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Trump’s DOJ Can Get Us One Step Closer To Ending Child Exploitation. Here’s Where It Should Start

Trump’s DOJ Can Get Us One Step Closer To Ending Child Exploitation. Here’s Where It Should Start

In a 2023 report, then-Attorney General Merrick Garland told Congress that “[c]hild exploitation crimes and the threats facing children have been...

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White House Ballroom Shouldn’t Be A Partisan Issue

White House Ballroom Shouldn’t Be A Partisan Issue

The White House currently displays an incomplete construction site where the East Wing stood. This visible symbol of governmental dysfunction...

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Britain’s Regulatory Suicide Note

Britain’s Regulatory Suicide Note

There is a particular kind of political folly that manages to be simultaneously expensive, unnecessary and self-inflicted. The U.K. government’s...

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California Copied Europe’s Insane Energy Playbook, And Now Residents Are Really Paying The Price

California Copied Europe’s Insane Energy Playbook, And Now Residents Are Really Paying The Price

Even as U.S. gasoline prices rise again amid ongoing Strait of Hormuz tensions, American drivers are still paying less than half what many Europeans...

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Fetterman: The Unlikely Political Goldfish

Fetterman: The Unlikely Political Goldfish

In a delightful twist of political theater, Fox News’ John Roberts confronted Senator John Fetterman with the question that’s been on the lips of...

30.04.2026 6

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Sick Of Seeing Conservatives Lose Winnable Elections? New Book Has A Solution

Sick Of Seeing Conservatives Lose Winnable Elections? New Book Has A Solution

For years, I’ve watched the same story play out in American politics. A candidate is expected to win. The polls look good, the messaging sounds...

29.04.2026 3

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What The UAE’s OPEC Breakup Actually Signifies

What The UAE’s OPEC Breakup Actually Signifies

In a move that should surprise no one who’s been paying attention to the shifting realities of global energy, the United Arab Emirates announced...

29.04.2026 3

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RFK Jr.’s Call For Early Alzheimer’s Screening Could Stop A Fiscal Crisis

RFK Jr.’s Call For Early Alzheimer’s Screening Could Stop A Fiscal Crisis

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recently announced that “it is regulatory malpractice that we don’t have early...

29.04.2026 2

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Uncle Sam Puts Price Tag On Foreign Trade Rip-Offs For First Time Ever

Uncle Sam Puts Price Tag On Foreign Trade Rip-Offs For First Time Ever

You probably didn’t hear much about a trade meeting that wrapped up in Cameroon last month. That’s understandable. What happened there, or more...

29.04.2026 4

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From Tabletop Stunts to Tough Talk: Navarro’s Gun Control Rhetoric Raises Eyebrows

From Tabletop Stunts to Tough Talk: Navarro’s Gun Control Rhetoric Raises Eyebrows

It’s always fascinating when a tragic event opens the floodgates for a familiar agenda, and on “The View,” Ana Navarro turned Saturday’s...

28.04.2026 8

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High Stakes Machine Gun Case Could Finally Settle Decades-Long Constitutional Battle

High Stakes Machine Gun Case Could Finally Settle Decades-Long Constitutional Battle

In Federalist 51, James Madison recognized the “great difficulty” of self-governance: “[Y]ou must first enable the government to control the...

28.04.2026 4

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Republicans Need To Get A Superior AI Strategy — Fast

Republicans Need To Get A Superior AI Strategy — Fast

In March we saw AI become a mainstream political issue and without a superior strategy Republicans will lose power. Sens. Bernie Sanders and...

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Are We Approaching The End Of The Road For America’s Truckers?

Are We Approaching The End Of The Road For America’s Truckers?

Earlier this year during President Donald Trump’s State of The Union address, he highlighted a little girl named Dalilah Coleman, for whom a new...

27.04.2026 5

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Another Climate Activist Trojan Horse Gets Exposed

Another Climate Activist Trojan Horse Gets Exposed

A new edition of a science education manual for judges departs “sharply” from a “longstanding tradition of neutrality,” say three of...

27.04.2026 4

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Somali Fraud Is Only A Drop In The Bucket

Somali Fraud Is Only A Drop In The Bucket

The Somali fraud is only a drop in the bucket, as it compares to the elaborate Indian fraud and scam networks that are taking American tech jobs and...

