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Donald Trump, who once claimed, “I have the right to do whatever I want as president,” isn’t always getting it all his own... Read More

Donald Trump's deep understanding of news industry vulnerabilities gives him unprecedented political power over media coverage and public... Read More

The case for caution amid accelerating AI capability Read More

An AI safeguards advocacy group tied to various super PACs is calling on candidates to make clear where they stand on the technology. Read More

Duncan Levin: The question is whether the Justice Department exercised the kind of judgment that sensitive disclosures demand, not the number... Read More

A GOP star on the rise. Read More

The Trump Administration is doing more than just repealing the EPA's endangerment finding. Read More

Are we finally beginning to see the rational shift we’ve been hoping for for decades? Read More

This month, the anniversary of the California Gold Rush came and passed with little mention … for good reason.  Read More

Unless Virginia voters reject the new congressional district plan created and passed by a Democrat legislature and signed by a... Read More

TLP Podcast with guest Mike Pesca. Read More

The administration’s sketchily funded Freedom 250 project, which will oversee the celebration of America’s semiquincentennial, is... Read More

Diversity, equity, and inclusion priorities have transformed nonprofit governance into ideological enforcement. Read More

Join the conversation with Jerry Rogers as he discusses Wes Moore's newest policy update on public safety. Jerry also speaks with Julienne... Read More

Friday on the RealClearPolitics podcast, Andrew Walworth, Carl Cannon, and Tom Bevan discuss TrumpRx, the new government website... Read More

John O. McGinnis joins Brian Anderson to discuss his forthcoming book, Why Democracy Needs the Rich: The Hidden Benefits of Wealth in a Free... Read More

Marie Kawthar Daouda on how obsessing over race entraps and divides us. Read More

Energy affordability has become a top concern for  .... Read More

Voting by the non-citizen mayor of Coldwater, Kan., highlights a problem created by Congress. Read More

The Department of Energy’s (DOE) appliance efficiency standards program has been in place for decades, subjecting nearly every major... Read More

Download I am Brian Blase, founder and president of Paragon Health Institute. From 2017 through 2019, I served as a Special Assistant to the... Read More

Introduction In August, AHIP, the trade association for health insurance companies representing the industry’s top players, announced... 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

Ignore the tendentious herd mentality; the press should offer the public “a little more light and a little less noise” —... Read More

Governor Wes Moore says he is "excited." Practically giddy. Excited to sign legislation that makes it harder—no, illegal—for... Read More

Pressed for evidence to support his oft-repeated claim that his great-grandfather and grandfather were run out of South Carolina in the 1920s... Read More

In recent years, Americans have known what to expect from our Neronian Super Bowl halftime shows: mediocre music veneered over with gaudy,... Read More

Bad Bunny could have bashed Trump, ICE and/or America during his Super Bowl set. But he didn't. So why is the Right still savaging him? Read More

What other stories are obscured by these walls of one-track coverage?  Read More

Defying doomcasters who predicted that AI plus tariffs mean disaster for American workers, the January employment news blew past... Read More

More good news from today’s Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) monthly report.  Read More

Affordability is a lot more than just prices. Beyond lowering prices, an affordability agenda needs to reckon with how the economy feels. Read More

When you limit the price of risk, lenders respond by rationing access to credit. Read More

A coalition of more than 50 leaders of conservative and free-market organizations signed onto a letter to members of Congress on Thursday,... Read More

Inflation is a silent tax—and the most painful way to finance government promises. Read More

Once firmly established in American finance, the proxy advisory industry now faces regulatory threats and AI-driven challenges. To survive,... Read More

Top AI experts at OpenAI, Anthropic and other companies warn of rising dangers of their technology, with some quitting in protest or going... Read More

The American Academy of Pediatrics is wasting time fighting small-scale discussions while large-scale accountability looms.  Read More

The White House and Senate Democrats reached a deal Thursday to separate the fight over ICE funding from the threat of a broader... Read More

The deeper significance of California's billionaire tax is in how it redefines what it means to own property in the United States. Read More

For many decades now a federal policy called the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) has raised gas prices and transferred billions of dollars from... Read More

Conservatives have long stood for a simple but powerful idea: prosperity is achieved through freedom, competition, and growth. That principle... Read More

We like the Trump Accounts because they are designed to create a nation of owners and it democratize stock ownership allowing today’s... Read More

Family farmers are among the great guardians of the sovereignty of the United States. By putting American grown and... Read More

Only in America, with the army of lawyers looking for opportunities to make money, could an industry crop up to promote litigation. There is... Read More

Changes in supply and demand—plus the toll of a million deaths—have disrupted the fentanyl market, writes Sally Satel about the dramatic... Read More

What’s the best thing to do if you’re in a life-threatening emergency? Read More

On the contrary, notwithstanding various ongoing problems in the real economy, the US is a gathering economic success story. Read More

All of Thomas Sowell’s “considerable learning” is front and center in his 2007 book A Conflict of Visions: Ideological... Read More