Jeff Bezos, owner of the Washington Post, announced at the end of February the paper is shifting to focus the scope of its opinion section on free markets and personal liberties. While Post journalists disagree with Bezos’s decision, the problem isn’t his mandate but his staff’s sense of entitlement — liberal journalists are out of...
Conservative influencer and author Ashley St. Clair petitioned a Manhattan court to legally declare Elon Musk the father of her child and grant her sole custody Feb. 21. This child would be Musk’s fourteenth, and St. Clair the fourth mother of his offspring. This should ring the alarm bells for conservatives who cherish traditional family...
Welcome to the Gulf of America, at the mouth of the America river, east of the America mountains, and west of the America peninsula. If that statement sounds ridiculous, that’s because it is. Yet this is just the direction President Donald Trump’s Jan. 20 executive order “Restoring Names That Honor American Greatness” moves us. “It...
The $7 billion cut by the Department of Government Efficiency thus far is only about 1/1,000th of the 2024 federal budget. DOGE hasn’t taken a chainsaw to federal spending — just a pocket knife. Both President Donald Trump and Elon Musk tout the work of DOGE as a promise they’ve kept to fiscal conservatives. But...
Economists love to describe tradeoffs (“on the one hand….on the other hand”), so much so that a frustrated Harry Truman once asked for a one-armed economist. So I appreciated how your recent article (“Hillsdale Professors Discuss Tariffs,” Feb. 13) represented the many nuanced considerations about the Trump Administration’s rapidly evolving tariff policy. But as someone...