Category: Opinion

There are many ways to measure the health of a country. One way is growth of gross domestic product. Another is economic productivity. But there’s a less conventional measure worth watching: Do the world’s most talented and ambitious people want to immigrate here? Throughout most of America’s history, the answer…

In life, we all know there are winners and losers—a reality that plays out in both our personal and professional journeys. For many of us, recovering from loss is a path to resilience, but when that loss involves moral injury, the journey becomes far more complex. Moral injury goes beyond…

Recent developments indicate that American manufacturing is under severe strain as Lockheed Martin, one of the world’s premier aerospace and defense manufacturers, has entered into a strategic partnership with General Motors (GM) to source weapons parts—a move signaling a turning point in U.S. industrial capacity. The decision to involve a…

By Alexandra York It became the “war cry” igniting the spark that led to America’s revolution against Great Britain. The 1764 Sugar Act, which imposed duties on sugar and molasses, was followed by the 1765 Stamp Act requiring official stamps on all printed materials—including newspapers—marking the beginning of the conflict….

New Jersey has become the first state to impose annual fees on employers for hiring workers enrolled in Medicaid. Under legislation signed by Governor Mikie Sherrill (D-N.J.) on June 30, companies with at least 50 employees must pay between $325 and $725 per worker or dependent covered under Medicaid. California…

By Stephen Moore on July 24, 2026 Recently, I took a daylong field trip to tour a giant data center near Dulles International Airport in Loudon County, Virginia. “The cloud” refers to the hardware that stores trillions of data files—research papers, love letters, the entirety of the Library of Congress,…

By Betsy McCaughey Friday, 24 July 2026 07:15 AM EDT Four New Yorkers have been killed by Legionella bacteria in the last week, tragedies that were preventable if the city had performed its core, lifesaving duty to monitor and inspect air conditioning cooling towers. But New York City Mayor Zohran…

The nation lost one of its most dedicated and clear-eyed defenders of freedom with the passing this week of James Woolsey at the age of 84. A Rhodes Scholar, lawyer, and public servant who held senior national security positions in both Republican and Democratic administrations, Woolsey embodied the best of…

By Michael Dorstewitz Thursday, July 23, 2026 New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill, a Democrat, announced this week that “roughly 6,600” non-citizens were added to her state’s voter rolls between June 2023 and June 2024. Sherrill attributed the error to a software issue with her state vendor. However, within hours of…

Critics of Justice Amy Coney Barrett have claimed she has failed to meet the high expectations conservatives have held for a conservative judge over decades. Some even suggested she might become like David Souter, a George H.W. Bush appointee to the U.S. Supreme Court who disappointed constitutionalists and conservatives alike….