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Price gouging is whose problem?

Horrors. The profiteers running this year's World Cup are forcing fans to shell out thousands for a single ticket. But they're not. FIFA, which oversees the once-every-four-years soccer tournament, is slapping astounding prices on the tickets. No one has to buy them. This should be very obvious. That said, some products are priced in ways that understandably bring out villagers with pitchforks. Bread in 18th-century Europe, for example. Rapidly rising prices for the "staff of life" helped foment the French Revolution. The peasants demanded what they deemed a "just price." I ...

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Will single-payer health care champions ever offer something credible?

Billionaire progressive activist and California gubernatorial candidate Tom Steyer recently remarked: "Health care companies only care about one thing: profits. Single-payer now." This is the same Tom Steyer who opposed single-payer when he ran for president in 2020. "Bernie Sanders was right," he says. "Boy, was I wrong." He still cannot explain how to pay for it. Can anyone? Single-payer health care has been the progressive left's signature domestic demand for four decades. It has generated presidential campaigns, mass rallies, congressional cosponsors and an inexhaustible ...

Rocket Men: Hezbollah demands impunity and Democrats say ‘sure!’

Democratic Senator Chris Van Hollen recently claimed that the American Israel Public Affairs Committee was "un-American," an announcement that surely surprised the hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of American citizens who have supported AIPAC, whose forebears and family members served in America's military and fought for their country in America's wars. Van Hollen is prominent among Democratic politicians scrambling to denounce Israel more loudly and more mindlessly than their potential rivals. This includes parroting the obligatory nonsense that, in defending itself from a ...

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Vegas among greatest NHL expansion franchises ever

LAS VEGAS — The line to get into the Golden Knights' practice Monday morning stretched well outside the door at the rink, and Vegas fans have had plenty to celebrate in its team's nine seasons. Back in the Stanley Cup Final for the third time, the Golden Knights are two victories away from ...