While we in Berlin were allowed to witness the delirious wedding dance of the coalition of debt kings around Friedrich Merz, Washington offered the stage for a bizarre world theater. Theater mood held the stock exchanges in its grip, as…
Here’s a fact most journalists and the economists they interview won’t admit: No one really knows what imposing tariffs on foreign countries like there’s no tomorrow will actually do to the American and global economies. Sure, the markets are currently…
Elon Musk and his DOGE team have been taking a chainsaw to the federal bureaucracy over the past couple of months with a remarkable degree of success. DOGE deserves high praise for identifying vast government waste, but the savings generated…
As a young Jewish American, I have always been proud of my family’s history and perseverance: some members of my family survived the Holocaust, others escaped Soviet oppression, and almost all rebuilt a life in America with little other than…
Thanks primarily to the renewal of President Trump’s “maximum pressure” campaign, Iran’s economy is again in the dumpster. Last week the Iranian rial was trading at a new low — more than one million rials to the U.S. dollar. When…
Anyone foolish enough to take seriously the rhetoric of the Democrats concerning the reciprocal tariffs announced by President Trump on “Liberation Day” will experience two sensations — dread and confusion. This unpleasant combination was inevitable due to the strident denunciation…
The Trump administration has officially commenced its war on illicit drugs with the release of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP)’s Drug Policy Priorities. These priorities lay out the administration’s one year plan of attack on…
It makes perfect sense for President Donald Trump to dive headfirst into a death struggle with diversity, equity, and inclusion, the programmatic expression of woke ideology. Aside from globalization’s decimation of America’s working class, it is unlikely that anything accounts…
In 2023, the Maryland Comprehensive Assessment Program shocked the state with devastating statistics about Baltimore public schools. Thirteen high schools — about 40 percent of the entire district — showed zero students meeting state math proficiency standards. Additionally, only 7…
