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Understanding 'Trump v. Barbara'. Read More

The Supreme Court’s decision upholding birthright citizenship is a victory that may contain the seeds of a future defeat. Read More

The issue isn’t whether America inherited English legal language; it’s whether it inherited England’s understanding of... Read More

Following losses at the Supreme Court on voting and citizenship, MAGA has turned on Amy Coney Barrett. Read More

The administration was never going to win the birthright citizenship case before the Supreme Court. Changing something as fundamental as our... Read More

Bill Maher is the perfect liberal, at least on paper—yet despite his talk shows being nominated for Emmy awards more than 40... Read More

The rapidly expanding Alliance for Responsible Citizenship is only in its third year – but the ideas it extols draw from the ages, and... Read More

Pope Leo XIV recently stated that “We tend to think that when the church is talking about morality, that the only issue of morality is... Read More

Poetica Coffee, a Brooklyn café, promises anyone who walks through its door “unconditional dignity.” Not as a customer and... Read More

School choice is crucial to the American Dream—we need a new birth of freedom. Read More

Vividly I learning about the importance of cotton in American history classes as a youth. The Industrial Revolution and Eli Whitney’s... Read More

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has made eliminating fraud and waste a priority, with a focus on overpayments and price... Read More

Tom Bevan, Carl Cannon, Andrew Walworth, and Richard Porter break down the Supreme Court's latest decisions on birthright citizenship,... Read More

The men who signed the Declaration of Independence were not perfect. They lived with contradictions. Some owned slaves. Some opposed slavery.... Read More

In this special double feature, Chris welcomes the authors of two new books about the American way of life—one about the many things... Read More

On Get Real with David DesRosiers, Pamela Paresky, Founder and Director of Free Mind Foundation, discusses anti-Zionism. Read More

The Supreme Court held that statutory restrictions on the President’s authority to remove Federal Trade Commission commissioners... Read More

U.S. small businesses are using integrated financial tools and seamless access to credit to eliminate back-office friction and unlock future... Read More

Although Donald Trump’s defenders describe the Russia hoax and other efforts to frame the president as a... Read More

Everyone born here — with only limited exceptions — is a U.S. citizen, and immigration hawks will now argue deportations are more... 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

Win some blue-state and blue-city races, and the cocky new socialist Jacobins believe that they have either already taken over the Democratic... Read More

On this July Fourth, Americans ask: What does it mean to love a country that won't love you back? Read More

From Graham Platner to Darializa Chevalier to Zohran Mamdani, it's faculty lounge and HR lady politics masquerading as a working-class agenda. Read More

An immigrant's journey to the radical left and back... Read More

I know, I know. The first half-dozen comments under this piece will provide the criticism that I shouldn't use mealy-mouthed words like... Read More

Over the weekend Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin defended the Trump administration’s decision to end Temporary Protected... Read More

The media’s at it again: Trying to whip up public hysteria over immigration enforcement. Read More

In 'Fiscal Democracy in America,' Kurt Couchman contends that Congress’s broken budget process requires constitutional and procedural... Read More

The Supreme Court has finally brought the administrative state back under elected control. Read More

The liberal counterweight to conservatives’ Project 2025 is rolling out a series of policies to set the stage for an already crowded field... Read More

...some saying that it was driven by rising premiums... others see program integrity measures taken by the Trump admin were successful in... Read More

Why would a small cadre of Republicans join in with all the Democrats on Capitol Hill to force employment contracts upon private citizen... Read More

A remarkable feature of governments in Europe is the extent to which they operate explicitly against the interest of their citizens and... Read More

President Trump may need to reply to Iran's attacks disproportionately or risk being a lame-duck president with only a phone and a pen as... Read More

It must draw from and build upon old-fashioned liberal education, especially insights derived from philosophy and theology. 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