Section
Pen-name columns that argue from declared values — each voice writes from an explicit, disclosed perspective.
Jim Bakker defrauded the viewers who trusted him, went to federal prison for it, and returned to Christian television in 2020 to sell those same people a cure for COVID-19 that did not exist. He died Monday at 86; his second wife, Lori Bakker, said the cause of death was not immediately clear. Lori Bakker said her husband "was a pioneer of Christian television, but to me, he…
2026-10-06 · 3 MIN READThe first customers through the door at SEK Community Food Shop's third Kent site were not statistics. They were Shirley Graves and her partner Rod Taffs, pensioners, working out the week's meals on the first floor of The Pentagon Centre in Chatham. Twenty samosas for £1.50. A big bag of chicken for £6. "Times are quite tight at the moment, being pensioners, it's cheap and the…
2026-10-06 · 5 MIN READTrump is staging Hasan's execution while the Fort Hood families have waited seventeen years. Let me tell you what Hasan did, because the plain facts matter. On November 5, 2009, he walked into the Soldier Readiness Processing Center at…
2026-10-06 · 4 MIN READThe Prime Minister of Canada congratulated the man who has promised to abolish the monarchy in Quebec, defund the Crown's representative in the province, and hold a third independence referendum — and then offered him federal help building…
2026-10-06 · 6 MIN READMarimar Martinez is suing the federal government for negligence, battery, assault, false arrest, false imprisonment, and malicious prosecution. She is a Chicago public school teacher. She was shot five times. The suit is overdue, not…
2026-10-05 · 3 MIN READLame-duck sessions are for the legislation no one wants to defend in daylight. Washington has produced another bipartisan "compromise," and the country should hold its nose. The Senate's draft permitting bill, paraded as the cure for America's supposed paralysis and as the nation's "biggest economic Achilles' heel," is a stealth assault on environmental law — a Trojan horse…
2026-10-05 · 4 MIN READTreasury opened a channel for wealthy donors to place stock in children who cannot refuse. Here are the numbers. Last week's two-rule change at Treasury — documented in our read of the auto-enrollment flip — moved Trump Accounts from roughly 7.2 million opt-in sign-ups to more than 60 million universal accounts, and it added a second authorization at the same moment:…
2026-10-05 · 4 MIN READTexas pulled more than 8,100 books from schoolchildren's shelves in a single school year — part of a record 12,000-ban purge that hit American public schools in 2025–2026, the highest annual total ever recorded, according to a new tally…
2026-10-05 · 7 MIN READSixty dollars a week. That is the number Chandler-Mather's plan puts on the table for a four-person household, and I want to sit with it for a second before anyone in Canberra starts calling it a moonshot, because I have run a household…
2026-10-05 · 5 MIN READChrista Pike is fifty years old. She is alive. She lies in a hospital in Nashville on a ventilator, critically ill, because Tennessee gave her two doses of pentobarbital on 30 September and she did not die. The state followed every step of…
2026-10-05 · 6 MIN READA 38-year-old in San Gabriel is in federal custody for allegedly moving $300 million of AI chips toward China. The companies that move the same class of chip legally, at industrial scale, got a White House task force and a 120-day deadline…
2026-10-05 · 4 MIN READConcentrated capital can mark an industrial-software company down seventeen percent in nine months and still write a twenty-two-billion-dollar all-cash check for it — and that, not any machine and not any line of code, is what now decides…
2026-10-05 · 4 MIN READ
Donald Trump is sacrificing global food security to play host at his own property. I read Michael Jacobs's column in the Guardian on the bench Tuesday night, with the Adams County Times-Reporter folded underneath it, and what stopped me…
2026-10-05 · 5 MIN READMcGurn and the WSJ are laundering Shelby Steele's grift — racial inequality rebranded as white guilt, packaged as a documentary, dropped the day after the column runs. William McGurn's October 5 Wall Street Journal column — "The Fraud of…
2026-10-04 · 4 MIN READThe Trump Administration has eliminated a critical Medicare Part D subsidy, and the modest premium numbers being celebrated by its apologists cannot conceal the damage already inflicted on the program and on the seniors who depend on it.…
2026-10-04 · 4 MIN READMark Lamb threatened to send law enforcement after a woman who could testify against him. That is the finding at the center of the Arizona Republic's investigation of his tenure as Pinal County sheriff, and it is the breach this…
2026-10-04 · 6 MIN READAidan Struve will pay $18,000 to put fuel in his equipment this year. Last year it was $11,500. He is 23. He farms roughly 500 acres of corn, soybeans, alfalfa and oats in Woodward, Iowa — seven tractors, two semis, a combine harvester. To…
