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The United States is engaged in summary executions on the high seas. That bald fact is being obscured by talk of drug interdiction and war powers and whether we’re certain the drugs on those boats were headed for the United States or somewhere else. Let’s be clear. Even if we knew for ...
In 1980, America’s publicly held debt reached more than $712 billion (about $2.8 trillion in 2025 dollars), or roughly 25% of annual U.S. GDP. Today, that figure is a little over $30 trillion, or around 100% of GDP. And as the federal debt grew 42 times larger over that span, the economy grew ...
“Why Can’t a Woman Be More Like a Man?” Those are the words librettist Alan Jay Lerner penned for the fictional professor Henry Higgins in the 1956 musical “My Fair Lady,” and honestly, it could have been the title of Helen Andrews’ much-discussed recent essay in Compact. She ...
The sound you heard was windows being smashed at the East Wing. The sound you did not hear was questions from officials paid to monitor what happens to a National Heritage Site. The White House is owned by the American people, not any current inhabitant. It’s true that other presidents ...
Believe me when I tell you Washington is going through stages of grief at the sudden demolition of the White House East Wing. The wreckage looks like a crime scene, with President Donald Trump’s thumbprints on it. He didn’t ask or tell people, he just destroyed a sacred structure that ...
A recent poll found 65% of Americans considered President Donald Trump to be conservative or very conservative. That I do not understand. Trump is the opposite of a conservative. A conservative conserves, maintaining what is good and just and building upon it. Donald Trump is no ...