By contrast, Mr. Tuberville’s petulant demonstration has been going for more than four months. He announced his blockade in mid-February, holding up at least 150 pending promotions for generals and…
Inflation is beginning to abate meaningfully for American consumers. Gas is cheaper, eggs cost roughly half as much as they did January and prices are no longer climbing as rapidly…
The Utah Bible ban (which is now being appealed) proves as much: It testifies both to the relentless, nihilistic logic of censorship, which can find subversion anywhere, and also to…
Several Shakespeare-conscious, pest-minded lines in Maureen Dowd’s “To Jail or Not to Jail” column in The Times constituted perhaps the most-nominated passage of writing in this newsletter feature’s history: “We…
Donald J. Trump has promised that if he wins back the presidency he will appoint a special prosecutor to “go after” President Biden and his family. But he’s not the…
For two years, the United States has been effectively running an experiment in federally funding child care providers. The $24 billion disbursed in pandemic relief has been the largest investment…
The proof of the existence of this bargain is the way people talk about prospective trades: Would you give up this for that? Would you take that kind of tax…
Around the world we talk a good game about the importance of education, but we rarely act as if we mean it. Here’s an unlikely exception: Sierra Leone, one of…
Yves here. Depressing, but not entirely surprising. Military Keynesianism is making arming Ukraine less costly than it seems due to its impact on GDP growth. But this beneficial-only-in-the-eyes-of-economists spending does…
His girlfriend told him not to buy the electric scooter. But Alfonso Villa Muñoz was intrigued. He was working in a Brooklyn bodega last August when a delivery man said…