Theodore Kupfer
Theodore Kupfer is a National Review Institute William F. Buckley Fellow in Political Journalism. He graduated from the Johns Hopkins University and hails from central Pennsylvania.
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How close is the special election in Pennsylvania’s 18th district, to be held March 13? A poll conducted in early January by Gravis Marketing showed Republican Rick Saccone with a 12 point lead over Democratic candidate Conor Lamb. But a late-January ... -
In Pennsylvania, a Bellwether Special Election Attracts National Attention
Bethel Park, Pa. — On a snowy Friday afternoon, Vice President Mike Pence took time out of his schedule to visit this hilly, middle-class Pittsburgh suburb in hopes of rallying support for Republican candidate Rick Saccone. At a nearby gas station, ... -
No, Devin Nunes Is Not a Russian Agent
Twice now, MSNBC contributor John Heilemann has asked sitting congressmen whether representative Devin Nunes (R., Calif.) has been “compromised” by Russia. “Is it possible that we actually have a Russian agent running the House Intel Committee on the Republican side?” ... -
Democrats Cave, Shutdown to End
The Senate passed a short-term continuing resolution this afternoon by a margin of 81–18, effectively ending the government shutdown. In a stark reversal from the position they staked out on Friday night, 33 Senate Democrats voted for the bill. “In a few ... -
Three Billboards Meets Backlash
Editor’s note: This piece contains plot spoilers. People liked Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri, at least at first. Written and directed by Martin McDonagh, the movie grossed a tidy $38 million at the box office and earned near-universal praise from ... -
Will Sheriff Joe Be the Next Roy Moore?
Joe Arpaio, the infamous former sheriff of Maricopa County, Ariz., announced on Tuesday that he is running for the Senate seat soon to be left open by retiring Republican senator Jeff Flake. Before Arpaio entered the race, the dynamics of ... -
Online Activists Launch Racist Attacks against Ajit Pai
Ajit Pai is under attack. The Federal Communications Commission chairman has been the target of online vitriol since the FCC voted to reverse the net-neutrality regulations that were instituted under the Obama administration. The attacks against him have frequently been ... -
Democrats: How Can I Help My Wealthy Constituents Keep Their Tax Breaks?
The recently passed Tax Cuts and Jobs Act caps the federal deduction for state and local taxes (the SALT deduction) at $10,000. That’s bad news for people who pay a significant amount in such taxes and relied on the SALT ... -
It Looks Like a Government Shutdown Will Be Avoided — For Now
The deadline to fund the government or risk a shutdown is Friday. It looks increasingly likely that, rather than reach a deal on a long-term spending bill before the holiday recess, Congress will pass another short-term agreement that delays the ... -
Will Football Survive?
All the pat talk about the declining ratings of the National Football League glides past one fact: Football is one product with a stratospherically high floor. Even when sales dips for the NFL, business remains great. More than 9 million households ... -
Steve Bannon Loses Alabama
Steve Bannon didn’t draft Roy Moore as a candidate, nor was he the proximate cause of Moore’s win in the Republican primary. But Moore’s defeat tonight is nonetheless a signature loss for Bannon’s political project, the ... -
In CREW v. Trump, Plaintiffs Change Their Tune
Citizens for Responsibility and Washington (CREW) is suing President Trump for violating the foreign-emoluments clause of the Constitution. The viability of their case depends upon the standing claims of the three plaintiffs that have joined CREW in the suit. The ... -
No, Trump’s Census Pick Won’t Rig Elections
White House eschatology never ends. Every president supposedly threatens to bring down the republic. Reagan was going to declare Rex 84 and suspend the Constitution; Clinton was going to flip the switch on a dormant network of FEMA camps to detain ... -
In 2013, Schumer and Pelosi Decried the Government-Shutdown Tactic. Will They Now Use It?
