As we commemorate Labor Day, many in the American working class are struggling with rising costs as wages have fallen below inflation. The Trump administration, economist Darrick Hamilton says, has engaged in "investment towards the wealthy while the rest of us suffer."
Rising prices and jobs eclipse the U.S. military presence as the top concern for voters heading into a closely contested gubernatorial election on Sept. 13.
An Amazon cargo jet overran the runway at Miami International Airport on Sunday, killing five people. Here’s what we know about the plane’s descent and crash.
Preventing future blowback requires a foreign policy of peace. The post Did Bin Laden Defeat America? appeared first on The American Conservative .
Foreign Affairs Foreign Affairs Did Bin Laden Defeat America? Preventing future blowback requires a foreign policy of peace. Photo by CNN via Getty Images On September 11, 2001, al Qaeda terrorists hijacked four planes. Two of these were flown into the Twin Towers, one into the Pentagon, and the fourth—en route to Washington, D.C.—crashed in a Pennsylvania field after its passengers heroically overpowered the hijackers. All told, 2,977 Americans were killed on that day. Shortly thereafter, the Bush administration would launch the invasion of Afghanistan and begin laying…Open
The same old revolutionary canards may find new purchase in a battered middle class. The post Democratic Stupidities of America appeared first on The American Conservative .
Takimag Takimag Democratic Stupidities of America The same old revolutionary canards may find new purchase in a battered middle class. TakiMag Photo by Selcuk Acar/Anadolu via Getty Images A friend of mine, Hans-Hermann Hoppe, wrote a seminal book on democracy some time ago called Democracy: The God That Failed. It is revisionist in nature, and reaches the conclusion that monarchy is a lesser evil than democracy. After my take last week on the British monarchy, I might not be the right person to comment on his views, but I do have an excuse. I only mentioned the…Open
With Americans across the country rebelling against thousands of AI enhanced surveillance cameras infiltrating their cities, a bipartisan group of lawmakers has proposed a bill prohibiting the funding of those cameras with taxpayer money. U.S. Reps. Thomas Massie, R