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The shots that changed the world

The iconic Henry Wadsworth Longfellow poem “Paul Revere’s Ride” begins, “Listen, my children ...” And, sure enough, we have long told our kids and ourselves of the cinematic events in April 1775, when the famous silversmith warned the countryside of approaching British troops and the American Revolution kicked off in earnest. Like all legendary events, Paul Revere’s Ride and the Battles of Lexington and Concord have been encrusted with myth: It’s almost certainly not the case that Revere yelled, “The British are coming!” (we still considered ourselves British); ...

In this new orthodoxy, globalism is morality

If you had told anti-globalist protesters from 25 years ago that their ideological heirs would be MAGA fans rallying behind a billionaire with gold-plated toilets, they would’ve shot their organic carrot juice out their nose in disbelief. Back then, anti-globalism was all granola, gas masks and “Down with the IMF” signs. Nobody would have expected Donald Trump - the guy gracing tabloids for yacht parties and messy divorces - to ever, in a million years, become the face of the movement. But fast-forward a few decades, and the revolution’s wearing a red baseball cap and yelling ...

Hegseth finds himself under fire again

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth finds himself under fire again — this time from political skeptics or foes across the political spectrum. But just as the case was during the recent presidential transition period, when Trump opponents resuscitated the discredited 2018 Brett Kavanaugh/Christine Blasey Ford playbook in an attempt to derail Hegseth’s nomination, the stakes now are much higher than Hegseth’s job security helming the Pentagon. When he was up for the nomination, Democrats and their corporate media allies went all in in an attempt to destroy Hegseth. Like the ...

Holding space for hope

We live in uncertain times. It’s a phrase we keep hearing, whether we’re talking about climate change or politics. But aren’t all times uncertain? We could time-travel to declare uncertainty during the Great Depression, the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s and the COVID-19 pandemic. Uncertain times are just called life, which is why I wanted to talk to Allison Carmen. She has learned to thrive in uncertainty by making the word “maybe” her friend. Carmen is an author and a TEDx speaker as well as the chief financial officer and general counsel at the Motherhood Center of ...

Union membership keeps declining

It hardly qualifies as news anymore, but according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, union membership declined from 2023 to 2024, going from 10% to 9.9% of wage and salary workers. Some 32% of public employees are union members compared to only 5.9% of private-sector workers, down from 6% in 2023. This means 49% of all union members work for the government and, even more striking, 32% belong to the two national teachers unions. As National Review’s Dominic Pino pointed out, national media is chock full of hopeful stories about union organizing drives and strikes — he cited 214 in ...

What we must do now

If the Trump regime can dictate what the universities of America teach or research or publish, or what students can learn or say, no university is safe. Not even the truth is safe. If the Trump regime can revoke student visas because students exercise their freedom of speech on a university campus, freedom of speech is not secure for any of us. If the Trump regime can abduct a permanent resident of the United States and send him to a torture prison in El Salvador, without any criminal charges, no American is safe. What do we do about this? We stand up to it. We resist it. We ...