No, Raising the Age of Gun Ownership Won't Stop School Shootings
Those who insist on trying to raise the age to buy a gun to 21 are almost certainly coming from a good place. But their efforts are worse than useless.
Biden Is Blaming Everyone for Inflation but Himself
It's a disgraceful dereliction of duty—and the American people shouldn't stand for it, not least because it means inflation won't be mitigated.
Why Is Biden Extending a Taxpayer Bailout to Doctors and Lawyers?
The laptop class's vacation from personal responsibility ought to have ended long ago.
Colleges Shutting Down for Spring Semester are Betraying Students
It's hard to overstate the harm caused by sending students home to pantomime their college experience behind a laptop screen.
Congratulations, Democrats: You Just Passed a Massive Tax Cut for the Rich
Democrats are apparently okay with tax cuts for the rich when it's rich constituents from their home states.
Lockdowns Benefited the Elites. America Is Still Paying the Price.
Dozens of studies have since shown little to no correlation between lockdown stringency and containing the spread of COVID-19.
Democrats Are Infected By a Virus, but it's not COVID—It's Fear
Despite all this cause for optimism, another malady continues to plague too many of our peers: unjustified fear and hysteria.
Conservatives Owe Kamala Harris a Huge Apology
I'm a regular and vociferous critic of the Biden administration and progressive policy more broadly. But that criticism should always be fact-based, and many conservatives, myself among them, recently promoted an attack against Harris that has proven objectively false.
Biden Wants to Make Community College Free. It's a Terrible Idea.
Nobel prize-winning economist Milton Friedman famously quipped that there's no such thing as a free lunch. Someone should let President Biden in on this bit of wisdom.
There's a Way to Reduce Mass Shootings That Left and Right Can Agree On
Two tragic mass shootings in the last week, first in Atlanta, Georgia then in Boulder, Colorado, have shocked the nation—and forced us into our familiar partisan camps in the same debate over gun control.
We're Sacrificing Children's Lives to Endless Lockdown
We now know that lockdowns and pandemic restrictions have more than just severe economic repercussions; they've led to very real and often deadly second- and third-order unintended consequences that jeopardize public health and constitute an emergency in their own right.
Democrats Are Wrong: A $15 Minimum Wage Will Hurt the Marginalized
Good intentions don't change the fact that, if successful, the Fight for $15's biggest casualty would be the marginalized workers its champions are supposed to care about.