Members of the chattering classes keep hoping the immigration issue will just go away. I was once interviewed on a radio show along with an activist on the other side who said Mexico’s falling birthrate would mean that pretty soon we’d be scratching our heads wondering what all the fuss over immigration policy was about. That was nearly 25 years ago. In 2006, Mexican president Vicente Fox said that in ten years we’d be begging for Mexican workers, but they wouldn’t come, because they’d all be employed at home. And just recently, the New York Times ran a front-page story …
To Reform Immigration, Legal and Illegal
Three policy packages for presidential aspirants
In This Issue
Articles
Credibility Deficit
Republicans have long sought to amend the Constitution to require that the federal budget be balanced. President Reagan campaigned for an amendment, and the Senate voted for it by the ...
Downgraded President
I shall not want capital in Heaven / For I shall meet Sir Alfred Mond / We two shall lie together, lapt / In a five per cent. Exchequer Bond. — ...
House of Doubt
The ongoing struggles of the housing market are contributing to the softness of our overall economic recovery. Over the last couple of weeks, the Obama administration has restarted debate about ...
United States of Google
In just a few short weeks, Google+, a new social network from the company that gave us the world’s most popular and profitable search engine, has signed up over 10 ...
The Failing of the Fishwrap
The newspaper, in the sense of news actually printed on actual paper, is clearly in its last days. The content of a newspaper can be delivered online at far lower ...
An End to Borders
‘There’s no crying in baseball!” says the manager in A League of Their Own, the 1992 movie about female baseball players. There’s no crying in a free-market economy either. You ...
Features
Obama’s Nemesis
Washington, D.C. — Across the rotunda, Sen. Harry Reid, a 71-year-old Democrat, is grumbling about Rep. Eric Cantor, the House majority leader. The previous evening, Cantor, a boyish Virginia Republican, ...
The Last of Lugar?
When Barack Obama was running for president, there was one Republican besides George W. Bush whom he wouldn’t stop talking about. “Politics don’t have to divide us,” he said at ...
To Reform Immigration, Legal and Illegal
Members of the chattering classes keep hoping the immigration issue will just go away. I was once interviewed on a radio show along with an activist on the other side ...
Books, Arts & Manners
Love in the Land of the Free
Here’s something genuinely new under the summer sun: a book that can be enjoyed simultaneously by anyone with an interest in modern sociology — and by anyone who has ever ...
Apocalyptic Witness and Wit
In the course of a long, varied life, several of whose chapters were truly a “rake’s progress,” Malcolm Muggeridge (1903–90) managed, alternately and sometimes simultaneously, to amuse, inspire, and offend. ...
Faraway, So Close
Whether or not the late Mexican military ruler Porfirio Díaz (1830–1915) ever actually said, “Poor Mexico! So far from God and so close to the United States,” his alleged quip ...
Songs and Tanks
Last month, a singer named Ibrahim Kashush was leading crowds in Syria. They were demonstrating against the dictatorship and for democracy and freedom. Kashush entertained, inspired, and delighted them with ...
Avec Moi Le Déluge
I was arriving early for a dinner appointment in midtown. The cabbie made a wrong turn several blocks away, so I got out to walk. The sun was leaning over ...
Sections
Letters
Hazardous to Your Freedom
Regarding Daniel Foster’s “Smoke Alarm” (July 18): If the nanny state’s real objective is to scare a significant number of smokers into stopping puffing, let me suggest ...
The Week
‐ Mr. Strauss-Kahn seems quite well qualified to be prime minister — of Italy.
‐ Rep. Michele Bachmann and former governor Tim Pawlenty, both Minnesotans, have been trading jabs as they ...
TO: Studio Personnel
TO: Studio Personnel
FROM: Production
RE: Captain America
This weekend’s excellent box-office grosses for Captain America have been incredibly gratifying. The movie is performing very well nationally, and we’re on track for another ...
Statism Down Our Throats
People who see everything as a problem to be solved by the application of exquisitely calibrated governmental force remind you of the maxim: When all you have is a hammer, ...
Poetry
ON A THEME OF D’ALIBRAY
Such a fine day rides on the soft air,
Laura, please pay heed to the new season,
That laughs at the clear sky and sings of love:
Spring is ...
How Weird How Soon?
From London’s Daily Mail: “Scientists have created more than 150 human-animal hybrid embryos in British laboratories.”
You don’t say. Now why would they do that? Don’t worry, it’s all perfectly legit, ...
Recommended
Democrats Squander Their Impeachment-Trial Moment
Where were the details of Trump’s actions while the riot raged? Where was the evidence to support their specific charge of incitement?
Texas Successfully Defunds Planned Parenthood
The move comes a few months after the Fifth Circuit ruled in the state’s favor.
It’s a Blacklist, Pure and Simple
Today’s cancel culture harkens back to the excesses of the McCarthy era.
Kamala Harris Disputes Dr. Fauci, Insists Biden Administration Is 'Starting from Scratch' on Coronavirus
Kamala Harris is the biggest liability of the Biden administration because she lies, obviously and clumsily, even when she doesn’t need to lie.
The Times Corrects the Record on Officer Sicknick’s Death, Sort Of
Though the question remains unanswered: What really happened to him?
The Mother of All Stock-Market Bubbles
One of Warren Buffet's preferred indicators is flashing warning signs.
The Latest
Sanders' $15 Minimum Wage Fails in Senate
Seven Democrats and one independent joined Republicans in voting down the measure.
Left-Wing Groups Break from Whitehouse, Dems in Donor Disclosure Case
‘The First Amendment protects associational privacy for a reason,’ said ACLU attorney Brian Hauss.
‘Bringing Back Welfare as We Knew It,’ or ‘Pro-Family’?
As Democrats charge forward with a huge ‘child allowance,’ conservatives should take a cautious approach.
One Governor Is Standing in the Way of Opening Schools
In North Carolina, Democratic governor Roy Cooper rejected a bipartisan measure to bring kids back into the classroom.
Woke Math Is Coming to a Classroom Near You
Not even algebra is safe from the social-justice warriors.
The Left’s Welfare Extremism
They are staking themselves to commitments that are empirically wrong and politically foolish.