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California’s tech elites have virtue-signalled their way to economic collapse. Read More

Last month, the California Voter Identification, Citizenship Verification, and Registered Voter List Administration Initiative.... Read More

Last week, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) announced it had gathered more than 1.5 million signatures —... Read More

Before students can engage in civic action, they must first learn to read and write. Read More

In the end, the Court will enter the political thicket through a side door that never should have been left open in the first place. Read More

When your life and limb are at risk, you are justified in using force that would normally be unjustified. Read More

The likely outcome of the Iran War is a draw at best. Yet, President Trump could achieve much more. In high irony, the conflict has revealed... Read More

The party is ceding the issue to Trump’s critics on the right, inviting disaster in the 2028 presidential election. Read More

Once you see how the former president thinks, you can't unsee it. Read More

The disastrous climate scenarios that have been peddled by politicians and the media are overheated. Read More

That the U.S. railway system is an interconnected national network is obvious (see, e.g., here), the natural infrastructure outcome of... Read More

AI is already improving health, learning, work, and discovery. A federal permission regime would slow those gains, protect incumbents, and... Read More

The new global trading system demands a new type of governing. Read More

Baseball is more than a sport—it ties together generations of Americans. Read More

Zeldin was himself almost the victim of a stabbing at a campaign event in 2022. He reflected on our current moment and the big news stories... Read More

The New York Times interviews Tucker Carlson. Read More

Changes in foreign migration caused US population growth to slow last year and potentially turn negative in 2026.  Read More

Earlier today, I appeared on Sky News Australia’s Outsiders to discuss last Wednesday’s stabbing attacks on Jews in... 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

James Piereson on the consequences of the “Louisiana v. Callais” decision. Read More

The Gates of Hell Are Temporarily Closed for Maintenance. Read More

Trump said the war with Iran will be over “quickly.” But it’s unclear if Iran will accept the reported deal’s terms,... Read More

The fate of England is much in the news as popular resistance to mass immigration grows, limits on free speech tighten, the “special... Read More

The devastating fire that leveled the Pacific Palisades area of Los Angeles was started by an alleged arsonist who was inspired by the murder... Read More

Trump and the GOP kicked the antisemites out, so they migrated to the side that wants them. Read More

For the past century, the agendas of the Democratic Party were predictable. They professed concern for working Americans and supported... Read More

This years marks the 30th anniversary of the Clinton administration’s Citizenship USA scandal. CUSA is a cautionary tale, a case... Read More

The Court’s most steadfast originalist reaches a historic milestone. Read More

From immigration and guns to transgender athletes and mail-in ballots, these are the Supreme Court cases to watch out for in May and June. Read More

The Montana Supreme Court should serve as a cautionary tale about judicial oligarchy. Read More

Cutting costs through outsourcing is one thing. Outsourcing policy is another – and when Congress and federal agencies do it, American... Read More

Lately everyone – including voters on the left and right – hates data centers. The consensus seems to be “not in my... Read More

Two articles from the New York Times in the past couple of days describe the widening divergence between the approaches taken by the U.S. and... Read More

Climate research has a serious governance gap. Read More

At a time when leading politicians in both parties have so strongly embraced pessimism and cynicism, Rubio’s recent remarks were a... Read More

Roosevelt left a mark not only on the American presidency but also on the American imagination, continuing to affirm the necessity of the... Read More

These individual newsletters are a whole new genre. At their best, they have breathed new life into journalism and public discourse. Read More

The United States Senate Judiciary Committee recently convened a full committee hearing as part of its bipartisan investigation into Credit... 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