Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies before the House Energy and Commerce Committee, April 11, 2018. (Leah Millis/Reuters) The Department of Justice is opening a sweeping anti-trust review to determine whether the country’s leading technology firms are stifling competition in violation of federal law, it announced Tuesday. “Without the discipline of meaningful market-based competition, digital platforms

KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa. — Last week, one month before she was set to give birth to her second child, Lara Trump came here to kick off the 2020 Women for Trump coalition, planting a flag, or at least an olive branch, in some of the least Trump-friendly terrain in the Keystone State: suburban Philadelphia.

British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson addresses a special session of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) in Hague, Netherlands June 26, 2018. (Yves Herman/Reuters) Making the click-through worthwhile: Boris Johnson takes the helm over in the United Kingdom, our friends across the pond are attempting to face a dangerous world with a

Last week, at the invitation of Sen. Ted Cruz, I spoke to the Senate Judiciary Committee about Google’s having placed more than 60 Prager University videos on its restricted list. Any family that filters out pornography and violence cannot see those particular videos on YouTube (which is owned by Google); nor can any school or

Sen. Al Franken departs the Capitol with wife Franni after announcing his resignation, December 7, 2017. (Yuri Gipas/Reuters) Over at The New Yorker, Jane Mayer has a lengthy piece in defense of Al Franken, the former Minnesota senator who resigned in disgrace last year after a photo surfaced of him appearing to grope radio host

Gentle readers, things have reached a pretty pass in Los Angeles, where, sad to say, the two most influential political constituencies are now the homeless and illegal immigrants. Everyone else, all you citizens and legal immigrants, all you people paying your mortgages or your rent, and most important all you people paying your taxes and keeping

I am pleased and a little amused that my new book, The Smallest Minority, which will be published tomorrow, is currently the No. 1 new release in the “Democracy” category at Amazon. And it is a book that is about democracy—but it is not a celebration of it. A snippet: Democracy, properly understood and properly

Sather Tower rises above the University of California at Berkeley campus. (Noah Berger / Reuters) I’d like to quote from a New York Times report on Friday, and then from an essay I have on the homepage today. I’m interested in the words “liberal” and “conservative,” particularly. Here’s the Times: BERKELEY, Calif. — The city

President Donald Trump in the Diplomatic Room of the White House in 2017 (Joshua Roberts/Reuters) But that attitude may mean they’ll be burned again. About every other year, I make it a point to stop by Netroots Nation, the annual gathering of thousands of progressive activists, to take the temperature of the American Left. One

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.) at a rally in Washington, D.C., April 30, 2019 The episode is a reminder that presidential words matter. ‘Send her back!” they chanted, meaning Representative Ilhan Omar, the Somalia-born Jew-hating weirdo elected to Congress by the ghastly fruitcakes who run things in Minneapolis. President Donald J. Trump, elected president by

Mariano Rivera is the greatest closer in baseball history and he is being inducted into the Hall of Fame this weekend after being the first player ever unanimously selected. He is one of those rare modern sports stars who almost no one has anything bad to say about. Enter Daily Beast writer Robert Silverman, who

Former Planned Parenthood president Dr. Leana Wen (James Lawler Duggan/Reuters/File Photo) Does Leana Wen’s Planned Parenthood departure signal new hope for real choices for women? This past week saw the news that Planned Parenthood’s first medical-doctor president, Leana Wen, was out of a job, less than nine months in, shortly after suffering a miscarriage. The

Depiction of the storming of the Tuileries Palace on August 10, 1792 ( Jean Duplessis-Bertaux ) The most memorable critic of ‘Enlightenment’ rationalism was also a visionary moralist. ‘If we act only for ourselves, to neglect the study of history is not prudent,” that very profound and virtuous man Samuel Johnson wrote; “if we are

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the weekly cabinet meeting at his office in Jerusalem, 2018. (Ronen Zvulun/Reuters) He persisted. On July 20, Benjamin Netanyahu becomes Israel’s longest-serving prime minister. His first tenure lasted from 1996 to 1999. This second stint began in 2009. Bibi has won five elections since. The most recent victory, in