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Don’t cut corners to ease the cost of mortgage lending

From 1940 to 1960, the rate of homeownership in America grew from 44% to 62% — a dramatic change in how Americans went about...

Trump repackages Obama’s Iran surrender and takes Americans for fools

When President Donald Trump accepted the April 2026 ceasefire, I knew he had committed the gravest political blunder of his career. America and Israel...

This is an energy shock, not an overheated economy

The Federal Reserve faces a simple challenge at its June meeting: Do not mistake an energy shock for an overheated economy. For much of the...

Citizenship is not a souvenir: Why Ho is the wrong justice for this moment

American citizenship is a sacred bond between an individual and a nation, and not to be confused with a souvenir collected during a temporary visitor or...

Trump’s G7 moment: End America’s dependence on forced labor supply chains

The critical minerals powering the U.S.’s defense systems, semiconductors, and electric vehicles are being extracted by forced labor. As the world’s democracies gather for...

Iran’s internet is back, until it isn’t 

Iran’s internet access has partially returned after nearly 90 days, the longest blackout in the country’s history. Yet authorities continue to throttle the available...

The Platner problem: What went wrong in Maine?

Elections are akin to horse races. Like a bettor with a large bankroll, a political party has a vested interest in backing the right...

The day the Chernobyl Museum burned

The first sound At 5 a.m. on May 24, employees at Kyiv’s Chernobyl Museum heard the thud of what was almost certainly an Iskander missile. In...

A narrator speaking to his dead beloved

“Amor mi mosse, che mi fa parlare” (“Love moved me, which makes me speak”). So declares Virgil to Dante at the outset of The...

Crooks and communists in James Ellroy’s latest epic

James Ellroy is one of the great American authors of the last 50 years, and yet, it is easy to dismiss his literary achievement....
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