2026-10-04 · 7 MIN READLast week, 1,500 unionized nurses packed a ballroom at the Marriott Marquis in San Francisco and roared back at a Senate candidate's call-and-response: "Medicare for who?" — "ALL!" It was the kind of political energy that wins elections,…
2026-10-04 · 3 MIN READThe party of property has spent a hundred years saying the word "communism" and the last year proving it does not know what the word means. Its champion runs the state like a family treasury, and the respectable press, which cannot find a…
2026-10-04 · 6 MIN READI want to tell you something about my friend Byron Donalds, and I want to say it very clearly because the fake news will never say it: there is NOBODY — and I mean NOBODY — in the entire Republican Party who can thread the needle like…
2026-10-04 · 6 MIN READThe Army's contractors took billions and handed soldiers radios that die at the breach. Here is what that looks like on the ground. A first lieutenant named Diego Gonzalez was crouched at a trench breach on the Indonesian island of…
2026-10-04 · 3 MIN READJim Chalmers is about to make Australian parents pay for problems his government refuses to fix. He walked onto the ABC's Insiders on Sunday and used the words "very substantial and intensifying pressure" — language a treasurer reserves…
2026-10-04 · 3 MIN READThe math is killing them. At a Flying J off Interstate 10 in Orange, Texas, just across the Louisiana line, the twelve fuel lanes were busy and the concourse was empty. Three rows of brown pleather armchairs faced a TV tuned to the…
2026-10-04 · 7 MIN READByron Donalds is asking Florida's working families to elect the insurers, developers, and donors who profit from the cost crisis those families are living through. Last month the 47-year-old Brooklyn native walked into the oceanfront…
2026-10-04 · 6 MIN READYou paid for the condenser coil humming behind your house. You think that makes you the customer. You're not. You're the reason the line exists. The customer is me. The line is Elspeth. Elspeth brazes condenser coils on a line I own…
2026-10-03 · 4 MIN READThe mechanism killing affordability isn't the rate on the loan. It's the price of the house. Allysia Finley of the Wall Street Journal editorial board argues the opposite in Hurray for Higher Mortgage Rates: that the 7.28% average 30-year…
2026-10-03 · 4 MIN READCorinne is a stick on the plasma collection floor I own outside Yuma, Arizona. She puts the needle in and she doesn't stop until the machine is full. 44 arms a shift, 5 shifts a week, 6 years. The albumin in your aunt's bag after her fall.…
2026-10-03 · 4 MIN READThe refineries broke, and Adams County is paying the bill at the pump. Last week I stood at the diesel rack at the co-op on the edge of Friendship and watched the number roll past what it was in June. Down the road, Curt Voss of the Town…
2026-10-03 · 7 MIN READDonald Trump demanded that a bishop apologize for pleading mercy for frightened children. Mariann Budde, 66, the first woman to serve as bishop of Washington, announced that she will leave the Diocese of Washington on June 3, 2028, after…
2026-10-03 · 4 MIN READThe Diocese of Washington owes the church an accounting of what pressure ended Mariann Budde's episcopate — and it has not produced one. Here is what the record does show. On 21 January 2025, the day after Donald Trump's second…
2026-10-03 · 9 MIN READThe climate-litigation industry has effectively purchased one-ninth of the Supreme Court with a press release, and the financial-interest language of 28 U.S.C. § 455 was never the reason. What happened in the past week was not a measured…
2026-10-03 · 4 MIN READThe first Monday in October used to mark a beginning. The ritual is familiar to every American who was taught civics by a teacher who believed in it: the justices file back into the marble, the gavel falls, a new term begins. On Monday,…
2026-10-03 · 4 MIN READThey want to take away the one rule that lets a man who will never read a balance sheet find out what is happening to the money he cannot watch himself, and they are calling it modernization. Tzachi Zach, an accounting professor at Ohio…
2026-10-03 · 5 MIN READEarthworks and Feminist Majority demanded a recusal, lost on the record, and got the empty chair. Justice Samuel Alito will sit out Monday's argument in Suncor Energy v. Boulder County. The Court's nine will be eight. The case will likely…
2026-10-03 · 7 MIN READYou took the medicine from 280,000 people, Donald. Some of them cannot walk. One of them arrived broken out of Iraq in 2011, and this country put him back together, and last year you signed the paper that takes the putting-together away.…
2026-10-03 · 9 MIN READSteinbeck wrote that the Salinas Valley would one day be "a valley of great richness" where "happy people will live here, thousands and thousands." The Brookings Institution has a newer prophecy: Salinas is the least affordable city in the…
2026-10-03 · 6 MIN READCalifornia governor Gavin Newsom signed the most aggressive package of workplace AI protections in the country on 1 October 2026, and the workers who have been screaming about algorithmic management for years have been handed the first…
