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National Columnists

NYC mayor ignores economic lessons

Last week, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced a citywide freeze on rents. The response from economists can be summarized as "oy." Economists are famous for arguing "on one hand" this and "on the other hand" that. Nonetheless, there are few issues that enjoy a broader consensus among ...

Autonomous vehicle laws kill

Car accidents kill 100 Americans every day. But now an amazing solution is available: self-driving cars. Robotaxis like Google-owned Waymo, for example. Passengers who try them, like them. Wherever robotaxis are allowed, ridership increases fast. Two years ago, there were 50,000 trips per ...

Supreme court’s birthright citizenship mistake

The Supreme Court has now settled, at least for the foreseeable future, one of the most contentious questions in American immigration law: A child born in the United States is a U.S. citizen, regardless of whether the child's parents entered the country legally or came solely to give birth. ...

Founders could define right from wrong

Two hundred and 50 years ago, self-evident truths meant something. Today, for some, things appear far less self-evident and truth has become subjective. Freedom from tyranny was the object of the Declaration of Independence. Today, freedom has been transformed into license, the right to do ...

America at 250: History we rarely tell

As America celebrates its 250th birthday, we will rightly remember the familiar names and places. We will speak of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, Valley Forge and the birth of a republic unlike any the world had ...

Anti-cryophilic bigotry is killing people

PARIS – That's it, I'm starting a new human rights movement: the Cryophilic Freedom Front. Because rampant discrimination across Europe against cryophilic people – defined as those who are physically incapable of tolerating extreme heat – has no place in polite European society. Yet not ...