[ad_1] General Ulysses S. Grant in his headquarters at Cold Harbor, Va., June 1864. (Library of Congress) He was a great man, if flawed. He was a humble man who needed great events to uncover his strengths. Conservatives have divided on whether we ought to defend the monuments of the Confederacy (which, in a better

[ad_1] A steel worker returns to work at the U.S. Steel Granite City Works in Granite City, Ill., May 24, 2018. (Lawrence Bryant/Reuters) The quixotic quest to improve productivity growth NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE T he United States has been worrying about productivity for the whole of my life, and for the whole of my life,

[ad_1] Attorney General William Barr speaks during a roundtable at the White House in Washington, D.C., June 15, 2020. (Leah Millis/Reuters) Democrats weave a scandal out of an overdue personnel move. On Saturday evening, I posted an extensive column on the homepage, exploring this weekend’s contretemps between Attorney General William Barr and Geoffrey Berman, the

[ad_1] Dr. Anthony Fauci testifies during a hearing on the Trump Administration’s pandemic in Washington, D.C., June 23, 2020. (Kevin Dietsch/Reuters) Dr. Anthony Fauci, chief medical advisor for the Trump administration’s coronavirus task force, said Tuesday that he is “cautiously optimistic” that a vaccine for the coronavirus will be available to the American public by

[ad_1] A security guard walks in front of an image of the Federal Reserve in Washington, D.C., March 16, 2016. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) The downside of low interest rates is hard to see, but dangerous nonetheless. It is difficult to argue for sound money and price discovery these days. Even occasional Fed critics like myself have

[ad_1] First: We are suffering a sky-high unemployment rate right now. It is not crazy to think we shouldn’t be bringing in foreign labor when so many Americans are out of work. This point applies especially strongly during the months when the problem is most severe, and to the regions and sectors most affected. Second:

[ad_1] In September 2019, federal district judge Ketanji Brown Jackson issued a 122-page opinion, with an elaborate table of contents, in support of her preliminary injunction (in Make the Road New York v. McAleenan) barring the Department of Homeland Security from enforcing its decision expanding the reach of its expedited-removal process to the statutory limit.

[ad_1] President Trump speaks during a roundtable at the White House in Washington, D.C., June 8, 2020. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) American big tech firms condemned the Trump administration’s decision to extend a pause on high-skilled H-1B visas, which are primarily used in the industry, warning that it “puts American’s global competitiveness at risk.” The new restrictions,

[ad_1] (File photo: Fabrizio Bensch/Reuters) A British group that’s a darling of Communist China threatens a lawsuit. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE T he release of a forthcoming book on the Chinese Communist Party’s influence in Western democracies was put on hold in Canada last week following a British trade association’s threat to sue for what it

[ad_1] Human destructiveness is not a problem to be solved; it is a problem to be managed. Welcome to “The Tuesday,” a weekly newsletter about politics, culture, language, and more. To subscribe to “The Tuesday,” and get it in your in-box follow this link. And now . . . After the Police The recent run

[ad_1] Hundreds of people line up outside a Kentucky Career Center hoping to find assistance with their unemployment claim in Frankfort, Ky. June 18, 2020. (Bryan Woolston/Reuters) V? W? U? L? As economists try to forecast what the economic recovery might look like after the lockdowns finally draw to a close, a more recent contender

[ad_1] 1. New York Times: ‘They Just Dumped Him Like Trash’: Nursing Homes Evict Vulnerable Residents  I have a feeling there’s a cultural piece to this “dumping people like trash” business.#ResistThrowawayCulture https://t.co/3ezOXHj1at — Charlie Camosy (@CCamosy) June 21, 2020 2. Distressing poll on assisted suicide/euthanasia 3. Timothy Keller: The Sin of Racism 4. Doctors are

[ad_1] Comedian Dave Chappelle greets the audience at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., October 27, 2019. (Yuri Gripas) A famously truth-telling comedian promotes a false narrative about police killings. ‘Trayvon Martin,” says Dave Chappelle, “was murdered by George Zimmerman.” No, he wasn’t. Taking exception to the points made by a standup comic can be

[ad_1] Protesters flee as they loot a store after marching against the death George Floyd in New York, N.Y., June 1, 2020. (Eduardo Munoz/Reuters) Just five out of the 125 Bronx stores that were looted on June 1 during the unrest that followed George Floyd’s death had been approved for city aid as of Monday.

