by Gene Policinski There may be no worse assault on our freedom of speech than a law that would permit the government to tell us to “shut […]
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‘Not the China of 1995’: Military escalation in the Taiwan Strait would be perilous
by Bonnie Kristian China’s live-fire military exercises in the waters near Taiwan, which began Thursday, are a worrisome escalation from Beijing. The People’s Liberation Army has gradually […]
Will GOP trigger even more violence?
by Jackie Calmes Wasn’t Jan. 6, 2021, proof enough for Rep. “My Kevin” McCarthy and other Republican officials that words matter? That anti-government rhetoric, echoes of Donald […]
Do you know what ‘fascist’ means?
by Nicholas Goldberg Americans know little history and what little they know they forget. That’s one reason we should be careful about throwing around historical allusions and […]
Nearly 87,000 new IRS employees
by Byron York You’ve probably heard Republicans say the Inflation Reduction Act — the massive spending bill just passed by Senate Democrats — includes provisions to hire […]
How Joe Manchin got his superpowers
by Nicholas Goldberg By what possible definition of democracy is it OK for Joe Manchin, a single senator elected with a mere 290,000 votes from the tiny […]
What happens when TikTok is your main source of news and information
by Sam Wineburg and Nadav Ziv On TikTok you’re liable to find restaurant recommendations, lip-syncing snippets and false claims stating that COVID-19 vaccines contain aborted fetal tissue […]
What an uprising in Kansas means for abortion in other red states
by Aisha Sultan The conservative “pro-life” movement managed to do something that abortion-rights activists have been trying to do for decades — they have destroyed the stigma […]
What we thought we knew is wrong
by David M. Shribman We are living a Brock Lovett moment. Brock Lovett? Reel your memory back a quarter century. Summon the most dramatic moment in the […]
Are missing texts hiding the biggest secret of Jan. 6?
by Will Bunch You’ve probably heard the expression that the cover-up is always worse than the crime — a notion that was cemented by the mother of […]
