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Fans of outlaw country music will recall an old song called “Good Time Charlie’s Got the Blues,” which appeared on Waylon Jennings’s... Read More

Spencer Pratt loses to a Democratic Socialist. Read More

As the Los Angeles mayoral race shows, the Golden State must deal with serious systemic defects. Read More

Why Murkowski, McConnell, Collins, and Tillis sided against a popular voter-ID and proof-of-citizenship bill. Read More

I don’t know what to believe about Graham Platner’s past. But I know this. He hasn’t spent the last 40 years transferring... Read More

Below is my column in The Hill on the Graham Platner controversy on the eighth anniversary of the Kavanaugh nomination. It now appears that... Read More

A strong performance from Janet Mills on Tuesday could present challenges for Graham Platner, while a commanding win for Platner could help... Read More

An internal memo lays out how Democrats could flip key statehouses to gain potentially dozens of House seats before 2028. Read More

In its more than two centuries of existence, the Democratic Party has, from time to time, demonstrated that it knows how to do politics. This... Read More

Free markets create the incentives that drive innovation, investment, and opportunity. Read More

Will we build a moral architecture disguising a perennial human impulse? Read More

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the national median hourly wage was $24.51 and growing in May 2025. Read More

Yet another blowout jobs report this morning, with the addition of 172,000 jobs beating all expectations and the prior months revised upward... Read More

Walter Isaacson’s new book, The Greatest Sentence Ever Written, reminds us that we are a nation dedicated to a proposition. Read More

Hillsdale has once again given its time, its treasure, and its talent to the republic with Revolutionary America. 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

Sixty-seven minutes elapsed between the time Henry Nowak was stabbed by Vickrum Digwa and his death, on December 3 last year, in Southampton,... Read More

To reclaim an upward trajectory, the U.K. must relearn the habit of national agency. Read More

In Louisiana v. Callais, the Supreme Court appeared to sever one of the civil rights regime’s largest appendages: race-conscious... Read More

For the Iranian regime, the purpose of negotiations is to force America to surrender. Read More

I have often expressed puzzlement over the Trump administration’s cease fire in Iran and its strategy going forward.  Read More

Genghis Khan and Elon Musk inherited similar instincts but different systems. Read More

An America indifferent to the universal principles of the Declaration would no longer be the America we have all been blessed to inherit. Read More

We are often told by progressives that unfettered free speech is somehow irreconcilable with genuine equality and social justice. Whereas the... Read More

Because the appearance of fraud is just as bad as its actual existence. Read More

Democratic Governor Mikie Sherrill has repeatedly claimed that conditions in the Delaney Hall ICE facility are abhorrent, inhuman, and... Read More

The political class hopes in vain for a miracle. Read More

Gov. Kathy Hochul’s call last year to develop advanced nuclear power facilities in upstate New York triggered protests from the usual... Read More

My letter to the editor at The Wall Street Journal on why the Fed—not banks—is driving higher borrowing costs. Read More

Remember when pro-lockdown public health experts said protesting was OK if it was against racism? 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