Four years ago, Republican lawmakers leveraged the threat of a government shutdown to try and win a fight over health care. Republicans said they would not vote for a spending bill (or a debt-limit increase) unless it delayed or defunded ... -
Federal Judge Sides with Trump on CFPB
In a victory for the Trump administration, judge Timothy Kelly has denied a request to prevent Mick Mulvaney from serving as the acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). On Friday, then-director of the CFPB Richard Cordray named ... -
Poll: 33 Percent of Minnesotans Want Franken to Resign
Multiple allegations of sexual harassment have turned Minnesotans against Senator Al Franken, according to a poll conducted by KSTP and SurveyUSA. The pollsters found that only 22 percent of 600 Minnesotans surveyed said he should remain in office. Another 33 percent say he ... -
Bannon’s Failed Candidates
A Steve Bannon–backed candidate turns out to have some serious baggage. Who could have seen that coming? Roy Moore is just the latest in a line of flawed candidates whom Bannon has zealously elevated, only to cry “Establishment!” when ... -
Report: Al Franken Groped a Radio Host in 2006
KABC radio host Leeann Tweeden says that Senator Al Franken groped her in 2006, when Franken was a comedian and the two were on a USO entertainment tour. Tweeden tells the story on the KABC website: As a TV host and ... -
Breitbart’s A-Team
Roy Moore is a Steve Bannon fantasy candidate. He’s an insurgent populist, a self-described renegade who shares Bannon’s arsonist attitude toward the Republican establishment and cares little for the proprieties of D.C. Or the basic standards of ... -
Roy Moore Responds to Allegations
On Sean Hannity’s radio show this afternoon, Republican senatorial candidate Roy Moore responded to recent allegations of sexual misconduct. Moore categorically denied ever knowing Leigh Corfman, the woman who says Moore initiated a sexual encounter with her in February ... -
Watchdog Group Appears to Exaggerate Standing Claims in Trump Suit
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), a Washington, D.C.-based watchdog group, filed suit against President Trump on Jan. 23 for violating the foreign-emoluments clause of the Constitution. Since then, CREW has amended its complaint to add three ... -
GOP Lawmakers: Roy Moore Should Drop out if Report of Sexual Contact with Teenager Is True
The Washington Post published a thoroughly reported story this afternoon in which a woman says that Roy Moore, the Republican candidate for Senate in Alabama’s special election, initiated sexual contact with her when she was 14 years old. Three other ... -
Jerome Powell: The Republican Yellen?
Yesterday, President Trump nominated Jerome Powell to be the new chairman of the Federal Reserve. If the Senate confirms him, Powell will take over when Janet Yellen’s term ends in February. Powell has been called the “Republican Yellen” by ... -
DOJ Headed in the Right Direction on Foreign Emoluments Clause
The plaintiffs in Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington v. Trump argue that President Trump has violated the Foreign Emoluments Clause, which reads in part: “No Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the ... -
Conservatives Should Reconsider Their Opposition to Hip-Hop
Most conservatives don’t like hip-hop. The typical conservative case against the genre amounts not to music criticism, but to the charge that it promotes dangerous behaviors in the culture. Rap group N.W.A.’s 1988 album Straight Outta Compton ... -
‘This article does not question Piketty’s integrity.’
That’s from the abstract of a new paper by economist Richard Sutch, a disclaimer that may have been included because Sutch is so critical of the methodology employed by Thomas Piketty in Capital in the Twenty-First Century. Piketty draws ... -
Executive Unilateralism on Health Care
A defining feature of Barack Obama’s presidency was the rise of executive unilateralism. Obama, frustrated with the procedural constraints that govern America’s government, took several executive actions on his own that amounted to legislation by presidential fiat. Some ... -
Donald Trump and Puerto Rico’s Debt
Puerto Rico already had a debt problem before Hurricane Maria. Its government had been borrowing too much money for years, and, with the population of the island dwindling, began missing payments to its creditors. Congress then passed the PROMESA law, ... -
Waiving the Jones Act for Puerto Rico Is the Right Step
Republican senators Mike Lee (R., Utah) and John McCain (R., Ariz.) have introduced legislation to permanently exempt Puerto Rico from the Jones Act. This is a common-sense decision on the merits that will help the island recover from Hurricane Maria. ... -
Money Isn’t Everything on the Campaign Trail
Roy Moore’s primary victory in Alabama’s special election has unnerved Republicans and intrigued Democrats. The former worry that the flagrant Moore will hurt the reputation of their party, while the latter see a (small) opportunity to defeat an ... -
The Scott Pruitt Non-Scandal
EPA administrator Scott Pruitt has come under fire for taking noncommercial aircraft to conduct government business. Pruitt is being cast as the latest member of the Trump administration to abuse charter planes on the taxpayer’s dime, joining Health and ... -
Stay Open-Minded on Monetary Policy
