We were the good guys. We can choose to be again.

I cannot imagine being a parent facing your worst possible pain and loss only to have the government smear him and slander him to countless millions of Americans. It's all so repugnant and vile that it's hard to process.

The Border Patrol’s killing of Alex Pretti in Minnesota sends a message that “masked federal agents can murder you in cold blood, simply because an American citizen exercising their Second Amendment rights scares them,” Tyler Austin Harper argues: theatlantic.com/culture/2026/0…

Rich Lowry Implicit here is a false binary where the only options are enforcing immigration law in the particular way the Trump administration is doing it, or nullifying it. Obviously, there are other options, like enforcing the law in a more prudent, less needlessly provocative, more

I don't get the joke, then. Is Sowell right about tariffs or isn't he?

This is absolutely expected. The facts in many of these cases are truly shocking, and juries were never going to be swayed by extreme and bespoke ideological justifications for drastic and permanently life-altering medical procedures.

It’s a measure of what damage Biden did to his party that the only response here to the WSJ story is “something something Biden” (and, yes, a diff in magnitude)

Racist. Deranged. Humiliating to our country. The fact that we have decided to pretend to this is normal every day is a moral abomination. Have we any shame? And every day an entire generation is being told it is “Christian” to support this. God have mercy on us.

Austin Ahlman

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has become the country’s preeminent funder of humanities research, Tyler Austin Harper writes. Is it saving American arts and letters—or killing them? theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/…

“People in your church have blocked one another on social media because of how life-or-death important a set of political opinions seems to be. But those who egg them on have not blocked each other.”

Interesting conceptual framework. It also applies to those of us who criticized the pandemic response and public health institutions during Covid. We saw existential social, economic, educational, and health harms from lockdowns and school closures, but were told to shut up and

In all seriousness, you could do worse as a symbol for U.S. democracy than the largemouth bass. It can be found in every farm pond, city park, remote lake, sprawling reservoir. It’s pursued by the very rich and very poor. By every color of American. It’s truly the people’s fish.

If you talk to admins at universities pushing AI, it’s clear what the game is about: outsourcing student services and support to bots, increasing faculty “efficiency” by giving profs “AI tools” to “empower” their grading (ultimately allowing higher student/faculty ratios), etc.

Men such as Eisenhower and Marshall weren’t excited about killing people. They weren’t giddy. They thought it was their grim duty, and they went about their business with full recognition of its awfulness, whatever the necessity of it. That’s how leaders ought to be, I think.

Doja Cat is taking back her criticism of Timothée Chalamet and says her outrage was "virtue signaling" and “I’ve never been to a ballet. I’ve never seen an opera." “I took it upon myself yesterday to kind of give it to the man because there is a culture based around outrage and

This is what I mean about the cross-ideological possibilities for a coalition against runaway gambling. From AOC to Paul Tonko to Spencer Cox to Ron Johnson—the growing outrage really is bipartisan.

In addition to phone-free schools, there seems to be one more area where left and right can agree: Pervasive frictionless heavily advertised gambling is a scourge. States that legalized it are harming their own citizens and especially their young adults.

I don’t think “running an actual food truck” should be a class at school. I would prefer if human teachers taught kids how to read and do math the normal way that has worked for 100 years.

Basically, yes!