This piece, by Elie Honig in New York Magazine, is well worth a read. Here's an excerpt: Most importantly, the DA's charges against Trump push the outer boundaries of the law and due process. That's not on the jury. That's on the prosecutors who chose to bring the case and the judge who let it play out as it did. The district attorney's ...

In the Wall Street Journal, Senator Joe Manchin writes that he has a problem with the way in which the Biden administration is implementing the Inflation Reduction Act: Despite explicit direction from Congress to pay down our debt in the Inflation Reduction Act, the administration seems more determined than ever to pervert that law and ...

The Senate and the House must tell Joe Biden that he is not a dictator, and that the Covid emergency is over. Per CNN: The Biden administration is yet again extending the pause on federal student loan payments, a benefit that began in March 2020 to help people who were struggling financially due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The extension comes ...

Dumb ideas are dumb ideas no matter who proposes them, and should be treated as such. Early last year, the socialist writer Freddie deBoer observed that: In the span of a decade or so, essentially all professional media not explicitly branded as conservative has been taken over by a school of politics that emerged from humanities departments ...

The Washington Post‘s editorial board isn't buying President Biden's pretense that our inflation problem is being driven by corporate greed. In an editorial this afternoon, the paper noted bluntly that "President Biden is facing mounting criticism for inflation's rise to its highest level since 1982," before lamenting that, "unfortunately, ...

Senator Bernie Sanders has taken to offering two talking points in favor of his preposterous $3.5 trillion spending bill. The first talking point holds that it is somehow outrageous that 52 Senators are able to prevent 48 Senators from passing the legislation he covets. The second talking point is that his bill is "popular." The first claim is ...

I'm just bookmarking this story for the future: ​​The world's largest economies agreed Thursday to sweeping changes to the global tax system, despite staunch opposition from low-tax regimes like Barbados, Ireland and Hungary. ​​Four officials at the talks told POLITICO that 130 countries had signed up to the deal, which the Organisation ...

It should by now be abundantly clear that the laziest cases against the inevitability of polygamy are starting to push up the daisies. Before Justice Kennedy decided to appoint himself the nation's most cherished arbiter of dark magic and inscrutable liberty, it was sufficient for the champions of matrimonial transformation to wave their hands ...

Liberals are finally admitting, quietly, that conservative critiques were right all along. Those who have elected to keep close tabs on the reactions to Obamacare’s blotchy rollout will presumably have noticed that it has been marked by admissions of guilt. The latest such confession comes from The New Republic’s Noam Scheiber, who ...