You might have read the recent news report that Amazon now delivers more packages than established companies including UPS and FedEx—the latest sign of the e-commerce company’s dominance. But if you read closely, you also saw that the U.S. Postal Service still handles more parcels (about 7 billion a year) than any of these companies, and in fact delivers […]
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Why did anyone vote against expelling Ge...
On Friday, Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) was expelled from the House of Representatives. The vote was 311 to 114. Democrats overwhelmingly supported booting Santos, whose many misdeeds have been described in both a House Ethics Committee report and the media. Some have wondered why anyone would vote against booting Santos. The partisan breakdown of the “nay” votes tells part of the […]
The American right needs to be right (an...
As a graduate student long ago, I considered writing my dissertation on the history and permutations of 20th-century American conservatism. I abandoned that task when it became clear to me that few universities had any desire to employ an expert on the right. My colleague Matthew Continetti rescued me from the recurrent itch to resurrect […]
Ulysses S. Grant’s final battle
A strange notice appeared in the March 27, 1867, issue of the Pulaski Citizen newspaper, which usually carried mostly brief news items and short advertisements for attorneys, carpenters, and goods for sale. “The Kuklux Klan will assemble at their usual place of rendezvous . . . [on Tuesday] exactly at the hour of midnight in […]
Could George Santos torch the House by v...
The other day, George Santos (R-NY) took to X (formerly Twitter) to decry his enemies and victimization. Part of the tweet said, “What the “ethics committee” did today was not part of due process, what they did was poison the jury pool on my ongoing investigation with the DOJ. This was a dirty biased act […]
Could George Santos torch the House by v...
The other day, George Santos (R-NY) took to Twitter to decry his enemies and victimization. While jawing about this weirdness with a former Hill staffer, I wondered, “How will Santos exit the chamber?” He already has said he is not going to run for reelection. Yet it seems quite likely that the House of Representatives […]