Everyone knows about the transformation of Che Guevara from a murderous Marxist militant into a T-shirt icon. In recent years, Western elites did something similar to political movements from the Left and the Right, only on a much grander scale.…
Why Trump turned on the unions
On Tuesday, Donald Trump ousted two of the strongest union advocates at the National Labor Relations Board: board member Gwynne Wilcox and general counsel Jennifer Abruzzo. While the firing of Abruzzo is par for the course with the arrival of …
Can middle-aged white guys save the Dems?
It wasn’t long ago that the Democratic Party gloated about its deep bench of rising stars. Between the blue wave of the 2018 midterms and Kamala Harris’s selection as the party’s 2024 presidential nominee, ardent Democrats were confident that their …
Trump stole tariffs from the Democrats
Recent speculation that Donald Trump’s billionaire cabinet would lead to a more orthodox consensus on global trade came to halt earlier this week, when Trump promised new tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China. Though eager to be in Trump’s good …
Will Bidenism outlive Biden?
“We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals, we now know that it is bad economics,” said Franklin D. Roosevelt at the height of the Great Depression. It is a lesson that President Joe Biden has taken to …
How will Ukraine rebuild?
One lonely road cuts through the Azerbaijani town of Fuzuli. On one side, a cluster of decaying, vacant houses sit in a dip in the landscape, the remains of the original settlement. Three decades ago, it was home to around …