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Perhaps it’s time for Donald Trump to prepare three envelopes and stick them in the top drawer of the Resolute Desk. What am I talking about? There’s an old business joke about a company’s new president inheriting a mess. His predecessor leaves behind three envelopes for “when things ...
Call him the “antisocial” media president. When a president attacks the pope, he telegraphs: “There’s nothing I won’t do or say.” That is a profoundly troubling message. There are no lines I won’t cross, no rules I won’t break, President Donald Trump is telling the whole ...
Viktor Orban, the proudly “illiberal” prime minister of Hungary, beloved by various New Right nationalists and MAGA American intellectuals, was crushed at the polls this weekend. Over the last decade or so, Hungary became for the New Right what Sweden or Cuba were to the Old Left. For ...
That $7,500 tax credit to buy an electric vehicle, now gone, was a “grotesque misallocation of federal spending.” It was a form of “rent-seeking,” whereby companies seek “to dominate the bureaucracy instead of the marketplace.” Thus wrote Kyle Smith in a Wall Street Journal ...
There is lore about the 1862 meeting between Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” — the influential novel about slavery — and former President Abraham Lincoln. “So,” President Lincoln is reported to have greeted her, “you’re the woman who wrote the book that ...
Speaking at a Jan. 6 retreat for House Republicans, Trump stated, “You gotta win the midterms ‘cause, if we don’t win the midterms, it’s just gonna be — I mean, they’ll find a reason to impeach me. I’ll get impeached.” This was before Trump’s agents murdered Renee Good and ...