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Bridge generation starting to feel its age

Millennials are a cultural infrastructure, like an older overpass everyone depends on, but it’s starting to carry more weight than it was originally designed to hold. We’re trying to move things forward as we absorb tension from both directions. And increasingly, this generation is being ...

Courts holding line on Trump's proposed tariffs

The Trump administration is trying to pick up the pieces of its global tariff agenda after a major Supreme Court rebuke this term. That might not be as easy as administration officials hoped, judging by a May 7 ruling from the U.S. Court of International Trade that the president’s substitute border taxes are also illegal. The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 in February that the president lacked authority under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act of 1977 to impose unlimited tariffs on a whim. He responded by invoking a new authority, Section 122 of the Trade Act of 1974, to ...

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 ...

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 ...

Motorists urged to share the road with motorcyclists

With the snow gone and warmer weather returning — though slowly — to the region, drivers should expect an increase in motorcyclists on roadways, state officials advise. Which is why the Michigan Department of State marks Motorcycle Safety Awareness Month in May with its the annual “Look Twice. Save a Life” public education campaign. Gov. Gretchen Whitmer issued a proclamation calling on all Michigan motorists to drive defensively and cautiously to reduce collisions and save lives. “As motorcycle season returns to Michigan, we’re reminding drivers to be attentive and on ...

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 ...