What the Biden administration is doing to the Title IX civil rights law, the purpose of which is, among other things, to ensure equality between men’s and women’s sports, reminds me of a childhood game. We kids would sit in a circle, and one would whisper something to the one next to them, who would repeat it to the next …
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“Cross-examination is the greatest legal engine ever invented for the discovery of truth.” Those words by legendary lawyer John Henry Wigmore in 1923 are derived from the Sixth Amendment. A defendant has the right to confront his accusers; to shine light on false statements by witnesses and dark distortions by overzealous prosecutors who hide the truth. It’s an effective method …
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Two Trump cases converged in the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday, when Justice Brett Kavanaugh asked a penetrating question.What’s to stop a “creative prosecutor” from using a “vague statute” to prosecute a president, especially, a prosecutor from the “opposing party”? In the Age of Trump, the answer is nothing.That’s precisely what Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg is doing to the …
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Let’s be clear. What’s happening at Columbia, Yale, Michigan, New York University and other college campuses around the country isn’t a protest: it’s a violent, pro-Hamas mob threatening and attacking Jewish students by spreading antisemitic hate. This has no place in America, and no university should permit this harassment on its campus. By now, many have seen and heard the …
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When word first broke that Joe Biden would be sitting down with Howard Stern for a live interview Friday on his SiriusXM show, it was an absolute guarantee that it would be an embarrassing T-Ball session without anything resembling a challenging question nor anything relating to the major issues that have Biden polling lower than any president since Jimmy Carter. …
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As the Biden White House continues to bragabout thealleged successofits economic policies, government data shows the country is hemorrhagingfull-timejobs. According to the U.S. BureauofLabor Statistics, thenumberofAmericans reportingfull-timeemployment dropped by more than 1.7 millionjobsfrom November 2023 to the endofMarch 2024, the most recentmonthfor which data isavailable. That’sadeclineof1.33%overafive-monthperiod. Excluding job losses related to the COVID-19 lockdowns in 2020, the recent drop infull-timeemployment …
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The latest polling from Bloomberg on the rematch race between former President Trump and President Joe Biden is stunning. Trump is being prosecuted in a show trial-circus in Manhattan that serious observers know is both complete nonsense and an utter disgrace. On top of that, Trump is subject to a gag order. He is also obliged to be in court …
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The Biden administration has waged war on American energy. Costs have skyrocketed. Both consumers and producers are being crushed by burdensome regulations. It is critical that Congress prioritize the passage of bipartisan legislation to unleash our nation’s offshore energy resources. Offshore energy development in the Gulf of Mexico is essential to our nation’s all-of-the-above energy strategy, offering immense economic, national …
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Whenever a celebrity has cancer, the public eye turns in that direction. It can either cause us to over-personalize our own risk, or it can teach us how to approach cancer with courage and resolve. I am impressed with how the royals, Princess Kate and King Charles, have handled their cancers, even if we still don’t know the exact etiology …
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Editor’s note: The following column was first published in City Journal. The Color Revolution is restless. Beginning in the former Soviet republics in the early 2000s, it moved along the coast of North Africa with the so-called Arab Spring in the 2010s, and, into the current decade, has spread further. The ostensible purpose of Color Revolutions—named after the Rose Revolution, …
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