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What Made America Great in the Gilded Age
“We were at our richest from 1870 to 1913. That’s when we were a tariff country,” said President Donald Trump recently, and he’s not wrong. But tariffs aren’t the whole story. The genius of the Gilded Age was interstate…
China Deserves the Trump Tariffs
This January, when President Joe Biden was serving his last weeks in office and turning over the presidency to Donald Trump, the United States ran a $31.7 billion trade deficit with China. That was the largest trade deficit…
Will the Baby Boomers Make America Go Bust?
In 1998, former NBC Nightly News anchor Tom Brokaw published a bestselling book about Americans who came of age during the Great Depression and World War II. He called it, and them, “The Greatest Generation.” He had good…
Trump Is Collapsing the Left’s Patronage Networks
President Donald Trump has launched a political counterrevolution in the early days of his second presidency. One of the most profound ways he’s doing this is by effectively cutting off the Left’s massive, government-funded…
‘Califailure’ Author Steve Hilton Explains California’s Collapse
Once the embodiment of the American dream, California has become a cautionary tale of failed policies and ideological excess, writes Steve Hilton, author of the new book, “Califailure: Reversing the Ruin of America’s…
Mario Enzler Remembers Serving St. Pope John Paul II
St. Pope John Paul II passed away 20 years ago this April 2. Serving him between 1989 and 2005, first as his bodyguard and then as an adviser to the Holy See, was such a privilege. It was such a grace to know the Holy Father…
Wokeness Finds New Life South of the Border
Mexico City—“Now,” Elon Musk responded this week on the social media site he bought two years ago and renamed X. What was this an answer to? This post by the evolutionary biologist Gad Saad: “What is it going to take for the…
President Trump’s Policy Strategy, Explained
President Donald Trump’s pace since returning to the White House has surprised the president’s friends, perhaps even more than his enemies. On the 66th day of his administration, Trump signed the 100th executive order of his…
The Party that Woke Broke
Democrats have been wallowing in the despair of last November’s elections for months, unable—or maybe unwilling—to crawl out of the pit of public opinion they find themselves in. “It’s hard to win if you don’t know why you…
Hearing Shows How NY Times Works in Tandem With NPR, PBS
Down in the basement of the Capitol on Wednesday, I witnessed in person an episode of government accountability that upset liberal journalists. That’s because it was conservatives holding leftist “public” media networks…