27.04.2026 5

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There’s A Small Flaw In Trump’s Tariffs, But It Can Be Fixed

There’s A Small Flaw In Trump’s Tariffs, But It Can Be Fixed

President Donald Trump’s tariffs on steel have done something no Washington consensus would have predicted five years ago: they put American...

27.04.2026 5

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Iran War Reveals Big Weakness In America’s Energy Armor

Iran War Reveals Big Weakness In America’s Energy Armor

President Trump announced a ceasefire with Iran­ — the world’s leading exporter of terrorism — to the praise of world leaders. Time will tell...

26.04.2026 6

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Lawmakers Try Making Life Worse For Americans As Gas Prices Wallop Pocketbooks

Lawmakers Try Making Life Worse For Americans As Gas Prices Wallop Pocketbooks

As Americans grapple with painful prices at the pump amidst a global oil crisis, some Alaskan lawmakers seem intent on making that pain even worse....

25.04.2026 4

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Markwayne Mullin Steps On Virtue Signaling Landmine

Markwayne Mullin Steps On Virtue Signaling Landmine

Ever heard someone once accused of being homophobic reply by saying, “why, some of my best friends are gay?” Or a White person accused of being a...

24.04.2026 5

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SHERI FEW: The American Library Association’s Direct Threat To Parental Rights

National Library Week (April 19–25) arrives each year with cheerful slogans about literacy, community and the joy of reading. But behind the...

24.04.2026 5

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Americans See Fraud Everywhere

Americans See Fraud Everywhere

Americans know fraud is bleeding their budgets dry, and a new national poll proves they’re paying close attention. A recent survey of registered...

24.04.2026 7

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MARC MORANO: The More The US Drills, The Healthier Our Planet Is

Earth Day, April 22, 2026, has arrived! Who is the 2026 recipient of the Environmental Hero Award for Earth Day?! The past year has seen one clear...

23.04.2026 20

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DAVID BLACKMON: Trump DPA Orders Shift Energy Dominance Agenda Into High Gear

President Donald Trump has not been shy about wielding his executive power to boost domestic energy production and infrastructure throughout his...

23.04.2026 20

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PAUL CELLA: Formal Warmaking Authority Now Resides With The President

Editor’s note: Big Tent Ideas always aims to provide balancing perspectives on the hottest issues of the day. Below is a column from Paul Cella,...

22.04.2026 6

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EMILY STACK: If China Restricts These Products At Home, Why Are They Flooding Our Communities?

As President Donald Trump prepares to meet with President Xi, much of the conversation will center on tariffs, trade deficits, and global competition....

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BRANDAN BUCK: Why Congress Keeps Surrendering Its War Powers

Editor’s note: Big Tent Ideas always aims to provide balancing perspectives on the hottest issues of the day. Below is a column from Brandan Buck,...

22.04.2026 20

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JORGE MARTINEZ: A Rebuke To Judicial Overreach And A Win For The Constitution

When unelected judges attempt to substitute their judgment for that of a duly elected president on matters of national security, the Constitution...

21.04.2026 9

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SETH ORANBURG: Local Municipalities Weaponize Bureaucracy Against Prayer

As Congress debates antisemitism legislation and the Religious Liberty Commission holds hearings on rising hate, a case pending before the Supreme...

21.04.2026 10

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HANS VON SPAKOVSKY: New Age Of Space Exploration Has Finally Begun – It’s About Time

Watching the Orion spacecraft of the Artemis II moonshot deploy its parachutes and glide down to land in the Pacific Ocean gave me the most wonderful...

21.04.2026 10

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JORGE MARTINEZ: The Swamp’s War On Rural America And Trump’s Fight To End It

By any honest measure, rural America is under siege – not from foreign adversaries, but from within. For decades, unelected bureaucrats, entrenched...

19.04.2026 4

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SAM ADOLPHSEN: ‘One-Door’ Welfare Policy Is A One-Way Street To Welfare Fraud

I saw it with my own eyes from inside the White House. Alongside prosecutors and investigative journalists, we spent months uncovering the welfare...

19.04.2026 7

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ANDREA PICCIOTTI-BAYER: The Nuns Fighting New York To Serve Dying Cancer Patients

A small group of Catholic nuns is taking on one of the most powerful governors in the country. The Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne are in a striking...

