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Musk joins the push to repeal Alaska’s terrible ranked choice voting system

Musk joins the push to repeal Alaska’s terrible ranked choice voting system

Elon Musk is donating big to help repeal Alaska’s ranked choice voting system. Considering how big an abomination ranked choice voting is, it may be...

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Zachary Faria

AOC can have a ‘full’ life with a career and a baby

AOC can have a ‘full’ life with a career and a baby

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) is the youngest woman ever elected to Congress. She’s engaged to the same man who’s stood by her side for...

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Tiana Lowe Doescher

Fearing anti-war election embarrassment, Russia bans only opposition party

Fearing anti-war election embarrassment, Russia bans only opposition party

The Russian Supreme Court has banned the country’s only true opposition party from standing in the Duma parliamentary elections. The ruling against...

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Tom Rogan

Conservative principles demand moral clarity on Gaza and the suffering of Palestinian Christians

Conservative principles demand moral clarity on Gaza and the suffering of Palestinian Christians

Conservatism rests on enduring principles: the sanctity of human life, religious freedom, accountability, and skepticism toward unchecked government...

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Mansoor Malik

Communism didn’t die. It just hired a PR firm

Communism didn’t die. It just hired a PR firm

Discredited ideologies rarely disappear all at once. They usually shed their language before they surrender their instincts. After World War II,...

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Todd L. Pittinsky

The DSA isn’t hiding it anymore: It wants to burn the Constitution

The DSA isn’t hiding it anymore: It wants to burn the Constitution

Throughout school, I was taught to revere our Constitution and that the United States is an exceptional nation. The Constitution’s preamble alone...

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Grayson Ryland

Union bosses almost blew the $2.5 billion Nippon deal. Don’t let them sabotage the next contract

Union bosses almost blew the $2.5 billion Nippon deal. Don’t let them sabotage the next contract

When Nippon Steel put a $14.9 billion offer on the table for U.S. Steel in December 2023, the American steel industry looked like this: roughly 89.7...

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Rusty Brown

Trump just demanded hospital receipts on drug pricing abuse — and it’s about time

Trump just demanded hospital receipts on drug pricing abuse — and it’s about time

You would never pay a restaurant bill without an itemized check. And if that bill charged you twice for the same steak, you would dispute it on the...

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Joel C. White

Doing DOGE right: The Texas model for regulatory reform

Doing DOGE right: The Texas model for regulatory reform

During 15 years leading Americans for Prosperity, I witnessed many announcements about government regulatory reform. A governor, often well-meaning,...

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Tim Phillips

Why buying a sandwich can turn a law-abiding gun owner into a felon

Why buying a sandwich can turn a law-abiding gun owner into a felon

I’ve spent 30 years advising clients on risk they can quantify: interest rate risk, market risk, counterparty risk. None of that prepared me for the...

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Jay Rogers

WNBA’s Sophie Cunningham gets a forearm to the face — and it’s called ‘white privilege’

WNBA’s Sophie Cunningham gets a forearm to the face — and it’s called ‘white privilege’

I tuned into my first WNBA game this weekend for one reason: the growing noise around Indiana Fever guard Sophie Cunningham. The headlines, the viral...

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Bob Capano

Three ‘Crazyyyy’ things Democratic politicians did during ‘Woke 1’

Three ‘Crazyyyy’ things Democratic politicians did during ‘Woke 1’

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) wants America to laugh off the radical, censorious, and destructive policies she and her ideological allies...

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Timothy P. Carney

The West forgot how to fight. Israel hasn’t

The West forgot how to fight. Israel hasn’t

Carl Schmitt left modern political theory with an uncomfortable truth: Politics, at bottom, has nothing to do with legal arbitration, procedural...

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Walter E. Block

The mullahs’ worst nightmare isn’t street protesters. It’s the underground network Washington ignores

The mullahs’ worst nightmare isn’t street protesters. It’s the underground network Washington ignores

For more than four decades, the Islamic Republic has confronted a persistent challenge that it has never been able to eliminate: an organized...

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Nasser Razii

The Soviet Union spent billions infiltrating the West. Russia just bought a $20 AI subscription

The Soviet Union spent billions infiltrating the West. Russia just bought a $20 AI subscription

When Meta disclosed in a recent threat report that covert networks from Russia and Iran were leveraging generative artificial intelligence models to...

