The Federal Reserve raised its funds rate on Wednesday by a quarter percent. The 4.5–4.75 percent rate amounts to the highest in 15 years. Despite this, and Wednesday’s hike becoming the eighth consecutive one, Chairman Jerome Powell explained that “we…
Rep. George Santos resigned his seat on the Science, Space, and Technology Committee and on the Small Business Committee on Tuesday. When does President Joe Biden follow suit? The president this week repeated the lie, reportedly for the eighth time,…
The United States agreed to send 31 M1 Abrams tanks to Ukraine this week. The aid comes in coordination with the United Kingdom’s announcement that it will send 12 Challenger 2 tanks and Germany’s donation of 14 Leopard 2 tanks….
Postjudice, a perfectly cromulent word, characterizes a reaction, extraordinary mostly in its ordinariness, to the elderly Asian man murdering 11 mostly older Asians at a Monterey Park, California, dance hall. “Was the shooting an act of anti-Asian bigotry?” University of…
“I come as the possessor of the book of Destiny to banish political and moral darkness and to erect the theory of universal harmony upon the ruins of the uncertain science,” Charles Fourier proclaimed two centuries ago to a deaf…
Did we judge 2020’s statue vandals too harshly? Boston’s Martin Luther King Jr.–Coretta Scott King “Embrace” sculpture with any luck coaxes a comeback. Alternatively, locals might imitate their Puritan forefathers, who essentially evicted the only European settler, William Blaxton, from…
Did George Santos’s communications team take over public relations for the Biden administration? The drip-drip-drip nature of the revelations over Garagegate goes contrary to the standard playbook that dictates the release of information all at once when few pay attention….
First rule of siccing the FBI on your predecessor for holding onto classified documents after leaving office? Do not hold onto classified documents after leaving office. Joe Biden could not abide by this basic bit of common sense. CBS News…
Just weeks after Barbra Streisand dubbed Nancy Pelosi “the best speaker there ever was,” the San Francisco Democrat already appears eclipsed. The nod of greatest speaker of the House in United States history goes to Cheryl Johnson. Okay, well, technically…