On Tuesday, Disney will release an amazing thing that no one on the planet could have anticipated 10 years ago: a service that streams Disney programming on the Internet available to subscribers for $7 per month. It competes with Amazon (100 million subscribers), Hulu (28.5 million customers), and Netflix (158 million subscribers). The massive programming assets plus…
Last Friday night President Donald Trump signed a bill to temporarily end the longest government shutdown in American history for three weeks. Following airport delays due to staff shortages and pressure from Republicans in Washington, the president has decided to pay the government workers who have been waiting on their paychecks. This 21-day break from…
My God… why did my first election have to be in 2020??? As a 19-year-old, this is my first opportunity to vote, and I have to waste it on a race between the annoying orange guy or the guy who does not know his rear from a hole in the ground. The clear winner in…
Taxes, spiders, North Korea, it doesn’t matter. If you can name it, it’s probably more popular than the United States Congress. Only 7 percent of Americans have “a great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in the U.S. Congress, according to a new poll by Gallup. Even after many years of brutally unpopular Congresses, that’s…
A major theme running throughout the Democratic Party’s presidential primary is the problem of income inequality. The argument is an appeal to fairness—a value most Americans share. It’s also a distraction from a more insidious inequality: the power the state has over the rest of us. Power inequality is a bigger threat to an egalitarian…
With the drama of electing Kevin McCarthy as Speaker of the House and approving new rules for the operation of the House, it is time to make Congress work. Thanks to the courage of twenty members of the Freedom Caucus (#Freedom 20), the overall effect of the new rules is the restoration of the most…
