President Donald Trump kicked off his midterm campaign travel with a bipolar economy: huge growth but plummeting consumer confidence. How he navigates that tension will determine how badly Republicans fare this fall. This was the president’s message in Iowa: “Our economy is booming. ...
To the Journal editor: Many thanks to our two U.S. Sens. Gary Peters and Elissa Slotkin, for voting down the budget package (recently) that gave more money to the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the U.S.Customs and Border Patrol and that did not add critical restrictions to those ...
"Where is the good news?" my son asked the other day, the kind of simple question that can only come from a child. Obvious, sensical, trusting. He still believes in our essential goodness and still wants to know about humanity's small kindnesses and large achievements. We had been ...
Every winter, it seems, a number of people fall through ice they thought was safe. That's what happened recently in Marquette's Lower Harbor when someone fell through ice while reportedly skating. Many experienced ice fisherman know that as a practical matter, “safe ice” is an oxymoron, or ...
John Voelker’s Hornstein’s Boy sets forth this epigram: “In a democracy those most gifted to govern are all too frequently those least gifted in the dark arts of ever getting to govern.” It’s clear, Judge Voelker aka Robert Traver would be amazed and delighted to join in the 2026 ...
George Orwell was on to it almost 80 years ago — the problem of below-replacement level birth rates. In a short book written for the Britain in Pictures series in 1947, written just as Britain was emerging from wartime rigors into an uncharted postwar future, Orwell noted that despite an ...