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American legal conservatives are too enamored of abstractions. Read More

American citizenship is a covenant between the people of this nation, and when it is obtained through fraud, it is null and void. Read More

A redistricting referendum that could allow Democrats to flip up to four House seats narrowly passed Tuesday in Virginia. Read More

The Harvard Crimson reports that “Harvard is quietly asking donors for $10 million gifts to establish new endowed professorships in a... Read More

In Chiles v. Salazar, the Centennial State continues its losing streak in First Amendment cases. Read More

Throughout the (ongoing, nine-week long) DHS funding shutdown, the department has been slow to release key data, but ICE did recently... Read More

Mamdani and Hochul’s plan will further distort an already-dysfunctional property tax system. Read More

A post by U.S. Senator Chris Murphy exposes what we've known all along: TDS makes you root for the Ayatollah. Read More

The effort is the latest sign President Donald Trump plans to make good on his threats against members not deemed “model... Read More

As the arts world legitimizes bias against Israel in the post-Oct. 7 world, a hit play about author Roald Dahl’s Jew-hatred explores... Read More

The indictment of the Southern Poverty Law Center on federal fraud charges this week is the start of what could become not just a major... Read More

As is the case with so many policy areas, the Trump administration has totally upended the food policy agenda.  Out is the food pyramid,... Read More

President Donald Trump's recent decision to issue a 60-day waiver of the Jones Act – allowing oil, natural gas, fertilizer, and coal to... Read More

As he stood center stage in Newark Monday night, Bruce Springsteen was a familiar portrait of rock-god pomp and fervor. Read More

My discussion with Casey Babb about the surrender to Islamisation. Read More

Tom Bevan, Andrew Walworth, and Carl Cannon discuss the redistricting referendum today in Virginia and what Trump's pick for Fed Chair... Read More

Join the conversation with Jerry Rogers as he discusses the concept of tone in diplomacy. Is tone more important, or is it the context of... Read More

The editors discuss the growing push on the left to 'tax the rich,' highlighted by Zohran Mamdani's Tax Day message.... 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

Pseudo-Heroes It is difficult to determine whether the bizarro worldview of the current Democrat-media nexus can simply be attributed to... Read More

I’m an American and Catholic woman. My patriotism and my faith show me that if we refuse to sacrifice for what was bestowed to us as a... Read More

The woke left harbor a fierce, unrelenting hatred for Thomas Jefferson and Henry Clay. Read More

The Trump Administration is comprehensively expanding our historical understanding of the nuanced history of slavery and freedom. Read More

A Second Circuit Court of Appeals ruling clears the way for civil suits against both the purveyors and backers of ideologically motivated... Read More

Democrats can't muster the votes to impeach and remove Trump, or even to stop an illegal war. The 25th Amendment would be even more difficult. Read More

Accountability is good. Read More

When I consider our new Mayor Mamdani and his legions of committed followers, the thought I can’t get away from is “How is it possible to... Read More

The Senate is about to try to use one of Congress’ most powerful tools—the budget reconciliation process—to fund... Read More

Our sad, sudden surrender to sports betting was a long time in the making. Read More

Justice Alito is the least heralded conservative on the Supreme Court; Hemingway corrects that by revealing the formidable man beneath the... Read More

The path Senate Majority Leader John Thune has chosen includes elements of both the nuclear option and talking filibuster. Read More

The ousting of Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer is the latest sign yet of a president whose second term has not gone as planned —... 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