A lot of the most important lessons in my life came from immigrants to the United States. People from Kenya, India, Honduras, Russia, Mexico, Spain, Algeria and France. This isn’t a surprise to an economist. The theory of comparative advantage — the idea that we’re better off when we ...
Reality limits propaganda. One of the most famous and influential propagandists of all times, Dr. Joseph Goebbels, learned this important fact in the winter of 1944-45 when he tried to explain to the German people how the invincible Nazi armies could be winning victory after victory while they ...
It's not that I don't remember my father complaining. Because, oh, he did plenty of that. He complained about how there were too many lights on in the house, how we hadn't eaten all our food, how the door was still open or how we'd turned the heat up too high. He complained that our grades ...
"How'm I doin'?" the late New York Mayor Ed Koch used to ask constituents on his travels through the city. President Donald Trump, in the opinion of most Americans, is doin' pretty well. His job approval, which jutted downward after he announced his "Liberation Day" tariffs on April 2, has ...
The deployment of California National Guard troops and active-duty U.S. Marines onto the streets of Los Angeles is an assault on federalism, violates federal law and manifests a dangerous pattern of governmental behavior in defiance of constitutional principles and the rule of law. None of ...
WASHINGTON — The script for how big media outlets cover left-wing riots never changes. Progressive protests destroy blue cities. Then cable news anchors inform viewers that protests that have brought chaos and destruction started out peacefully. Yes, there is a pattern to progressive ...
