I’ve discussed the “hero’s journey of Donald Trump” here in this column multiple times — and it turns out I couldn’t get away from it even if I wanted to. Every day we hear a drumbeat of evidence that the…
The slate of “parent’s rights” bills that swept through red-state legislatures over the past three years may have seemed innocuous enough to the average observer; in fact, even the most controversial of the bills proved to be broadly popular with…
Amid the myriad challenges that confront us in the coming months, it’s easy to simply pigeonhole African issues under the heading of: “We’ll get around to it, someday, maybe.” That, as I’ve noted previously in writing about Africa, has been…
As a libertarian, I accept that any relatively free society will tolerate certain disreputable business models and inadvisable personal choices. As a general principle, adults should largely be free to make their own decisions, even if they’re unwise. And prohibitionist policies…
Last summer, Sound of Freedom surprised many with a massive box office success that opened many people’s eyes to the ongoing reality of child exploitation. Now, a hit show from Investigation Discovery reveals that some of those children suffering abuse…
There’s a recent trend on TikTok that has women unfolding the massive sheets of warning labels that come with boxes of prescription birth control. The text, finely printed and covering both sides of a piece of paper the size of…
On Tuesday, independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced that he had selected attorney Nicole Shanahan to be his nominee for vice president. Shanahan, a 38-year-old native of Oakland, California, is best known for having been married to Google…
I’m a hippie. I don’t think there’s anything more fun than growing my hair long, getting into a sky-blue Volkswagen Campervan with huge daisies painted on it, and driving across the country from coast to coast banging out ’60s tunes…
On June 1, 2020, Heriberto Carbajal-Flores, a migrant illegally living in the United States, was found in unlawful possession of a firearm in the Little Village neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. The charge falls under Title 18 of the United States…