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For twenty years, Washington quietly bankrolled the hemisphere's leftward drift. And then Donald Trump froze the check. Country after country... Read More

The Supreme Court issued four opinions on June 25: one on firearms in Hawaii; one on the weed-killer Roundup; and two on immigration.  Read More

Heredity, geography, and creed are the only forms of discrimination that seem to violate the 14th Amendment’s guarantee of equal... Read More

Uwe Boll is widely considered a terrible filmmaker. When it comes to the pantheon of cinematic trash, the German-born director has created... Read More

The epic results in New York confirmed it: Support for Palestinian rights is driving an unprecedented political transformation—and... Read More

Anti-Zionism is turning the Democratic Party into a mortal enemy of America. Read More

A city board packed with Mamdani appointees voted in favor of the Mayor’s key campaign promise. Read More

Democratic socialists say their movement is populist and working class, but their adherents are disproportionately rich and credentialed. Read More

Some of the institutions behind Tuesday’s progressive surge are already supporting candidates around the country. Read More

Socialists are sweeping through and taking control of America’s big cities, replacing the old Democrat establishment and imposing their... Read More

Why in a hyper-sexualised culture are fewer people actually having sex? Read More

Britain is in even worse shape than I thought. From the Telegraph: “Air conditioning torn from homes under net zero clampdown.” Read More

As the Supreme Court’s decision in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo approaches its second anniversary, most commentary still treats... Read More

Though it punts on the biggest issues, the bipartisan legislation marks a rare instance of constructive dealmaking in Washington. Read More

Traders expect the Fed's new chair to respond to accelerating inflation with higher rates. Credibility requires policy match the tough talk. Read More

A new survey of students at regional public universities by the think tank Third Way offers some surprising insights. Read More

Andrew Walworth, Tom Bevan, Carl Cannon, and Phil Wegmann discuss the political fallout from Trump’s 14-point MOU to end the war with... Read More

A new memorandum of understanding with Iran sparks debate over whether Tehran has truly been deterred. Victor Davis Hanson and co-host Sami... Read More

Join the conversation with Jerry Rogers as he discusses Bill Ferguson and Johnny Olszewski's comments on ICE arrests at a Baltimore school.... Read More

The Reason Roundtable discusses Elon Musk becoming the world's first trillionaire and whether it's a triumph of capitalism or a warning sign... 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

Yesterday was primary election day in New York. I previewed it in my prior post, “Socialism: On The March, Or Not So Much?” There... Read More

Progressive analysts and politicians hope the New York primaries could be the start of something. They have some data to back that up. Read More

Primary wins by three DSA-aligned congressional candidates backed by New York’s mayor should jolt a complacent Democratic establishment. Read More

A democratic socialist who favors the eradication of Western civilization just won her New York City primary. Read More

We're not seeing a multi-racial working-class uprising. We're seeing privileged white gentrifiers organizing a politics of resentment driven... Read More

And has now ushered in Radical Islam. Read More

I'm not going to make too big a production out of this, because the headline does most of the work, but in the aftermath of Tuesday's primary... Read More

A stunning trio of congressional victories proved that the political earthquake the mayor and his allies ushered in was no fluke. Read More

The Democratic Party and the Democratic Socialists of America are becoming indistinguishable from one another. Read More

American politics, reordered and reimagined by a decade of President Trump's rise, fall and resurrection, is imploding in substantial ways. Read More

If it sometimes seems like the American cultural mainstream is ignorant of the role of Christianity in the founding of the United States, or... Read More

With a decision on birthright citizenship looming, SCOTUS could undermine the entire concept of the nation. Read More

More than 15 years since its publication and as America approaches its 250th anniversary celebration, it is worth revisiting John... Read More

On June 22, the America First Legal Foundation (AFL) filed a complaint on behalf of the state of Texas challenging the Biden... Read More

As president and CEO of D.A.R.E. America, I have spent my career working to keep our youth safe from dangerous substances that threaten their... Read More

The new housing law is a victory for Democratic agenda-setting, but real impact on housing costs remains elusive. Read More

Blame federal fuel economy standards for the rise in pedestrian deaths. 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