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What is behind recent pessimistic appraisals of democracy’s future, from Hillary Clinton, Adam Schiff, Brian Williams and other elite intellectuals, media personalities, and politicians on the Left?

By George F. Will – washingtonpost.com – December 15, 2021 At the end of his year of Old Testament afflictions — the political equivalent of Job losing his camels and acquiring boils — President Biden might be muttering: Job was at least spared Sens. Joe Manchin III and Kyrsten Sinema. These Democrats, however, stand between him and the potentially worst of his self-inflicted wounds, the Build…

By: Henry Olsen – washingtonpost.com – December 16, 2021 Most pundits seem to be operating under the assumption that President Biden’s Build Back Better program will eventually become law. After all, it would be very unusual for a Congress controlled by the president’s party to reject his first major domestic proposal. But given developments in the past week, it might…

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Pay for your own education, slackers.

By: By Andrew A. Michta – wsj.com – December 14, 2021 The risk of confrontation between the U.S. and China is greater than it has been in decades, and a broader war, triggered by a Chinese action against Taiwan, is a possibility. In “Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap?” (2017), Graham Allison likened the situation to…

COVID-19 deaths are up. Politicians tell us to wear masks and get vaccinated.Amid the fear, I’m surprised that we haven’t heard more about two drugs that could make COVID-19 much less of a threat.

African-American NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace’s team reported that he had happened upon a noose in Wallace’s garage ahead of the GEICO 500 at Talladega Superspeedway in Alabama.

The Federal Reserve provided multiple indications Wednesday that its run of ultra-easy policy since the beginning of the Covid pandemic is coming to a close.

By Jill Filipovic – NYTimes.com – December 14, 2021 Often an abortion happens because a woman is pregnant when she didn’t intend to be. It is true that some women terminate wanted but doomed pregnancies and others face serious health complications. But if abortion opponents are serious about decreasing the need for abortion instead of simply punishing women and doctors,…

A new study from a Vienna-based watchdog organization suggests that anti-Christian hate crimes in Europe have increased by 70% between 2019 and 2020.