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Bottom line on border: It’s already orderly

There were fewer arrests at the Southern border in July than in the last month of the Trump presidency. Shelters have seen a massive drop in migrants. And Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is having a hard time finding enough recent arrivals to fill buses headed north. The reason for this development is President Joe Biden’s new border policy, which basically stopped migrants from asking for asylum if they crossed the border illegally. Vice President Kamala Harris just called for even tighter restrictions. Still the specter of uncontrolled immigration, even when that’s no longer the case, ...

Why Jews should reject Trump

Dear Fellow Jewish American, I beg you to consider the consequences of a Trump victory. In the aftermath of Oct. 7, we’ve seen an ugly new chapter in left-wing antisemitism. Left-wing activists on campuses and elsewhere adorned their posters with images of hang gliders, delighting, one must assume, in the acts committed when those gliders touched down. They ripped down posters of hostages. They refused for months to acknowledge the brutal rapes of Israeli women and girls (so much for “believe all women”). While the plight of the Palestinians has been a progressive cause for ...

Iranian inanity comes home to roost

In June 2006, U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., was asked in Boston what the Democrats’ plan was for dealing with Iran, designated even then by our State Department as the world’s foremost state sponsor of terrorism and well on its way to acquiring nuclear weapons. “I don’t know,” Durbin replied. “With any luck Israel will do something about it, and we’ll all blame Israel.” When the Obama White House was fairly begging Iran for a deal to temporarily slow Iran’s race to obtain those weapons in 2015, critics of the proposed deal pointed out that what the administration was ...

In a place that feels like family

When you sit down at Ben’s Chili Bowl, cofounder Virginia R. Ali is apt to greet you and tell you she is glad you’re here. If you’re lucky, she’ll tell stories of her life that intersect with every chapter of the city since 1958, the year she and her late husband opened the restaurant’s doors in a segregated section in the old Jim Crow days. But yes, the nation’s capital was starkly divided that way, by color. Back then, there were about 250 Black-owned businesses in the thriving neighborhood, including the Industrial Bank where she found her first job, Mrs. Ali recalled. ...

More women than men moving left

It’s not news that young people are further on the left of the political spectrum than older generations. Of unique interest now is that the movement to the left is more disproportionate among young women than young men. As a nation we should know this is happening and try to understand why. Women, traditionally, have been the stabilizing cultural influence in chaotic times. It is women who have brought children into the world and raised them when men have not been reliable fathers and heads of households. But consider data from a recent Pew Research survey. Per the survey, ...

Voters don’t want Harris, Trump policies

Neither Vice President Kamala Harris nor former President Donald Trump, The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday’s front page, has any proposals to cut the rapidly increasing national debt. Harris, with an eye on polls showing young voters not as pro-Democratic as in the past, has been talking about providing $25,000 for down payments to first-time homebuyers. With an eye on young families and single parents, she has also called for restoring part of the refundable child tax credit that was part of what President Joe Biden has now conceded was the misnamed 2021 Inflation ...