Is America ‘bored with winning’?
If you enjoy mawkish, politician-sponsored spectacles, boy, was this your week. We'll start with the first to grace our nation's weary eyes: On Tuesday, embattled Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis...
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Escaping that D.C. state of mind
Several months ago, I floated the idea of a fellowship program in which average Americans would board a bus, ride to Washington, D.C., and sit at a fancy bar for...
Planned Parenthood’s explanations blur the evil
Last Saturday, thousands of Americans turned out to protest Planned Parenthood, spurred by a series of videos showing high-level representatives from the organization — and many of its partners —...
The summer of our discontent
As the dog days of summer wind down, it's fun, at least in a self-flagellating way, to look back at the political antics of the past month. Yes, you may...
Ladies, beware: Most feminists aren’t on your side
In case you missed it, this month's Vanity Fair features a impressively bleak and depressing article, with a title worth a thousand Internet clicks: "Tinder and the Dawn of the...
Cecil the lion and America’s broken outrage meter
One of the joys of the digital age, at least to many, is the thrill of discovering a new World's Most Despicable Person. You know the drill: First, some poor...
Planned Parenthood and the statist abyss
A sickening undercover 2014 video blew up the Internet Tuesday, and for good reason: Dr. Deborah Nucatola, Planned Parenthood's senior director of medical services, was caught on camera yukking it...
Do you need Andrew Cuomo writing sex rules for you?
Over the past few years, American power brokers have developed a charming tendency to obsess over favored topics (putting "diversity training" at the top of the federal Office of Personnel...
Why the culture wars refuse to die
Regardless of what you think about last week's Supreme Court decision on gay marriage, you have to admire the raw capitalistic pluck of the dozens of American corporations that decided,...
Charleston’s quieter lessons
Last week, America woke up to the horrifying news of a massacre in a historic black church in Charleston, S.C., Dylann Roof, a 21-year-old devout racist, allegedly walked into a...