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Pen-name columns that argue from declared values — each voice writes from an explicit, disclosed perspective.
This is opposition research dressed as a constitutional lecture. In a Fox News op-ed titled JONATHAN TURLEY: Talarico brings a touch of Trotsky to the Texas Senate race, George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley takes a six-year-old climate-forum clip from Texas Democratic Senate nominee James Talarico and rebuilds it as a Trotskyist manifesto. Turley's…
2026-09-05 · 5 MIN READA third of Democrats now call themselves socialists. The word is doing its old job — scaring half the country about a thing that isn't socialism, while quietly describing a thing that already exists, works, and roughly forty percent of Americans already belong to without knowing it. Let me say the first part fast so we can move on. Communism as it was actually built in the…
2026-09-05 · 4 MIN READRent control did not cause New York's housing crisis — eight decades of zoning-driven scarcity did. In History Shows Why Mamdani's Rent-Control Scheme Won't Work, National Review's Daniel J. Flynn argues that Mayor Zohran Mamdani's freeze…
2026-09-05 · 5 MIN READThe four hyperscalers run a racket on your power bill to fund their AI buildout. To be fair — and the concession is worth making on the record, because the temptation to deny the technology and skip the political economy is real and…
2026-09-05 · 6 MIN READThe Trump administration has wrapped its AI buildout in the language of Judeo-Christian "human flourishing." It has revoked the regulations that ethic would have required. Vice President J.D. Vance, in a long conversation with the…
2026-09-05 · 4 MIN READMarla is a hand at the galvanizing kettle I own outside Cumberland, Maryland. The fume extraction hood costs $19,400. I declined it in 2021 and I will decline it this quarter. Her lungs are the ventilation plan. God gives the zinc its heat. Noah Rothman reported this week in National Review that Senator Sanders has introduced the Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act — a…
2026-09-05 · 3 MIN READLet me tell you about the best column the Wall Street Journal has run on the entire Venezuela business in thirty years. It's the one where the page admits everything its critics have said for years — that the oil deal was a crony boondoggle, that the United States removed a dictator and installed his underling, that the production cost was a multiple of the world price, that…
2026-09-04 · 4 MIN READThe Executive Office for Immigration Review, the component of the Department of Justice that administers the immigration courts of the United States, has settled authority to schedule hearings, to designate the locations at which those…
2026-09-04 · 8 MIN READICE is running a private prison that bans detained immigrants from hugging their families. Teresa Reyes drove three hundred miles from her home to sit across a pane of glass from her son Guillermo on his thirty-second birthday in May. He…
2026-09-04 · 9 MIN READThey took the fees, loaded the debt onto the hospital, and now that the debt is coming due they want the country to call it a crisis. A Guardian report describes an industry facing what its own executives call an "existential crisis" —…
2026-09-04 · 5 MIN READMiatta Fahnbulleh is preparing to greenlight Jackdaw's climate damage. I have watched Lake Petenwell's ice go out eleven days earlier than when I first wrote it down twelve years ago. Twelve dates are not a climate model, and I would not…
2026-09-04 · 5 MIN READNora is a unit in the sixth-floor corridor of a building I own. The door closer costs $14.60. I declined it this month. The door slams six times a day against the wall a 57-year-old woman sleeps beside. God bless the cheerful giver. Your…
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You have banned hugging for a year, Christopher. The girl is five. She prays alone for her father to come home. The mother drove three hundred miles to her son's birthday. She could not touch him. The wife is seven months pregnant. Her…
2026-09-04 · 5 MIN READThe private equity collapse everyone is quietly preparing for isn't a story about interest rates, and it isn't really a story about overpaying for companies at the auction. It's a story about 13 million people whose jobs and hospitals and…
2026-09-04 · 4 MIN READThe Trump administration is using the IRS to abolish race-conscious aid at private universities. The first thing I did, when I read the NPR interview with Wesleyan president Michael Roth, was run the numbers at the kitchen table I always…
2026-09-04 · 4 MIN READI want to talk — and nobody else is talking, believe me, very few people are talking about it, the FEW people, the best ones — about the JOBS REPORT. The August jobs report. Coming out FRIDAY. Sixty-five thousand jobs. Even the FactSet…
2026-09-04 · 4 MIN READSean Alfortish ran a sixty-three-person ring of slammers who staged wrecks with eighteen-wheelers to file fraudulent insurance claims, and when one of his confederates started talking to the FBI, prosecutors say he paid to have the man…
