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The ‘Boom Belt’ Is Quickly Becoming America’s Economic Iron Curtain
There is a particular kind of political argument that does not need to be made in words, because it is...
California’s $20 Fast-Food Wage Hike Delivers the Opposite of What Was Promised
University of California, Santa Cruz researchers documented a range of negative outcomes from the state’s $20 minimum wage for fast-food...
The Arithmetic of Apathy: What Happens if the World’s Oil Spigot Stays Dark
There is a particular kind of blindness that afflicts prosperous societies — the conviction that the machinery of modern life...
Mamdani’s ‘Racial Equity Plan’ Is Pure Discrimination Wrapped in Modernized Marxism
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani stood before cameras at Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn on Monday and unveiled what...
The New ‘Millionaire’s Tax’ in Washington Is Already Terrifying Productive Residents
Democrat politicians, especially in far-left cities like Seattle, view people as members of three different groups. There are the ATMs,...
What the Gargantuan March Jobs Miss Reveals About Wall Street’s Broken Crystal Ball
There is a peculiar ritual that plays out on the first Friday of every month in America. A constellation of...
California’s Quagmire of Fraud
A City Journal investigation reveals that fraudsters have stolen at least $180 billion from California taxpayers since Governor Gavin Newsom...
What the Staggering SpaceX IPO Exposes About American Capitalism
There is something almost poetic about the fact that the man who taught rockets to land themselves upright — an...
The South Didn’t Just Rise Again — It Took Wall Street With It
For generations, the conventional wisdom went something like this: serious money lives in New York. The serious decisions about who...
Mike Johnson Rejects Senate’s Weak Partial DHS Funding “Gambit” as Democrats Head Out on Vacation
The House of Representatives has formally rejected a Senate-passed funding measure that would have reopened most of the Department of...