Politics has increasingly become, for many Americans, the leisure of the theory class. That's a phrase from the early 20th century sociologist Thorstein Veblen, which I turned on its head in a recent column. He was condemning the showy consumerism of the contemporary rich for having no ...
Donald Trump implicitly endorsed a half-baked conspiracy theory for why his candidates lost in the Georgia Republican primaries, and it created barely a ripple in the political world. The man who shocked and outraged his way through four transfixing years as president of the United States has ...
Attention readers: Erick Erickson is off this week. Please enjoy the following column by Terence P. Jeffrey. John Adams, who would soon surrender the presidency to Thomas Jefferson, ventured up to Capitol Hill on Nov. 22, 1800, to deliver the first-ever in-person presidential address in the ...
Another hurricane season begins after two of the most devastating seasons in recent memory, particularly for my home state of Louisiana. On a recent trip back, as my flight descended into the New Orleans airport, I saw countless homes with blue tarps covering their roofs nine months after ...
The 2022 hurricane season will be above normal, according to forecasts from Colorado State University’s Phil Klotzbach, the respected student of Bill Gray, who started long-range hurricane forecasts decades ago. This should be headline news, right? Actually, within some pretty broad limits ...
As the ground war in Ukraine’s Donbas region likely bogs down into a contest of prolonged attrition, access to the Black Sea will be key to which belligerent outlasts the other. Before the Russian invasion, more than 70 percent of Ukraine’s exports left via its ports. So eventually lifting ...