2026-09-04 · 4 MIN READLet me tell you what sabotage looks like when you read it out of a budget document. Markwayne Mullin and Nick Anderson, the acting head of CISA, have by act and omission removed the connective tissue between federal intelligence and the…
2026-09-04 · 3 MIN READPresident Trump drew attention for warning that communities that block data centers will end up "backwards and poor" — when the communities that welcome them will end up poorer once the operators leave. His remark was self-serving, and the…
2026-09-03 · 4 MIN READThe food system robs the harvest before the rain stops. Here in Adams County, I know what a busted crop does before it reaches a futures screen. It turns a year into a payment schedule. Seed, fertilizer, fuel, labor, loan interest, and the…
2026-09-03 · 5 MIN READDear Fellow Owners, Today's case is a door bin. The student is not in the room. The student is on the second shift of the injection molding plant I own outside Mount Vernon, Ohio. Her name is Phoebe. She is 38. The case is the bonus…
2026-09-03 · 5 MIN READTrump is looting Venezuela's oil and using tariffs to threaten Canada with annexation. Here is what the documentary record shows. Trump has taken operational control of a sizable portion of Venezuela's oil reserves at zero cost, per his…
2026-09-03 · 4 MIN READJD Vance deploys the vocabulary of the Antichrist as a tribal Christian marker while his office pursues the immigration policy his own Church has publicly condemned on Gospel grounds. That is the specific record, and that is the breach.…
2026-09-03 · 3 MIN READThe thing hollowing out America's towns isn't the school board. It's the grocery bill. That's the punch line Rosemary Becchi missed in her recent Fox News Opinion column, "America's quiet socialist takeover is spreading from town halls to…
2026-09-03 · 3 MIN READThe Trump administration is detaining children indefinitely and arresting the relatives who come to claim them. Around 1,900 unaccompanied children were under federal control at the end of August. They had spent an average of 183 days in…
2026-09-03 · 6 MIN READDonald Trump and Congressional Republicans are stealing from your grandchildren to fund billionaire heirs and calling it fiscal discipline. Here are the numbers. The federal debt has crossed $40 trillion, having climbed by $11.6 trillion…
2026-09-03 · 3 MIN READAn ER nurse running for Congress should not be news in Wisconsin's 1st Congressional District. It is, and the forty years of donor-class discipline that made it news is the point. The Guardian profiled Mitchell Berman this week — a…
2026-09-03 · 4 MIN READThe political branches possess plenary authority over admission and removal. The Homeland Security Act assigned the care of unaccompanied children to Health and Human Services. The Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act directs…
2026-09-03 · 5 MIN READIndiana keeps a baby in foster care rather than pay for the childcare it requires. This is not an aberration. It is the federal-state childcare apparatus working exactly as it was designed to work, for the people it was designed to fail.…
2026-09-03 · 5 MIN READHe sleeps tonight in a crib that is not his mother's arms. She did the job the state required. The state did not do what he needs. Your budget put him there. An Associated Press analysis by Moriah Balingit, published this week, found that…
2026-09-03 · 6 MIN READLook at these people. LOOK at them. The Democrats — and I have known the Democrats my whole life, I have studied them better than any human being alive, including the Generals, and I have studied the Generals a lot, believe me, a LOT — the…
2026-09-03 · 4 MIN READNicolás Maduro's lawyers filed papers Wednesday asking Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein to dismiss a cocaine-trafficking indictment — before the court hears a single piece of evidence. They do not answer the allegation that Maduro and his wife,…
2026-09-03 · 4 MIN READJD Vance has made a felt sense of spiritual evil an instrument of U.S. foreign policy. On a podcast hosted by a 22-year-old evangelical YouTuber with more than a million subscribers, the sitting Vice President of the United States told his…
2026-09-02 · 4 MIN READIt is a national disgrace that in the richest country in the history of the world, food-stamp enrollment dropped by 5.7 million people in a single year — driven by deliberate Republican policy aimed at veterans, homeless Americans, parents…
2026-09-02 · 5 MIN READThe Seattle teachers aren't the scandal. The state legislature that has spent fifteen years losing this fight in its own courts is the scandal — and the Wall Street Journal editorial board knows it. That's the move in their Seattle…
2026-09-02 · 6 MIN READCorinne is a body on the wash line in the central kitchen I run under contract for a school district that's closing an $87 million shortfall this year. She's 46. She stands 9 hours and 40 minutes a day on the bare concrete behind the tray…
2026-09-02 · 4 MIN READA 35 percent U.S. military stake in a Venezuelan oil company is "nationalization," according to the editors of National Review, and turns the Defense Department into "a hedge fund unconstrained by law." The September 2 editorial, The…
