Before the recent election, the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability asked then-Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen to turn over all Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) relating to ActBlue — not much happened. An SAR is a document that banks file with…
Almost three weeks since the election, the consensus is that this has been a populist victory — the people saw themselves ill-served by a lordly empowered elite and voted them out. There is one aspect of this populist victory that…
The Harris campaign represented progressive governance in microcosm. Take the million dollars it spent on Oprah Winfrey’s production company to stage a town hall–style event. Democrats pried $15, $25, and $50 donations from the Social Security checks of seniors frightened…
During Thursday night’s debate between Presidents Biden and Trump many questions related to the state of the economy and economic policy were broached. Conspicuously absent from the debate, however, were any questions or even a mention of the largest economic…
Arabella: The Dark Money Network of Leftist Billionaires By Scott Walter (Encounter Books, 248 pages, $29.00) At first blush, Arabella Advisors LLC appears to be a garden-variety D.C. consulting firm. Their website exudes typical K-Street verbiage: “We help changemakers create…
In my more than 40 years of practicing law, I have learned that while lawsuits can bring disputes to an end, they cannot solve problems. Unfortunately, not all other lawyers have learned the same thing, and the effects of this…
Washington Post columnist Megan McArdle recently wrote that the best argument made in favor of limiting the size of the stimulus during the Great Recession — part of a larger conversation about austerity — was one of ethos. “We weren’t…
Boston University, Tufts, Wellesley College, and Yale aren’t the four best schools in the United States — just the four most expensive ones. The private schools each charge in excess of $90,000 for the 2024–2025 school year, the Boston Globe…
SACRAMENTO — President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address was mostly about political posturing (and proving that he was still alive and kicking) rather than policy, but one of the few granular policy areas he touched on involved something…
