How debt is making global inequality worse

You’re reading an excerpt from the Today’s WorldView newsletter. Sign up to get the rest, including news from around the globe, interesting ideas and opinions to know, sent to your inbox every weekday.Across the globe, the pandemic has carried a jaw-dropping bill — trillions of dollars in spending and borrowing to build field hospitals, buy…Continue Reading

The Fed Soc Debate Turns Inward

Is concentrated corporate power a greater threat to individual freedom than government power? The Federalist Society’s National Lawyers Convention is an annual homecoming that matches the most loyal university’s affair in zeal and affection. The Mayflower Hotel in Washington fills with tenured law professors fleeing starstruck 1Ls, federal judges holding court about baseball around coffee…Continue Reading

Widening America’s Conservative Tent

Overcoming our current social crisis requires a more robust traditionalism. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s “America is back!” remark in February has resonated like the outburst of a buffoon from the old Blackadder series, inviting—after an awkward pause—a sneering aside from the title character. On the bright side, our president’s poor performance on the world…Continue Reading

Kevin McCarthy blocks Democrats from passing Biden’s social welfare bill in ‘dead of night’

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy prevented Democrats from expediting the passage of President Biden’s multitrillion-dollar social welfare bill on Friday, just hours after budget hawks warned the measure adds more than $367 billion to the deficit. Mr. McCarthy, a California Republican, spoke for more than four hours in opposition to the bill. The marathon session…Continue Reading

Biden administration rolls back religious exemptions for adoption agencies

The Biden administration Thursday said it would rescind religious-freedom protections granted to child welfare agencies and require them to place children with LGBTQ families and to people of other faiths. The move will “further civil rights and equal opportunity for all people, irrespective of their sexual orientation, gender identity, and religion,” according to a press…Continue Reading

Nancy Pelosi rushes toward vote on Biden’s social welfare bill despite deficit report

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is rushing forward with a vote on President Biden’s multitrillion-dollar social welfare bill, despite budget scorers having determined that it adds $367 billion to the federal deficit. Mrs. Pelosi plans to hold a Thursday night vote on the bill, known as the Build Back Better Act, so lawmakers can depart Washington…Continue Reading