At the end of every year, journalists like to look back and see where our predictions held up or fell flat, what were the year’s biggest events, and just what the year, considered as a whole, really meant. As I started doing this for 2024 I was taken aback by just how many things happened.  […]

It may come as a surprise that there’s a movie musical that currently has more awards hype than Wicked. Emilia Pérez quietly landed on Netflix last month (and, a bit more loudly, film buffs on X) after making a huge splash at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Jury Prize and the […]

Every spring, millions of American married couples engage in a little-discussed administrative duty: filing joint taxes. Originating in 1948 when married women rarely worked outside the home, this seemingly innocuous tax policy has evolved into one of America’s most overlooked barriers to gender equality.  The gender gap in America’s labor market is driven by more […]

Democrats have lost ground with the working class for a simple reason: They became “globalist shills.” Under Bill Clinton’s leadership, the party enacted the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and normalized trade relations with China, policies that had devastating consequences for the American worker. Barack Obama had a chance to chart a different course, […]

Democrats will hold some of North Carolina’s highest offices, including the governorship, come January. But these incoming lawmakers will be less powerful than their predecessors, after the Republican-dominated legislature stripped away several of their duties this week. It isn’t the first time Republicans in North Carolina’s state legislature have shifted the balance of power away […]