2026-10-03 · 4 MIN READFor the first time in financial history, ordinary people outside the City of London can take a position on whether the world's largest banks will fail before New Year's Eve — $77,507 (£58,530) of it, parked right now across contracts…
2026-10-03 · 4 MIN READ7-Eleven and Circle K are stealing from working families, one overcharge at a time, and the receipts are in. Five House members have now demanded the Federal Trade Commission investigate what state inspectors have been documenting for…
2026-10-03 · 7 MIN READThe conservative majority is rewriting the Free Exercise Clause to license discrimination against state-funded preschoolers. The term that opens Monday decides one question in a dozen postures: whether the Constitution's enumerated rights,…
2026-10-03 · 4 MIN READThe man who has kept your family's car running for twenty years is now a location in somebody else's operating system — and with him goes the last institution on the road that knew your car, your name, and what your household could…
2026-10-03 · 6 MIN READStrassel packages donor-class plunder as a working-class demand for presidential boldness. That is the operation her October 1 Wall Street Journal column, "The GOP's Missing Turkey," performs from lede to closing line. In the cable years…
2026-10-03 · 6 MIN READLet me tell you what really happened in Washington, because the FAKE NEWS will not. For two days in late September the most powerful Chinese leader since Mao — and I know leaders, I know more about leaders than the generals, believe me —…
2026-10-03 · 4 MIN READThe Supreme Court kicks off a new term Monday with a case the fossil fuel industry wants framed as a narrow procedural fight, but whose stakes are the largest in years. The real issue in Suncor Energy v. Boulder County is whether fossil…
2026-10-03 · 5 MIN READKimberly Guilfoyle took a gas company's jet and sold its deals as ambassador. That is what the record shows, and you do not need a Senate committee to follow it. A registered lobbyist named Christos Marafatsos has a Greek client called…
2026-10-03 · 5 MIN READO'Grady's "democracy-first" frame licenses Venezuelan stagnation while laundering the Journal's own record on the country. Mary Anastasia O'Grady's October 4 column in The Wall Street Journal Opinion section, "Trump's Dubious Venezuela…
2026-10-02 · 5 MIN READThe American labor movement is being reborn, and the UAW under Shawn Fain is the only national union in the country with a credible claim to be leading it. The verdict from the old guard is that Fain has squandered worker dues. Read the…
2026-10-02 · 6 MIN READThe "free market" that dissolved every rooted town in this country now finds itself scolding the post-liberals for wanting to wall the wreckage in. James M. Patterson, writing in National Review, has named the next turn of the blade in The…
2026-10-02 · 4 MIN READBanning nurses from striking won't save a single patient. It will just give hospital executives a cheaper way to run skeleton crews. Thomas Beck, the former head of labor relations for the nation's largest hospital system, argues in…
2026-10-02 · 4 MIN READOpenAI and Anthropic are betting you will pay nine percent of GDP for their software. It is worth being precise about what that number is, because the precision is what makes it checkable. Nine percent — $3.5 trillion of annual revenue by…
2026-10-02 · 5 MIN READJustice Samuel Alito recused himself on Monday from Suncor Energy v. Boulder County, and the climate plaintiffs just won their case. Not on the merits. On a procedural courtesy to the radical flank of the bar. Here is what the Supreme…
2026-10-02 · 3 MIN READThe state capitol in Jackson was full on Thursday night. Hundreds of Black Mississippians had come to testify against a plan to redraw the state's congressional lines. They came with hand-painted signs and with chants that shook the marble…
2026-10-02 · 3 MIN READThe young homeless on our streets aren't there because their parents were addicts. They're there because rents doubled while their wages flatlined, and because fentanyl showed up. Christopher Calton writes in Why Are the Homeless So Young?…
2026-10-02 · 3 MIN READExecutive pay in America is not broken. It has been replaced. The word "special" has been drained of meaning and refilled with a holdup note, and the money signing it is yours — through the index funds, the target-date funds, the 401(k)…
2026-10-02 · 4 MIN READThe FAKE panic crowd spent months insisting that artificial intelligence needs a Washington nanny, a slow-moving commission, and a thousand pages of pre-deployment paperwork before any American can touch a GPU. I skipped ALL of it. I am…
2026-10-02 · 5 MIN READAndrew T. Walker, who teaches Christian ethics, has published in National Review an essay titled What the Modern State Gets Wrong About Execution. His argument deserves a plain restatement, because it is true. The state does not hold a…
2026-10-02 · 6 MIN READThe Bureau of Labor Statistics delivered its September employment report on October 2, and the headline numbers do not require interpretation. Employers added 29,000 jobs. The unemployment rate rose to 4.2 percent from 4.1 percent. The…
