Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez greets audience members following a televised town hall event on the “Green New Deal” in New York City, March 29, 2019. (Jeenah Moon/Reuters) Today’s socialists are unabashed about their wish to deliver some kind of New Deal follow-up. The snakiest of snake-oil pitches goes like this: Give us some of your freedom

A man works on a laptop below a painting featuring Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, founder of the Soviet state Vladimir Lenin, and dictator Joseph Stalin in Bulgaria, 2011. (Stoyan Nenov/Reuters) The increasing popularity of this authoritarian ideology demands a strong, serious, sustained response from all who cherish our experiment in self-government. Socialism is having a

Attorney General William Barr speaks at a news conference to discuss Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report, in Washington, D.C., April 18, 2019. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) Weeks into an investigation of the origins of the FBI’s investigation of Russian meddling in the 2016 election, Attorney General William Barr said Friday that the probe has provided more questions

Sen. Bernie Sanders participates in the She the People Presidential Forum in Houston, Texas, April 24, 2019. (Loren Elliott/Reuters) Senator Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.) will call for a ban on for-profit charter schools and a temporary moratorium on funding for public-charter-school expansion in a campaign speech to be delivered Saturday, CNN first reported. In his

Ford cars roll off the assembly line in Flat Rock, Mich., in 2015. (Rebecca Cook/Reuters) The Trump administration has announced that it will delay new tariffs on cars and auto parts for up to six months to allow more time to reach trade deals with the European Union and Japan. In a proclamation issued Friday, President

A few weeks ago in this space, I wrote that we were in a submerged constitutional crisis. President Donald Trump could announce one change in American foreign policy, but the White House would implement a different one. Trump, for example, proclaimed that all American troops would leave Syria, only for “White … Read More

United Nations logo at U.N. headquarters in New York City (Mike Segar/Reuters) In an unprecedented move that earned reproach from some diplomats, the chairwoman of a U.N. commission recently forced the adoption of a measure that implicitly promotes abortion over the objections of more than one country. The controversy erupted several weeks ago at the

Clouds pass over a farm outside Dubuque, Iowa, July 26, 2018. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters) The Heartland: An American History, by Kristin L. Hoganson (Penguin Press, 432 pp., $30) ‘Everything you know about x is wrong” has always been a hit with the reading public. Take Columbus. On Columbus Day, the righteous will complain that students aren’t

A Christopher Columbus statue stands in Madrid, Spain, March 7, 2016. (Paul Hanna/Reuters) Vermont on Friday became the sixth state to eliminate Columbus Day, replacing it with Indigenous People’s Day. Governor Phil Scott, a Republican, signed a bill designating the second Monday in October a day honoring Native Americans rather than the 15th-century Italian explorer. “Vermont was

Attorney General William Barr has enlisted the help of the CIA to investigate whether the FBI’s surveillance of the Trump campaign was motivated by partisan bias, CNN reported Tuesday. CIA director Gina Haspel, Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats, and FBI director Chris Wray are all participating in … Read More

Attorney General William Barr speaks during a farewell ceremony for Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein at the Justice Department in Washington, D.C., May 9, 2019. (Leah Millis/Reuters) Instead of praising Barr for releasing to the public what amounts to an off-the-shelf roadmap for impeachment, Democrats are cavalierly talking about throwing Barr in jail. Ever since

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks during a news conference at the State Department in Washington, D.C., March 15, 2019. (Yuri Gripas/Reuters) Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Tuesday that he has informed Russia the U.S. will not tolerate further election interference from Moscow. Speaking at a press conference in Sochi, Pompeo said he’d told

Donald Trump Jr. speaks during a campaign event for Republican congressional candidate Rick Saccone in Elizabeth Township, Pa., March 12, 2018. (Brendan McDermid/Reuters) After weeks of contentious negotiation, Donald Trump Jr. agreed on Tuesday to comply with the Republican Senate Intelligence Committee chairman Richard Burr’s (R., N.C.) subpoena-backed demand that he sit for a private interview

Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D., Mich.) listens during a House Oversight and Government Reform hearing in Washington, D.C., May 9, 2019. (Leah Millis/Reuters) CNN’s John King corrected Representative Rashida Tlaib’s (D., Mich.) revisionist history of the Holocaust on Monday, pointing out that Palestinian leaders supported the German extermination of Jews and violently resisted the creation of

(Thomas White/Reuters) Twitter issued an apology on Monday for accidentally sharing the location data of some users with a third-party company, saying it is “very sorry this happened.” “You trust us to be careful with your data, and because of that, we want to be open with you when we make a mistake,” the social-media

