When in 2018 Donald Trump allegedly referred to Haiti as one of the world’s “shithole countries” from which immigration is per se undesirable, the deranged slogan “Haiti Is Great Already” promptly went viral on social media, turning up with clockwork…
Jean-Luc found me in the lobby of the Las Américas Airport near the capital city of the Dominican Republic, which borders Haiti. “Thanks so much for hosting me,” I said, and we embraced like old friends, even though we’d never…
Just how deep is the nation’s divide? This election season, it feels as though the Left and Right inhabit the same physical space but live in separate dimensions — twin solitudes where everything means something else. According to the U.S….
If you compare the way President Biden treats Americans with the ways he treats citizens of foreign countries, it’s hard not to conclude that he doesn’t like us very much. Biden — who could secure our borders by reversing the…
Thurston Howell III went off on Gilligan now and then. In one episode the fictional tycoon got so mad he referred to the sailor as “probably not even a Republican.” That was when many pre-literate boomers got their first inkling…
The massive number of immigrants flooding into America are born to fundamentally reshape the country — that’s been true of every successive wave of immigrants that cross the border. But there’s something different about this most recent wave. On today’s Spectacle podcast, The…
It’s a sad commentary on the current state of things that we look back on 2018 as “the good old days.” By comparison, that year was pretty good compared to this one on a number of metrics; however, by no…
California liberals are horrified that illegal immigrants who commit violent felonies are not provided with free legal defense against their deportation. A coalition of progressive groups in California has argued that not providing such a service “unduly re-punishes [illegal immigrants]…
It was January 2018, and America’s political class was apoplectic. The sitting president of the United States had said something terrible — unforgivable, even. “[A]bhorrent and repulsive,” then-Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) fumed. “We are deeply disturbed and offended,” thundered a…
