Political Commentary & Opinion

In Canada, a transgender woman—that is, a biological male living as a woman and who still possesses male genitalia—asked a woman who operated a salon out of her home to wax his genitalia. When Marcia da Silva, a Brazilian immigrant, refused, Jonathan Yaniv, who goes by Jessica, harassed her to the point that she closed…

Let’s think about priorities. Say that you live in one of the dangerous high-crime and poor-schooling neighborhoods of cities like Chicago, Baltimore, Detroit, or St. Louis. Which is most important to you: doing something about public safety and raising the quality of education or, as most black politicians do, focusing energies upon President Donald Trump…

Last week, at the invitation of Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, I spoke to the Senate Judiciary Committee about Google’s having placed more than 60 Prager University videos on its restricted list. Any family that filters out pornography and violence cannot see those particular videos on YouTube (which is owned by Google); nor can any school…

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the rest of “the squad” are just the beginning of problems for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the left. Socialism—and not the soft, “Scandinavian” kind—is building so much momentum that soon, it could come to define the modern-day left. My colleague Jarrett Stepman shed light on this in attending the “Socialism…

It’s a long-standing tradition of the news media to run stories on the anniversaries of consequential events from the past, as they did for the 75th anniversary of D-Day on June 6. Accordingly, for several days last week, the print and broadcast news media ran countless stories leading up to the 50th anniversary of the…

While the State Department was trying to stop religious hostility, one congresswoman was down the street trying to fuel it. In an eerie backdrop to the Trump administration’s ministerial, Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., seemed determined to highlight the threat that exists right here at home—radical Democrats. Omar, who hasn’t exactly been a friend to Israel,…

With an economy that’s strong, that creates opportunities, and that grows wages, people are experiencing the American dream. But this dream is in danger of becoming the American nightmare. The future looks bleak: job losses, lower wages for those lucky enough to keep a job, and massive tax increases on average Americans. For many families,…

As we commemorate the 50th anniversary of the historic moon landing, I am not sure that today’s generation quite understands just how exciting this was in 1969. Apollo 11 came before “Star Wars” and a raft of science fiction movies that have since made space travel seem almost mundane. I was in elementary school when…

“It’s misleading. How do you measure an ‘adversity score’ anyway?” Martin Smith, a professor at Rowan University and an alumnus from the University of Pennsylvania, shared his thoughts over the College Board’s recent unveiling of an “overall disadvantage level”—in shorthand, an “adversity score”—to supplement students’ SAT scores. “You can’t manufacture equal outcomes when everyone isn’t…

The U.S. women’s national soccer team recently earned a historic victory on the world stage, but not all is well for girls who might want to follow in its footsteps. In fact, girls sports has become one of the most tragic battlefields of the culture war. In Connecticut, high school track runner Selina Soule recently…

Actors make a living portraying other people’s identities. It’s what they do, and they’ve done it for millennia. Yet today, loud voices for political correctness are seeking to redraw the lines of acceptable identity portrayal. The question is: Who has the right to play who on the big screen? Political correctness says: Only actors with…

To constrain the growth of central government, conservatives have fought to keep down the number of federal bureaucrats. This strategy has failed. Since the 1960s, the number of federal employees has remained constant at about 2 million, yet federal power has greatly expanded. This phenomenon arises because Washington has outsourced many civil service functions to…