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 ...

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. She ...

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 ...

The phrase about turning off the lights when one leaves someplace appears to have originated with two real estate agents in Seattle. It was 1971 and Boeing was laying off employees during an economic downturn. It was meant to be humorous, though the unemployed probably didn't see it that ...

In the aftermath of the murder of Charlie Kirk, many folks who dared to express views of him and his work outside the mainstream lost their jobs, professional standing and State Department visas as they were fired or otherwise disciplined by employers or bureaucrats who concluded that anti-Kirk ...