We Are Americans
The Lecture Was Paid For by the Market He Denounces
WASHINGTON — Bernard Sanders has spent a lifetime calling himself a socialist and calling capitalism a danger to the working class. The market paid him anyway. That is…
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The COVID Conglomerate Still Has Its Hand on the Register
WASHINGTON — They did not need a smoke-filled room this month. They needed a calendar. Six weeks from a midterm, the price of a gallon, a steak, a…
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The Global Dilution of Liberty — and the Americans Who Cheer It
WASHINGTON — The European Union did not conquer the West with tanks. It conquered it with paper: a Pact on Migration and Asylum that went live in June…
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How Far Would They Go to Stop the Bills?
WASHINGTON — The question is no longer theoretical. How far would a corporate-conglomerate state go to keep a president from signing the bills that cut its wires? Far…
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Oil Does Not “Discover” a Price Overnight. Someone Sets the Valve.
WASHINGTON — Tell the working man the pump jumped because “supply changed.” Then ask him what warehouse emptied in twenty-four hours. Nothing did. The barrels did not vanish.…
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They Tried the Crucible. He Walked Out of It.
WASHINGTON — They measured him for a cell and a coffin. He is still standing in the arena. Two shots in the open air. Lawfare stacked like cordwood.…
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This Country Is Not a Costume It Is Your Inheritance
WASHINGTON — This morning the president posted a film of the country he is trying to hand back: the Monument in winter, the car with both numbers on…
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King Obama Never Left. He Changed the Title.
WASHINGTON — Most presidents go home. Woodrow Wilson stayed because he was dying. Barack Obama stayed because the work was not finished. In 2017 the family took a…
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UN Wants the Keys America Should Keep Them
WASHINGTON — The same week Bernie Sanders and the DSA caucus demanded a lock on American AI, António Guterres walked to a microphone in New York and offered…
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Your Tax Your Bill Their Payday: How Power Plants Became a Cash-and-Activism Machine
WASHINGTON — Bureaucracies did not “save the grid.” They turned the power plant into a two-sided cash register. One side pays the plant to stay open, or to…