Last Wednesday, Janet Yellen, chairwoman of the Federal Reserve, announced that the Fed will reduce its holdings of Treasury bonds and mortgage-backed securities, starting in October. She also announced that the Fed remains on target to raise the short-term interest ... -
Steven Rattner's Chart
Today on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, the show’s economic analyst, Steven Rattner, shared the following chart: On Rattner’s website, he writes that Graham-Cassidy would “eliminate all funding for the two principal programs in Obamacare” by 2027. His insinuation appears ... -
Comments Like Trump’s Make the Sports World a Political Battleground
Last night, the president came after the assorted NFL players who have been kneeling for the national anthem. “Wouldn’t you love to see one of these NFL owners, when somebody disrespects our flag, to say, ‘Get that son of ... -
Was Alexander Hamilton a Zombie? Experts Say No
A new development in the case of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington v. Trump, a case that is pending before the District Court of New York, makes it clear that some lawyers have taken to mendacity to advance ... -
Graham-Cassidy Is a Triumph of Federalism
Republicans are trying to pass health-care reform: The noontide hour returns. The latest installment of this eternal endeavor is a bill drafted by Senators Lindsey Graham (R., S.C.) and Bill Cassidy (R., La.) that was introduced on September 13. The ... -
Big Sister
Hillary Clinton’s new book What Happened contains this passage: Attempting to define reality is a core feature of authoritarianism. This is what the Soviets did when they erased political dissidents from historical photos. This is what happens in George ... -
Verrit Might Make Clintonistas Feel Better, but It Won't Do Much Else
Peter Daou loves Hillary Clinton. A lot. Daou has orbited her star since 2006, when he first signed up to be her digital director. Following the implosion of her 2008 campaign, Daou fired up independent ventures designed to propel her into office. ... -
Trump Accedes to Three-Month Increase to Debt Limit
Per reports, President Trump just agreed to a three-month raise of the debt ceiling in a meeting with congressional leaders. That puts him in alignment with Democrats Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi. Jake Sherman of Politico adds that Republicans “are ... -
The American Genius of Twin Peaks
‘Shovel your way out of the sh**!” So goes the tagline of Dr. AMP’s Great American Radio Show, an archetypal entry in the genre of ostensibly conservative but really schizo-libertarian local talk radio. It’s bellowed by a retired ... -
Chris Christie's Attack on Ted Cruz
New Jersey governor Chris Christie attacked Texas senator Ted Cruz on CNN today for his supposed hypocrisy in opposing relief for Hurricane Sandy yet requesting relief as Harvey devastates the Gulf Coast. Christie said: Senator Cruz was playing politics in 2012, ... -
No, It’s Not Hypocritical to Want Targeted Disaster Relief
As Hurricane Harvey moves through the Gulf Coast, a very misleading story is making the rounds: Texas senators and congressmen who, in 2013, heartlessly opposed relief for the localities rocked by Hurricane Sandy are now begging for the same. The wake ... -
Central Bankers Gather at Jackson Hole Symposium
Central bankers from around the world are gathering in Jackson Hole, Wyo., for an annual symposium organized by the Federal Reserve. Investors are watching the symposium closely, paying especial attention to Fed chairman Janet Yellen and European Central Bank president ... -
Can’t We All Just Stick to Sports?
‘Stick to sports.” That’s the familiar refrain from football fans, who are tired of hearing about politics every time they turn on ESPN. It’s true: The sports media doesn’t abide by that rule, in large part because ... -
Repeal the First Amendment, Clinton Insists to Applause
From Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton’s speech last night: I believe that our economy isn’t working the way it should because our democracy isn’t working the way it should. That’s why we need to appoint Supreme Court ... -
Hypocrisy on Russia
Donald Trump’s instantly-infamous interview with the New York Times was either evidence that he does not grasp basic principles of foreign policy, has little care for world order, or both. But the justified apoplexy, expressed by pretty much everyone ... -
Who Was Gavin Long?
Gavin Long was there, in Dallas. It was July 10, and the frustrated Long was venting. He had mixed feelings. Sure, like others, he wanted justice. But he felt that people were pursuing it in the wrong way. Many protestors expressed ... -
Democracy Is Surviving Citizens United Just Fine
Augury is a lost art. When the Supreme Court opened the door for unlimited political expenditures by associations of people, many read the birds’ flight patterns and predicted tidings of doom. Critics of the Court’s ruling in Citizens United ... -
Pundits: The Next Generation
It’s too bad some shaman can’t resuscitate David Hume and show him the latest explainer from Vox. He needs to know how badly his foundational work has been eviscerated. One of the 18th-century Scottish philosopher’s most famous ... -
The FEC's Impulse for Censorship
Three Democrats on the six-person Federal Election Commission (FEC) voted, in secret, to punish Fox News for its handling of a Republican primary debate. Though the vote did not pass, the contentiousness over a matter of such absurdity is reason ...
