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Every career begins with a defining moment, an instant when preparation meets courage and the future quietly changes course.

For me, that moment came in 1983, when, at just 21 years old, I brought Richard Pryor to speak before more than 1,500 employees at the U.S. Department of Agriculture in Washington, D.C. I was young, untested and ...Read more

Your representatives may finally grab the feared "third rail" of U.S. politics. When the Social Security and Medicare trust funds run out in the early 2030s, the law is clear: Benefits must be slashed. That would mean a roughly 24% cut to Social Security checks and an 11% cut to Medicare benefits. But Congress almost certainly won't let that ...Read more

Unless you work – or used to work given the layoffs and closings of so many newspapers – in the declining profession of journalism, you may not be aware of the problems at The Washington Post.

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A new Harvard/Harris public opinion poll shows two-thirds of Americans now disapprove of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. That spells trouble for taxpayers and everyone who wants safe neighborhoods.

A majority of Americans voted for President Donald Trump to enforce immigration laws. The poll, done just after the shooting of anti-ICE ...Read more

There is a growing sense of frustration coursing through American politics, and it is no longer confined to one party or ideology.

That frustration has real roots. Major institutions badly damaged their credibility during the COVID-19 pandemic, the excesses of the Black Lives Matter movement, and years of breathless coverage of Russiagate. At...Read more

At this writing, the House is expected to pass the SAVE (Safeguard American Voter Eligibility) America Act, after which it will move to the Senate.

The challenge will be in the Senate, where at least seven Democrats are needed to join 53 Republicans to reach the 60 needed to pass the filibuster plateau.

Should this bill be passed and signed ...Read more

On Feb. 2, FBI and Las Vegas police raided what they described as an "unlicensed" laboratory with shelves and freezers housing over 1,000 vials, jars and flasks with deadly biological substances. Here are some of the killer pathogens police and forensic science techs identified: Ebola virus, tuberculosis and AIDS-inducing HIV. Once contracted,...Read more

Americans want to help people in need, but when government does that, about 500 billion taxpayer dollars get stolen. It's how the system is designed, says the United Council on Welfare Fraud's Andrew McClenahan in this new video. "You're measuring success by the amount of money you put out." Because of that, government agencies rarely check ...Read more

It happened exactly 11 years after the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the United States.

Chris Stevens, the U.S. ambassador to Libya, was visiting the State Department's mission in the Libyan city of Benghazi, where the CIA also maintained a nearby Annex.

On Jan. 15, 2014, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence published a detailed report on...Read more

Editorial writers can have a solipsistic tendency to think journalism jobs are the most essential jobs imaginable. We can revere the philosophical argument about the importance of a free press in keeping democracy viable without thinking every lost job at a media outlet is the decline and fall of America.

The Washington Post just cut 300 jobs -...Read more

When I first arrived in Washington in 1982, the Dow Jones hit a low of 800. You may not believe that, so feel free to look it up.

If anyone had predicted that in a little more four decades the Dow would surpass 50,000, they might have been admitted into a mental institution. But U.S. stocks have grown 60-fold (not counting inflation). Even ...Read more

After the Grammy Awards aired live from Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles before 12,000 attendees and millions of viewers worldwide, the one speech that has resonated most centered on faith and redemption, delivered by a man named Jason DeFord, better known as Jelly Roll.

As DeFord stepped up to accept his Best Contemporary Country Album award,...Read more

President Donald Trump isn't just deporting illegal immigrants. He's deporting the people Democrats need to offset their demographic challenges.

The Census Bureau recently released updated population figures through June 2025. The country grew slightly but that growth wasn't equally distributed. Many red states, like South Carolina, Idaho and...Read more

A few years ago, things looked pretty bleak for skeptics of transgenderism -- those of us who have great compassion for those afflicted by what the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders long referred to as the "disorder" of gender dysphoria, but who refuse to accept the lie that a man can become a woman or a woman can become a ...Read more

In December of 2016, The Washington Post reported that Russian hackers had penetrated the U.S. electricity grid through a Vermont utility company, leaving millions without heat.

This was serious stuff. President Barack Obama, the paper ominously noted, was concerned that Moscow might also "disrupt the counting of votes on Election Day, ...Read more

Speaking at The New York Times, their actually conservative columnist Ross Douthat said, "I want to tell you a secret. One that most conservatives on the internet don't want you to know. A year into his second presidency, Donald Trump has lost the country." You might not want to hear this, but Douthat is right.

Perhaps he is not right on the ...Read more

The unrest in Minneapolis has died down, and the Trump administration is pulling 700 immigration-enforcement offers out of the area. But all of the national media scrutiny has obsessed over Team Trump. They have rarely acted to "hold government accountable" when the governing comes from Democrats, Gov. Tim Walz or Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey.

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George Orwell was on to it almost 80 years ago -- the problem of below-replacement level birth rates. In a short book written for the Britain in Pictures series in 1947, written just as Britain was emerging from wartime rigors into an uncharted postwar future, Orwell noted that despite an upward blip in birth rates during the war, "the general...Read more