There’s a dreariness hanging over the State Capitol this session, and it has nothing to do with the spring weather. Affordability is crushing Minnesota families. At the same time, I’m hearing constant complaints about massive fraud in state programs, big proposed cuts to health and human ...
Is robbing the Louvre a good idea? Left-wing influencer Hasan Piker and New Yorker writer Jia Tolentino did a much-discussed video interview with The New York Times on the ethics of theft, and came out four-square in favor of stealing things, including artwork from the Louvre. They consider ...
There simply is no other explanation for it. Not ignorance, not well-intentioned stupidity, not misguided but honest mistakes. No one could inflict the kinds of cruelty that our politicians do unless they despised their constituents. The horrible effects of destructive public policies are ...
Many of us have things that we like and enjoy so much that we collect them. When we collect something, we acquire it, accumulate it, display it and store any extras. For some of us, collecting and accumulating things develops into an irrational and uncontrollable urge that is overwhelming. It ...
The White House Correspondents' Dinner is usually a predictable affair. Journalists and celebrities gather to reinforce their credentials as powerful insiders who should be the ones running the country. This year's dinner, to be held April 25 in Washington, is likely to be something quite ...
There's a growing impulse in American politics to blame the free market— and the technologies it produces— for every bout of economic indigestion, as if a shadowy cabal of innovators is deliberately dismantling the middle-class way of life. That impulse is no longer abstract. It has ...