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What the Stock-Market Slide Can Teach Trump’s GOP
It was never hard to discern why Donald Trump talked about the stock market. When it suited him, correlation and causation were the same. Equity prices were rising, which gave him something to brag about. But it was always ill-advised ... -
Law-Enforcement Unions Have Too Much Power
The Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association of the City of New York, the largest union representing NYPD officers, took a bold step toward reform this week: It cut the number of “courtesy cards” members can give to their friends and family ... -
Where Is the Push for E-Verify?
Something besides good faith is missing from the ongoing immigration negotiations. Republicans want to pair an amnesty for the “Dreamers” with enforcement measures that would tighten the immigration system. But conspicuously absent from their wish list is E-Verify, an electronic ... -
Shutdown Hackery
Shutdown politics are deeply exasperating. But they can also prove useful, as the melodrama reveals who the hacks are. Yesterday afternoon, Nancy Pelosi said the following about funding the Children’s Health Insurance Program in the continuing resolution: “[The bill] ... -
Will the Stopgap Pass?
With a government shutdown fast approaching, Congress is trying to buy itself time. Yesterday, House Republicans unveiled a temporary spending bill that would keep the government funded until February 16. But there are several political roadblocks that stand in its way. ... -
Trump Turns toward the GOP Establishment
Has Donald Trump become a swamp creature? After repudiating Steve Bannon for having the temerity to criticize his son, the president spent the weekend holed up in the Maryland mountains with none other than Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan. The ... -
Paul Nehlen and Breitbart’s Shameless Opportunism
December was shaping up to be a big month for Paul Nehlen, the Republican gadfly who is for a second straight cycle running to unseat House speaker Paul Ryan in Wisconsin’s first congressional district. As the month went on, ... -
Neither Party Opposes CHIP
What will become of the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP)? Bastions of the intellectual class — Jimmy Kimmel, Jon Favreau, the New York Times editorial board — charge the Republican party with forsaking it. CHIP gives block grants to states so ... -
Alabama Was an Early Warning for Senate Republicans
After losing a seat in Alabama, Republicans hold a razor-thin 51–49 Senate majority. Judging strictly by the map, the GOP should increase that majority in 2018: Ten Democratic senators from states carried by Donald Trump are up for reelection, while there is ... -
As Expected, a Rate Hike from the Fed
In a widely expected move, the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) raised the target federal-funds rate by a quarter of a percentage point this afternoon (to an upper bound of 1.5 percent). The governors of the Federal Reserve also kept their ... -
It Shouldn’t Be this Uncertain in Alabama
And yet it is. Roy Moore might hold a lead in the polling average, but honest observers are taking that with a grain of salt. The turnout for special elections is famously irregular, and the Moore scandal only makes the ... -
Michael Flynn Charged by Special Counsel
Special counsel Robert Mueller has charged former national-security adviser Michael Flynn. The news was first reported by CNN. Flynn pleaded guilty to the charge of “willfully and knowingly” making “materially false, fictitious, and fraudulent statements” to the FBI regarding his ... -
Bad Logic from Tully Borland
Everything David says about Tully Borland’s piece in The Federalist is true. At the risk of piling on, I write here to call attention to a particular argument that Borland makes, one that indicates either sloppy logic or plain ... -
According to Polls, Roy Moore Is Winning
A poll conducted by JMC Analytics finds that Roy Moore is ahead in the Alabama special election by five percentage points. According to the poll, Moore holds a 48–43 lead. The previous JMC Analytics poll had Democratic candidate Doug Jones up ... -
With a Government Shutdown Looming, Chuck and Nancy Try to Play Hardball
Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi are trying to play hardball. Unless Congress passes a debt-ceiling increase and a continuing resolution by December 9, the federal government will shut down. Democrats are hoping to leverage the threat of a shutdown to score ... -
Study: Land-Use Restrictions Drag the U.S. Economy Down
Something seems wrong with the American economy, despite strong headline numbers. Nine years into the expansion, GDP and productivity growth remain below their long-term trends. According to a working paper published by the National Bureau of Economic Research, restrictive land-use ... -
House Passes Tax Bill
