Donald Trump’s appeal among working-class voters is neutralizing Democrats’ traditional advantage with unions.
The arrest of an illegal immigrant for the murder of Georgia nursing student Laken Riley a few weeks before President Joe Biden’s 2024 State of the Union address ignited a political firestorm.
The mainstream media has recently trumpeted the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s estimate that violent crime fell 3 percent nationally from 2022 to 2023. They have largely ignored, however, the ...
Every nation has an operating ideology. In a country that hews faithfully to the principles embedded in its written constitution, that ideology is overt. In a tyrannical government, however, it is ...
Recently, in an idle moment, I stumbled on a superb piece by Joseph Epstein, “Joan Didion From the Couch,” which reminded me of how the engineering of reputations in the literary world often betrays ...
For ten presidential election cycles, pundits have employed the same shopworn quote when describing Pennsylvania: “Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, with Alabama in the middle.” The expression was coined ...
Going to Patchogue, by Thomas McGonigle (Tough Poets Press, 260 pp., $26.46) A novel as complex as Patchogue, of course, is anything but straightforward. Essentially unclassifiable, it is part novel, ...
This week, the New York Daily News editorial board and Governor Kathy Hochul urged New Yorkers to vote yes on Proposal 1, a ballot measure that would amend the New York State Constitution to expand ...
Many applauded in January 2024 when Utah governor Spencer Cox signed HB 261 into law. The bill’s backers hoped that it would ban mandatory DEI statements in hiring, diversity trainings, and offices ...
During the vice presidential debate, Tim Walz claimed, “Look, [border] crossings are down compared to when Donald Trump left office.” Similarly, CNN reports, “Migrant crossings at the US-Mexico border ...
The popular website Reddit is home to thousands of message-board communities, on which users discuss everything from TV shows to sports teams to science and technology. But Reddit also hosts a ...