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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

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche is not qualified to be the attorney general of the United States because he has demonstrated a hopeless conflict between the rule of law -- which he has taken an oath to support -- and his sense of personal loyalty to President Donald Trump, whom he represented for several years in a notorious but frivolous ...Read more

Since 2018, USAA's Poppy Wall of Honor has become one of the nation's most moving tributes to military sacrifice. Stretching more than 130 feet, the transparent wall is adorned with hundreds of thousands of handcrafted poppies, each representing an American servicemember who gave his or her life in defense of our nation since World War I. For ...Read more

There are many ways to measure the health of a country. One way is growth of gross domestic product. Another is economic productivity. But there's a less conventional measure worth watching: Do the world's most talented and ambitious people want to immigrate here?

Throughout most of America's history, the answer has been an emphatic yes. ...Read more

As I write this column on July 28, news just broke that an Iranian ballistic missile surprise attack on U.S. forces in the Middle East has shattered the No Ayatollah Nuclear Weapons War's latest ceasefire.

The Pentagon reported air and missile defense forces in the war zone successfully intercepted every Iranian missile.

Why did the remnant ...Read more

It's time to go to war to stop teachers unions from brainwashing our kids.

Here's the latest red warning flag: The American Federation of Teachers, the National Education Association and other K-12 education unions are trying to take control of the AI-generated material students see.

The unions are collaborating with giant AI providers like ...Read more

S.E. Cupp will file tomorrow, July 30.

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It is rare for me to support anything inserting more government into our lives.

However, I'm now looking at one of these exceptions.

It's the AM Radio in Every Vehicle Act.

The legislation pushes back against automobile manufacturers moving to no longer include AM radio as standard equipment in new cars.

The bill mandates a Department of ...Read more

I've failed!

I make the case for free markets... some young people elect socialists!

What are they thinking?

Do they even think?

Do they pay any attention to history?

Or economics?

Socialism always fails.

Only markets create environments that let people prosper.

"Getting the right environment -- this country's done it ...Read more