About a month late, presumably due to last fall’s government shutdown, the Census Bureau has released its estimates of the populations of the 50 states… Read More
InternationalPoliticsCommentary
Think about it. Heads of government do not normally reveal the texts of private communications from other heads of state. Yet that is what Norwegian… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
Minnesota? Somalis? Nine billion dollars in alleged welfare fraud? To understand what’s going on from a distance, it helps to understand basic culture. Minnesota was… Read More
EnergyCommentary
It’s been a cold winter so far in the Midwest and much of the Northeast, early-in-the-season snow even in Washington, D.C., and temperatures falling to… Read More
InternationalCommentary
Whence cometh the conviction, in America and even more in Britain and Europe, that open borders is the only moral immigration policy? Of course, not… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
Virginia and New Jersey, the two states that voted for governor in 2025, both voted for then-Vice President Kamala Harris over then-candidate Donald Trump by… Read More
InternationalCommentary
Who said this? “If you don’t have any borders, you don’t have a nation.” The speaker went on, “Trump did a better job. I don’t… Read More
International Commentary
“What all the wise men promised has not happened, and what all the damned fools said would happen has come to pass.” That was the… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
Why are so many Democrats fond of wishing death on their opponents? That’s a question raised by two astonishing developments early this month. On Oct…. Read More
PoliticsCommentary
Whatever else you want to say about him, President Donald Trump has what Alexander Hamilton in Federalist No. 70 called “energy in the executive.” Announcing… Read More
SocietyCommentary
We Americans, it seems, continue to live in two separate countries. Consider two items in the news this week and the inconsistent responses they evoked…. Read More
SocietyCommentary
What a difference half a decade makes. This summer’s prevailing ethos, zeitgeist, vibe—call it any fancy name you want—was sharply different from the summer, just… Read More
InternationalCommentary
When the Irish comedian Graham Linehan arrived at London Heathrow Airport this past weekend, he was greeted by five armed British police officers who arrested… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
In assessing the current controversy over Texas Republicans’ proposed redistricting of the state’s U.S. House seats, two historic facts should be considered. One is that… Read More
SecurityCommentary
When debating current issues, it’s helpful to avoid inaccurate depictions of past policy, especially on immigration, in which both opponents and advocates of President Donald… Read More
EducationCommentary
Nine months after the 2024 election, we’ve been graced with definitive dissections of the electorate and how it has changed since that escalator ride 10… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
The gender gap, we’re informed by some of the best polling analysts in the business, is bigger than ever. Ever, in this case, means since… Read More
International Commentary
Not many people today remember the exhilaration so many Americans felt after Israel’s victory in the Six-Day War in June 1967. The liberal folks around… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
Zohran Mamdani’s lead in first choices in New York City’s ranked-choice mayoral primary, and his inevitable victory when second, third, fourth, and fifth choices of… Read More
Commentary
Events are moving fast. Seven days ago, as I write, Israel had not yet launched its first attacks on targets in Iran. Seven days from… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
“How’m I doin’?” the late New York Mayor Ed Koch used to ask constituents on his travels through the city. President Donald Trump, in the… Read More
InternationalCommentary
You see the same pattern over much of the world. In three consecutive presidential elections in the United States. In the latest polls in Britain,… Read More
InternationalCommentary
“I’m not happy with what [Russian President Vladimir] Putin is doing. He’s killing a lot of people, and I don’t know what the hell happened… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
How does a political party with overwhelming advantages, including increasing support from the growing bloc of highly educated and affluent voters, almost monopoly support from… Read More
EducationCommentary
Mississippi leads the nation. That’s not a typographical error. And it’s not just a gotcha phrase, preparing the reader for learning that Mississippi leads the… Read More
InternationalCommentary
If you are a graduate of Yale University, you can vote every spring for a member of the Yale Corporation, which selects the school’s president…. Read More
LawCommentary
“It is the policy of the United States to eliminate the use of disparate-impact liability in all contexts to the maximum degree possible to avoid… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
Some thoughts spring to mind after President Donald Trump’s 100-minute address to Congress. The first is that this 78-year-old man has amazing resilience and perseverance…. Read More
InternationalCommentary
Sooner or later, The New York Times catches on to the news. In the case of immigration policy, the news it has caught up with… Read More
InternationalCommentary
If you follow these things closely, you may have seen a clip of the chairman of the Munich Security Conference breaking down in tears, unable… Read More
