Gavin Newsom Said He Had a ‘Moral Duty’ To Release His Tax Returns Every Year He Served in Office. He Hasn’t Since 2022.

Newsom has kept his returns private as his wife rakes in hundreds of thousands of dollars from her charity, which is funded by corporations that do business with Newsom’s California Gavin Newsom (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) California governor Gavin Newsom made a bold pledge as he campaigned for his first term in 2017: He would release

Meet the California Millionaire Funding Anti-Oil Lawsuits—And the Columbia Academics Working To Influence the Judges Handling The Cases

Dan A. Emmett’s contributions reflect an emerging trend in which left-wing donors bankroll climate litigation and climate-related academic literature intended to influence judges Dan Emmett (yale.edu), Sher Edling logo (sheredling.com), Sabin Center for Climate Change Law logo (@SabinCenter/X) Lawsuits seeking to hold the nation’s biggest oil companies accountable for global warming and extreme climate events—and

GOP’s John Sununu ‘Very Confident’ He Can Win Under-the-Radar New Hampshire Senate Race As Polling Shows Tight Contest

NORTH HAMPTON, N.H.—The race for New Hampshire’s open Senate seat has yet to attract the sort of national media attention as the contests in Maine, Michigan, and Texas, where left-wing Democratic candidates have driven national headlines by donning Nazi tattoos, refusing to celebrate the death of the ayatollah, and calling God nonbinary. But the Republican

Maine Democrat Graham Platner Vows To Work With ‘Ron Paul,’ Thomas Massie if Elected to Senate: ‘Very Much Aligned’

Platner, speaking during a virtual town hall, also vowed to ‘get arrested … over the course of the Trump administration’ Graham Platner (Free Beacon) and Thomas Massie (Photo by Heather Diehl/Getty Images) The left-wing candidate in the Maine Democratic Senate primary, Graham Platner, said he would “be willing to work” with Kentucky Republicans “Ron Paul”

Guests of the Nation

For evidence of a so-called cultural vibe shift, the pendulum swing away from the extreme sensitivity and irrational wokeness of the preceding decade, look no further than Lionel Shriver’s new novel, A Better Life, a blunt but layered—and entertaining—depiction of America’s once-lax immigration policies. First, cast your memory back to the dawn of this decade,

No One Is Alone, Except Maybe Stephen Sondheim

Despite favoring sometimes-ghastly subjects, overly calculated lyrics, and eminently unhummable music, composer-lyricist Stephen Sondheim was something of a conservative when it came to acknowledging his forebears. In Sondheim’s case, that chiefly meant lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II, who gladly accepted the role of substitute father to the boy then known as Stevie—a comprehensively unhappy child of