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When businessmen enter Beltway, it’s business as usual

Something strange is happening in Washington. A generation of investors and entrepreneurs who built careers championing private capital and intuitively understood the power of market discipline and limited government have joined the Trump administration, taking charge of hundreds of billions of ...

A society without God a society without truth

On Thursday evening, Jews will celebrate the holiday of Shavuot. This holiday, which occurs seven weeks and one day after Passover (hence the name Shavuot, which literally means “weeks”), commemorates perhaps the most transformative event in all of human history: the revelation of the Word ...

Police, health care system failed Katelyn Hall

On March 27, the Louisville Metro Police Department in Louisville, Kentucky, responded to a 911 call requesting help for someone experiencing a mental health emergency. When police arrived, Katelyn Hall had locked herself in the bathroom with the intention of harming herself. At last ...

GOP redistricting harkens back to Dems’ own bag o’tricks

When White House Deputy Chief of Staff James Blair decided to push mid-decade congressional redistricting, Republicans had reason to be nervous. Redistricting battles are messy, procedurally arcane and easy to lose in the court of public opinion even when you win in a court of law. But Blair ...

Kamala’s ‘brainstorm’ seeks to destroy all norms

One of the many angry eruptions of the petulant press over Donald Trump is “he’s destroying all our political norms.” Trump is surely a disrupter of politics as usual — and more of a disrupter of the federal bureaucracy in his second term. But the Democrats have been at war with ...

Why does AOC think billionaires can’t exist?

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez doesn’t believe in billionaires. On a podcast the other day, she said that it’s impossible to make a billion dollars without lying, cheating or stealing. “There’s a certain level of wealth and accumulation that is unearned, right,” AOC declared. “You ...