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DSA stands for freeloaders — hold onto your wallets

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 good and the bad of the common good

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 ...

Democratic Socialists of America are hijacking Democratic Party

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, ...

Yes, the DSA has a communist problem

Sometimes a red scare isn't such a bad thing. Over the last several weeks, President Trump has issued forth with five-alarm-fire warnings about the Democratic Socialists of America really being communists, and his opponents have blasted him for the worst sort of McCarthyism. Trump's ...

The normalcy of American wars

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 ...

Socialism in the open and on the right

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 ...