghanistan and Iraq comes to mind in the first case. Germany in the 1999 Kosovo War comes to mind in the second.
Those who quote Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar” often mistake “Et tu, Brute?” as the dictator’s final line, as Caesar realizes his friend, Marcus Junius Brutus, has stabbed him. With vulgar Caesars dominating the news, from Donald Trump to Cesar Chavez, perhaps Caesar’s actual final line, “Then fall, Caesar,” offers a more appropriate lesson for our time. The allegations reported in the New York ...
I’m a pain researcher and a mom. My preteen son recently asked what kind of pain I study. I told him: menstrual pain. I explained what menstruation is, what the pain feels like, and mentioned that some of his classmates may soon experience it. To my great surprise, he didn’t roll his eyes or call it gross. Instead, he said, “That must be hard for girls trying to focus in class while in pain.”
If you’re looking for the hottest gift for your socialist situationship, you may find it in an unlikely place. Tucker Carlson’s media company just released a batch of merch, and some of it is pretty good.
A time of war is a time of sacrifice, friends. So I’m sorry to report that the war we already decisively won against Iran, the country whose military we 100% obliterated, is going to cost an additional $200 billion, presumably to ensure extra decisive winning and a side of further obliteration.
Two dissimilar government agencies have inadvertently combined to clarify the immigration debate. Stomach-turning excesses by Immigration and Customs Enforcement have turned many Americans’ abstract political preference into something uncomfortably concrete. And the Census Bureau has demonstrated that the nation needs immigrants as much as they need the blessings of American liberty.
As campaigning for the midterm elections ramps up, I’m curious what issues Republican candidates will run on. Because at the moment, their best and only platform appears to be: “Oops.”
The nation’s highly anticipated monthly job reports have turned into the boy who cried wolf. Ever since the pandemic, these labor market estimates have been wildly inaccurate and required significant revisions. That’s troubling because major decision-makers from Washington to Wall Street no longer have reliable data, and the consequences affect every American family. The source of the problem ...
We Americans are a proud bunch. We are a nation founded on the principles of freedom and the rule of law, and our commitment to these values has propelled human flourishing to new heights and made us the leader of the free world. But in recent years, as our politics and media have become more toxic, we have become more cynical. Now our cynicism is making us stand out in a bad way. A recent Pew ...
New data has come out showing that Gen Z men across the world hold some pretty regressive views about women – even more than those of the older adults whose relationships they’re trying to emulate.
The most famous query in the history of modern warfare came from David Petraeus, then a major general, in an interview with Rick Atkinson, then a reporter, during the initial assault on Iraq: “Tell me how this ends.”
A Republican U.S. representative dropped his re-election bid after revelations about a sexual relationship he had with a staffer, but the GOP still cannot address the real elephant in the room.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has been without a permanent director since the removal of Susan Monarez in August. Its recently installed acting director, Jay Bhattacharya, is also running the National Institutes of Health, located hundreds of miles from the CDC’s headquarters in Atlanta. The CDC has also lost scores of senior staff and shuttered key programs, including those focusing on tobacco control and injury prevention.
President Donald Trump announced on Thursday that Kristi Noem is out as head of the Department of Homeland Security and will be replaced by Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-Oklahoma, effective March 31. Mullin, like Noem, will need to be confirmed by the Senate.
So it turns out Americans don’t love widespread cruelty.
Killing the tyrant doesn’t assure the tyranny will end.
On Tuesday, Texas Democratic voters selected state Rep. James Talarico to be their party’s U.S. Senate nominee come November. He defeated U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett, who conceded Wednesday, and in doing so sealed the party’s doom to a mediocre existence.
In 2023, JD Vance, then a freshman senator from Ohio, endorsed Donald Trump for president in a Wall Street Journal column headlined “Trump’s Best Foreign Policy? Not Starting Any Wars.” It suggested that despite his impolitic rhetoric, Trump was a statesman who understood that “the U.S. national interest must be pursued ruthlessly but also carefully, with strong words but great restraint.”
Critics say President Donald Trump’s decision to strike Iran is a violation of his promise not to engage in “forever wars.” In fact, the opposite is true. Trump is not starting a forever war in Iran; he’s ending one.
America is now living in what might be called the Age of the Corporation. Corporate profits, after having reached 8% of GDP only once in the previous 94 years, have averaged 9% since 2021. The statutory corporate income tax rate, meanwhile, is now just 21% — down from 52% in 1960 — as federal tax revenue from corporations has fallen from 4% of GDP to just 1.8% in that same period. That’s how ...
