Jim Newell

How dumb do you have to be to get indicted for campaign finance violations in 2014? Under current laws, getting money—as much money as possible—to a candidate of one’s choice should be as easy if not easier than setting up a FlipTree®. But even though it’s only ...

For his latest strategic maneuver in the all-out, full-communist war he has declared on the rich, New York City mayor Bill “Bane” de Blasio has summoned the magical powers of underclass resentment to control the weather. Here’s how it works: he summons ...

The big news from House Democrats in the last month is that literally all of them are retiring. And by “literally all” we mean that six have very recently announced their retirements at the end of this Congress: Bill Owens (2 terms), Jim Matheson (7 terms), Mike ...

Great news, liberal god-and-guns-hating girly America: famous loudmouth movie producer Harvey Weinstein is going to get rid of the NRA and, uh, guns. All of them. How nice of him? What is his plan? Oh? Oh. He’s just going to make some dumb movie with Meryl Streep. From ...

It is a well-known fact that if you are very rich, you will never have to go to jail for your fancy international rich-people crimes. But rarely does a judge make someone’s wealth the explicit reason for not sending a very rich person to jail over that person’s ...

So the governor of New Jersey constantly screams at people and employs staffers and cronies across the state who create multiday traffic jams for the pure bloodsport of vaguely defined revenge. So what? ask his (admittedly few) defenders in the wake of the limply titled ...

I can’t say I ever intended from a young age to spend my eighteenth year mastering Washington Consensus–era monetary policy to recite in stuttering, rote cliché before a panel of mildly curious economic policymakers who filled out the payroll at Alan Greenspan’s Randian ...

Virginia is a big booming state where everyone has lots of money, except for the people who don’t. Most of that money is concentrated in the Washington, D.C., suburbs, where the federal contracting and lobbying boom has rained gold. It’s good to be rich, right, ...