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I (used to) love New York

I was a teenager when I first visited New York. The flight cost $15 on the Eastern Airlines Shuttle from Washington, D.C. You could buy your ticket from a flight attendant on board. She (and it was always a she back then) would roll a cart down the aisle with a credit card device on ...

GOP is coming for ESG investing

by Ramesh Ponnuru Republican complaints about “ESG investing” have been building in recent years. But they have not always been clear about what they want to do about it besides complain. The whole concept of ESG investing — which puts great weight on environmental, social and ...

Sinema departs the Democratic Party

Leaving aside any possible undeclared motives for leaving the Democratic Party and becoming an Independent, Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema has said some things that have needed to be said for a long time. In an op-ed for The Arizona Republic, Sinema wrote, “Americans are told that we have ...

Fewer jobs require a college degree. That’s a good thing

The U.S. job market is humming, with more than 10.7 million openings across the country and more than 1 million right here in Texas. That’s good news. But what might be even better long-term news is that the need for workers is shifting how some employers are thinking about ...

Strengthen the child tax credit before expanding it

by Ramesh Ponnuru The federal government’s child tax credit just had its 25th anniversary, but not everyone is celebrating. Some conservatives think it’s a runaway entitlement program. A few on the left would rather redirect the money elsewhere. Advocates, meanwhile, want to expand ...