California now leads the nation in imposing dumb wage laws. The state just raised the hourly minimum wage for fast food workers to $20. Gov. Gavin Newsom said, "We saw the inequities. ... we had a responsibility to do more." Unions pushed for the higher minimum, and in Democrat-run states, ...
In a glass pavilion, the tables sparkled, set for 500 guests at the White House state dinner for Kenyan President William Ruto. A guest of Kenyan descent didn't stay for dinner, President Joe Biden announced. "One just left: Barack," Biden noted. Washington lore says former President Barack ...
The "Australian Ballot" is the ballot Americans know and trust. First used in Australia in 1856, the ballot is what we know as the secret ballot. Americans trust that they can go to the polls and privately vote and no one will find out who they voted for. States even prohibit people taking ...
Democratic Sen. John Fetterman made artful use of a common expletive to highlight Harvard's by-now well-known fecklessness in declining to address its antisemitism problem, a problem thoroughly marbled throughout its faculty, student body and university infrastructure. The problem burst into ...
If you want to explain to a puzzled, left-leaning writer like The Atlantic's Annie Lowrey why most voters this year rate the economy during former President Donald Trump's term more favorably than the economy during President Joe Biden's, you might start with a pair of simple charts. Lowrey ...
With Donald Trump’s hush money trial wrapping up soon, a key legal principle has come into focus: A conviction requires all 12 jurors to agree he’s guilty. The odds Trump can’t secure even a single hold-out juror may be low, even in heavily Democratic Manhattan. But if the jury does ...
