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Pistons complete historic turnaround from 14-win season

TORONTO — One year after finishing with the worst record in the NBA, the Detroit Pistons are going to the playoffs for the first time since 2018-19. The Pistons punched their postseason ticket with a 117-105 victory over Toronto on Friday night. No NBA team has ever gone from a worse record than Detroit’s 14 wins last season to earning a playoff berth the following year. “It’s a big deal,” first-year Pistons coach J.B. Bickerstaff said. “We typically don’t take time to reflect on where we are but this is an opportunity for this group to reflect on where it is, where ...

There is a better way

One need not rely on experts to know tariffs are typically not a good policy. Going back to Adam Smith writing “The Wealth of Nations,” we know it is better to manufacture cheap commodities in areas that can make them cheaply so that wealthier nations can spend their wealth more productively. Adding tariffs historically disrupts that balance and often causes economic slowdowns. President Donald Trump thinks the United States needs to rebuild its manufacturing capacity. In some cases that is true. We should, for national security reasons, be making microchips, weapons, planes, ships ...

The tragedy brought upon us

Read it and weep. I mean the newspaper. Every single day, it brings tidings of despair to those who cherish the civilian institutions and agencies of this — yes — beloved and beautiful capital. The Institute of Peace was closed, Gestapo-style, within view of the Lincoln Memorial. The Smithsonian, America’s free storyteller, is under siege, including the spectacular bronze-laced African American History and Culture museum. The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, about the same story. Soon, President Donald Trump may decide to cut down the cherry blossoms that soften the ...

Trump is right to want open sea lanes

Is it worth it to the United States to enforce freedom of navigation on the seas? That question was a subplot in the instantly famous leaked Signal chat over an operation to hit Houthi targets in Yemen. Vice President J.D. Vance expressed skepticism, noting that more European than U.S. trade passes through the Suez Canal. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and National Security Adviser Michael Waltz, on the other hand, were strongly in favor. Hegseth correctly called freedom of navigation “a core national interest.” Open sea lanes are necessary to U.S. commercial shipping and ...

Caterwauling over a Kennedy Center coup

Our media elites love to tout themselves as “independent” and “fact-based.” But on almost any story on Donald Trump, they can’t help but put those words in the shredder. The Kennedy Center illustrates one major difference between the two Trump terms. In the first term, the president deferred to the leftists who gave all the Kennedy Center Honors in 2017 to Democrats and Trump haters. He chose not to attend the ceremony so no honoree would refuse to attend and then hail themselves as “brave.” It was atypically polite and deferential, and Trump received zero credit. In ...

Women are not incubators for the state

U.S. President Donald Trump just wrapped up Women’s History Month by crowning himself the “Fertilization President.” The claim is almost as unsettling as the time a guy at a soiree here in France casually mentioned that under Vichy France’s Nazi rule, I would have been forced to reproduce — with him. Both of these comments are creepy for the same reason: they imply that a woman’s body is some kind of national asset - like an oil reserve. Women’s parents never handed them over to the state at birth. Nor did we slide down some kind of government managed toll-road and out ...