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One of the most persistent mistakes in modern politics is the insistence on flattening all ideologies -- pretending that all human beings think the same way, want the same things, and are motivated by the same forces. Every time policymakers fall into this trap, the result is not compassion or clarity but some of the worst public policy ...Read more

In a Wall Street Journal interview a few days ago, President Donald Trump was circumspect regarding his party's prospects in the 2026 congressional elections.

Although no one doubts the president's supreme confidence that he is doing the right things for the country ("I've created the greatest economy in history"), he acknowledged, "that he ...Read more

Politicians push government IDs. In a TSA announcement, Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem sternly warns, "You will need a REAL ID to travel by air or visit federal buildings." European politicians go much further, reports Stossel TV producer Kristin Tokarev. They're pushing government-mandated digital IDs that tie your identity to ...Read more

Just two weeks after he was sworn into office, former President Ronald Reagan went on national television to address the American people about what he perceived to be a dire problem. It was the national debt.

"The federal budget is out of control, and we face runaway deficits of almost $80 billion for this budget year that ends September 30th...Read more

Whenever Republican officials sit for an extensive interview or series of interviews with a liberal media source, their supporters ask: Why did you have to do that? Why does Donald Trump need to speak to Michael Wolff or Bob Woodward? Now, it's Trump chief of staff Susie Wiles talking to author Chris Whipple for the lefties of Vanity Fair.

But ...Read more

Reading and math scores are abysmal across the country, as national testing results keep documenting. Illiteracy rates are rising: The number of 16- to 24-year-olds reading at the lowest literacy levels increased from 16% in 2017 to 25% in 2023, according to data from the National Center for Education Statistics.

In some inner-city schools, ...Read more

The Bondi Beach attack in Australia was shocking, but not at all surprising.

Some of the details were distinctive -- an idyllic spot on the Pacific Ocean instantly turned into a killing field, a father-son terror squad -- but the basic picture of a radicalized Muslim immigrant targeting a gathering of Jews was drearily familiar.

These events...Read more

Forget Christmas socks, board games or even cash. The gift many single young adults want most is a spouse. Put on your Santa hat and keep your eyes out for potential matches.

Marriage is a bedrock societal institution. It's beneficial for those who tie the knot, too.

"Today, married women live longer, earn more and report more meaning in their...Read more

WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump is a better boss the second time around.

You can see it in his staffing. Trump is putting the right people in top jobs. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is flexing his foreign policy chops. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is selling Trump's policies to Wall Street and Main Street. Transportation Secretary ...Read more

As the sun rises on a new Trump-era geopolitical chapter, Washington confronts a defining choice: Will America view the People's Republic of China and its regnant Communist Party through the rose-colored lens of transaction and diplomacy, or will it soberly recognize Beijing as America's foremost geopolitical adversary in a multigenerational ...Read more

During oral arguments in Trump v. Slaughter, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor threatened America with a good time, warning that the administration is "asking us to destroy the structure of government."

Great. It's about time an unaccountable fourth branch of the state was decimated. Trump v. Slaughter revolves around the president's ...Read more

On the day the Justice Department arrested several men for trying to smuggle NVIDIA chips into China, the president announced the United States would permit NVIDIA to sell its advanced graphics processing units to China. The United States, by most estimates, right now has a computing advantage over China of 32 to 1. Giving China these chips ...Read more

People magazine and former Washington Post reporter Paul Farhi have made separate lists of insults President Donald Trump has recently lobbed at female reporters. It doesn't matter how the journalists behaved because apparently, women can't possibly be ill-mannered in press conferences. Or they think you can't possibly be as rude as Trump.

The ...Read more

Few would have guessed that Erika Kirk would have to spend energy these last few, heart-breaking months fending off a right-wing influencer bent on implicating her slain husband's own organization, TPUSA, in his assassination.

Here we are, though. Influential voices on the right have become more and more conspiratorial in recent years, and ...Read more

"Does anyone know where the love of God goes
When the waves turn the minutes to hours?"
-- Gordon Lightfoot (1938-2023) "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald"

As we learn more about the events on Sept. 2, 2025, in international waters 1,500 miles from the United States, the behavior of the United States military becomes more ...Read more

Minnesota is now facing one of the largest documented government service fraud scandals in United States history. Under Gov. Tim Walz's evidently unwatchful eye, federal prosecutors have estimated that approximately $1 billion in taxpayer funds have been siphoned from multiple state- and federally funded social service programs over the last ...Read more

In a scene that perfectly captures the strangeness of American politics today, President Donald Trump, a billionaire and self-styled champion of American business (at least the ones he likes) was all smiles during an Oval Office visit from Zohran Mamdani, the democratic socialist and mayor-elect of New York City.

For months, the two men ...Read more