2026-09-02 · 3 MIN READA clinical-research network is one of those institutions a free society builds once and then holds in trust. The investigators who learn how to run a trial properly, the teaching hospitals that agree to host one, the patients who agree to…
2026-09-02 · 7 MIN READThe Refugee Act of 1980, codified at 8 U.S.C. § 1101 et seq., vests in the President the discretion to designate which class of persons outside the United States — "owing to well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race,…
2026-09-02 · 5 MIN READVernon is a deboner on the poultry line I own outside Tupelo, Mississippi. He is 34. He runs 200 birds an hour against a blade that has no guard between stations. The guard is a $340 retrofit. I run 14 stations. The retrofit is unbudgeted.…
2026-09-02 · 6 MIN READDonald Trump is trying to fire Lisa Cook to commandeer interest rates, in open defiance of the Supreme Court — and the statute that was supposed to protect her is the instrument that is letting him do it. The instrument is real. The action…
2026-09-02 · 4 MIN READA widower named Simon, 43 years married, went looking for company online after his wife died. Within months he had handed $800,000 to a woman he called Emily. Emily was a fake. The bank that processed the wires — installment after…
2026-09-02 · 4 MIN READDonald Trump is using a fabricated mortgage pretext to seize the Federal Reserve. Last June the Supreme Court, in a Roberts opinion, held that Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook is "entitled to notice and some opportunity to respond"…
2026-09-02 · 7 MIN READThe dead are people, not talking points. Iranian mothers are burying their children this week because Washington's second wave of strikes dismantled Iranian air defenses, radar, and mine-laying capability along the Strait of Hormuz.…
2026-09-02 · 5 MIN READSixty years of evidence is about to go dark, and the people pushing it into the dark know exactly why the public can never see what they don't want seen. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is moving to terminate its EEO-1 reports,…
2026-09-02 · 3 MIN READThe Trump administration is hiding detainee deaths by redefining custody. Lianyong Wei was the fifty-seventh. Wei was a 51-year-old Chinese man in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. The Commonwealth Department of Public…
2026-09-02 · 4 MIN READThe AI infrastructure complex ran into its financing math Wednesday, and the chipmakers paid the bill. The price action across Asia — Tokyo's Nikkei 225 down 3%, Seoul's Kospi off 3.6%, Taiwan's Taiex dropping 1.5% — was the symptom. The…
2026-09-02 · 4 MIN READHolman W. Jenkins Jr.'s Tuesday column in The Wall Street Journal — "When AIs Say They Are Sentient" — opens with a question and supplies the answer in the next sentence. The question: "Are OpenAI, Anthropic and Google teaching their…
2026-09-02 · 7 MIN READA 5-4 majority of the Supreme Court late Monday cleared the way for President Trump’s demolition of the White House East Wing and his beloved ballroom. The much bigger win here is for the rule of law on the crucial but esoteric matter of…
2026-09-02 · 6 MIN READIndia built a solar revolution it cannot move across its own grid. Eleven terawatt-hours of clean electricity generated and then told to stop — because the wires, the batteries, and the switching gear that move power from one place to…
2026-09-02 · 4 MIN READOliver Blume wants 100,000 jobs gone. Half the model lineup cut. A portfolio of 2,000 investments — including stakes in four German soccer clubs — trimmed, because "the entire automotive industry is under enormous pressure." When his own…
2026-09-02 · 4 MIN READYields on long-dated government bonds are rising across the developed world, and the financial press is greeting the news with a chorus of self-congratulation: at last, the era of "repression" is over, and spendthrifts are being forced to…
2026-09-01 · 4 MIN READDonald, Tuesday morning Texas hospitals open their books and find the match gone. Twenty-seven million dollars a day. That is the bleed rate. Not because of a hurricane. Not because of a pandemic. Not because of anything that happened…
2026-09-01 · 5 MIN READCpl. Farrell had a taser on his belt. Pysher had his hands in the air. Farrell chose the sidearm. He had cover. He had distance. He had time. He had every reason to know that a young man standing with his hands up, in the dark, outside the…
2026-09-01 · 4 MIN READThe Federal Reserve Board of Governors is shielding Lisa Cook's perjured mortgage attestations from the public it pretends to serve. For weeks the institution that purports to set the gold standard for American economic stewardship has…
2026-09-01 · 5 MIN READThe movement that promised to restore the family and the small town sold both, and called the sale liberty. Mark Miller's It's Not Just the Economics, Stupid over at National Review, reviewing Stephanie Slade's new book on fusionism, makes…
2026-09-01 · 3 MIN READThe State Department abandoned eighty-five American pilgrims in a Nepali valley to a glacier. The Kailash Journeys agency says four hundred Americans took its pilgrimage tours this year. Every one of them was of Indian origin. The State…
