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There aren’t enough rich people to tax to fund what Democratic Socialists of America candidates are promising.

The millionaire next door

When the DSA says "tax the rich," they want us to think of guys like Thurston Howell III, the "Gilligan's Island" millionaire with the condescending upper-class accent.

They want us to think the rich have ...Read more

Why is four-year college tuition so high in America?

William Bennett, President Reagan's secretary of education, offered his hypothesis in 1987. In a New York Times op-ed titled “Our Greedy Colleges,” he argued that colleges were able to raise tuition because increases in financial aid, particularly federal loan subsidies, enabled the ...Read more

September has arrived, which means autumn is here. It couldn’t come soon enough.

Politics all day long

You see, a 2026 Change Research survey finds that 30% of voters name politics as the single biggest source of stress in their lives — more than money, health or work.

Look, politics is important. An informed, engaged public is essential ...Read more

Younger generations are driving an old-fashioned comeback: handwritten letters.

According to Business Insider, Gen Z and millennials, tired of the emptiness of digital life, are driving a full-blown letter-writing renaissance.

They’re joining snail-mail and pen-pal clubs. They’re writing to old friends. They’re trading pen-pal addresses ...Read more

Just one year shy of its 20th anniversary, the iPhone, and the other electronic devices we use daily, sure have changed modern life — and not all for the better.

What we gained

CNET features 17 products that are now obsolete in our digital world, such as paper maps.

I remember my dad getting lost on the way to Ocean City, Md., every summer ...Read more

American entrepreneurs are beginning to flourish again.

According to Dictionary.com, an entrepreneur is a “person who starts, organizes and operates a business, taking on financial risks in the hope of making a profit.”

What’s good for the American entrepreneur is good for America.

The Engine of American Prosperity

Entrepreneurs and ...Read more

Note to editors: A version of this column was distributed by Cagle in 2024.

I can’t imagine such a thing happening today: In the early ‘70s, when I was 10, my family left my baby sister Mary behind at the drive-in theater.

Typical ‘70s Drive-in Experience

As I explain in my humorous memoir, “Misadventures of a 1970s Childhood,” the ...Read more

Helicopter parents are getting worse.

The Wall Street Journal reports that a growing number of Gen Z parents are actively intervening in their children’s job searches, interviews, hiring processes and even early career issues.

According to the Journal, parents are calling companies about their adult children’s performance reviews, benefits...Read more

Note to Editors Only: A version of this column was distributed by Cagle in 2024.

According to Cosmopolitan, the shag haircut of the 1970s has become all the rage in 2026.

That makes me grumpy because I’m still upset about the David Cassidy shag haircut my sisters made me get in 1973, when I was 11.

Mimicking a Teen Idol

As I explain more ...Read more

When I lived in the Washington, D.C., region, I enjoyed occasional Saturday morning visits to Lafayette Square to see what the protesters were up to.

Lafayette Square sits directly across Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House. The park is often packed with people exercising their right to free speech.

The Saturday morning I visited, a large...Read more

Vacation season is upon us, and nobody knows how to vacation better than our friends in Europe.

Whereas many Americans settle for a weeklong summer vacation — often supplemented with day trips — Europeans commonly spend two to four weeks at the beach.

The United States is the only advanced economy with no federal requirement for paid ...Read more

It’s never too late for a good belly laugh.

July 1 was International Joke Day. The origins of the day remain unclear, but one thing is for certain: we all could use a good laugh about now.

Which reminds me about the man who walks into a library and says, “I’m looking for books about paranoid schizophrenia.”

The librarian lowers her ...Read more

It’s hot this summer.

It’s so hot in Washington that Republicans and Democrats are sharing air-conditioned cabs.

It’s so hot in New York City that Mayor Mamdani is allowing citizens to turn thermostats down to 77 degrees.

Regrettably, it’s so hot in Europe that millions of people are suffering.

The World Health Organization reports ...Read more

Editor’s note: A version of this column was distributed in 2024.

I miss watching the spectacular fireworks display at Eddie Gabor’s house every Fourth of July.

Eddie was my grandmother’s companion the last 20 years of her life until she died in 1988.

Widowed in her late 40s, she struggled for years to pay the bills and raise her six ...Read more

“I’m confused, Grandpa. I thought July 4 was the day our country declared independence from King George III of Great Britain.”

“Actually, according to ConstitutionFacts.com, that's not so, Junior. The Continental Congress declared independence from Great Britain on July 2, 1776.”

“Then why do we celebrate our independence on the ...Read more

His neck and underarms were swollen. His skin itched, particularly on his arms. Sleeping at night was impossible.

His symptoms started when he was 50. Though he had been fit and healthy all his life, he had contracted chronic lymphocytic leukemia, or CLL, a cancer of the blood and bone marrow — the spongy tissue inside bones where blood cells...Read more

Editor's note: A version of this column was distributed in 2024.

In 1974, when I was 11, I flushed an apple core down the toilet.

My father had remodeled our basement into a wood-paneled family room with a powder room.

Always looking to save a buck — he had six kids to feed on one income — he bought the cheapest toilet he could find.

It ...Read more

There was no way I was going to let a breakaway soccer opponent score on me while my dad was in the stands.

Memories of my experience as my high school’s starting goalie are coming back to me this week as the United States hosts the 2026 FIFA World Cup — something we have not done since 1994.

Back then, Americans had little interest in ...Read more

Long live one of America’s finest creations: the drive-in theater.

One of my great drive-in memories dates to 1969, when my parents took my five sisters and me to see “Herbie the Love Bug” in our Plymouth Fury III station wagon.

As the blue sky fell dark and the film projector began rattling behind the concession stand, black-and-white ...Read more

Conservative graduation speakers still give better advice than speakers on the left.

In 2015, after reviewing two commencement-speech anthologies featuring 18 liberal speeches and 30 conservative speeches, New York Times columnist Carlos Lozada — then a Washington Post blogger — gave five reasons why conservatives do a better job.

First, ...Read more