The Joy of Losing

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

The Curious Case of Martin Van Buren

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,

Biden’s Lame-Duck Loan Czar Finalizes $1.6 Billion Award to Green Power Company He Invested In

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

The Biden Admin Forced Gas and Coal Plants To Embrace Carbon Capture—Then Privately Told Climate Activists To Fight It

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

Biden and Harris Declare the Equal Rights Amendment ‘the Law of the Land.’ It Isn’t.

President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris declared on Friday that the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) is “the law of the land.” It isn’t, as Biden and Harris do not have the authority to approve constitutional amendments, their statements carry no legal weight, and the U.S. archivist tasked with certifying the amendment has repeatedly