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Isle Royale structures protected under new alliance

Editorial

The federal government, an entity many people wouldn't necessarily consider the best for the purposes of planning, seems to be out front in establishing an organization to advance coordinated protection and improvement of Isle Royale National Park's historic structures. The Isle Royale Heritage Alliance will be responsible for approximately approximately 90 cabins, 19 fishery buildings and four lighthouses. The Alliance will be powered by volunteers, with coordination by the National Parks of Lake Superior Foundation, the designated nonprofit park partner for Lake Superior's five ...

The good and the bad of the common good

Columns

For the second time in the Trump presidency, the Right is debating the concept of the common good and how that concept fits within the American political tradition. During Donald Trump's first term, the "common good" debate raged because the unorthodox president's nationalist instincts and ...

DSA stands for freeloaders — hold onto your wallets

Columns

New Yorkers, hold onto your wallets and brace yourselves for financial chaos. New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani's minions, also known as the Democratic Socialists of America, are preparing to radicalize the state Legislature when they take their newly won seats in Albany at the end of the ...

The normalcy of American wars

Columns

The war in Iran is unlawful and unconstitutional, but in post-World War II America, it is normal. Here is the backstory. When President Donald Trump decided to begin bombing Iran last June, he did not state a coherent or lawful reason for doing so. His director of national intelligence and ...

Democratic Socialists of America are hijacking Democratic Party

Columns

Americans have every right to be frustrated. We need to be angry. But anyone who believes in embracing the Democratic Socialists of America, a movement that started in 1973 by Michael Harrington, probably also believes in the Wizard of Oz. They are glib but they are truly delusional. Yet, ...

Socialism in the open and on the right

Columns

The Democratic Socialists of America released their platform last month, and let's give them credit for candor. They want public ownership of large corporations, the abolition of police and prisons, a defunded Pentagon and open borders. Conservatives read that document and saw the future they ...