We live in an era when people will invest hard-earned dollars in a stock simply because an anonymous Redditor with a handle like “looksmaxxingtrader” posts “We need to save Wendy’s” or some such. But when it comes to the weather, most of us still demand more information before committing to an outfit, an outing or, more important, ...Read more

Americans have stopped arguing to persuade; they argue to wound. Every news cycle is a fresh exchange of blows, and every blow lands on a citizenry that has forgotten what the original fight was even about. The country has split into two armies, each convinced it is fighting defensively, each convinced the other side started it.

Researchers ...Read more

Let’s be honest. Iran has President Donald Trump in a headlock over the Strait of Hormuz. The White House is fighting to reopen a waterway that wasn’t closed before the conflict started. But Tehran risks overplaying its hand: If it continues to squeeze, it will lose strategic leverage — not immediately, but over the next five years or so ...Read more

Markwayne Mullin's goal, he told senators in March at his confirmation hearing to replace the failed Kristi Noem as the Homeland Security secretary, was to keep the department and its blood-stained Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency off the nation's front pages.

Now he's failed too.

Front pages and screens in the last week have been ...Read more

The Department of Health and Human Services recently sought advice from patients, clinicians and public health experts on addiction treatments supported by “rigorous, empirical evidence of effectiveness.” Health and Human Services endorses medications to address opioid addiction, but there are actually no medications to address addiction to ...Read more

Two fatal shootings by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers — one July 7 in Houston and one July 13 in Maine — prompted the Trump administration to pause most vehicle stops.

That pause was short-lived.

In both cases, ICE officers shot men in their vehicles after agents attempted to stop them during immigration operations. (Neither...Read more

Imagine if Sunday’s World Cup final were played under rules that blatantly favored one side over the other. Let’s say Argentina was spotted four goals against Spain.

Spain could, conceivably, overcome that 4-0 deficit. But it would be awfully hard and something of a miracle if the Spanish team prevailed.

Fans the world over would be ...Read more

Current events in Iran have largely pushed the Israeli-Hamas conflict out of the news cycle. But a recent incident in Gaza reinforces how Hamas terrorists have little consideration for the well-being of their own people.

On Monday, Reuters reported that a U.N. official accused Hamas of sabotaging aid distribution in the Gaza Strip, “placing ...Read more

This week, public health detectives in Michigan got their first big lead in the cyclosporiasis outbreak that has sickened thousands of people in the state amid a broader national surge. Initial evidence suggests contaminated lettuce or salad greens could be driving infections — though authorities caution that other food sources can’t be ...Read more

At the risk of turning myself into a pariah, I don’t think money in politics is a problem.

Voters on the right and left don’t seem to agree on much these days. But they tend to share the belief — it’s an article of faith, really — that campaign donations, especially corporate cash, are a corrupting force in American politics. Simply ...Read more

People love the convenience of simply swiping a credit card or tapping their smartphones when making a purchase, but now lawmakers want to micromanage these transactions line by line, imposing intrusive bureaucracy that will add costs and interference to a well-oiled machine.

When a customer makes an electronic payment, data on the sales ...Read more

President Donald Trump, along with some of his aides and supporters, have proposed a number of absurd ideas to aggrandize him. By far the most absurd is their repeated appeals to add his likeness to Mount Rushmore.

Carved into South Dakota’s Black Hills between 1927 and 1941, Rushmore features four of America’s most celebrated presidents: ...Read more

The mendacity of the political left is audacious and delusional. Take this recent view from In These Times magazine, a longtime voice of the progressive left:

“After New York’s Democratic primary shockwaves, there is no doubt: democratic socialism is on the march in the U.S.,” the headline declared.

“This summer, a seismic wave ripped ...Read more

The U.S. constitutional order has been miraculously successful. It has endured, it has adapted and it has been the foundation for unsurpassed prosperity and material advance. The world has found no better system and, as almost all Americans understand, setting it aside would be catastrophic. For these reasons, a certain reverence — entailing a...Read more

President Donald Trump and other Republicans like to say the United States does not have money for programs that address the needs of ordinary citizens.

“It’s not possible for us to take care of day care, Medicaid, Medicare, all these individual things,” Trump said recently, saying that the nation had more important things to do, like “...Read more

Mister President, it’s not really your fault – well, not totally your fault – that failings by your top advisers and even the bureaucracy have so often made you seem so embarrassingly uninformed and misinformed during our multiple and overlapping crises of war and peace.

You have been put into an awful position of having to serve as the ...Read more

When the history of the first quarter of the 21st century is written, there will be one towering political figure above all the rest — President Donald J. Trump.

That’s why I believe he belongs on Mount Rushmore.

Not because the Washington establishment approves; it never will. Not because CNN or The New York Times says so; they never ...Read more

California just made one of the country’s most significant public investments in addressing homelessness, including $116 million in its new budget to help identify and support students experiencing homelessness. It’s the first state in our nation’s history to invest resources on this scale to support this especially vulnerable population. ...Read more

Democratic socialists who have enjoyed a string of recent primary triumphs in New York City and Denver want to believe that the Graham Platner political disaster in Maine is a one-off and tells us nothing about whether far-left politics will play with Americans outside of gentrified urban areas.

Senate candidate Platner’s rise in Maine, just ...Read more

Property tax relief has become one of the few ideas capable of uniting politicians who otherwise agree on almost nothing. Across the Midwest, officials are advancing proposals to ease the burden.

In Michigan, a leading Democratic Senate candidate, Abdul El-Sayed, is calling for a property tax freeze for seniors. Ditto in Ohio, where Gov. Mike ...Read more