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Convoluted scheme to pay parents to stay at home

Vice President JD Vance wants to pay married parents to stay home with their children, and he wants to do it with money Congress appropriated to help low-income families afford day care. Whatever one thinks of the goal, which may prove popular, the proposal fails every test we should apply to ...

When war comes home: A constitutional warning

A failed war does not end when the drones stop flying. It creates a new danger: A government that refuses to admit defeat and a president who, having failed abroad, seeks muscular victories elsewhere. The war against Iran is a case study in the limits of military power, the dangers of ...

Are we getting dumber?

Is it the end of the Flynn effect? Decades ago, the researcher James Flynn recognized a secular increase in IQ scores around the world that amounted to humanity getting smarter all the time. Now, technology appears to be pushing the other way. The new results are in from a 2025 ...

‘Trumpapalooza’ a sad, unnecessary spectacle that achieves nothing

Republican National Committee Chairman Joe Gruters says the GOP midterm election "convention" will be a "Trumpapalooza." It'd be better if everyone called it that. American political conventions are one of the best examples — among way too many — of American institutional decay. In the ...

The conservative case for Gloria Steinem (1934-2026)

PARIS — Gloria Steinem sent me a personal message not long ago thanking me for my "generous and encouraging" words that "make it worth getting older." Not worth it enough, apparently. Because one of the most visible faces of American second-wave feminism has just passed away peacefully at ...

America has not learned right lessons from Charlie Kirk’s murder

It feels like just yesterday that America lost Charlie Kirk. I remember every detail vividly. Charlie and I were in daily contact that week, as he prepared for his next national campus speaking tour. I was part of an intimate Zoom meeting he had organized the night prior to its first ...