Current Events
Making Corporatism Great Again
President Trump has recently endorsed a policy that is arguably as socialist as anything proposed by New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani or Sen. Bernie Sanders — partial government ownership of private corporations. Earlier this year, as a condition of approving...
Worse Than Biden: Despite Surge in Tariff Revenue Trump Runs Massive July Deficit
Despite all the talk about spending cuts and rising revenues out of the Trump White House, the budget deficit is worse now than it was at the end of Biden’s term. Even with a big surge in tariff revenue, the Trump administration still ran a massive shortfall in July....
Trump Matches Biden’s Four-Year Airstrike Total in Just Five Months
In the runup to the presidential election, President Trump was widely viewed as the peace president. He campaigned on a promise to end U.S. involvement in military conflicts around the world. It hasn’t quite turned out that way. Through the first five months of...
A King in Camouflage
Last month, a headline stopped me cold: President Trump had mobilized the California National Guard over the objections of Governor Newsom – and then, federal Marines were being deployed to the streets of Los Angeles. I’ve lived through political theater...