Category Archives: Commentary

The Generation That Built America Was The Last of Its Kind

Jack Fowler: Our friend, your friend, and I’m a great admirer of David Mamet, the playwright [...]

They Discovered Energy Bills When the Wrong President Was in Charge

This morning the same people who spent four years calling gasoline a morality play discovered [...]

They Knew It Was His. They Told You It Was Moscow.

The laptop was not “just verified.” That is the part everyone keeps getting wrong on [...]

They Built the Wall First. Then They Called Ours a Crisis.

Ottawa is clutching its pearls. Washington just put 50 percent on about $20 billion of [...]

The Islands Where the Paper Lives

The Treasury secretary did not whisper it. He said it on camera at the finance [...]

They Stopped Coming. Then They Started Leaving.

For half a century the foreign-born line on the chart only went one direction. Up. [...]

He Signed Never Forget. Then He Gave the Pen to the Other Team.

Friday at City Hall. Twenty-five years almost to the day. Two executive orders. One makes [...]

They Keep Testing the Rule. He Keeps Raising the Multiple.

There is no framed parchment at the Pentagon that says “you hit one of ours, [...]

From Picket Lines to Backyard Grills: The 140-Year Story Behind America’s Favorite Long Weekend

Where It Started The first Labor Day celebration happened on September 5, 1882, in New [...]

Meet The Dangerous Marxist Architects of the Bureaucratic Long Game

The 20th century’s most consequential political engineering may not have come from politicians, but from [...]