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Politics is often described as the art of winning. History suggests otherwise. The greatest political leaders understood that success is not measured merely by defeating opponents but by preserving relationships. Elections are won through competition. Governments are sustained through coalition.

That is why the first rule of politics is ...Read more

The Democratic Socialists of America released their platform last month, and let's give them credit for candor. They want public ownership of large corporations, the abolition of police and prisons, a defunded Pentagon and open borders. Conservatives read that document and saw the future they have been warning American voters about: the ...Read more

"Money is ammo."

In Baghdad 2004, that military maxim reminded troops on patrol that spending $3 to buy Fanta sodas for Iraqi kids could produce more than photo smiles. GI largesse can encourage life-saving tips. The rattle-trap car around that corner there? Little man left it an hour ago. No. He's not from our neighborhood!

It isn't news ...Read more

Muslim Americans are increasingly getting involved in American politics.

Most prominent are members of Congress Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), Andre Carson (D-Ind.), and Lateefah Simon (D-Calif.).

Most prominent among several mayors is Democrat Zohran Mamdani in New York City.

Democrat Abdul El-Sayed, now running for the ...Read more

New Yorkers, hold onto your wallets, and brace yourselves for financial chaos.

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani's minions, also known as the Democratic Socialists of America, are preparing to radicalize the state Legislature when they take their newly won seats in Albany at the end of the year.

How crazy will it get? One warning sign ...Read more

Just two years ago, the United Nations secretary general announced, "Global warming has ended ... The era of global boiling has arrived!"

"(We were) warned about this," said a "Daily Show" host, "by every scientist for the last 50 years!"

His audience applauded.

Wow. Every scientist agreed!

But here's the thing. They didn't.

My new ...Read more

Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) took to the podium at a Capitol Hill press conference on July 23, where she was joined by Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.).

They announced they were reintroducing the Right to IVF Act. This is a bill that promotes and subsidizes in vitro fertilization. It is sponsored ...Read more

The Left's perennial scolds of CBS News churned out barrels of umbrage over hiring conservative New York Times columnist Ross Douthat as part of the new team of correspondents at "60 Minutes." They suggested this was some sort of "desperate" lurch to the right, an obstreperous overthrow of Pelleyesque arrogance on 57th Street.

But that created ...Read more

PITTSBURGH -- The rise of the Democratic left in Pittsburgh did not happen overnight. It was built over years through patient organizing, disciplined recruiting and a clear-eyed focus on the races that mattered most: low-turnout primaries where entrenched power was vulnerable.

Mik Pappas' 2017 race for Pennsylvania's 31st Magisterial District...Read more

COVID-19 was a traumatic experience for our families, small businesses, schools and country. Understandably, people don't like thinking or talking about it. But we must. We now know, thanks to Sen. Rand Paul's doggedness and Anthony Fauci's supreme arrogance that he freely expresses in his diary, almost every decision made by the medical ...Read more

Don't assume socialism's inevitable failures will stop it from spreading.

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani recently announced that his government-run grocery stores will offer products at a 30% discount. The appeal of this plan is obvious. Everyone would like to pay less for milk, eggs and meat.

That this plan won't work is equally obvious...Read more

Anthony Fauci, the public health bureaucrat who became the face of America's botched COVID-19 response, testified this week on Capitol Hill. Except Fauci actually didn't testify: In an astonishing act of hubris and disdain for the countless Americans who bore the brunt of tyrannical COVID-era "Faucism," the mad doctor invoked the Fifth ...Read more

There's nothing inherently wrong with invoking the Fifth Amendment. The perception that anyone who pleads the Fifth to protect themselves from self-incrimination is only hiding guilt is wrong. Innocent people are often intimidated or tricked by those in power into implicating themselves. Others might get nervous under oath and worry about ...Read more

The yield on the 30-year Treasury bond has climbed back to where it stood in 2007, north of 5%, and it pushed a little higher again this week after the Federal Reserve left its own rates alone. On its face, that sounds almost reassuring, a return to some pre-crisis normal. It is nothing of the sort. The same number today carries a very ...Read more

The spectacle of Dr. Anthony Fauci refusing to answer questions from senators by repeatedly citing his Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination was blatantly ridiculous. A man who never found a microphone he didn't like was refusing to engage in defending his record. Then the elitist media that claim to be all about transparency and ...Read more

The emergence of the Democratic Socialists of America and their political victories, from New York City across the fruited plains of Michigan and Wisconsin, all the way to Colorado, strikes many as a new thing in U.S. politics.

Previous movements have, in fact, increased, sometimes significantly, the size and scope of government. But it has ...Read more