Many have responded to the RAISE Act by praising its proposal to use a points system to select skilled immigrants but criticizing its overall reduction in annual immigration. Senator Marco Rubio said as much, as have the USA Today editorial board, Ross Douthat at the New York Times, and here at NR, Robert VerBruggen and Robert Cherry. As USA Today put it, “Curtail family reunification, but leave legal immigration limits alone.”
Presumably, this approach would abolish the visa lottery and the chain-migration categories, as the RAISE Act does, but simply transfer all those visas to the skills-based part of the program ...
Many have responded to the RAISE Act by praising its proposal to use a points system to select skilled immigrants but criticizing its overall reduction in annual immigration. Senator Marco Rubio said as much, as have the USA Today editorial board, Ross Douthat at the New York Times, and here at NR, Robert VerBruggen and...
Taxing inflationary capital gains is an unfair and misguided policy that punishes risk and success. The president should issue an executive order to index capital gains for inflation...
The size of our society’s chairs is now being considered a “microaggression” against overweight people, according to a guide released by The New School, a private college in New York City.
In...
Lieutenant General H. R. McMaster is a great American patriot. I have not had the privilege of meeting him. Friends I trust who know him well, however, bear witness to his unsurpassed valor in...
Yale’s determination to take a giant jar of Wite-Out to history has reached a new level of fatuousness.
This week the Yale Alumni Magazine reported that a stone carving of an Indian and a...
Some 3.5 million more people are registered to vote in the U.S. than are alive among America’s adult citizens. Such staggering inaccuracy is an engraved invitation to voter fraud.
The...
Editor’s Note: This piece wasoriginally published by Acculturated. It is reprinted here with permission.
A young blonde girl of 18 once joined a legion of women fighting for a cause,...
'“Dickie's absorbing history of the Italian mob makes The Godfather look like a fairy tale. . .These ‘men of honor' and ‘lads with attitude' created their own myths. Until Dickie's revelatory book, most believed them.' - Kirkus starred review
