Author: Jeremy Lott, Washington Examiner

To deal with a reported record number of border crossings, House Republicans recently held a subcommittee hearing — in North Dakota. That may seem odd, with the federal government and many southern border states locked in a struggle over what to do about migrants illegally crossing into the United States from Mexico. President Joe Biden…

Climate activists recently sowed chaos at an airport in Munich, Germany. On May 18, members of the green group Last Generation crashed the gates and glued themselves to a runway in protest of government subsidies for flights. Everything at the Munich airport ground to a halt, leading to flight delays and cancellations on the busy…

Give Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) this much — he knows how to wield a gavel. That was the consensus of many conservatives who watched Sanders, chairing the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, strike down a brawl between a fellow senator and a witness and labor leader in mid-November. KEVIN MCCARTHY LEAVING CONGRESS AT…

The United States Postal Service booked a loss for fiscal 2023 of about $6.5 billion. The nationwide delivery agency predicts that its 10-year plan will right the fiscal delivery vehicle of state, but it was expecting lower losses this year — about $2 billion lower. An obvious culprit is higher-than-expected inflation, which has made just…

President Joe Biden’s White House has again inserted itself into a dispute involving America’s railroads. This time, the Environmental Protection Agency has made it easier for California to require railroads to replace diesel-powered locomotives with electric locomotives or other lower-emission alternatives. “The California locomotive regulation is unreasonable, based on flawed assumptions and mandates technology that…

Stef Lynn of Boston, Massachusetts, left her Kindle Paperwhite in a seatback pocket of a Delta Air Lines flight in early November. She wrote that she felt “so lost without it” and asked Delta to “Pleaaaaaaaaaaase” find it for her. Lynn posted about this multiple times on the social media platform X, formerly known as…

Large retail stores across North America began holiday sales this year much earlier than in the past. Many consumers are noticing this trend. Those who spoke to the Washington Examiner about it had strong, mostly negative opinions of the widened selling window. “It makes me turn into a combination of Charlie Brown and Ted Kaczynski,”…

Gene Healy is the author of The Cult of the Presidency: America’s Dangerous Devotion to Executive Power, and he is a Cato Institute vice president and a former columnist for the Washington Examiner. His 2008 book renewed a long-running debate about the increased powers and growing public expectations of the presidency, a debate that has…

Los Angeles is undergoing a hotel construction boom. Representatives of the hospitality industry charge that a March 2024 measure, if passed by voting Angelenos, could bust it in a hurry by requiring hotels to fill vacant rooms with the homeless. The Unite Here union of hospitality workers gathered over 100,000 signatures to place the Los…