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Citizens should be represented in their government as individuals, rather than as members of pre-selected groups based on race or ethnicity.... Read More

Last-minute redistricting and Trump's mail-voting executive order cause confusion. Read More

Ever since Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders’s 2016 presidential campaign, people have been trying to explain the American left’s... Read More

Antisemitism is so resurgent in U.S. politics that some of the worst hate speech you've ever heard has become a part of day-to-day life for... Read More

In this world, there are many, many things I don’t know. I don’t know New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof, for example.... Read More

John Eastman’s only hope for keeping his law license in California is a “Hail Mary” pass to the U.S. Supreme Court. We... Read More

He's got an Airstream trailer and a microphone. Read More

. “I respect President Trump, but if he brings 500,000 Chinese students to Florida colleges, I will raise tuition on them to... Read More

President Trump deserves credit for stating that preventing Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons is more important than avoiding bad economic... Read More

California’s tech oligarchs are portraying themselves as victims, as the left clamors to tax their wealth away. Perhaps they should take... Read More

Congress should fix the ROAD to Housing Act before it reduces supply. Read More

Overcoming the zero-sum politics of housing reform. Read More

Bad economic policy is demoralizing the young. Read More

Everybody knows about the decline in birthrates. Fewer people understand why—or just how significantly it could transform society in the... Read More

Andrew Walworth hosts RCP president and co-founder Tom Bevan and Washington bureau chief Carl Cannon to break down what the president... Read More

This episode examines the claim that billionaires pay little or nothing in federal taxes while ordinary workers carry the burden. Read More

Is America trading excellence for ideology? In this episode, Rafael Mangual sits down with Heather Mac Donald—author of When Race... Read More

We discuss tackling fraud, including visa fraudsters, why Marty Makary stepped down as FDA chief, and how he is working to upend the prior... Read More

A comprehensive resource that ranks the economic competitiveness of states using fifteen equally weighted policy variables Read More

Following Tax Day, Open the Books is releasing a set of deep dives into data released by the Internal Revenue Service, synthesized with... Read More

Unleash Prosperity is a non-profit, so this is an admission against our own interests, but non-profit tax status is one of the largest and... Read More

On Tax Day, Americans should consider not just how much they pay in federal income taxes, but where that money is going. 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

In delightful literary forms, he conveys moral and political insights that remain all the more true for being so profoundly countercultural. Read More

Earlier this month, I stood beneath the towering frame of the Empire State Building in Midtown Manhattan and something my friend Mark, a New... Read More

Last week, The Washington Free Beacon revealed that the leading candidate for Congress in New Jersey’s 12th district, Adam Hamawy, was a... Read More

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez claims the American Revolution was against billionaires, but the Founders believed in capitalism and free markets,... Read More

Why is interest in UFOs on the rise? No one is better positioned to answer that question than Diana Walsh Pasulka, whose book “American... Read More

The logic was simple: "Before an election" means "before the first votes are cast." Read More

No, again, the war with Iran is not lost. Read More

In a piece which has already been widely debunked, Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times claimed that Israeli prison guards routinely use... Read More

A campus exhibit shows messages like “all white people are racist.” Read More

It’s been a long time since I have done an update on the homelessness situation in San Francisco. The reason is that I have avoided the... Read More

A.I. did not center in Trump-Xi talks as much as some observers expected, but it nevertheless remains an undercurrent in key geopolitical... Read More

The Senate Commerce Committee’s recent oversight hearing on the Federal Trade Commission raised a question worth answering: Does the... Read More

President Trump extends Iran ceasefire amid fractured regime and ongoing US blockade. Read More

Senior officials knew election systems had meaningful vulnerabilities... Read More

Donald Trump’s labor secretary, Lori Chavez-DeRemer, is leaving the administration under a cloud of misconduct allegations. These... Read More

Real medical freedom will require something greater than replacing the public health establishment: ending the FDA's monopoly. Read More

Revisiting Tax Changes in New York and Massachusetts. Read More

The SNAP program has suffered from a lack of national oversight for decades. Read More