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President Trump's tariffs aren't popular, but he's found a way to make them even less so -- a trade war with America's most inoffensive ally.

When one thinks of countries that deserve to be subjected to a steady stream of insults (it's Lake America now, not Lake Ontario) and a punishing regime of tariffs, Canada is far down the list.

Ottawa ...Read more

President Trump's tariffs aren't popular, but he's found a way to make them even less so -- a trade war with America's most inoffensive ally.

When one thinks of countries that deserve to be subjected to a steady stream of insults (it's Lake America now, not Lake Ontario) and a punishing regime of tariffs, Canada is far down the list.

Ottawa ...Read more

When American manufacturing was truly coming into its own in the early 20th century, workers sometimes labored 12-hour days seven days a week and risked life and limb working near dangerous machinery, while factories blackened the skies of American cities.

Yet some of the same people who insist that we need to reindustrialize to return to a ...Read more

When American manufacturing was truly coming into its own in the early 20th century, workers sometimes labored 12-hour days seven days a week and risked life and limb working near dangerous machinery, while factories blackened the skies of American cities.

Yet some of the same people who insist that we need to reindustrialize to return to a ...Read more

When American manufacturing was truly coming into its own in the early 20th century, workers sometimes labored 12-hour days seven days a week and risked life and limb working near dangerous machinery, while factories blackened the skies of American cities.

Yet some of the same people who insist that we need to reindustrialize to return to a ...Read more

We have met the enemy -- and it is watching us.

There's a growing backlash against Flock cameras, the automated license plate readers that have become ubiquitous across the country.

The cameras take images of license plates, which are then stored in a searchable database that police departments can query in the course of investigations.

...Read more

We have met the enemy -- and it is watching us.

There's a growing backlash against Flock cameras, the automated license plate readers that have become ubiquitous across the country.

The cameras take images of license plates, which are then stored in a searchable database that police departments can query in the course of investigations.

...Read more

We have met the enemy -- and it is watching us.

There's a growing backlash against Flock cameras, the automated license plate readers that have become ubiquitous across the country.

The cameras take images of license plates, which are then stored in a searchable database that police departments can query in the course of investigations.

...Read more

We have met the enemy -- and it is watching us.

There's a growing backlash against Flock cameras, the automated license plate readers that have become ubiquitous across the country.

The cameras take images of license plates, which are then stored in a searchable database that police departments can query in the course of investigations.

...Read more

It's hard to believe that Kim Jong Un is really this charming.

President Trump touted his fond relationship with the North Korean dictator in a Truth Social post calling for scaling back a long-running annual military exercise with the South Koreans.

"Based on my very good relationship with Kim Jong Un," Trump wrote, "I am not happy with the...Read more

It's hard to believe that Kim Jong Un is really this charming.

President Trump touted his fond relationship with the North Korean dictator in a Truth Social post calling for scaling back a long-running annual military exercise with the South Koreans.

"Based on my very good relationship with Kim Jong Un," Trump wrote, "I am not happy with the...Read more

It's hard to believe that Kim Jong Un is really this charming.

President Trump touted his fond relationship with the North Korean dictator in a Truth Social post calling for scaling back a long-running annual military exercise with the South Koreans.

"Based on my very good relationship with Kim Jong Un," Trump wrote, "I am not happy with the...Read more

The United States of America may be the greatest place for functionally illiterate people to live in all of human history.

An eye-popping column in the Financial Times the other day noted how people in the U.S. with very low literacy make about as much per hour as the average worker in the U.K.

Is this the result of brilliant public policy, ...Read more

The United States of America may be the greatest place for functionally illiterate people to live in all of human history.

An eye-popping column in the Financial Times the other day noted how people in the U.S. with very low literacy make about as much per hour as the average worker in the U.K.

Is this the result of brilliant public policy, ...Read more

The United States of America may be the greatest place for functionally illiterate people to live in all of human history.

An eye-popping column in the Financial Times the other day noted how people in the U.S. with very low literacy make about as much per hour as the average worker in the U.K.

Is this the result of brilliant public policy, ...Read more

The United States of America may be the greatest place for functionally illiterate people to live in all of human history.

An eye-popping column in the Financial Times the other day noted how people in the U.S. with very low literacy make about as much per hour as the average worker in the U.K.

Is this the result of brilliant public policy, ...Read more

The United States of America may be the greatest place for functionally illiterate people to live in all of human history.

An eye-popping column in the Financial Times the other day noted how people in the U.S. with very low literacy make about as much per hour as the average worker in the U.K.

Is this the result of brilliant public policy, ...Read more

The United States of America may be the greatest place for functionally illiterate people to live in all of human history.

An eye-popping column in the Financial Times the other day noted how people in the U.S. with very low literacy make about as much per hour as the average worker in the U.K.

Is this the result of brilliant public policy, ...Read more

The United States of America may be the greatest place for functionally illiterate people to live in all of human history.

An eye-popping column in the Financial Times the other day noted how people in the U.S. with very low literacy make about as much per hour as the average worker in the U.K.

Is this the result of brilliant public policy, ...Read more

During the 1979-1980 hostage crisis, a defiant Iran starkly demonstrated the limits of American power.

Forty-five years later, it is doing the same thing, although in vastly different circumstances.

Back then, when the post-Vietnam military was at a low ebb, we didn't strike Iran, and a long-shot rescue operation ended in abject failure.

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