Donald Trump is attacking what made American universities great
The conservative counter-revolution began with a secret memo, at least as the tale is often told on America’s political left,...
How Donald Trump is shaping other countries’ politics
THE PRESIDENT’S ability to bend reality is a political superpower. Before last year’s election, our YouGov polling showed tha...
Is it ever right to pay disabled workers pennies per hour?
IN A SMALL building on Hi Hope Lane, Jeffrey Pennington sits at a desk packing ten-piece sets of zip ties. A diagram on a pie...
How (and why) J.D. Vance does it
The safe choice for vice-president was not J.D. Vance. He arrived on Donald Trump’s presidential ticket with little political...
The Trump train slows
THESE DAYS are dire and dour for Democrats. But April 1st brought a brief reprieve—and not because of jokes. That was the day...
Will Elon Musk’s cash splash pay off in Wisconsin?
TO GET A sense of what the Republican Party thinks of the electoral value of Elon Musk, listen to what Brad Schimel, a conser...
DOGE comes for the data wonks
FOR NEARLY three decades the federal government has painstakingly surveyed tens of thousands of Americans each year about the...
Texas troopers are in more and more lethal car chases
A RED CAR weaves in and out of traffic on a highway in El Paso, Texas. It’s June 2022 and Texas Department of Public Safety (...
Elon Musk is powersliding through the federal government
The United States Institute of Peace (usip) was established by Congress in 1984 to promote an end to conflict all over the wo...
The cover-up is worse than the group chat
Leave it to Vice-President J.D. Vance, the most media-savvy and self-assured of Donald Trump’s media-savvy, self-assured disc...