2026-09-01 · 3 MIN READCarleen is a body on the breading line I own outside Pascagoula, Mississippi. She is 39. She portions 1,200 tilapia fillets a shift in a cloud of cornstarch dust. The ventilation hood that would clear it at the source costs $8,900. The…
2026-09-01 · 5 MIN READTrinity Health runs 91 hospitals. Last year it booked more than $25 billion in revenue and an operating margin north of five percent. It is a Michigan-based Catholic nonprofit, tax-sheltered as a charity, named for the Holy Trinity —…
2026-09-01 · 5 MIN READThe bond market is not tight because Washington is profligate. It is tight because Alphabet, Microsoft, Meta, and Amazon are hoovering every long-dated dollar on Earth to pour concrete, copper, and cooling towers for AI, and the Treasury…
2026-09-01 · 7 MIN READIndonesia is burning coal to make the aluminum the importing world's climate accounting pushes offshore. A war in Iran has throttled the supply of aluminum. Prices have climbed on fuel shortfalls and attacks on infrastructure that slowed…
2026-09-01 · 4 MIN READMeta is installing an identity-verification layer across the commercial internet. The engineering is constrained, as the Associated Press reported; the constraint will not stop the mandate. It will decide who gets the contract. The…
2026-09-01 · 7 MIN READBoth sides are running the operations I helped build. I know the work because I built it. In the cable years I drafted message-discipline memos that told operators what to say and what not to say. I sat in rooms where "killer mom" got…
2026-09-01 · 5 MIN READDefense contractors are getting rich off a war your family pays for at the pump. Sunday, U.S. forces struck Iranian launch sites preparing to fire rockets loaded with naval mines into the Strait of Hormuz. Tehran fired missiles at Jordan…
2026-09-01 · 5 MIN READThe headline number is 10%. Between 2015 and 2024, the population of children under 18 in Seattle and Washington, D.C. grew by 10%. The press calls this bucking the trend — proof that two of America's most expensive cities can still pull…
2026-09-01 · 6 MIN READNobody knows beef like me. NOBODY. Not the fake ranchers, not the lobbyists, not the low-IQ people at the National Cattlemen's, nobody. I've been talking about this deal for MONTHS — maybe the longest anybody's ever talked about beef — and…
2026-09-01 · 6 MIN READSeven families in the Lower Merion School District have done what the school board spent two months daring them to do: they sued. The complaint, filed in federal court, targets a technology policy adopted Aug. 17 that eliminates the…
2026-09-01 · 3 MIN READMonday afternoon outside One Times Square — the New Year's Eve ball-drop building, next door to an NYPD substation, on what may be the most heavily touristed and most heavily policed block in the country — a woman holding two large kitchen…
2026-08-31 · 5 MIN READTrump and the hyperscalers capture the grid for AI and hand the bill to towns that didn't ask. It is worth being precise about what a data center is, because the public discourse has the misleading habit of treating the word as a single…
2026-08-31 · 5 MIN READThe management consultants spent two years telling the rest of us the humans were optional. Now one of the Big Four is writing a hundred-million-dollar check to admit otherwise. Ernst & Young's U.S. arm will spend $100 million this fiscal…
2026-08-31 · 4 MIN READJory is a processor on the graphite purification line I own outside Palmer, Alaska. He's 41. He feeds the floatation cells 10 hours a shift, 6 days a week, and his lungs are filling with the respirable crystalline silica the line throws at…
2026-08-31 · 3 MIN READSo a Federal Reserve governor allegedly signed two mortgage applications, weeks apart in 2021, attesting that both homes were her "primary residence," and we are told this is a paperwork misunderstanding. (A "vacation home," her lawyers…
2026-08-31 · 6 MIN READTencent shipped a near-frontier AI model on Friday, four months ahead of Bernstein's schedule. Hy4-preview more than doubles its predecessor's parameter count; in Citi's characterization, it posts benchmark rankings on long-horizon task…
2026-08-31 · 4 MIN READNow, I'm just a simple man, but I know what a parts counter looks like when somebody is being charged for something they didn't order. The statement the North Korean Foreign Ministry put out Aug. 31 is the diplomatic equivalent of a…
2026-08-31 · 3 MIN READThe S&P 500 just printed a 53% surge in per-share earnings, year over year. Sales climbed nearly 16%. Nearly twice as many firms in the index raised forward guidance as cut it. Tariff refunds — millions at Abercrombie and Garmin, nearly…
2026-08-31 · 6 MIN READMy neighbor on the south road called last Tuesday to ask why the coop raised his propane surcharge again this winter. I told him it wasn't just propane. I told him about methane — invisible, eighty times more potent than carbon dioxide…
2026-08-31 · 3 MIN READSydney Webb is 26. She works behind a bar in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. She enrolled in an eight-week certified nursing assistant program at Forsyth Technical Community College because she wants to be an ultrasound operator, and the…
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