If you had to identify a nadir for the European Union, it would probably be the late summer of 2015. In those heady days, vast flows of people — some refugees, some migrants — streamed across Anatolia and the Mediterranean for the Continent, intent on reaching the prosperous economies of its north and west, bolstered by Angela Merkel’s throwing open the doors to all who would come.
For Europe’s leaders, priding themselves on European values — primary among them the prevention of atrocity within their territory — it was more than an embarrassing affair: It cut at the heart of the European project itself ...
If you had to identify a nadir for the European Union, it would probably be the late summer of 2015. In those heady days, vast flows of people — some refugees, some migrants — streamed across Anatolia and the Mediterranean for the Continent, intent on reaching the prosperous economies of its north and west, bolstered by...
Republican senators Ted Cruz (Texas) and Mike Lee (Utah) have found a new cure for the GOP’s legislative dysfunction on Obamacare. They both have waved their pro-market pitchforks, early and...
I want to state a simple, obvious truth: The War on Drugs is not real. It does not exist, not for millions of Americans.
Sometimes I doubt myself on this point. One hears things, after all....
Ten years and a few months ago, I met Bill Buckley when he invited me to his home. It was just a few weeks after his wife, Patricia, had died, in May 2007. We talked about Ron Paul and Murray...
The four judges assigned to the United States District Court for the District of Hawaii — three if you exclude a currently vacant seat — have jurisdiction over less than one half of one percent...
Europe is aging. Its fertility and mortality rates are decreasing as its life expectancies increase. In Germany, the median age is almost 47; in Italy, 45; in Austria and Greece, 44. By 2030, it...
If you’re going to create nasty memes to get attention, demand that people give you credit for those memes, and celebrate when the president of the United States shares one with his roughly 33...