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Emzari Gelashvili

China isn’t beating us — Washington is handing them the win

China isn’t beating us — Washington is handing them the win

America leads the world in biopharmaceutical innovation, but China is competing hard for that title. The greatest threat to American leadership...

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Ken Blackwell

Russia is giving North Korea the most dangerous gift — and it’s not missiles

Russia is giving North Korea the most dangerous gift — and it’s not missiles

What is the first thing that comes to mind when you think of North Korea? Most likely, it is missiles. News that North Korea has launched a missile is...

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Park Joonhye

America’s next political powerhouse is here — and Republicans are sleeping on it

America’s next political powerhouse is here — and Republicans are sleeping on it

Every election cycle, political campaigns ask the same question: Where will the next votes come from? The answers are usually predictable. Campaigns...

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Shar Pourdanesh

The ‘Russian puppet’ arming Ukraine: Why Europe keeps getting Serbia wrong

The ‘Russian puppet’ arming Ukraine: Why Europe keeps getting Serbia wrong

For years, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic has been maligned in Europe as Russian President Vladimir Putin‘s man in the Balkans. There is only...

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Michael Mosbacher

China won’t get lucky twice: Why Trump’s Iran war may be Xi’s worst nightmare

China won’t get lucky twice: Why Trump’s Iran war may be Xi’s worst nightmare

When the George W. Bush administration launched the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq more than two decades ago, China found itself in an extraordinarily...

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David W. Wang

The blue wave is real. Democrats are about to sink it

The blue wave is real. Democrats are about to sink it

I’m a glass-is-half-empty sort of guy when it comes to elections. I always see the race that could go wrong, the supposedly safe seat that isn’t...

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Dennis Lennox

Trump’s Iran ‘chaos’ isn’t a glitch. It’s weaponized theater designed to make Tehran blink

Trump’s Iran ‘chaos’ isn’t a glitch. It’s weaponized theater designed to make Tehran blink

The ongoing geopolitical standoff between Washington and Tehran is frequently analyzed through a traditional lens of military strategy, but its most...

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Eric Wargotz

Don’t overestimate soaring European stocks

Don’t overestimate soaring European stocks

European equities are suddenly a favorite of global investors. The STOXX 600, the benchmark index of European stocks, is trading at record highs. To...

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James Rogan

To protect national security, Trump should ensure the FCC retains landlines

To protect national security, Trump should ensure the FCC retains landlines

Iran launches cyberattacks against the U.S. and successfully impacts water supplies in 12 states. China sends Iran 400 shoulder-fired rocket launchers...

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John Roberts

Is Spain a NATO ally or a state sponsor of terrorism?

Is Spain a NATO ally or a state sponsor of terrorism?

For decades, Madrid’s leftist foreign policy establishment has substituted strategic clarity with moral bankruptcy, quietly strengthening Iran’s...

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Jose Lev Alvarez

One Night Only finds romance in a culture that has forgotten intimacy

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Harry Khachatrian

You can’t erase woke

You can’t erase woke

YOU CAN’T ERASE WOKE. This political season, like the last couple, has featured Democratic candidates not only running for office but running away...

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Byron York

Democrats try to dodge ‘Woke 1’

Democrats try to dodge ‘Woke 1’

The Democratic Party is in a bind.  There is a general acknowledgment that voters this November and beyond might easily be put off by the radical...

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How Trump turned a frozen conflict into a model for peace

How Trump turned a frozen conflict into a model for peace

Generations of diplomats dismissed decades of bitter conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia as insoluble. That ended when President Donald Trump...

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Steve Witkoff

The campus pipeline behind Abdul el Sayed’s Michigan Win

The campus pipeline behind Abdul el Sayed’s Michigan Win

Thirty minutes after being sworn in as president of the University of Michigan’s student government, Summit Louth was already back onstage...

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Daniel Idfresne

Socialists want a do-over for the insane 2020 positions they supported

Socialists want a do-over for the insane 2020 positions they supported

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) wants her fellow progressives to receive amnesty for the insane policies and rhetoric they promoted during the...

