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The loyalty Democrats show to illegal immigrants is obvious and frustrating to many Americans.  Read More

The 14th Amendment’s Citizenship Clause contains a word that definitively excludes birth tourists: ‘reside.’ Read More

Analysis of the likely loss of the US Supreme Court birthright citizenship case and its legal implications. Read More

A new report finds that many universities still sideline core subjects like Western civilization and American history. Read More

The Golden Thread's appearance signals that America's most prestigious universities have all but given up on maintaining Western civilization. Read More

Freedom of speech isn’t meaningful if we aren’t willing to listen. Read More

The President’s open threat to Iran of what could constitute war crimes has led some to call for his Cabinet or Congress to invoke the... Read More

When I saw the usual suspects floating the lie that Trump was en route to Walter Reed and was clinging to life, the first thing I thought... Read More

As Olympic sport begins to admit the reality of biological difference, Hollywood continues to promote a fantasy that men and women are... Read More

The merciless persecution of Finnish MP Päivi Räsänen has been a catastrophe for free speech. Read More

From technocrats to central planners, the temptation to engineer society persists. Adam Smith saw the dangers clearly. Read More

The 84-year-old has a new cause—and it’s as important as anything he’s ever done. Read More

Back in May 2024, I had a post titled “So How Are Things Going In China?” The post was inspired by a New York Times article of... Read More

When the Pentagon lacks visibility into who can make what, where, and at what scale, its system naturally defaults to what it already knows:... Read More

Thursday, April 2nd on RealClearPolitics - Joined by Retired USAF Brigadier General, John Teichert: Read More

Brink Lindsey discusses the gap between mass prosperity and mass flourishing, capitalism’s crisis of inclusion, and the implications of... Read More

Inflation, tariffs, economics, and the future of conservatism. Read More

Welcome to What Happens Next. My name is Larry Bernstein. What Happens Next is a podcast which covers economics, politics, and history.... 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

Something spiritual is happening this Easter. Christ is risen, indeed. But so is Christianity around the world, despite the best efforts of... Read More

To renew the West, citizenship must once again mean belonging, not merely access. Read More

From the Moon landing to modern living standards, the American system has delivered results no rival ideology can match—despite every... Read More

Men without work, purpose, or a family flounder. And when men flounder, they don’t suffer alone. Read More

Job growth exceeded expectations with 178,000 new jobs and a 4.3 percent unemployment rate. Read More

How do you deal with kidnappers who aren’t clear what ransom they’re demanding? Read More

Rising healthcare costs continue to squeeze household finances. Read More

The war with Iran has already reshaped the Middle East, regardless of how or when the fighting formally ends. The strategic landscape has... Read More

The state of Oregon passed a law last year that should outrage every American who believes in the First Amendment. Not because it bans speech... Read More

Defenders of the 50% global tariffs on steel imposed last year have framed them as a bulwark—an essential line of defense for American... 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