Minutes ago, the House passed its version of tax reform, which expands the standard deduction, shrinks the amount of individual tax brackets from seven to four, and cuts the corporate tax rate from 35 percent to 20 percent. The vote was 227–205, with 13 ... -
Hickory Houses
Kayla Moore, Roy Moore’s wife, shared a post on Facebook last night that declared, “The Roy Moore story is fake!” The reason? Beverly Young Nelson says she used to work at a restaurant called Olde Hickory House on East ... -
Woman Says Roy Moore Sexually Assaulted Her When She Was 16
At a press conference this afternoon, a woman named Beverly Young Nelson said that Roy Moore tried to rape her in 1975, when she was 16 years old. Nelson gave the press conference alongside attorney Gloria Allred. Nelson’s account is graphic. ... -
Look, Over There, Jeff Bezos! Lessons in Crisis Management from Breitbart
Breitbart is trying to distract its readers from the Roy Moore sex scandal. The takeaway from yesterday’s Washington Post story is obvious: A woman says that Moore initiated sexual contact with her when she was 14, and key parts of ... -
Breitbart: Hey, Let's Litigate Age of Consent
This afternoon, the Washington Post reported that a woman says Roy Moore initiated sexual contact with her when she was 14, and that three other women say Moore pursued relationships with them when they were teenagers. This all happened while he ... -
The Bizarre Conspiracy Theory Nominated for a National Book Award
This much is known about the writer Donald Davidson: He was a founding member of the Agrarians, a literary movement of the American South active during the 1930s. Davidson, like the rest of the Agrarians, rued the rise of the ... -
The Search for a New Fed Chairman Heats Up
On Monday, President Trump told reporters that he is “very, very close” to deciding who he will nominate as chairman of the Federal Reserve. Janet Yellen is the current chairwoman, and her term ends in February. Yellen, Jerome Powell, John ... -
Jeff Flake Slams Trump, Drops Re-Election Bid
In a speech on the Senate floor this afternoon, Republican senator Jeff Flake slammed President Trump and announced that he will not seek re-election in 2018. Flake has been a consistent Trump critic, and polls showed a tough challenge lay ahead ... -
George W. Bush Speaks at Bush Institute Event
George W. Bush delivered remarks this morning at an event in New York. Speaking at the Bush Institute’s “Spirit of Liberty” forum, Bush called for continued support for democracy, while slamming Russian interference in the 2016 election and sounding a ... -
No, George Ciccariello-Maher Doesn’t Believe in Academic Freedom
George Ciccariello-Maher is suddenly worried about academic freedom. Before now, the concerns of the associate professor of politics at Drexel University trended mainly to spreading the gospel of the Bolivarian Revolution, the disaster that has reduced Venezuela to penury and ... -
Report: Roy Moore Received Undisclosed Salary from Charity
According to a report from the Washington Post, Roy Moore, the Republican senatorial candidate from Alabama, collected a yearly salary of $180,000 from the Foundation for Moral Law. The reports also shows that the charity failed to disclose the full compensation ... -
A Different Kind of Pennsylvania Republican
York, Pa. — Halfway through our interview, state senator Scott Wagner leaves the room. He is off to grab something from his office here at the headquarters of Penn Waste, Inc., the company he founded 17 years ago and continues to preside ... -
Journalism Is Not Like Selling Pizza
‘Taken seriously,” Milton Friedman once wrote, “the doctrine of ‘social responsibility’ would extend the scope of the political mechanism to every human activity.” Friedman concluded that the only social responsibility of business is to increase its profits. That sounds about ... -
Tom Price Out
Tom Price has resigned as Secretary of Health and Human Services, the White House said this afternoon. Price came under fire for taking several private and military flights that cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. HHS initially said the flights ... -
Trump Waives Jones Act for Puerto Rico
According to the White House press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, President Trump approved an emergency waiver of the Jones Act for Puerto Rico this morning. The Jones Act, a protectionist law from 1920, had limited the ability of foreign ships to ... -
Waive the Jones Act for Puerto Rico’s Sake
Puerto Rico is reeling after Hurricane Maria. Its residents, American citizens, do not have adequate food, water, shelter, or electricity, and await necessary aid. Yet the Trump administration has refused to waive the Jones Act, a 1920 law that is making ... -
Contested Symbols
When Colin Kaepernick knelt for the national anthem before every game last season, he intended to implicate the national symbols of America in its racism. It was Kaepernick’s belief that this country both was and remains fundamentally racist, hence ... -
Would Graham-Cassidy Take Money from Blue States and Give It to Red States?
