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A couple of weeks ago, at the dedication ceremony for his presidential library, Barack Obama made a speech in which he addressed the Founding... Read More

How Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, and Ronald Reagan intersected with the nation’s 200th birthday in 1976. Read More

Our task is to match not only the founders' courage, but their wisdom and prudence in order to revive American self-government. Read More

The Race to "Normal" Begins Now. Read More

Do you have any idea what the Democratic Socialists of America stand for? Read More

In Zohran Mamdani’s Democratic Party, only those who bend the knee to antisemitic ideology have a place. Is this the end of an era for... Read More

Below is my column in The Hill on the Democratic establishment struggling to fend off attacks from the far left in their party. After years... Read More

The letter organized by moderate Rep. Tom Suozzi praises capitalism—but it somehow forgets to name the biggest enemy of any decent... Read More

So why aren’t Democrats doing something about it? Read More

Sorry if I'm boring any Europeans with this observation. Read More

Last week, a federal circuit court upheld a Department of Homeland Security directive from January 2025 allowing for the “expedited... Read More

Republicans may have secured their greatest advantage before a single vote is cast, reshaping congressional maps in ways that could blunt the... Read More

When the French political philosopher Alexis de Tocqueville studied American society in the 1830s, he marveled at the seemingly endless array... Read More

Losing New York to socialists, facing a wealth tax election in California—our oligarchs begin to suspect that Americans may not like them... Read More

Andrew Walworth, Tom Bevan, Carl Cannon, and Phil Wegmann discuss the political fallout from Trump’s 14-point MOU to end the war with... Read More

A new memorandum of understanding with Iran sparks debate over whether Tehran has truly been deterred. Victor Davis Hanson and co-host Sami... Read More

Join the conversation with Jerry Rogers as he discusses Bill Ferguson and Johnny Olszewski's comments on ICE arrests at a Baltimore school.... Read More

The Reason Roundtable discusses Elon Musk becoming the world's first trillionaire and whether it's a triumph of capitalism or a warning sign... 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

For twenty years, Washington quietly bankrolled the hemisphere's leftward drift. And then Donald Trump froze the check. Country after country... Read More

The Supreme Court issued four opinions on June 25: one on firearms in Hawaii; one on the weed-killer Roundup; and two on immigration.  Read More

Heredity, geography, and creed are the only forms of discrimination that seem to violate the 14th Amendment’s guarantee of equal... Read More

Uwe Boll is widely considered a terrible filmmaker. When it comes to the pantheon of cinematic trash, the German-born director has created... Read More

The epic results in New York confirmed it: Support for Palestinian rights is driving an unprecedented political transformation—and... Read More

Anti-Zionism is turning the Democratic Party into a mortal enemy of America. Read More

A city board packed with Mamdani appointees voted in favor of the Mayor’s key campaign promise. Read More

Democratic socialists say their movement is populist and working class, but their adherents are disproportionately rich and credentialed. Read More

Some of the institutions behind Tuesday’s progressive surge are already supporting candidates around the country. Read More

Socialists are sweeping through and taking control of America’s big cities, replacing the old Democrat establishment and imposing their... Read More

Why in a hyper-sexualised culture are fewer people actually having sex? Read More

Britain is in even worse shape than I thought. From the Telegraph: “Air conditioning torn from homes under net zero clampdown.” Read More

As the Supreme Court’s decision in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo approaches its second anniversary, most commentary still treats... Read More

Though it punts on the biggest issues, the bipartisan legislation marks a rare instance of constructive dealmaking in Washington. Read More

Traders expect the Fed's new chair to respond to accelerating inflation with higher rates. Credibility requires policy match the tough talk. Read More

A new survey of students at regional public universities by the think tank Third Way offers some surprising insights. 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