The Samuel Alito Nomination -- Twenty Years Later
A judicial appointment that began the Supreme Court's transformation
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A judicial appointment that began the Supreme Court's transformation
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State of the Union: The move comes hours after the Supreme Court struck down sweeping tariffs introduced last year. The post Trump Imposes 10% Global Tariff, Says He’ll Raise to 15% appeared first on The American Conservative
Time to end the new Gilded Age. The way we did the last one
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party claims victory in the country’s first parliamentary elections since its 2024 Generation Z-led uprising
The historian Ruth Ben-Ghiat on Donald Trump and “autocratic backfire.”
I retired from the University of Notre Dame at the end of 2025. More accurately, I left. After twenty years on the faculty, I could no longer do Notre. The post Why I’m Done with Notre Dame appeared first on First Things
The cliché holds that China plans in decades while America plans in election cycles. Increasingly, though, our thinking seems to stop even sooner—around the length of a crop cycle. Not as an agricultural policy, but as a governing instinct. Soybeans are a solid proxy for how the United States deals with China: small, transactional, immediately […] The post Don’t Trade Away America for Some Soybeans appeared first on The American Conservative