Shares of Winnebago Industries plunged nearly 10% on Wednesday after the recreational vehicle maker—best known for its travel campers—slashed its full-year outlook, citing persistent pressure on consumer demand from mounting macroeconomic headwinds and elevated borrowing costs. The RV industry downturn, now well entrenched, has been underway since the Federal Reserve…
The status quo has pushed everything to an extreme of hollowed-out instability to maintain a superficial appearance of normalcy and stability. But it’s all fake. The phrase that best describes the present era is hollowed out. By hollowed out I mean the exterior facade still looks pretty much the same as it did…
Only the US is capable of pulling this off since Russia lacks influence over Ukraine’s political processes. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov pledged in early June on Russian Language Day that “Russia will not leave Russians and Russian-speaking people in trouble and will make sure that their legal rights, including…
The only conditionally approved vaccine—authorized without any demonstrated efficacy—fails to match the circulating strain, doesn’t prevent infection, and increases the risk of dangerous mutations. The USDA is preparing to authorize mass vaccination of chickens against H5N1 bird flu: The leading candidate appears to be the…
In the end, predictably, the Circus Ringmaster went TACO (“Trump Always Chickens Out”). He was terrified by three crucial reality-based developments. The Iranian message on preparing to close the Strait of Hormuz. The CIA had warned Trump that China was viscerally opposed to the Strait being blocked. That’s one…
Zohran Mamdani, an open socialist and Muslim, effectively won the Democratic primary in New York’s mayoral election this week. His chief opponent, disgraced former governor Andrew Cuomo, conceded to the Indian before the ranked-choice results were figured out. It’s predicted Zohran will triumph over sitting mayor Eric Adams, who’s…
Mindsets need to shift—accept the burden of victory. If you can’t see how handing control of America’s largest and wealthiest city over to a Muslim socialist who became a citizen 6 years ago will have negative consequences for Republicans nationally, you have a serious lack of vision. The only…
Zohran Mamdani’s victory in the New York City mayoral primary opens a new era in American crazy. Et voila! New York City’s mayoral race has been won by Zohran Mamdani, no Bernie Sanders-style imitator but the real thing — son of a famed socialist scholar and Marvel superhero to every Jacobin-reading, keffiyeh-wearing student…
Long time readers of my writings on sexual mores know that I make frequent, usually sarcastic remarks at the expense of conservative commentators who are pleased to denounce younger men as “predators.” Many writers use the term, and as a regular reader of Chronicles between 1997 and 2005 I saw it constantly—on…
Over the last couple of weeks, a remarkable sequence of events involving two US Senators has unfolded that demonstrates the profound and positive influence that HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., is exerting on Washington, DC, which extends far beyond the halls of the CDC, FDA, and NIH. On…
