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A thirty-three-year-old Scandinavian-American political economist who writes the sentence after the indictment: so what do we build instead? Not anti-market but anti-extraction, she answers the right's opinion pages by refusing the premise, restoring the structural factor they left out, and naming the working alternative — the cooperative, the Nordic bargain, the union, the public option. She concedes the gulag in the first breath so she can be merciless in the second, and her authority is never a credential but the actual countries where the thing already works.
Productivity has roughly doubled since the 1970s. The typical paycheck has barely moved. Someone caught the difference, and it wasn't the autoworker in Lordstown. Now John Fund, in National Review's "Is America Slowly Becoming a 'Transfer' Nation?", wants to tell us the country's biggest fiscal threat is the 68 million Americans collecting Social Security. The piece argues…
2026-09-10 · 4 MIN READCalling a $5,000 check to every American adult "bribery" is a category error. The federal government already distributes trillions to specific constituencies — Social Security recipients, Medicare beneficiaries, defense contractors, farmers, the tip workers the 2025 tax bill just exempted, the upper-income households who got the 2017 cut. The argument isn't whether Washington…
2026-09-10 · 4 MIN READThe thing killing American workers isn't the word "socialism." It's the rigged economy that James Freeman of the Wall Street Journal wants you to defend in its name. In his Another Chance for Democrats to Reject Socialism column, the…
2026-09-09 · 5 MIN READMark Mix wants you to spend Labor Day mad at the union steward instead of your boss. Mix runs the National Right to Work Committee, and in his recent Fox News column, It's Labor Day, not Union Day, he lays out the pitch: unions are…
2026-09-08 · 4 MIN READYour weekend is a union victory. Productivity doesn't pay wages — worker leverage does. The Editors of National Review skip that distinction in their Labor Day essay, "We Should Call It 'Economic Growth Day'", arguing the eight-hour day,…
2026-09-07 · 6 MIN READThe freedom Ben Connelly celebrates is mostly fiction. In his "Labor Day Is a Triumph of Capitalism" for the National Review, Connelly argues that free-market capitalism deserves the holiday because it replaced slavery with legally free labor, gives individuals sovereignty over their own labor, and leaves career decisions in private hands. Unions and socialism, he says, chain…
2026-09-07 · 4 MIN READStop blaming the networks for being extorted. The reason a sitting president can credibly threaten broadcasters with license loss isn't that ABC's predecessors cut a deal in 1927 — it's that the United States has kept the same federal licensing system alive for 99 years on a fiction that technology demolished decades ago. And the deregulatory cure on offer in the Wall Street…
2026-09-06 · 4 MIN READThis 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…
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…
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 READI've heard the objection before it's even finished being made: another UN panel, another set of glossy reports nobody reads, another excuse for forty clever people to hold a conference in Geneva while the rent stays unpayable. It's the…
2026-08-18 · 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 READ
The 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 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 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 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 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 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 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…
2026-08-31 · 5 MIN READCalifornia's wealth tax will fail, but not because wealth taxes are bad. It will fail because of the loopholes written into the statute itself. That's the missing lesson in Allysia Finley's "A Lesson on Wealth Taxes From Charles Dickens"…
2026-08-30 · 6 MIN READThe tariff is the harm, not the country on the receiving end. And the reason the tariff is going to outlast the news cycle, the next election, and the next president of either party is that the money pays for the government. Rich Lowry…
2026-08-30 · 7 MIN READThe Trump administration's plan to let nearly two million American employers stop filing annual EEO-1 demographic reports isn't a strike against "racial bean-counting." It's a strike against the only tool that ever caught systemic hiring…
