Dare I suggest, writes the economist and blogger Tyler Cowen, that the quality of governance in this country has taken a downward turn of late? Or as Casey Stengel, while managing the New York Mets on their way to a 40-120 season in 1962, reportedly asked, Can't anybody here play this game? In successive weeks both Democrats and Republicans have shown a downward trend in the quality of governance and raised questions about whether anybody in Washington can play this game. Start with the Democrat...
The vice president—and other powerful men—regularly avoid one-on-one meetings with women in the name of protecting their families. In the end, what suffers is women’s progress.
Amy Schumer won't be playing Barbie on the big screen. Only Hollywood reporters ignore the reasons why the Mattel brand might be better off without her.
Here are some things the GOP could productively do on healthcare, that have little or nothing to do with repealing the ACA: 1. Price transparency and consistency. Require all providers (hospitals, …
| by Helen Pluckrose | I don’t remember ever not being a feminist. I toddled in marches of the 1970s with my mother. She became a second wave feminist in the 1960s after being denied a mortga…
March 29, 2017 As his presidency drew to a close, Barack Obama’s top aides routinely reviewed intelligence reports gleaned from the National Security Agency’s incidental intercepts of Americans abroad, taking advantage of rules their boss relaxed starting in 2011 to help the government better fight terrorism, espionage by foreign enemies and hacking threats, Circa has learned. 1 of 29 Dozens of times in 2016, those intelligence reports identified Americans who were directly intercepted talking ...
The American Left used to lecture the nation about its supposedly paranoid suspicions of Russia. The World War II alliance with Joseph Stalin’s Soviet Union had led many leftists to envision a continuing post-war friendship with Russia.
During the subsequent Cold War, American liberals felt that the Right had unnecessarily become paranoid about Soviet Russia, logically culminating in the career of the demagogic Senator Joe McCarthy. Later, in movies such as Seven Days in May, Doctor Strangelove...
Earlier this month, the Trump White House unveiled its budget blueprint, which shifts federal spending priorities from domestic programs to national defense. The Office of Management and Budget proposed cuts of $54 billion to departments like Agriculture, Housing and Urban Development, and Commerce, coupled with big increases for the Departments of Defense and Homeland Security. The only domestic department to see any kind of increase would be Veterans Affairs.
The document was met with gnashing...
In the aftermath of the Middlebury affair and the attendant publicity citing the SPLC’s allegations that I am a white nationalist, white supremacist, racist, and sexist, people who wonder whether these allegations have any basis need to know what I have to say about them. What follows is an edited and expanded version of the SPLC page that I can live with.
