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Politicians who want to lead populist or anti-establishment movements will often indulge their voters’ most ignorant tendencies out of... Read More

Victor Davis Hanson lays out how Zohran Mamdani is wealthy, privileged, and a racist, even as he attacks America for its wealth, privilege,... Read More

Can you generate a red scare absent actual reds? Read More

Communism is an evil philosophy. Communist regimes have killed hundreds of millions of people and made millions more live in a police state.... Read More

It wasn’t just that the Democrats ignored Platner’s massive flaws. Those flaws were a big part of his appeal, the basis of the... Read More

With narrow majorities and little to show beyond one major bill, congressional Republicans risk demoralizing their own voters—and... Read More

An epidemic of what one might term “goldfish brain” is a much-remarked-upon reality of this historical moment. Last year, the... Read More

In ruling after ruling, the Supreme Court justice has penned separate opinions to push for an expansion of executive power beyond what his... Read More

In the term that just ended, the Supreme Court demonstrated that it takes its bearings more from the original understanding of the... Read More

The end of another high-profile term makes clear that the justices are far from letting the president do whatever he wants. Read More

In his 1987 novel The Bonfire of the Vanities, Tom Wolfe lampooned 1980s New York City—including its rampant street crime,... Read More

The more than 10 million illegal immigrants who flooded into our nation under President Biden’s open-border policies significantly... Read More

The battery recycler Ascend Elements was riding high in 2023, flush with hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding. The seed money... Read More

America's family farms are built on generations of sacrifice. The land, the equipment, and the livestock aren’t luxuries. They're the... 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

Scandal-ridden Democratic Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner has been accused of rape. Democrats are finally turning on him. They should... Read More

The mayor’s fighting patriotism bested Trump’s rantings and Obama’s evasions. Read More

Zohran Mamdani, New York’s self-described socialist mayor, could not resist using the nation’s 250th anniversary celebration to... Read More

Promises notwithstanding, Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s first six months in office indicate the success of capitalism and the regular... Read More

This year’s primary season features the rapid ascent within the Democratic Party of the faction going by the name “Democratic... Read More

The slippery slope is quite literally the only way these things ‘work.’ Read More

“Warning: The exhibits in this museum were prepared by people who don’t want you to love your country.” Read More

Through word and deed, I’m fighting with all my might to put France back at the heart of the struggle to return to our roots. Read More

If you’ve been wondering why America’s 250th feels so hollow, the Supreme Court’s June 30 ruling on birthright citizenship... Read More

In the high court’s latest term, the chief practitioners of this purportedly neutral doctrine had a hard time keeping their stories... Read More

As Islamist violence spreads across sub-Saharan Africa, thousands of Christians are being murdered while the West looks away. Read More

The prospects for two Pennsylvania Democrats paint a dismal picture. And right now, it’s difficult to envision the party nominating a... Read More

Not every World War II story was good triumphing against evil. 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