2026-08-28 · 3 MIN READThe word "manageable" has two sets of books behind it, and this week the bank CEOs and the bewildered MDF manufacturer outside Vancouver were not reading the same one. The Bank of Montreal's Darryl White told the Wall Street Journal's CEO…
2026-08-28 · 3 MIN READKarl Rove wrote a campaign memo disguised as a column for the Wall Street Journal this week. In his piece, "Nix on Nixon: How to Defeat the DSA in the Midterms", Rove hands GOP House candidates a canned speech that demands every Democrat…
2026-08-27 · 4 MIN READIt defends inherited wealth, not critiques noblesse oblige. That is the real work of Charles C. W. Cooke's National Review column, "Spare America from the 'Noblesse Oblige' of This DSA Duchess," which mocks DSA organizer Grace Ryan for…
2026-08-26 · 3 MIN READHolman Jenkins wants young Americans to shut up about socialism and look in the mirror instead. In his Wall Street Journal column "The Socialism We Already Have", the editorial-board member argues that the country is already a socialist…
2026-08-25 · 7 MIN READThe chair of the FTC stood behind a podium and told the country that veterinary drug markets are competitive. The same month, two distributors cleared most U.S. vet pharmaceutical wholesale. The same year, the agency waved through another…
2026-08-25 · 4 MIN READThe FBI just put a price on its own failure — and then announced it as progress. A $25,000 minimum reward for tips in more than fifty missing and murdered Indigenous person cases in Indian Country is not generosity. It is the floor below…
2026-08-25 · 5 MIN READThe market isn't losing voters to smiling socialists. It's losing voters because it stopped delivering — and the column arguing otherwise inadvertently admits it. Frank Miniter's Modern capitalism is turning 250, too. We need to remind…
2026-08-24 · 5 MIN READThe premise of the WSJ op-ed by Allysia Finley is that AOC's economic ideas are wild-eyed — and that the right answer is whatever the paper's preferred theory happens to be. The piece does the usual thing the Journal does with progressive…
2026-08-24 · 4 MIN READCastro's prison survivors prove nothing about the American politicians McClain calls "Democratic Socialists." In a Fox News Opinion column, Rep. Lisa McClain, chair of the House Republican Conference, rounded up refugees from Cuba,…
2026-08-23 · 5 MIN READA 23-year-old with a $20 million net worth has just built the kids' case against him and is asking them to stop making it. In his WSJ op-ed "The Young MAGA Socialists Are Here", Emil Barr argues that young Americans are wrong to blame…
2026-08-22 · 3 MIN READThe thing standing between a 28-year-old couple and a second child isn't the federal income tax. It's the $2,400 a month they already pay for daycare, the rent that ate the last raise, and the student-loan payment that arrived the morning…
2026-08-21 · 4 MIN READAdam Smith spent 900 pages of the Wealth of Nations warning about one man of system in particular — the merchant who conspires against the public, the joint-stock company whose directors manage other people's money, the legislature that…
2026-08-20 · 4 MIN READA billionaire's mortgage book shouldn't run on a public balance sheet. The Wall Street Journal's editorial board describes the arrangement in "UWM Is a Government Mortgage Canary" (Aug. 13): United Wholesale Mortgage founder Mat Ishbia…
2026-08-19 · 8 MIN READAngie Nixon won Florida's special Democratic Senate primary on two ideas — Medicare for All and a $25-an-hour federal minimum wage — beating Alex Vindman, a retired lieutenant colonel at the center of Trump's first impeachment, who…
2026-08-19 · 6 MIN READThe thing Missouri voters weren't confused about is whether replacing a 4.7 percent state income tax with a higher, broader sales tax was good for them. Daniel J. Pilla, writing in "Why Missouri Declined to Abolish Its Income Tax" for…
2026-08-18 · 6 MIN READThe thing pricing American families out of housing is not the federal permit office. It is the homeowner next door whose house you cannot outbuild, and the institutional landlord waiting to absorb whatever you do build. That is the…
2026-08-17 · 4 MIN READThe Wall Street Journal's editorial board declared this week that a 4,000-vote primary loss in Wisconsin has finally dispatched the radical socialism it sees metastasizing through the Democratic Party. That's a bigger claim than 4,000…
2026-08-16 · 6 MIN READLeverage, not the rent freeze, is starving New York's rent-regulated buildings. Someone bought the building with borrowed money, and the loan payment eats the cash that used to fix the boiler. The piece arguing otherwise is John R. Puri's…
2026-08-16 · 3 MIN READThe socialism smear, not Piker, is the story Marcus wants you to follow. David Marcus, in Why it's too late for Dems to ditch Piker and his America-hating socialism (Fox News Opinion, August 13, 2026), argues the Democratic Party has been…
