The Lindsay Clancy Debacle Draws New Lines in the Culture War

Lindsay Clancy is the latest incidence of a social contagion tearing through society like a battering ram. By its very nature, the Lindsay Clancy case was always going to be grotesque. What it became is something worse: a national morality play in which a woman who strangled her three children was recast as a martyr, […]
A $5,000 Dividend Is Not a Fantasy. It Is a Choice.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is stating that President Trump’s $5,000 dividend for American adults can be done without blowing a hole in the deficit — but only if Republicans keep Congress. The Treasury Department has been working on the mechanics. Bessent is checking what needs a statute and what does not. He wants to sit […]