Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is both radical and unqualified to be president. But she still has a clear path to winning the Democratic presidential nomination. On Tuesday, Socialist Zohran Mamdani was expected to become the next mayor of New York City. He wants a rent freeze, city-owned ...
Listening Editor: Many years ago, I had a falling-out with a church friend over something in an organization to which we belonged. All summer I had been listening to others in the organization who were reinforcing my position, so I was very certain that my opinion was the right one. On a Sunday morning, our minister preached on the importance of reconciliation with our neighbors. After the service, I approached my friend and suggested we talk, and we agreed to take a walk together that afternoon. At lunch, when I told my husband that I would give this friend a piece of my mind, he ...
Who said this? "If you don't have any borders, you don't have a nation." The speaker went on, "Trump did a better job. I don't like Trump, but we should have a secure border. It ain't that hard to do. Biden didn't do it." It was Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) in characteristic candor. If, as ...
"Why Can't a Woman Be More Like a Man?" — Henry Higgins Those are the words librettist Alan Jay Lerner penned for the fictional professor Henry Higgins in the 1956 musical "My Fair Lady," and honestly, it could have been the title of Helen Andrews' much-discussed recent essay in Compact. ...
Standing in the restored longleaf pine forest of the Nokuse Preserve in northwest Florida, I learned that it borders Eglin Air Force Base. At first glance it felt insignificant, but I soon understood that their close proximity was strategic and collaborative. In the middle of a government ...
Last month, Kamala Harris made the rounds of supportive liberal networks to promote her campaign book "107 Days." The title implied it was impossible for her to beat that allegedly despised dictator Donald Trump with so little time. No one expected much of the interviewers, starting with ...
