Is America a Roaring Giant or Crying Baby?
Post-virus America can awake from this epidemic and economic shutdown in one of two different ways.
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A Stranger Among Us
Welcome to Part Nineteen of our current Tale for Our Time, my serialization of Daniel Defoe's category-smashing mélange of journalistic detail and literary imagination set against the Great Plague of London in 1665. If you've a chum who's a fan of classic fiction in audio form, don't forget our Mark Steyn...
It’s the President’s Prerogative to Name a COVID-19 Spending Watchdog He Trusts
And now, the latest melodrama: Media shrieking over President Trump’s removal of an Obama holdover who had been designated to be the inspector general overseeing the gargantuan spending authorized by the coronavirus relief legislation.
That official, Glenn Fine, a longtime Democratic favorite, is currently working in the Defense Department’s Office of Inspector General.
The $2 trillion bill signed by the president in March creates an $80 million fiefdom known as the Pandemic Response Accountability Committee. The PRAC will...
There’s Always Time for Identity Politics
On “blackfishing” and outrage.
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What Will Post-Pandemic GOP Politics Look Like?
It’s too early to tell for sure, but we can already make out the faint contours of a new political landscape.
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