“East and West Shaking Hands at Laying Last Rail, 1869” shows the celebration of the completion of the intercontinental railroad at Promontory Summit, Utah, May 10, 1869. (Courtesy Andrew J. Russell/Oakland Museum of California/Handout via Reuters) An unimaginable feat that connected America to the Pacific Amidst all the talk of the country splitting apart, we

George Papadopoulos leaves after his sentencing hearing at U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., September 7, 2018. (Yuri Gripas/Reuters) During a Thursday interview on Sky News, former Australian diplomat Alexander Downer explained his decision to turn over to the FBI information about George Papadopoulos that eventually prompted an investigation into the Trump campaign. Two month

Attorney General William Barr (Yuri Gripas/Reuters) Bill Barr Rich: So Charlie Cooke, exit question to you: Rate the seriousness of the current Constitutional crisis from zero to ten: Zero: This is silly. Ten: This is a confrontation brewing between the Congress and Executive over their                     

A police officer directs traffic as student arrive for the first day of classes at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., August 15, 2018. (Joe Skipper/Reuters) Broward County, Fla., where 17 people were killed last year in a shooting at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School, will not allow its public schools to arm

Donald Trump, Jr. speaks at a Make America Great Again rally in Great Falls, Mont., July 5, 2018. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters) Let Congress do its job. We are now officially in the midst of yet another Republican civil skirmish. Two days ago, Axios broke the news that the GOP-controlled Senate Intelligence Committee had “subpoenaed Donald Trump

(Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) The House on Friday passed a $19.1 billion disaster-aid package despite the opposition of President Trump, who blasted the measure in a Thursday night tweet. House Republicans should not vote for the BAD DEMOCRAT Disaster Supplemental Bill which hurts our States, Farmers & Border Security. Up for vote tomorrow. We want to do much

Luis Saez rides Maximum Security (at right) during the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky., May 4, 2019. (Brian Spurlock/USA TODAY Sports) Law and economics’ seemingly simple, but profound, insight is that legal sanctions create incentives to promote or deter certain behavior. By now, Americans are familiar with the controversial ending to the

Containers at a Chick-fil-A branch in midtown Manhattan (Rashid Umar Abbasi/Reuters) The Texas House’s newly-formed LGBTQ caucus on Friday successfully blocked legislation introduced by Republicans to prevent religious discrimination by local governments. The so-called “Save Chick-fil-A” bill, which was introduced in response to the San Antonio City Council’s decision to ban Chick-fil-A from the city’s

Former FBI director James Comey speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., Dec. 7, 2018. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters) Former FBI director James Comey conceded Thursday night that former FBI agent Peter Strzok and his mistress, former FBI lawyer Lisa Page, damaged the Bureau’s reputation through their political partisanship. Strzok and Page have been publicly excoriated by

Uber and Lyft drivers protest outside Uber’s office in Saugus, Mass., May 8, 2019. (Brian Snyder/Reuters) Modern boycotts are less like “social excommunication” and more like publicity campaigns. In ten cities across the country, the drivers who contract for rideshare services Uber and Lyft are supposed to be on strike, and activists have asked that

Attorney General William Barr testifies during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in Washington, D.C., May 1, 2019. (Clodagh Kilcoyne/Reuters) The attorney general has gone above and beyond legal requirements in his release of the Mueller report. He deserves Congress’s gratitude, not its contempt. The Democratic party’s current war on Attorney General William Barr is one

(Joe Skipper/Reuters) Once taboo, the word has become an unfortunate national habit in need of breaking. One of my favorite 1960s anecdotes comes from legendary broadcaster Larry King, who tells of attending his first roast at New York City’s Friars Club. There, French actor Maurice Chevalier dared to utter the F-word live on stage. King

Jeremy Corbyn (Andrew Yates/Reuters) Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday expressed outrage at British Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn’s support of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro’s regime. “It is disgusting to see leaders, in not only the United Kingdom, but the United States as well, who continue to support the murderous dictator Maduro,” Pompeo said at a

Sen. Cory Booker speaks during an Iowa Democrats Black Caucus town hall in Des Moines, Iowa, April 16, 2019. (Elijah Nouvelage/Reuters) Party leaders and 2020 rivals were largely non-committal when asked to comment on the New Jersey senator’s expansive plan. On Monday, New Jersey senator Cory Booker introduced a gun-control plan that’s much more restrictive

Heidi Schreck in What the Constitution Means to Me (Joan Marcus) A Broadway show presents legal analysis crude enough to dazzle progressives. We’ll stipulate that should the end of the American experiment as defined by its current Constitution be imminent, it will probably not be habitués of Broadway theater who do the overthrowing. Nor are