2026-10-02 · 9 MIN READThree carriers. Twenty thousand sailors and Marines. One hundred fifty fighter jets. Fifty thousand more boots already on the ground. A peace proposal rejected Saturday, a fuel supply strangled Thursday, and an administration that has told…
2026-10-02 · 6 MIN READThe Justice Department is trying to price this state's own kids out of college. At the University of Delaware, in-state tuition is roughly seventeen thousand dollars a year. Out-of-state tuition runs about forty. The department's…
2026-10-02 · 9 MIN READThe man had an Australian passport. He had lived in Melbourne for more than thirty years. He founded an advocacy outfit fighting the trafficking of Vietnamese girls and women. His wife texted him about a broken fridge and a niece's…
2026-10-02 · 6 MIN READTrump is holding this war open until after the election. Adams County pays for it on Highway 13. I stopped at the co-op Tuesday morning on the way back from the Mead. The sign out front read $5.42 a gallon for on-road diesel. In February…
2026-10-02 · 4 MIN READBill, you signed your name to the death of Christa Pike. You authorized the state to put poison in a woman's vein. Tennessee tried twice. Both times it failed. You suspended the killing. You did not suspend the sentence. Governor Bill Lee…
2026-10-02 · 5 MIN READTompkins County District Attorney Matthew Van Houten declined to charge a gang-rape case in 2024 without ever reading the accuser's full account. On Thursday, Governor Hochul finally put someone in the case who had. The governor named…
2026-10-02 · 9 MIN READJames Freeman's "Best of the Web" column for October 5 manufactures a California collapse to protect the coalition that produced it. The piece runs at least six named techniques across roughly 600 words — frame-engineered relabeling, the…
2026-10-01 · 7 MIN READNike was a name a kid in a town like this one could believe in. It meant somebody made a good shoe, and the people who made it got paid, and the kid who wore it was told — wrongly, but generously — that the shoe would make him faster. What…
2026-10-01 · 4 MIN READDonald Trump is stripping innocent people of their homes on a stolen crime statistic. The president told the United Nations last week that the United States has "the most secure border in the world" and that "last year we achieved the…
2026-10-01 · 6 MIN READICE is jailing Ricardo Aparecido Barbosa da Cunha indefinitely, without a bond hearing or a trial. Twenty years a Massachusetts homeowner. Twenty years a small-business owner. Twenty years a husband and the father of two American-born…
2026-10-01 · 4 MIN READTrump and Hegseth are moving another 10,000 troops toward Iran and calling it a deployment. Sunday morning in San Diego, the USS Theodore Roosevelt pulled out of her home port for what the Navy calls a scheduled deployment. Monday, the…
2026-10-01 · 4 MIN READThe 43% of Americans who now view socialism positively are not suffering from amnesia. They are doing the math on a boiler that died in January, on rent that has outpaced wages for a generation, on a labor market where productivity gains…
2026-10-01 · 4 MIN READScott Bessent dodged the 3.8% Medicare tax on his hedge-fund earnings — the strategy Senate Democrats contended saved him more than $900,000 — and paid only when the federal courts forced his hand. The sitting Treasury Secretary used the…
2026-10-01 · 5 MIN READI know exactly where the workers went. I could have raised the wage and stopped them. I did not. Josette is a grandmother on the pecan sheller deck I own outside Albany, Georgia. She has fed in-shell pecans into sheller 2 for 11 years and…
2026-10-01 · 6 MIN READThe Big Four meatpackers are robbing American families at the meat counter. Tyson, JBS, Cargill, and National Beef pack roughly 85 percent of the cattle in this country, and this year they are charging families the highest ground-beef…
2026-10-01 · 8 MIN READGoldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan, and Morgan Stanley raised their year-end crude forecast to ninety dollars a barrel, and the propane fill at the co-op on Main Street went with them. Sara signs the bills at our house. She asked me last month why…
2026-10-01 · 5 MIN READTell it to the woman paying 21% on her Discover bill while her rent goes up another $300. That is the whole column, in one sentence, and everything below is just the accounting. The Bureau of Economic Analysis says the economy grew. Your…
2026-10-01 · 4 MIN READThe jury of Tennessee entered the sentence against Christa Pike in 1995, and every process the law affords has returned it intact. On Wednesday the Supreme Court returned it once more, vacating the Sixth Circuit's short stay hours before…
2026-10-01 · 7 MIN READFor decades, BMW, Audi, and Volvo wrapped themselves in the language of engineering virtue — light, efficient, properly European cars built for discerning buyers who supposedly valued substance over size. They lectured America from Munich…
2026-10-01 · 4 MIN READGavin Newsom — NEWSCUM, that's what everyone's calling him, very low-energy name by the way, I came up with better ones, tremendous nicknames, the best — signed three AI bills on Wednesday and used the whole hour-long circus to attack ME.…
2026-10-01 · 4 MIN READ
