Twenty years ago Kevin Roberts was an assistant professor of history at New Mexico State University. Today he’s president of the Heritage Foundation, which bills itself as “America’s most influential policy organization” and is best known for its “Project 2025” presidential transition recommendations. But the contrast between Roberts then and now is far more dramatic
REVIEW: ‘Kamala: Her Historic, Joyful, and Auspicious Sprint to the White House’ Some books are destined to be bestsellers. Others are destined to end up on a cargo plane to Africa next to pallets of T-shirts celebrating would-be Super Bowl champions and Hillary Clinton’s “herstoric” victory. Indeed, sometimes it all comes down to which candidate
Martin Van Buren should never have been president. That’s not an insult. America’s eighth chief executive belongs to a distinct phylum of presidents: those who possessed skills both extraordinary enough to elevate them to the White House and yet not quite aligned with what the nation actually needs from a commander in chief. James Madison,
With a foot out the door of the Oval Office, President Joe Biden, in a meaningless but official-looking document, declared that the proposed Equal Rights Amendment, which failed in 1982 when the extended period specified by Congress for its ratification elapsed, has actually been ratified and is now the 28th Amendment to the Constitution of
Trump scores some early wins. But how long will it last? Donald Trump (Alex Wong/Getty Images) Donald Trump does not formally become president until Monday, but his second term got off to a momentous start this week. As was the case in 2016, he mounted the bully pulpit long before he entered the Oval Office,
DOE’s inspector general warned just weeks earlier that loan program carries ‘significant risk of fraud’ Jigar Shah (energy.gov), hydrogen facility (Plug Power Inc./X) President Joe Biden’s departing green energy loan czar this week finalized a controversial $1.6 billion federal loan to a green energy company with which he had prior financial ties—a farewell shot at
Last April, the Biden administration finalized environmental rules that effectively force gas and coal plants to adopt carbon capture—an expensive and controversial process in which emissions are stored underground—or risk shutting down. Months later, in November, a senior Biden EPA official told activists to “keep fighting” an ExxonMobil carbon capture project in Texas, the Washington Free