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‘Abundance’ is abundantly confused

The hot-selling book "Abundance" is written by liberals who bash liberals, or more precisely, try to make them feel guilty. Sure, authors Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson shed some blame on conservatives for why America doesn't build as easily as it used to. But it's those liberals in expensive ...

Trump deploys, protesters respond; this will not end well

"Here we go." "I knew it would come." "This won't end well." Those were my initial reactions to President Trump's announcement that he had activated the California National Guard and to sources on Monday saying Marines would serve as backup. I'm not claiming much prescience. Like his ...

Escape and return

CAM RANH, Vietnam - The story sounds like a "Mission Impossible" script. Fifty years ago, near the end of the Vietnam war as North Vietnamese troops headed south, the director of the Cam Ranh Christian Orphanage, Pastor Nguyen Xuan Ha - known to everyone as Mr. Ha — decided it was time to ...

Big, beautiful bromance breaks up — live on social media

For those who think government should be run like a business, the messy social media spat that played out last week between President Trump and billionaire CEO Elon Musk suggested that business could be doing a lot better. That may help to explain why shares of Musk's company Tesla dropped 14 ...

The Human Rights Campaign

Why does Uber make videos where people say, "I'm non-binary or genderqueer"? And why does Lockheed Martin fund floats at Pride parades? Because companies want to raise their score on the Human Rights Campaign's "Corporate Equality Index." Equality is a good thing. I support human rights. ...

The New Politics of Metropole vs. Heartland

You see the same pattern over much of the world. In three consecutive presidential elections in the United States. In the latest polls in Britain, where the 2016 Brexit referendum was the first notable outbreak. In France's most recent national election and in Germany's. In Canada's election ...