The Education Department’s one child policy

James Ellroy is one of the great American authors of the last 50 years, and yet, it is easy to dismiss his literary achievement. If you were to pick up his latest novel, Red Sheet, and turn to a random page, you’re likely to encounter such terse fragments as, “It was a sex-slash job. Cuts, […]

It’s hard to keep a good man down, but it’s even harder to keep a bad man out. Hunter Biden is back. Best known as an influence-peddler, crackhead, whoremonger, struggling artist, and innocent man who got a presidential pardon from his father, the prodigal son and former first son reappeared on X, formerly Twitter, in […]

Crazy is, admittedly, a bit of a pejorative term. But as a new study published by Political Behavior shows, not only have the negative connotations attached to mental health conditions fallen as the prevalence of mental illness risen, but an increasingly large percentage of Americans use mental health as a source of political identity, particularly […]

A cage fight on the South Lawn may be an unusual choice to celebrate the Founding. But it is a mirror of our political moment.