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The president’s actions have hundreds of years of precedent behind them. Read More

The doomers who like to say that nothing ever happens in the Trump administration have some crow to eat this week. With the Trump... Read More

Like many, I awoke on Saturday to news U.S. troops had “extracted” Venezuelan “President” Nicolas... Read More

Venezuela’s future will not be decided by speeches, sanctions, or symbolic elections alone. It will be decided by whether the country... Read More

Trump's corollary ensures a peaceful American hemisphere, with foreign empires keeping their subversive political and military influences out. Read More

No matter the political landscape, Venezuelans deserve better because they’re image-bearing creatives.  Read More

President Trump on Tuesday said that Venezuelan interim authorities will "be turning over" between "30 and 50 MILLION" barrels... Read More

Trump seizes control of Venezuela: Not all our foreign adventures have been crudely about material gain. But this one sure is. Read More

For all the talk about the Monroe Doctrine, we really ought to discuss a different 19th century concept: Manifest Destiny. Read More

Last weekend, I wrote about New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani’s full-throated pledge to introduce New Yorkers to “the warmth of... Read More

An uninspiring far-left field is vying for the governor’s mansion. Read More

The Justice Department has fired a shot across Big Tech's bow. In a recent speech, Dina Kallay, a deputy assistant attorney... Read More

One would expect a big bang to follow the spending of twenty-thousand billion dollars. It’s a lot of money! It’s pretty much the... Read More

On December 18, Lackawanna College broke ground on its new Career & Technical Innovation (CTI) Center in Scranton. While the ceremony... Read More

The popular news and opinion aggregating/curating website, RealClearPolitics, is a media anomaly. At a time when there is pressure and... Read More

In this special edition of the City Journal podcast, Daniel Di Martino, Josh Appel, and Rafael Mangual reflect on the magic of the holiday... Read More

On todays episode of The Jerry Rogers Podcast, Jerry opened the show talking about Chris Van Hollen "Christmas with the Cranks.' Later he... Read More

Tom Bevan, Carl Cannon, and Andrew Walworth break down the latest economic growth figures, debate the Navy ordering a new set of "Trump... Read More

Christopher Caldwell on Trump’s second term, the global migration crisis and Europe’s loss of purpose. Read More

Energy affordability has become a top concern for  .... Read More

Voting by the non-citizen mayor of Coldwater, Kan., highlights a problem created by Congress. Read More

The Department of Energy’s (DOE) appliance efficiency standards program has been in place for decades, subjecting nearly every major... Read More

Download I am Brian Blase, founder and president of Paragon Health Institute. From 2017 through 2019, I served as a Special Assistant to the... Read More

Introduction In August, AHIP, the trade association for health insurance companies representing the industry’s top players, announced... 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

Once prosperous and cultured, Venezuela has become destitute, crime-ridden, and hopeless. Young socialists should take heed. Read More

The capture of Nicolás Maduro by U.S. forces has sparked global controversy. President Trump insists the operation was legal, citing... Read More

Cuba, China, Iran, and Russia stand to lose the most from Maduro’s capture, Coates and other foreign policy experts explain. Read More

Many of the Democrats condemning President Donald Trump’s decision to arrest Nicolas Mauduro over the weekend once complained that the... Read More

Failing to arrest Nicolas Maduro would have allowed a narco-terrorist state to wreak havoc at our doorstep. Read More

There was a line in Zohran Mamdani’s inaugural address that should have stopped New Yorkers cold. He pledged to replace what he called... Read More

A key thesis of the recently published National Security Strategy of the United States is that this country should get down to serious... Read More

By ignoring the creedal principles animating the United States, progressives and members of the "new right" misunderstand what made us a... Read More

The Founders’ attitude toward immigration and citizenship was enunciated best by the first president of the United States, George... Read More

And how the Democrats might navigate it. Read More

Democrats are grappling with how best to respond to the Trump administration’s military intervention in Venezuela, as the operation to... Read More

Ideas of few books have shaped the economic logic of the American experiment more profoundly than The Wealth of Nations, even when Americans... Read More

Time for a more muscular assertion of Jewish identity Read More

The public victims represent just a tiny fraction of the true cost. Read More

Treating gender distress as a question of ‘identity’ is failing the most vulnerable. Read More

If AI ruins our civilization, it will be because we asked it to. Read More

Liberals don’t think they need to follow American laws or respect American traditions, and they don’t recognize the Trump... Read More

If you care about happiness, well-being, or growth, you should care about GDP. Read More

A HOTLINE reader recently sent us a classic oldie-but-goody economics lesson from economic scholar Mark Perry. Given all the chaos in... Read More

Even as many scholars and pundits deny the differences between the sexes and vastly expand the concept of gender, society is increasingly... Read More

On his first day in office in his second term, January 20, 2025, President Trump issued a collection of Executive Orders. One of those was... Read More

For fifteen years I’ve scalped tickets to pay the bills. But in January 2016 I almost managed a real career. Read More

Jasmine Crockett’s candidacy could all but end their chances of flipping a much-needed Senate seat next year. Read More

Or so says the Government of Australia .... Read More

During the ridiculous controversy over flags flying at the house of Justice Samuel Alito, the media and the left went into vapors over the... Read More

Like the classic Clint Eastwood western, the Trump Administration should have titled its National Security Strategy: “The Good, the Bad,... Read More

If you’re new around here, we have a little holiday tradition — we ask the writers, editors, and contributors at The Federalist... Read More