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Zachary Faria

Over 70% of people hate local AI data centers. Politicians just learned the hard way

Over 70% of people hate local AI data centers. Politicians just learned the hard way

Voters are disgusted by the unchecked expansion of AI data centers and made their concerns known across the country in Tuesday’s primary elections....

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Juliana Keeping

Big Tech spent $40 million to convince you saving kids is ‘censorship’

Big Tech spent $40 million to convince you saving kids is ‘censorship’

This week, the Kids Online Safety Act was favorably reported out of committee — an important procedural hurdle in bringing the bill to the floor of...

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Melissa Henson

Singapore destroyed Cuba’s favorite excuse

Singapore destroyed Cuba’s favorite excuse

For years, Cuba’s hardships have been explained primarily as the fault of the United States. External pressure can be real. But when the same...

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Carlos L. Valdes

Will Ukraine retaliate against North Korea outside of the war zone?

Will Ukraine retaliate against North Korea outside of the war zone?

North Korea has previously sent approximately 15,000 troops to join Russia’s war against Ukraine. That’s not all. North Korea has also provided...

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Tom Rogan

The rainbow reds are more dangerous than communists of old

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Matthew R. Petrusek

Iran cracked Trump’s tell — now the price just went up

Iran cracked Trump’s tell — now the price just went up

In the 1998 poker movie Rounders, Matt Damon plays Mike McDermott, a gifted card player who turns a climactic rematch with Teddy KGB after recognizing...

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Arie Blitz

A hidden legal glitch is undermining Trump’s AI agenda

A hidden legal glitch is undermining Trump’s AI agenda

President Donald Trump has made clear that he wants the United States to dominate artificial intelligence. That ambition is warranted, but if...

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James Edwards

Trump’s losing trifecta solved: Dump NATO and buy Greenland

Trump’s losing trifecta solved: Dump NATO and buy Greenland

Across the American political firmament, from far-left progressives to centrist Republicans and Democrats to far-right conservatives, a remarkable new...

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Samir Tata

Delayed to death: How healthcare middlemen run out the clock on sick Americans

Delayed to death: How healthcare middlemen run out the clock on sick Americans

A severe healthcare crisis is unfolding across the United States. Private Medicare Advantage plans are systematically denying vital hospital care to...

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Eric Wargotz

The WNBA has a black entitlement problem

The WNBA has a black entitlement problem

The politburo of the Women’s National Basketball Association continues to be mired in controversy after an excessively hard foul by Chicago Sky...

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Christopher Tremoglie

Trump’s Jones Act waiver isn’t ‘America First,’ it’s a gift to foreign fleets

Trump’s Jones Act waiver isn’t ‘America First,’ it’s a gift to foreign fleets

The Trump administration acted quickly after the crisis in the Strait of Hormuz, temporarily waiving the Jones Act in hopes of easing pressure on...

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William P. Doyle

Mayor Mamdani, you can hate the Jews — but you must protect them

Mayor Mamdani, you can hate the Jews — but you must protect them

Mayor Zohran Mamdani, I know you’re busy with your socialist agenda for New York. So much to destroy, so little time. You’re already moving...

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Michael Levin

When Bernie Sanders and Republicans agree: It’s time to kill secret medical bills

When Bernie Sanders and Republicans agree: It’s time to kill secret medical bills

The U.S. healthcare industrial giant is a beast that even Christopher Nolan’s Odysseus would struggle to slay. The multi-tentacled monster —...

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Tom Price

An AI agent just broke containment. Congress needs a $3 billion response

An AI agent just broke containment. Congress needs a $3 billion response

Only a handful of technologies in history have earned the label “revolution,” the ones that reset what a civilization can accomplish....

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Suresh Garimella

Why an obscure Kansas City nonprofit organization is jacking up your insurance bills

Why an obscure Kansas City nonprofit organization is jacking up your insurance bills

When people open their insurance bills and wonder why premiums keep climbing, they’d never think to blame an obscure nonprofit organization based in...

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Eric Ventimiglia

Cancel recess, cut the tape, lock in 3% growth: Why the jobs panic is dead wrong

Cancel recess, cut the tape, lock in 3% growth: Why the jobs panic is dead wrong

Congress should cancel its August recess and act on the warning in July’s jobs report. America needs legislative and regulatory action that turns...

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Dan Varroney