Daniel McCarthy

2 months ago | creators.com | Daniel McCarthy

If there's one thing supporters and opponents of President Donald Trump's tariffs should agree on, it's the need to unchain prosperity at home while international trade is in flux. That means renewing the president's first-term tax cuts, for a start, but it also calls for sweeping regulatory reform — a DOGE-like approach to slice the red tape entangling business at home.

2 months ago | creators.com | Daniel McCarthy

Elections are supposed to be decided at the ballot box, not in the courtroom — unless you're French, or, in this country, a liberal. What a judge in France has just done by disqualifying Marine Le Pen from running in that nation's next presidential election is what Democrats dream of doing here. The controversial populist was ahead in the polls, but now Le Pen isn't even eligible to run, thanks to a court that found her guilty of using European Union funds to pay for political expenses.

2 months ago | compactmag.com | Daniel McCarthy

What’s the scandal when Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, is included in a Signal group chat of Trump administration officials discussing an attack on Yemen? For many observers, the outrageous thing is the breach of government secrecy. Classified information must not be treated so cavalierly, and its exposure could have jeopardized the succession of the bombing run under discussion. American military personnel might even have lost their lives, if the enemy had been forewarned.

2 months ago | creators.com | Daniel McCarthy

President Donald Trump is nothing if not strong-willed, and he's the leader of the mightiest nation on Earth — but there's one power even Trump can't afford to discount. It's the power of nationalism and national pride, which Trump himself harnessed to win two terms in the White House. But the same force that helped make Trump president will wreck his presidency if he fails to take it seriously enough in his foreign policy.

2 months ago | creators.com | Daniel McCarthy

Chuck Schumer is running scared from his own party. He can't even hit the road to promote his new book, "Antisemitism in America: A Warning," for fear of protests. The Senate minority leader had to postpone his publicity tour on account of what a spokeswoman calls "security concerns." Progressive Democrats, furious Schumer passed a Republican spending bill to avoid a government shutdown, are getting up close to show him how angry they are.