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Why hasn’t Trump repealed Biden’s backdoor tax?

The Trump administration took a well-deserved victory lap last week for repealing more than 100 Biden-era rules for every new regulation. This will save U.S. businesses potentially hundreds of billions of dollars of unnecessary costs. Gone are discriminatory racial preferences, Green New Deal mandates and electric vehicle mandates — to name a few. President Donald Trump has solidly established himself as the “deregulation president.” That’s why it’s an ongoing mystery why the Trump Treasury Department and IRS have refused to repeal one of former President Joe Biden’s ...

Trump must learn to distinguish between friend and foe

China, Russia and Iran had to be alarmed by the display of U.S. power in Venezuela, but so did Denmark, a NATO ally of the United States. In the aftermath of the snatch-and-grab of Nicolas Maduro, Trump spoke to The Atlantic about his other foreign-policy priorities: “We do need Greenland, absolutely.” It might have been easy not too long ago to dismiss this as bluster. Not anymore — not after the strikes on the Iran nuclear program and the Venezuelan operation. We’ve gone from “Trump always chickens out” when he was backing off his Liberation Day tariffs to ...

Tim Walz personifies the decline experienced by the Democrats

Tim Walz is going away, but the Democratic Party’s Tim Walz crisis isn’t. The Minnesota governor gave up his quest for a third term Monday: Staying out of jail will be challenging enough for him during the next few months, never mind prolonging his stay in office. Federal prosecutors estimate the Somali daycare scam and other frauds perpetrated under his watch cost taxpayers up to $9 billion. Money like that goes a long way in politics. Over the years, Walz and his party have received plenty of campaign cash from the Somali community. The fraud was no well-kept secret; an ...

Sometimes, you should put the phone down

The year opened with what could be one of the most horrifying videos of 2026. At 1:30 a.m. in a basement bar at a Swiss ski resort, flames started dancing on the ceiling. Instead of rushing upstairs to flee the room, many celebrants lifted their cellphones toward the blaze, eager to record the thrilling moment to share with friends worldwide. And their videos show other raised arms holding phones to capture a scene that quickly turned horrific. At least 40 people died as the initially small fire exploded to quickly engulf the entire room — a terrifying event bearing the hallmarks of ...

There is a future, and it’s waiting for us to catch up with it

The hot take that floated into my inbox this week was that resolutions are passe. Apparently, thinking about “next year” is outdated. We’re in this grind of time and marking it arbitrarily doesn’t matter. But, really, we time-travel constantly. It’s one of the best things about being human. We can rehearse future sticky conversations in the shower. We can relive our moments of wildness while folding laundry. We can imagine a future version of ourselves who has it together, so she is not constantly behind on laundry. Yet every January, the naysayers trot out the idea that ...

Facing an old year as well as a new year

“What’s past is prologue” wrote William Shakespeare in “The Tempest,” a thought profound enough to be engraved on the National Archives building in Washington. As America prepares to celebrate its 250th anniversary, a blip on history’s ledger compared to many other nations, we would do well to re-visit even the recent past as a guide to what can provide us a better future. That’s because even though technology changes, other things do not. At the end of each year, I enjoy exploring the events of a century ago, a period in which my parents and grandparents lived. ...