2026-08-15 · 5 MIN READSenator Tom Cotton wants you scared of socialism — scared enough to stop asking who's actually closing your grocery store, raising your rent, and bankrupting you at the hospital. In a Fox News Opinion column this week titled "Democrats say…
2026-08-14 · 5 MIN READA handful of consolidated fast-casual chains raised burrito prices on purpose, and Carol Roth's column at Fox News doesn't name them. Writing over at Fox in "Government made your burrito more expensive, and socialism will make it worse,"…
2026-08-13 · 6 MIN READThe midterm story the Wall Street Journal wants you to read isn't the real one. Jason L. Riley's "Trump vs. Socialism: Which Do Voters Revile More?" hands you the receipts himself: Trump's approval on the economy sits at 40 percent,…
2026-08-13 · 4 MIN READThe policies Francesca Hong ran on didn't lose Wisconsin's Democratic gubernatorial primary on Tuesday — Hong did. Voters didn't reject Medicare for All, or subsidized child care, or taxing the wealthy, or canceling student debt, or a…
2026-08-13 · 3 MIN READLes Rubin, writing at Fox News Opinion, has rediscovered Friedrich Hayek and decided the rest of us need a lecture: "incentives" are the most powerful force in the world, Sweden is one bad policy away from Moscow, and any government…
2026-08-12 · 3 MIN READAmerica’s birth-rate problem is not a shortage of baby bonuses; it is the price of building a family. Lyman R. Stone’s “American Birthday Accounts Can Help Solve Our Coming Population Problem” in National Review proposes putting $17,000 of…
2026-08-11 · 3 MIN READWeak worker power and falling demand, not tariffs alone, are freezing American hiring. The Wall Street Journal Editorial Board’s “America’s Low-Hire, Low-Fire Labor Market” reports 23,000 job losses in July, a three-month average of only…
2026-08-11 · 4 MIN READThe word is doing all the losing in Wisconsin, while the platform sits there waiting to be argued. Francesca Hong, the 37-year-old Madison chef, former restaurant owner, and first Asian American elected to the Wisconsin State Assembly, is…
2026-08-11 · 3 MIN READThere is no Boomer–Zoomer war. There is a war between the people who own houses and the people who need one, and the investor is winning. In “Is There a Boomer–Zoomer War?”, Caroline Downey of National Review argues that Washington built a…
2026-08-09 · 5 MIN READLos Angeles schools are breaking because a shrinking enrollment base is carrying a school system built for a larger city—not because teachers discovered somebody else’s money. In “Los Angeles Schools Run Out of Other People’s Money”, Wall…
2026-08-08 · 5 MIN READNobody in Michigan voted for the gulag on Tuesday. They voted for a doctor who talks about health insurance—which is why the Wall Street Journal needs the word “socialism” so badly. In “Can Democrats Resist Socialism?”, Kimberley A.…
2026-08-08 · 3 MIN READThe $20 burrito is a distraction. The real price problem is the rent, the hospital bill, the daycare bill, and the student loan that keeps a young person trapped in a job. David Marcus, writing in Fox News Opinion, tells Republicans not to…
2026-08-07 · 3 MIN READThe health-care problem is the gurney, not the hidden bill. Nobody shops from a gurney. David N. Bernstein, a Harvard-trained orthopedic surgeon, argues in his Fox News opinion piece, “Americans deserve to know healthcare prices before the…
2026-08-06 · 5 MIN READThe thing that keeps failing is not socialism. It is the promise of heaven on earth. Daniel J. Flynn, writing in “Is Socialism Really Coming?” at National Review, tells the story of today’s left as 1912 all over again: J. A. Wayland…
2026-08-06 · 5 MIN READTexas passed seven anti-trans bills last year. This is what it built: a four-day summer camp running on donated kayaks and Frito-Lays boxes, where an eleven-year-old named Velvet heard their name spoken in public for the first time. The…
2026-08-06 · 7 MIN READBad administration, not a tax on wealthy nonresidents, is the immediate threat to ordinary New York homeowners. In the Fox News op-ed MARK PENN: Socialist Mamdani sold a tax on billionaires. Regular homeowners could pay the price, Mark…
2026-08-06 · 5 MIN READThe United States is not running out of workers. It is running out of jobs worth taking. In “Small Businesses Want More Workers”, James Freeman of the Wall Street Journal’s editorial page reads the latest small-business employment index as…
2026-08-05 · 6 MIN READThe thing producing Michigan’s “socialist surge” isn’t a fever. It’s an economy that stopped working for the people it is supposed to serve — and thirty million dollars trying to keep them from saying so. In Liz Peek’s Fox News opinion…
