Author: Timothy P. Carney Washington Examiner

In July, Uncle Sam collected $30 billion in tariffs. That’s a record tariff monthly haul, and President Donald Trump is trumpeting the number as a sign of success for his trade policy. But when the federal government gets richer, it means the private sector gets poorer. Every dime of tax collected by the federal government…

Trend pieces rarely identify something brand new because there is nothing new in the lives of men and women. Likewise, when the New York Times explains the latest cultural developments to its readers, the features often tell them more about the cultural milieux of highly educated, white, feminist, 30- to 40-something-year-old, city-dwelling women — that is,…

Donald Trump, when he ran against Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden, promised that he alone could fix the problem of self-dealing insider enrichment. That promise has proven hogwash, and the latest lobbying filings put a number on the falsehood: $20.4 million. That’s the lobbying revenue Ballard Partners reported for April through June of this year,…

The average price of a hotel room in New York City rose in just a year and a half, from an average $225 a night to $290 a night, a 65% increase. In other U.S. cities over those same months, the average price increased by less than 8%, from $162 to $170. The result was…

There is a genre of online video and social media post that is revealing of our time. In one such video, an online fitness influencer posts herself crying in her car outside the gym. The words accompanying the tears: “Just saw a teenage boy (who’s just been taught how to bench for the first time)…

FALLS CHURCH, Virginia — Prostitution is illegal in the state of Virginia, but dozens of brothels nevertheless operate openly in Fairfax County alone, according to local officials. How did the state’s largest municipality, a wealthy and highly educated suburb of Washington, D.C., become a sanctuary county for pimps, madams, and whorehouse operators? All signs point…

Americans are having fewer babies than ever before, and the birth rate keeps falling every year — down about 25% from just 20 years ago. The liberal media ignored this trend for decades and is now, with great discomfort, informing its readers of what’s going on. But it still cannot shoot straight on the topic.…

Before the sexual-assault claims against Justice Brett Kavanaugh totally fell apart, one of the knocks on him, wielded almost as evidence of his guilt, was that he went to an all-boys school. When NPR set out last decade to define a “bro” (“a specific kind of fratty masculinity”), one of the criteria was a tendency…

FALLS CHURCH, Virginia — Near the intersection of Summerfield Road and Route 29, in this mostly residential suburban neighborhood near my house, you’ll find two taco places, a classic Italian eatery, a beloved bakery, and by all appearances, a whorehouse. Officially, it is a massage parlor — the name has changed from Rose Spa to L…

I just returned from vacation to an island off the coast of Maine, where I took my family to the island’s museum on Friday. It’s an excellent museum featuring artwork, history, and plenty of maps and old photographs of this old fishing and lobstering island that also became a summer vacation haven. Monhegan Island is…