No, polio is not a threat to the vast majority of Americans. That’s because the vast majority has received a very effective polio vaccine. And that’s also why public officials should stop turning a concern centered on a few under-vaxxed communities into everyone’s problem. But Gov. Kathy Hochul did just that when she declared a […]

On his very first day in Congress – long before he began to preen as a potential presidential candidate – Ron DeSantis proved he was unfit for national office. The date was Jan. 4, 2013, and he cast his maiden vote on the House floor against $9.7 billion in federal flood insurance aid for victims […]

It’s a commonplace gripe in Trump world and aligned planets that “elites look down on me.” The elites are usually described as college-educated liberals living in big cities. The complainers are not always wrong, but they exaggerate how much their alleged “betters” are even thinking about them. When they do, they’re more likely scratching their […]

The Supreme Court, it turns out, is even less popular than the inflation-battered Joe Biden. By a 60-40 margin according to the latest Marquette University Law School poll, Americans disapprove of the Supreme Court. While the court isn’t responsible for interest rates, it is responsible for overruling a decision that was supported by the overwhelming […]

Authoritarians control their flock with flattery about their inborn goodness and fear-mongering about the outside forces threatening it. There’s an underlying laziness to all this. It frees the followers from thinking things through since the strongman is going to protect them. And it frees the strongman from winning them over with real improvements. Vladimir Putin […]