Times are changing, pecking orders evolving, but the chickens aren’t pleased. After all, they take pride in being the inspiration for this universally applicable ranking measure. Ranked positions in all species have existed since their evolution, but it was chickens who gave it its name, ...
Donald Trump has a painting of Andrew Jackson in the Oval Office, but as he tries to browbeat Denmark into coughing up Greenland, maybe he should add a portrait of a Jackson acolyte -- James K. Polk. If cold-eyed American expansionism is the theme, there are fewer better representatives ...
Leftist media outlets take an extremely opportunistic approach to covering the intersection of religion and politics. They're appalled at religion when it impedes their agenda, but they gush over religious figures when they align with their talking points. On Jan. 19, New York Times religion ...
Since the beginning of the second Trump administration, it's become obvious that the president loves tariffs. In fact, he really, really loves tariffs. To paraphrase 50 Cent, Donald Trump loves tariffs like a fat kid loves cake. One year into his second term, we've witnessed Trump unleash wave after wave of tariffs on anything with a pulse, leaving his administration and his supporters scrambling to argue in favor of some sort of retrospective strategy that justifies setting the world economy on fire. We have simultaneously been told that tariffs are great, and that they will reduce ...
It wasn't that long ago when sports betting was illegal. Then suddenly it was as though profit, rather than controlling this vice, became paramount. It was inevitable, given human nature, that bad things would follow legalization. Last week, The Wall Street Journal carried a front-page story ...
California Democrats should listen to The Rolling Stones. The band famously fled England in the 1970s, heading into tax exile in the south of France. Mick Jagger and his mates weren't alone -- a generation of rock royalty abandoned the U.K. because of its steep taxes: David Bowie opted for Switzerland; Rod Stewart went to California. "We left England because we'd be paying 98 cents on the dollar. We left, and they lost out. No taxes at all," Stones guitarist Keith Richards recalled to Fortune. Progressives are now transforming California into what Britain was before Margaret ...