[ad_1] President Trump taps his phone screen during a roundtable discussion at the White House in Washington, D.C., June 18, 2020. (Leah Millis/Reuters) Twitter will not label President Trump’s renewed claims that the 2020 election “will be the most RIGGED Election in our nations history” due to mass vote-by-mail, despite fact-checking the president last month

[ad_1] Senator Tim Scott (R., S.C.) speaks about his new police reform bill during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., June 17, 2020. (Yuri Gripas/Reuters) It’s better than the Democrats’ proposal, but it goes too far on neck restraints and not far enough on no-knock warrants, and it fails to address qualified-immunity

[ad_1] Protesters walk towards the statue of Francis Scott Key at the Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, Calif., June 19, 2020. (David Zandman/via Reuters) The mob who toppled monuments to Junipero Serra, Francis Scott Key, and Ulysses S. Grant would compress past, present, and future into the almighty now. It is pointless to observe

[ad_1] Sheriff car in Sheboygan County, Wisconsin. (Image via Sheboygan County website) Riding along on patrol, one gets a unique perspective on the tedious, difficult job cops do. Three years ago, I had the opportunity to join my dad — an officer with a midwestern police department — on a ride-along, spending a day with

[ad_1] Close up of a USA visa stamp. (Getty Images) There’s a straightforward way to improve the policies we use to engage foreign talent. The COVID-19 pandemic has renewed concerns about the fairness of America’s immigration system. Some of the industries hit hardest by the virus put immigrants at elevated risk of infection and, as

[ad_1] President Donald Trump speaks during his first re-election campaign rally in several months in the midst of the coronavirus outbreak, at the BOK Center in Tulsa, Okla., June 20, 2020. (Leah Millis/Reuters) President Trump will extend visa restrictions on some foreign workers until the end of this year, Politico reported on Monday. Trump implemented a

[ad_1] Attorney General William Barr in the East Room of the White House in Washington, April 1, 2019 (Yuri Gripas/Reuters) Executing child murderers does not make Bill Barr any less pro-life. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE C atholics, says Attorney General William Barr, “understand that only by transforming ourselves can we transform the world beyond ourselves.” Saccharine?

[ad_1] Protest signs at the Confederate Monument at Stone Mountain Park in Stone Mountain, Ga., June 16, 2020. (Dustin Chambers/Reuters) Kyle has written a fantastically well-done (of course) piece in response to my column arguing against Confederate statues. I’d make a couple of points in reply. Kyle implies that I think if we ditch a

[ad_1] (Pixabay) France rediscovers free speech as the United States abandons it. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE I n the United States, the Purge is well under way. How ridiculous is it? Equity Prime Mortgage, a lender in Georgia, has just canned its human-resources director because her stepson is Garrett Rolfe, a former policeman charged with murder

[ad_1] U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Geoffrey Berman speaks as he announces insider trading charges against Rep. Christopher Collins during a news conference in New York, August 8, 2018. (Mike Segar/Reuters) In a Friday night fray, AG Barr announced that Geoffrey Berman had “stepped down.” When Berman defiantly refused to go,

[ad_1] Retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens departs the funeral of Supreme Court Associate Justice Antonin Scalia at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, February 20, 2016. (Carlos Barria/Reuters) 2002—In Atkins v. Virginia, the Court, in an opinion by Justice Stevens (for a majority of six justices), relies

[ad_1] President Donald Trump delivers a statement in the Rose Garden at the White House on the ongoing protests over the death of George Floyd, June 1, 2020. (Tom Brenner/Reuters) If we think the 2016 playbook is going to win the 2020 game, Joe Biden will make it to the Oval Office without ever having

[ad_1] Whether or not inflation is on the way was one of the key economic debates of the coronavirus spring and, doubtless, we will still be arguing about it in the fall. A note in Grant’s Almost Daily earlier this week drew me to these comments by Charles Goodhart and Manoj Pradhan, published on Vox’s

[ad_1] Dan Roberts inspects his corn crops during the harvest in Minooka, Ill., in 2014. (Jim Young/Reuters) China will increase its purchases of U.S. agricultural products following secret talks between the two nations held in Hawaii, Bloomberg reported on Friday. China is a vital market for American soybeans, corn, ethanol, meat, and other agricultural products.

[ad_1] A protest sign is held up in front of the Confederate Monument carved into granite at Stone Mountain Park in Stone Mountain, Ga., June 16, 2020. (Dustin Chambers/Reuters) We should confront our collective past rather than sweep it under the rug. If you’ve ever seen the Stone Mountain carving of Robert E. Lee, Jefferson

[ad_1] Demonstrators gather during a protest to mark Juneteenth, which commemorates the end of slavery in Texas, amid nationwide protests against racial inequality, in Washington, D.C., June 19, 2020. (Erin Scott/Reuters) If the momentum behind policing reform is channeled responsibly, as it was in previous civil-rights struggles, then Americans will support it. On the 19th