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Columns

The hunger games

There are an estimated 42 million people receiving food aid from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, formerly known as food stamps. The figure represents 12.3 percent of the U.S. population, according to the USDA. In the richest nation on Earth that is not something to brag about. It ...

Georgia, not New York, told the big story

Tuesday brought encouraging results for Democrats eyeing a sweep in next year's midterms. But the most notable portent wasn't the governor's races won by Abigail Spanberger in Virginia or Mikie Sherrill in New Jersey. Nor was it Zohran Mamdani's election as mayor of New York City. The most ...

Can the president tax you?

This week the Supreme Court will begin the process of deciding if the president can impose a sales tax on products and services which originate in foreign countries and are purchased in the United States. The president calls these taxes tariffs. Tariffs are nearly as old as the republic and ...

Tucker Carlson outdoes himself

Nick Fuentes hit the jackpot. The white-nationalist influencer made it on the "Tucker Carlson Show," the nation's foremost vehicle for laundering noxious ideas into the conservative mainstream. Fuentes is a Holocaust-denier and self-avowed racist whose goal is to remake the right in his ...

Dirty cars and dirty politics

When there's crime, I blame the criminal. But Dallas politicians blamed a business. Dale Davenport owned Jim's Car Wash. But five years ago, after a shooting at the property, the city ordered him to shut it down. Why did they target his car wash? When I first investigated this ...

Can socialism ever be more than just a fad in America?

By JONAH GOLDBERG Syndicated columnist Here we go again. Socialism is making a comeback, according to friend and foe alike. A new NBC poll now suggests that a majority of registered voters don’t like capitalism. A Gallup poll in September also found that support for capitalism was ...