The Benefit of the Doubt Is Gone

Jonah Goldberg

Dear Reader (and high-quality persons everywhere),

Well, I jinxed it.

On Tuesday morning, I posted this mini-screed about how nobody knows anything about the Russia-collusion story, so the best course of action is to just wait for the facts to come in.

“Trust Nothing, Defend Nothing” was my advice.

(I wanted to turn this into a Latin slogan, but when I typed “Trust Nothing, Defend Nothing” into Google’s Latin translation thingamabob I got “Nihil confido, nihil pupillo defendite viduam.” This looked fishy to me so I translated that back into English and got: “I trust there is nothing, there is nothing, for the fatherless, plead for the widow.” ...

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Should Landlords Be Forced to Subsidize Others’ Speech?

Ethan Blevins

The city of Seattle has just embarked on an unprecedented experiment in campaign-finance reform that forces property owners, through a new property tax, to sponsor the campaign contributions of...

Feminist Geographers Warn Against Citing Too Many White Men in Scholarly Articles 

Katherine Timpf

Feminist Geographers Warn Against Citing Too Many White Men in Scholarly Articles 

The Senate Health-Care Bill Is a Step in the Right Direction

The Editors

Congressional Republicans should stop calling their health-care bills a repeal of Obamacare. The House bill is not one — it keeps Obamacare’s regulatory heart — and the Senate bill is even less...

Trump’s Admirable but Unlikely Goals on Immigration

Michael Brendan Dougherty

As Republicans in the Senate stumble and fumble with their long-promised but never seriously planned repeal of Obamacare, the Trump administration is starting to leak its plans for what counts...

Beauty Can Help Mosul Heal after ISIS’s Reign of Terror

Jeff Cimmino

Following a long, exhausting campaign, Iraqi forces successfully retook control of Mosul. The city was critical to ISIS’s territorial claims, and its loss severely weakens the terrorist group’s...

Imperialism by Family Planning

Elliot Kaufman

These days, Britain, France, and Canada would never think of imposing their values on the developing world. Instead, they push abortion and contraception. On Tuesday, the U.K. announced that...

How Progressives Rewrote the Constitution

Richard A. Epstein

'Just as we are being berated by his Chicago colleague Cass Sunstein for not completing FDR's social-democratic revolution...here comes Richard Epstein inviting us to wonder whether the New Deal enterprise and the Progressive movement that preceded it were not all a dreadful mistake.' - Charles Fried, Professor of Law, Harvard University, Former U.S. Solicitor General

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