California has spent years telling the rest of the country what good governance looks like. Now it is showing everyone what happens when voters refuse to accept change, no matter the results. The lesson is simple: In a state that is this committed to a particular ideological philosophy, failure is not grounds for reconsideration. It […]

The Democratic establishment is finally fighting back against the socialist takeover of the party that has been the biggest takeaway from this year’s primaries so far. Time will tell whether this resistance is too little, too late. Democratic leaders are circling the wagons around Rep. Haley Stevens (D-MI) against her left-wing opponent, Abdul el Sayed, […]

I learned to read through turning the pages of the New Yorker. It was the cartoons and ads that hooked me, but after I grew fascinated by silent films, I always looked in the back of the magazine for its pages of faraway weekly screenings, my head full of dreams.  Sixty years on, I remember that […]

There may not be a memorandum of understanding that is so misunderstood and forgotten so quickly as the one the United States signed with Iran on June 17. It began unraveling less than a month later. The U.S. on July 11 relaunched at full scale strikes on Iranian targets, resuming the war it began alongside […]