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"I am not in the newsroom," the embattled NPR chieftain said over and over again. Read More

What small towns taught me. Read More

Democrats are increasingly beholden to leftist radicals in their midst. Read More

"The best we can do is recalibrate models when we get new data. But that’s like driving the car while looking out the rearview... Read More

As Americans paid their taxes this week, an historic event began in New York City. In a moment worthy of “On the Waterfront,” the... Read More

The recent efforts to reinterpret the 1980 Bayh-Dole Act's provisions—specifically the "March-in" rights—are not just attacks on... Read More

Amid other accumulating dysfunctions, Generative Artificial Intelligence (GAI) poses a new extinction-level threat to the news industry,... Read More

It seems we’ve reached “peak EV,” with sales in trouble and assembly line workers losing their jobs Read More

The Tortured Poets Department and the broken way we talk about pop music. Read More

Why is Netflix celebrating Dan Rather, the journalist who tried to sway the 2004 presidential election? The answers may surprise you. Read More

Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger discusses Katherine Maher and the corruption of the Internet. Read More

In Brussels and at USC, speech is shut down on spurious grounds. Read More

A swelling cultural shift bent on censorship could be what kills democracy. Read More

If the Senate passes an expansion of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, any American’s international communications could become an... Read More

We are on track for a historically large education divide among white voters. An average of recent polls finds Joe Biden winning white... Read More

* Or probably, at least. But it may be more about Trump than about Biden. Read More

"How on earth could the ideas of Frederick Douglass and MLK find themselves labeled 'white supremacist'? Two authors have shaken off the... Read More

Since Trump's alleged falsification of business records happened after he was elected president, he clearly was not trying to ensure that... Read More

The House is trying to pass a TikTok ban again. But it’s not over yet. Read More

The British Conservative Government is considering legislation that would ban anyone born after 2008 from buying tobacco... Read More

If believing that rights come from God makes one a Christian nationalist, then Jefferson was a Christian nationalist. Read More

Daniel Miller has offered us a critique of American political culture by way of European reactionary thought, with an emphasis on analogies... Read More

The evil that is now running rampant across our country is ostensibly directed at Israel, but Israel is only the pretext, a target of... Read More

The promise of Passover is clouded by rising antisemitism in the U.S. and around the world. Read More

The average American buys new shoes every 100 days. However, since the implementation of 301 duties, retail footwear prices have risen... Read More

President Biden insists he's committed to cutting federal deficits. The International Monetary Fund doesn't seem convinced he'll go... Read More

Find out who made TIME's annual list Read More

Andrew Walworth, Carl Cannon, and Emily Jashinsky (culture editor of The Federalist) discuss Donald Trump’s strategy for campaigning... Read More

Naomi Schaefer Riley joins Brian C. Anderson to discuss the impact of drug use and decriminalization on children. Read More

Toby Young joins this week’s spiked podcast. Read More

Guests: Wilfred McClay, Glenn Ellmers, & Dutton Kearney Host Scot Bertram talks with Wilfred McClay, the Victor Davis Hanson chair in... Read More

Federal taxes are unfair, most Americans say, even as the richest pay the highest share of taxes ever. Read More

It was a really good jobs report if you work for the government or in health care. Most everything else (especially the goods-producing... Read More

Criminologists have long known that crime is highly concentrated—in most cities, approximately 50% of crime happens on only 5% of... Read More

Around the world, scientists, manufacturers, and governments raced to develop a vaccine to combat COVID-19. Read More

Our curation on RealClear Censorship this week was largely devoted to Murthy v. Missouri, the landmark First Amendment case argued before the... Read More

Last summer, after George Floyd died under Derek Chauvin’s knee, protesters in Pensacola, Florida, held a week’s worth of rallies... Read More

In a statement issued last week, Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman once again called for an end to Governor Sisolak’s indefinite... Read More

While New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham ordered the closing of certain grocery stores over COVID-19 concerns, she spent $16,248 in... Read More

Officials from Petaluma, California have decided their city has enough places to fill up gas-powered cars. Last week, the local city council... Read More

NPR’s new CEO exemplifies the ideological capture of America’s institutions. Read More

The political magazine that wants to change the world as well as report on it. For humanism, democracy and freedom. Read More

The long-time public radio editor's resignation proves he was right all along. Read More

This was part of an email sent to UnHerd at the start of January from an organisation called the Global Disinformation Index. Read More

Great Britain, like other countries, has pledged to stop emitting carbon dioxide (“net zero”) by transitioning to a... Read More

Mandates and massive subsidies cannot summon into being a world without fossil fuels. Read More

Make no mistake, this will have a significant economic impact. Read More

"Climate financiers are not capitalists. They are corporatists who think the government should direct private industry. They want to work... Read More

If inane trivialities like the words in Trump’s private records can now serve as the basis of criminal fraud charges, anything can. Read More

Concerns over juror safety after Trump "threatened and intimidated so many persons in the criminal justice system." Read More

‘We’ve got to give them a 1968 kind of welcome.’ Read More

Too many Americans continue to find comfort and safety in the idea that this country belongs only to white people Read More

Over at Compact magazine on Tuesday, Nina Power wrote "The Trans Reckoning Is Here," and, as evidence, she cited the Cass Report. Read More

Let’s face it: Central planning of the economy hasn’t worked out so well in many places where it has been tried (e.g., Soviet Union,... Read More

Hunger in the US is rising at an alarming pace – or is it? Last year’s annual report on food insecurity in the US led lawmakers... Read More

Katherine Maher, the new NPR CEO who started in January, has spent the past month lurching from one bad news cycle to another. Read More

What is the view of most of the organizations and activists in the Palestinian solidarity movement about Hamas? The answer remains... Read More

Joe Biden is clearly fine with sacrificing the nation's fiscal health in order to secure a second term in office. Read More

Money supposedly spent to help Americans may actually have done a lot of damage. Read More

America’s crime policies and soft border are enabling its enemies. Read More

Speaker Johnson said that he would introduce foreign aid bills to the floor despite some opposition from his caucus Read More

"A person who voluntarily enlists in the military obviously believes that that employment option is the best one for him or her. In exchange... Read More

Giving a kidney saves a life. Paying donors could fix the shortage. Read More

Joe Biden has told countless whoppers, but this one is a doozie: he says his uncle was eaten by cannibals in New Guinea. Seriously:   Read More

My positions are centrist: Secure borders. Safe & clean cities. Don’t bankrupt America with spending. Racism against any race is wrong. No... Read More