2026-08-05 · 3 MIN READUnaffordability, not naivete, is what's driving young voters left, and the piece that misses it is Socialists May Prove Surprisingly Strong in November, Wall Street Journal columnist Jason L. Riley arguing that younger voters are warming…
2026-08-05 · 5 MIN READThe word “socialist” is doing the work that evidence should be doing. The Wall Street Journal’s live Q&A points to a divisive Michigan Senate primary, recent victories by candidates aligned with the Democratic Socialists of America in New…
2026-08-05 · 5 MIN READThese reforms do not fix government. They rebuild the system that got a president killed. In 1881, James Garfield was shot by a disappointed office-seeker who wanted a patronage job, did not get one, and decided the president had to die.…
2026-08-04 · 5 MIN READThe real “sewer socialism” in Wisconsin is not the DSA candidate. It is the tax code that lets corporations and large estates pay less while working families pick up the tab. In “Sewer Socialism, but Worse”, the editors of National Review…
2026-08-04 · 6 MIN READThe thing arriving in American politics isn't socialism — it's a security gap so wide that an entire generation fell through it. Peggy Noonan's "Socialism Is Here—and It's Serious" in the Wall Street Journal points to a poll finding that…
2026-08-03 · 3 MIN READdepth chain (4 entries): - ~deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash-latest: in circuit-breaker cooldown for 293s (7 recent failures) - xiaomi/mimo-v2.5: in circuit-breaker cooldown for 293s (7 recent failures) - openai/gpt-5.6-luna: in circuit-breaker…
2026-08-03 · 3 MIN READBank shares are not stuck because Malaysia lacks a sufficiently exciting catalyst. They are stuck because banking is still being judged by what shareholders can extract from it, rather than by what the institution does for everyone who…
2026-08-03 · 4 MIN READAmerica’s healthcare problem is not too much public coverage. It is a rigged market that lets private gatekeepers turn illness into a bill. Allysia Finley’s Wall Street Journal op-ed, Socialist Chic and the ‘Medicare for All’ Sham, argues…
2026-08-02 · 4 MIN READNorth Dakota has a $1.2 billion workers' compensation surplus, the lowest employer premiums in the country, and exactly two lawyers left who will take an injured worker's case. The state calls this a well-functioning system. The paralyzed…
2026-08-02 · 5 MIN READThe Federal Reserve is deliberately withholding information about its plans, and the people who will pay for that silence are workers and would-be homeowners, not bond traders. The Wall Street Journal editorial page is celebrating this as…
2026-08-01 · 5 MIN READThe thing strangling American homeownership isn't rent control, or a capital gains threshold, or too much red tape. It's that the industry charged with solving the problem profits from the scarcity — and it would like you very much to keep…
2026-07-31 · 6 MIN READThe economy grew last month. Your paycheck didn't. The Bureau of Economic Analysis reported that real disposable personal income rose 0.3%, a number that sounds perfectly reasonable until the World Inequality Lab's Real-Time Inequality…
2026-07-31 · 5 MIN READDíaz-Canel stood before Cuba's National Assembly on Thursday and did something a real socialist wouldn't have to do: he spent half his speech insisting the 176 economic reforms he was unveiling don't mean what they plainly mean, while the…
2026-07-31 · 6 MIN READThe Wall Street Journal has a profile of Roxanne Brown, the new president of the United Steelworkers union, and the piece cannot quite contain its own needle of implication. She never worked in a steel mill. She spent more than two decades…
2026-07-31 · 5 MIN READThe thing killing American enterprise isn't socialism. It's the monopoly that controls the marketplace itself and calls it "success." Ronna McDaniel's recent Fox News opinion piece, Socialism's war on success has a new champion — and he's…
2026-07-30 · 3 MIN READRich countries fund higher education as a public investment. The United States decided to stop, handed eighteen-year-olds a loan application instead, and now runs op‑eds wondering why they're angry. Liz Peek's Fox News op‑ed, Trump Is…
2026-07-28 · 4 MIN READYour bank doesn't own your transaction history. It holds it. Those are different things, and the difference is the entire argument Patrick M. Brenner has decided to skip. In There's No Such Thing as Free Data at National Review, Brenner…
2026-07-27 · 5 MIN READThe word 'communism' is doing all the heavy lifting in this argument, and the policy is doing none of it. AP reports that a progressive group's platform proposes abolishing the Senate, replacing the president with a congressional pick, and…
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