The Economy Is Humming Along Nicely

Jim Geraghty

Making the click-through worthwhile: Good news on both job creation and wages, why Congressman Joseph Kennedy III brings too much family baggage to the cultural moment, good reviews for the president’s speech, and a universally-familiar look of confusion.

Can You Stand Some More Good Economic News?

Take your pick, do you prefer good news about job creation. . .

The new year got off to a strong start for job creation, with businesses adding 234,000 [jobs] in January, according to a report Wednesday from ADP and Moody's Analytics.

Economists surveyed by Reuters had been looking for private payrolls to grow by 185,000.

Job creation was concentrated largely in service-related industries, which contributed 212,000 to the total.

However, within that sector some of the better-paying industries showed solid gains: Trade, transportation, and utilities led with 51,000, education and health services added 47,000 and professional and businesses services ...

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Keep Saying ‘Chain Migration’

Graham Hillard

Language matters. One can make a solid case, for instance, that the battle over the legal and cultural status of same-sex relationships ended the very moment some political consultant — surely a...

Trump and the State of the Union

Conrad Black

Trump and the State of the Union

29 and Euthanized: Dark News from the Netherlands

Andrew T. Walker

Recent news from the Netherlands illustrates how its euthanasia regime is among the world’s most permissive. It shows no signs of slowing down. Aurelia Browers, a 29-year-old mentally ill woman,...

Democrats Are Stuck in an Immigration-Maximalist Mode

Philip H. DeVoe

Last week, after Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer ended the 69-hour government shutdown with nothing to show for it, his irate constituents flooded the sidewalk across from his Brooklyn...

2018 Is a Great Time to Be Alive

Ben Shapiro

One of the more tiresome lines we hear over and over from our politicians is this: The world is worse today than it was yesterday. The rich are getting richer while the poor get poorer. A dollar...

Government Cannot Solve Every Societal Problem

Michael Tanner

The Western world can breathe easy. British prime minister Theresa May has solved one of the great crises of our time: She has appointed a Minister of Loneliness. Tracey Crouch, who is currently...

Northern Armageddon: The Battle of the Plains of Abraham and the Making of the American Revolution

D. Peter MacLeod

"Definitive . . . superb in its combination of individual perspective and strategic narrative . . . This book tells us – brilliantly – both how the battle was fought, and what it meant."
- Eliot A. Cohen, author of Conquered into Liberty: Two Centuries of Battles Along the Great Warpath that Made the American Way of War

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