18.04.2026 9

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DAVID BLACKMON: When ‘Investigations’ Become Advocacy In Louisiana’s Coastal Lawsuits

The long-running saga of the Louisiana coastal erosion lawsuits targeting an array of big oil companies took a new turn recently when a New Orleans...

18.04.2026 4

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Kamala Harris: The Democrats’ Dilemma in 2028

In a world buzzing with political maneuvering, Stephen A. Smith just threw some gasoline on the fire regarding Kamala Harris’s future in the...

18.04.2026 20

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The Saga of the Week: From Hospital Beds to Courtrooms

The world of news has served up quite the platter this week, from Christina Applegate’s health concerns to courtroom tears over the harrowing case...

17.04.2026 10

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LEIF LARSON: A Beer, A Grill, And Guidelines That Finally Make Sense

The Trump administration’s new Dietary Guidelines finally got alcohol right, treating grown adults like grown adults with a science-based,...

17.04.2026 10

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JAMES CARTER: Congress Has a Plan. Several, Actually

Spring in Washington usually brings cherry blossoms, warmer weather, and a familiar reminder that Congress has a habit of taking on more than it can...

16.04.2026 6

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ED WOODSON: Donald Trump’s Iron Cabinet

Donald Trump’s critics have a new line of attack (do these people ever take a day off?). Their latest complaint is that he’s burning through his...

16.04.2026 4

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STEPHEN MOORE: Price Controls Will Deny Millions Of Americans Credit Cards

There’s a famous line in the movie “The Graduate” where a young Dustin Hoffman receives this bit of career advice from a businessman: “One...

16.04.2026 8

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JAMES CARTER And TIMOTHY MANEY: Washington’s Budget Process Is Broken. Fix It Now.

The federal government spent $7 trillion last year. That works out to roughly $222,000 per second — a pace that would have made even the most...

16.04.2026 10

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DAVID BLACKMON: Chevron’s And Shell’s Venezuela Deals Vindicate Trump Strategy

Don’t look now, but Big Oil is making big moves to secure positions in the expanding Venezuelan oil industry as part of the Trump Administration’s...

16.04.2026 20

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JENNA ELLIS: Congress Should Decide Birthright Citizenship, Not SCOTUS

The U.S. Supreme Court recently heard arguments in a case that could redefine one of the most consequential questions in American law: Who is entitled...

15.04.2026 7

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KAREN HARBERT: Affordable Energy At Home And Strength Abroad Depend On Policies That Deliver U.S. Natural Gas

Energy security is national security. It’s a lesson our nation has learned before and one it can’t afford to forget now. As tensions and conflict...

15.04.2026 10

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SETON MOTLEY: It Appears We Dodged A Fake Energy-Carbon Market Bullet In Trump’s FERC

I have long lamented the obscene massiveness of the federal government. 456 Federal Agencies? The Eternal Push For Ever-Expanding, Redundant...

15.04.2026 10

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HOGAN GIDLEY: Trump’s National Security Tariffs Help America Win

In his recent address to the nation, President Donald Trump rightfully declared, “our enemies are losing and America is winning, and now winning...

15.04.2026 10

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NORTON RAINEY: The Best-Kept Secret In This Year’s Tax Cut

This Tax Day, families shouldn’t just think about how much they will get back. They should also know about an opportunity that could change their...

14.04.2026 10

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MARGARET IUCULANO: A Pro-Growth Tax Agenda That Strengthens Businesses, Workers, And Families

Washington has a choice this tax season: build on policies that are already driving business investment and wage growth or return to the uncertainty...

14.04.2026 10

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SETON MOTLEY: Someone Should Sue To Break Up Big Tech’s DC Lobby Monopoly

Big Tech spends metric tons of lobby money.  On just about everyone in D.C.  To ensure that no one in D.C. does anything Big Tech doesn’t like....

12.04.2026 7

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KATIE COOK: Crushing Honest Daycare Providers With Insane Rules While Pouring Millions Into Centers That Don’t Exist

Minnesota’s Child Care Assistance Program (CCAP) was intended to support working families by subsidizing childcare costs. Instead, it stands out as...

12.04.2026 9

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CHRIS JOHNSON: AI Data Centers Can Win Over Skeptics. But It Must Learn From Fracking

AI doomsayers proclaim the sky is falling, with each new data center taxing the electricity grid, sucking up scarce water, and immiserating local...

12.04.2026 9

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