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The term “culture war” is most often associated with Pat Buchanan, the founder of this magazine who invoked it during his speech... Read More

No one’s surprised to find President Biden’s $2.3 trillion infrastructure package brimming with special interest pork, but his... Read More

In 1851, members of a California state militia called the Mariposa Battalion became the first white men to lay eyes on Yosemite Valley. The... Read More

As sales slowly improve, Ohio’s restaurants and bars now face another issue that threatens ongoing COVID-19 pandemic recovery efforts:... Read More

President Biden’s American Jobs Plan has put the United States on an aggressive path toward a clean electricity standard (CES) that, at... Read More

In 2016 influential political leaders, activists, and media outlets in Los Angeles said they had a simple solution to homelessness: build... Read More

When I covered the inaugural Earth Day teach-ins as a reporter 51 years ago, one of the top concerns was the rapidly growing U.S.... Read More

Four years ago, then-president Donald Trump railed against a little-known law that protects websites from liability for content posted on... Read More

RealClearEducation has published a national opinion survey of students belonging to Greek-letter organizations, encompassing 4,620 students... Read More

There’s a lot of hot air coming out of Washington right now about the need to do something to improve “infrastructure,” but... Read More

I threw away half the house when my mother died. Baby shoes. Undeveloped film. Awards from third grade. All of it was important. None of it... Read More

The meaning of religious freedom remains one of the more contested areas of our constitutional politics. The progressive left tends to... Read More

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey is facing a $1.7 billion revenue loss because so few people were driving during the Covid-19... Read More

A trustworthy and enduring democracy includes all voices. It gives all serious perspectives a chance to be heard. When dialogue ends,... Read More

The Democratic Party has always been a loose confederation of outsiders — poor farmers, union members, populists, European immigrants... Read More

The U.S. Constitution’s Second Amendment provides, “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State,... Read More

With classrooms finally reopening and hundreds of billions of federal dollars earmarked for public schools, the issue of teacher pay will... Read More

Shortly before Christmas last year, I sent a message to Jeff Sharlet, a writer I don’t know, thanking him for memorializing the dead.... Read More

Late in March, authorities in Los Angeles attempted to remove a large encampment of unhoused people who had settled in tents along Echo Park... Read More

Americans don’t just need relief; we need a bold plan. We need a plan that is grounded in vision for equity that is supported by the... Read More

On March 29, just after 2:30 AM, Chicago’s ShotSpotter alert system detected eight or nine gunshots in the West Side, largely Latino,... Read More

The Biden tax programs can’t pay off the huge debt the administration is incurring. Corporate investment will suffer, as will... Read More

The former Minneapolis police officer was found guilty on all three counts he faced—but his trial was a demonstration of how difficult... Read More

I have never been in real quicksand, and you probably haven’t been, either. But many of us have the sense that our constitutional... Read More

Domestic violence rose globally in 2020 – so much so that doctors have called it “a pandemic within a pandemic.” The... Read More

President Biden will soon release the details of his $400 billion, ten-year human infrastructure program. It sounds like a huge sum. But... Read More

A recent article by The Wall Street Journal outlines how, as stimulus money flowed to states and taxpayers, the U.S. budget gap widened to a... Read More