Author: William Davis

What happened to New York City? That’s the question many Americans are asking these days about our country’s biggest and most iconic city. For many generations, New York City served as a beacon of hope and opportunity for people across the country and the world. As Frank Sinatra famously sang: “If I can make it there, I’ll make it anywhere.” Today, the vast majority of Americans can’t make it there, and many of those who can are choosing to leave. There are many reasons for the decline of New York City, including high taxes, poverty, homelessness, and crime. But, nobody should discount the role…

Despite White House posturing to the contrary, Joe Biden’s self-inflicted crisis at the U.S. southern border is continuing unabated, and the American people continue to pay a steep price. U.S. citizens are continuing to suffer as their sovereignty is degraded and their social services are strained by the influx of millions of illegal aliens into the country over the past few years. While anti-border activists and politicians frequently claim that mass immigration enriches the U.S., this claim has been empirically disproven by the events of recent years. Since Joe Biden took office, the illegal alien population in the U.S. has…

For years now, the crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border has been escalating thanks to the malfeasance of the Biden Administration. Now, adversaries outside the Western hemisphere are exploiting Biden’s weakness at the border in ways that could have dire consequences for America in the years to come. Thousands of Chinese nationals have crossed the border illegally over the past few months and many more are on their way, according to a report last month from Axios. The number of Chinese who crossed the border during the first three months of 2023 is more than double the number who crossed in all of…