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In delightful literary forms, he conveys moral and political insights that remain all the more true for being so profoundly countercultural. Read More

Earlier this month, I stood beneath the towering frame of the Empire State Building in Midtown Manhattan and something my friend Mark, a New... Read More

Last week, The Washington Free Beacon revealed that the leading candidate for Congress in New Jersey’s 12th district, Adam Hamawy, was a... Read More

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez claims the American Revolution was against billionaires, but the Founders believed in capitalism and free markets,... Read More

Why is interest in UFOs on the rise? No one is better positioned to answer that question than Diana Walsh Pasulka, whose book “American... Read More

The logic was simple: "Before an election" means "before the first votes are cast." Read More

No, again, the war with Iran is not lost. Read More

In a piece which has already been widely debunked, Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times claimed that Israeli prison guards routinely use... Read More

A campus exhibit shows messages like “all white people are racist.” Read More

It’s been a long time since I have done an update on the homelessness situation in San Francisco. The reason is that I have avoided the... Read More

A.I. did not center in Trump-Xi talks as much as some observers expected, but it nevertheless remains an undercurrent in key geopolitical... Read More

The Senate Commerce Committee’s recent oversight hearing on the Federal Trade Commission raised a question worth answering: Does the... Read More

Last week, the Supreme Court struck down a Louisiana congressional map in a 6–3 decision tied to a 1986 amendment to Section 2 of the... Read More

Defending a culture under siege with Brendan O'Neill .... Read More

Sen. John Fetterman discusses the state of the Democratic Party, immigration, foreign policy, and the dangers of political extremism. Read More

Tom Bevan, Andrew Walworth, and Richard Porter discuss President Trump creating political headaches for Republicans with comments about the... 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

The GOP is hoping to redraw maps in at least two more states before the midterm elections. Read More

Controversial rulings from the U.S. Supreme Court and the Virginia Supreme Court in the last several weeks have thrust redistricting into the... Read More

Louisiana v. Callais limits race-based redistricting, but Black voters as swing voters could gain more influence in geographically compact... Read More

Michael R. Strain argues that proposals for punitive taxes on the ultra-wealthy threaten to do far more harm than good. Read More

Even the abundance wing of the left wants "a much stronger government," in movement champion Ezra Klein's words. Read More

How the radicalized children of the credentialed class overtook the base of the American left, and why they never win the class war. Read More

Every spring, I watch another class of young men cross stages, shake hands, and step into the next phase of their lives. As President and CEO... Read More

All-girls Catholic schools produce great women.  Read More

The former Israeli envoy on Jew-hatred said that the paper's timing "took up all the airspace" to help bury an evidence-based report on... Read More

Under Gavin Newsom, state prisoners are turning taxpayer-funded tablets into personal sex machines. Read More

Democrat candidates in both the Los Angeles mayor's race and the California governor's race refuse to talk about Democrat failures in the... Read More

There is a long history of Democrats recognizing they have a problem but then dealing with it in terms of optics instead of policy substance. Read More

The Democrats are no longer a party with policy ideas. Read More

After students and faculty at Georgetown successfully campaigned to cancel commencement speaker Morton Schapiro over his support for Israel,... Read More

Their goal all along was work permits, not protection. Read More

It was the first time Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski voted for the War Powers measure. Read More

In the low-profile race for California insurance commissioner, Jane Kim wants to borrow from other countries to solve a crisis in the... Read More

Organizations often mistake measurable activity for meaningful achievement. AI productivity metrics confuse computation costs with added... Read More

Spalding clearly reads the Declaration as a high-minded document, rich in philosophical content and brimming with noble purpose. Read More

How Martin Luther and centuries of Church thinkers inspired the Bill of Rights.  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