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On Memorial Day, let us pray for peace — not only for ourselves, but for all those who seek freedom and justice. Read More

Memorial Day was first instituted in the aftermath of the Civil War, to appease the suffering caused by the terrible bloodshed of that... Read More

Matthew Mehan takes readers on a road trip through history like none other. Read More

Remembering the great civil rights leader. Read More

It would be nice if political journalists read more. It would be nicer still if we didn’t constantly have to wonder whether they... Read More

What is an indictable “threat of violence”? Read More

Ten years into Donald Trump’s takeover of the Republican party, his opponents continue to misunderstand and underestimate him. Read More

Rep. Thomas Massie’s defeat at the hands of a Republican primary challenger backed by President Trump marked the merciful end of the... Read More

Why so many people believe the racist lie that Israelis are using dogs to rape Palestinians. Read More

Anthony L. Fisher: The former president’s son and the antisemitic right-wing podcaster bonded over hating “the elites.” Read More

Coding was supposed to be a pathway to a high-paying job, but AI is pulling the rug out from young programmers. Read More

Opposition to the technology is growing in the US. Can the first American Pope make a difference in his first encyclical? Read More

The outcome in Iran is emerging as a two-staged agreement where, in the second stage, Iran agrees to as-yet undefined limits on its nuclear... Read More

"It's basically a no dust, no dollars concept," the official concluded, citing President Trump's habit of referring to Iran's enriched... Read More

Andrew Walworth hosts RCP president and co-founder Tom Bevan and Washington bureau chief Carl Cannon to break down what the president... Read More

This episode examines the claim that billionaires pay little or nothing in federal taxes while ordinary workers carry the burden. Read More

Is America trading excellence for ideology? In this episode, Rafael Mangual sits down with Heather Mac Donald—author of When Race... Read More

We discuss tackling fraud, including visa fraudsters, why Marty Makary stepped down as FDA chief, and how he is working to upend the prior... 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

All right, let's wrap this up quickly. We've all got a weekend to get to. 1. The NAACP Goes Full Blazing Saddles In perhaps the greatest... Read More

House Democrats unanimously voted this week against legislation to build a new women’s history museum on the National Mall. The reason... Read More

President Trump’s successful dispatch of Thomas Massie, the Kentucky Republican gadfly, came quickly as no surprise.  Read More

The reality star's mayoral bid is running on outrage, celebrity and A.I. slop—and might just seal Karen Bass' re-election. Read More

The lesson L.A. should learn: credentials are the disease, not the cure. Read More

Political scientist Meredith Conroy says that late-night shows are still politically relevant in as their audiences shrink. Read More

The media isn't taking Stephen Colbert's Late Show cancellation well. That reaction tells you plenty about his show and its political intent. Read More

The suspicious website, Kiddle, is spreading biased information to children that soft-pedals authoritarian regimes and terrorist... Read More

A new animated 'Animal Farm' transforms Orwell’s anti-authoritarian satire into an anti-capitalist fable, ideologically inverting its... Read More

This week, Rep. Nancy Mace of South Carolina introduced a joint resolution to bar foreign-born U.S. citizens from serving in Congress, the... Read More

Unlike the last administration, which issued vague threats to lenders who dared to consider whether would-be alien borrowers might be... Read More

Institutional investors are not the problem, they are one of the solutions. Read More

American cities need bold renewal. What we need is a “MadeCity” vision — a vision for intentionally crafting... Read More

James Piereson on European economic troubles. Read More

Maureen Galindo, a Texas Democrat running for Congress, is not an outlier. She is a faithful representative of the monstrosity that this... Read More

Rather than being a product of historical circumstance or will, our rights are grounded in a prior truth: that we are created by God. 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