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The year is 2020. A college student uses Zoom to plan a peaceful vigil with friends. Read More

When a program is rotten to its core, reform isn’t enough. Read More

Today is April 15, the day of reckoning between the Internal Revenue Service and millions of (procrastinating) taxpayers. Two recent... Read More

On Tax Day, I am sharing my new piece in The Daily Economy that explains why governments should find ways to reduce or eliminate... Read More

A culture that punished ambition cost us decades of space exploration. Read More

The year is 1983… Read More

Privileging ancestry risks dismantling the engine of opportunity that made New York City great. Read More

I know that it's a sin against my own intelligence not to follow Mark Twain's guidance in matters such as these. Twain said many wise things.... Read More

The theological fault lines that divide America’s 50 million or so Catholics from its roughly 130 million Protestants have been largely... Read More

You don’t need to win the argument if you can convince your opponent he’s no longer capable of making one. Read More

We seem to be moving from a period of demand scarcity (not enough customers) to supply scarcity (not enough compute). Read More

AI may replace narrow technical skills, but the liberal arts equip students with the critical thinking employers increasingly demand. Read More

Eric Swalwell was Nancy Pelosi’s made man, the golden child of San Francisco’s rotten machine politics. Read More

The 25th Amendment provides a complex mechanism for removing a president who is unable to perform his duties because of illness or other... Read More

A looming lockout could test whether baseball players can hold the line against billionaire team owners. Read More

On this week’s episode of the RealClearInvestigations Podcast, RCI Editor J. Peder Zane and RCI Senior Reporter James Varney speak with... Read More

James Robbins joins Tom Bevan, Andrew Walworth, and Carl Cannon to discuss the new U.S. strategy to blockade Iran after negotiations failed... Read More

Against the backdrop of Operation Epic Fury and President Trump’s frustration with military support from NATO allies, Secretary General... Read More

Jerry had a very special guest on the Jerry Rogers Show. William Jacobson is a Clinical Professor of Law and Director of the Securities Law... Read More

Finally, the federal government is shrinking. Read More

“The story of America in the twenty-first century is the story of chosen scarcities,” argue Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson in Abundance,... Read More

OpenAI needs to build on the successes of open markets and turn away from regulation, taxation, and cartelization. Read More

In a recent class, I asked my students a simple question: What do you think about the Artemis II mission? 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

Let’s consider the merits of a regressive tax code. Read More

A real-world example shows taxes eat into marginal income, steering workers toward lower-paying, but more pleasant, jobs. Read More

House Democrats have filed a bill to investigate President Trump’s mental fitness. Read More

The 25th Amendment provides a complex mechanism for removing a president who is unable to perform his duties because of illness or other... Read More

President Trump and Pope Leo are in a war of words right now—when they should be allies, not enemies.  Read More

The Pope has abandoned his own church's "just war" doctrine Read More

The prognosis of the Iran War is now so couched in politics and so warped by the American Left that the public has grown tired and wants it... Read More

What a difference a week makes. Last Tuesday, Donald Trump’s critics were crowing that Iran had achieved a strategic victory in its war... Read More

Why the President must stay the course on his most significant campaign promise. Read More

Trump's bargain with swing voters was that he would deliver a strong economy and they would look past his many defects. By attacking Iran,... Read More

Policies that restrict supply and raise costs are punishing drivers while doing little for the environment. Read More

The core of such a policy is advancing entrepreneurial capitalism as the basis for a new world order. Read More

I’ve written an analysis of the April 21st redistricting vote here in Virginia. At that time, I made the urgent and emphatic point that... Read More

New York has been a godsend for gun rights in passing a series of unconstitutional limits on Second Amendment rights only to result in major... Read More

Illustrative: Demonstrators holding a “Stand Up for Internationals” rally on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley, in... Read More

In December, as Paramount’s $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. was still under negotiation, Members of Congress wrote to Treasury... Read More

Christian hope found in the American spirit. Read More

President Donald Trump ousts Pam Bondi as attorney general. Read More

The State of Texas has become as synonymous with crippling public school debt as it is with oil wells and tumbleweeds. Its public schools... Read More

Maryland parents want more educational freedom. Read More

Gov. Tim Walz has been a fan of Wallethub’s work, including its recent raking of Minnesota as the second-best state to raise a family.... Read More

A bill designed to address consumer costs will turn out to be a death sentence for credit card access. Written as an emergency action,... Read More

They would push more businesses out and further erode the state’s tax base. Read More

Health Policy Solutions Americans Can Trust. Read More

I am old enough to remember when your family members could accompany you to the airport and share a meal with you before your flight or wait... Read More

U.S. employment growth is at a near standstill. In February 2026, total nonfarm payrolls grew by just 0.1 percent year over year to 158.5... Read More

"If requiring identification is truly racist, why do we only hear the outrage when it regards elections?" asks Project 21 Ambassador Curtis... Read More

America finds itself in a tremendously dangerous era.  Read More

Middle East fighting creates an opportunity for Ukraine—the world’s drone superpower—but Kyiv and America’s allies must seize the... Read More