One talking point in the debate over the Graham-Cassidy health-care bill is that it would systematically discriminate against Democratic states and in favor of Republican ones: Rand Paul told reporters on Tuesday that his colleagues are “taking the Obamacare money, ... -
Jimmy Kimmel, Policy-Wonk Wannabe
Is Jimmy Kimmel worth listening to beyond monologues or celebrity chats? He can make people laugh, sure, and coax conversation out of the most vapid stars. But on health care? “Health care is complicated, it’s boring. I don’t ... -
The Man from Alabama, Pa.
It’s not an invasion, but for some in Hazleton, Pa., it feels like one. The northern Pennsylvania town is the home of Republican congressman Lou Barletta, whose 2018 campaign for Senate against incumbent Bob Casey has just begun. Barletta, the ... -
Democrats Embrace Single-Payer, Sort of
Prominent Democrats have backed Bernie Sanders’s proposal for single-payer health care, while others not on board with Sanders’s exact plan have endorsed the general notion of a single-payer system. Among that group are Elizabeth Warren, Cory Booker, Kamala ... -
Study: Raising the Minimum Wage Leaves Automation-Prone Workers Behind
A new study by economists Grace Lordan and David Neumark finds that minimum-wage increases make it likelier that low-skilled workers whose jobs can be automated will become unemployed. The study is especially relevant given two recent trends: first, the incorporation ... -
Hurricane Harvey and the Debt Ceiling
As Congress returns from its August recess, it’s staring at a difficult proposition: do its job. It must pass a new appropriations bill, or a continuing resolution, by September 30. In order for the government to spend, the Treasury has ... -
The Decent August Jobs Report
The U.S. Department of Labor released hiring and unemployment data from this past August today. The report shows that 156,000 new jobs were added in August while the unemployment rate ticked up slightly to 4.4 percent. Jobs growth was down from ... -
U.S. Trade Deficit Widens, Which Is Fine
On Monday, the U.S. goods trade deficit (which excludes data on services) widened slightly more than economists expected it to, and now stands at $65.1 billion. That is not a bad thing, but the political response to it could be. ... -
Who Wins if Free Speech Loses?
Sloppy thinking usually isn’t a criminal offense. Then again, Sarah Jones at the New Republic has written an essay called “How Donald Trump Poisons Free Speech.” Jones, the magazine’s social-media editor, asks the empirical question, “Is it ever ... -
Welcome to the Permanent Campaign
Welcome back, my friends, to the show that never ends. Donald Trump put on what his press secretary called a “campaign event” Tuesday night in Phoenix and, during the rally, made generous use of the future tense, that hallmark of ... -
Stock-Market Populism
President Donald Trump is thrilled with the stock market. Trump marvels at the sustained rise of equity prices in public appearances and tweets, marshaling it as evidence that “we’re doing tremendously well” and there’s “no WH chaos!” Yes, ... -
Gary Johnson Should Court the Right
It is time to start taking Gary Johnson seriously. No, seriously. Almost despite himself, the Libertarian-party nominee finds himself on the verge of securing a spot in the presidential debates this fall, having hit 13 percent in a recent CNN poll, ... -
Where Are the Academic Boycotts of Turkey?
In an attempt to consolidate power after last week’s coup attempt, Recep Tayyip Erdogan has launched a massive purge of Turkish institutions. As Noah Daponte-Smith notes, among those fired or detained are 1,577 university deans and professors, along with tens ... -
Chaos about Rules Vote in Cleveland
Chaos — corruption, in the eyes of some — just broke out at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland. At issue was whether the Convention rules, as determined by the rules committee days ago, would in fact govern the Convention. These rules ... -
Federal Agencies Can't Keep Track of Their Own Guns
The federal government needs to crack down on guns. Its own stockpile, anyway. The Washington Examiner reports: The federal government has spent $1.5 billion on guns and ammo since 2006, and lost nearly 1,000 weapons along the way, including Uzis, assault rifles, and ... -
The NBA Should Abolish Maximum Contracts
Kevin Durant is one of the best three basketball players in the world. The six-foot-ten wing, lithe as Gumby but less forgiving, once led the NBA in scoring four times over a five-year span; the year he didn’t, he ... -
The Globalist Bogeyman
It’s got to be tough to be a proud veteran of N30. That’s the in-house term for the anti–World Trade Organization riots that thrilled and scandalized Seattle beginning on November 30, 1999, back when “globalization” was a fighting word. ...