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For decades, activists and economists have urged America’s elite universities to expand their undergraduate enrollment. Yet the schools resisted,...


“Women with advanced degrees should leave the United States immediately.” That’s how one left-wing TikTok influencer responded to a recent minor...


What happens when you combine California‘s lax criminal “justice” system with an electoral system focused on mailing ballots to voters? You get...


President Donald Trump, following the GOP’s November off-year election shellacking and a minor but sustained dip in his approval ratings, has been...


In June, after Zohran Mamdani somehow bulldozed through the New York Democratic mayoral primary and seized the nomination, I was walking through my...


In all the words that have been devoted to the films of Stanley Kubrick, I do not know whether any writer has invoked Gustave Flaubert’s famous...


Writers venturing predictions generally prefer events to prove them right, not wrong. But I’d much rather miss the mark in this case than hit the...


“Generals,” French Prime Minister George Clemenceau allegedly said during World War I, “are always fighting the last war.” A century later, his...


Nov. 24 was the 100th anniversary of William F. Buckley Jr.’s birth. Even though he has been gone for more than a decade and a half, the impact of...


At a time when marriage and birth rates are rapidly declining, a recent Pew poll finding that 12th graders are far less interested in getting...


Retiring federal judge Mark Wolf says he is stepping down so he can finally speak, unshackled, about what he views as an existential threat to the...


I’m going to tell you something that very few of my Republican colleagues would openly admit. If someone says that health insurance will become...


WHAT DROVE THE DC SHOOTER? Three days before an Afghan refugee ambushed two National Guard soldiers in Washington, killing one and critically...


KYIV, Ukraine — Nobody can agree on an acceptable peace in Ukraine. Should Russia be allowed to keep the lands it took by force? Should Ukraine be...


Can everyone else not see what is wrong with this? What is it that we are throwing away? The years since World War II have been the most peaceful...


An American friend described modern Britain to me as “a health service with a nuclear deterrent.” This is unfair. Modern Britain is a health...


Bare feet. Bad breath. Boisterous conversations and body odor. When you fly, you run the risk of a memorable experience, to say the least. And it’s...


There was widespread outrage at President Donald Trump’s comments earlier this year that Immigration and Customs Enforcement shouldn’t enforce...


Vince Gilligan is the master of the slow burn. Rewatching the showrunner’s debut now, one is startled to find that Breaking Bad (2008-2013) is...


The Democrats’ latest con job is blaming President Donald Trump for former President Joe Biden’s legacy inflation and claiming that Zohran Mamdani-...


From Presidents Franklin Roosevelt through John F. Kennedy, the Democratic Party projected patriotic confidence, fully comfortable celebrating...


The soap-opera sideshow currently roiling elite media involves journalists Olivia Nuzzi and Ryan Lizza, a formerly engaged Washington, D.C., power...


There’s been much talk of late about fissures in the Republican Party. It’s not just MAGA vs. “GOPE” — the GOP Establishment. That’s old news. The...


The first time Nayara Andrejczyk fired a gun, she fell in love. It was a revolver, handed to her at a Pennsylvania range after years of quiet...


President Abraham Lincoln issued his famous “Proclamation of Thanksgiving” on Oct. 3, 1863, with the Civil War still raging. As is our annual...

In 2013, I moved to the United States from the United Kingdom, and in the years since, I’ve learned that there are really two kinds of American...


“How are your grades?” My father asked me, nearly 43 years ago, when I was home from college for the Thanksgiving holiday. In many ways,...


Book s on the politics of literary works can go wrong in at least two ways: They can reduce the significance of a literary work to the politics of...


For Americans of a certain age and income bracket, Europe is synonymous with Rick Steves, a one-man travel impresario whose guidebooks and tour...


“While I am a Jeffersonian in my genuine faith in democracy and popular government,” President Theodore Roosevelt once said, “I am a Hamiltonian...


Peter Matthiessen was a towering figure in 20th-century American letters. He was a naturalist, environmentalist, Zen Buddhist priest, teacher,...


“I believe we, the Americans of today, are ready to act worthy of ourselves,” President Ronald Reagan proclaimed in January 1981 during his first...


The word that best describes how former Vice President Dick Cheney, who wielded the responsibilities he undertook in public affairs over a long...

“Soul and body shall we lay down for our liberty,” the Ukrainian anthem says. That line echoed through Kyiv in 2022 as Russia tried and failed to...


Democrats stood firm on their efforts to sabotage the Trump administration this week. It was their latest attempt to manipulate the American public...


Former Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi was always flamboyant, but he grew even more bizarre during his decades in power. The former Libyan army...


The Catholic Church may seem like an unlikely consultant for Hollywood, an industry far more inclined to cut seven-figure checks to McKinsey in...


The Department of Government Efficiency no longer exists as a distinct bureaucratic entity, but its spirit will live on in every federal agency as...


There is new optimism as Ukraine signals support for a narrowed, 19-point peace framework following weekend talks with the United States. Still,...


In Focus delivers deeper coverage of the political, cultural, and ideological issues shaping America. Published daily by senior writers and...


Heaven has been on President Donald Trump’s mind a lot these days. Recently, he told some folks at Mar-a-Lago that speaker Eric Metaxas was the guy...


On Thanksgiving eve, many families start to gather, and often those that do have wonderful times together. Some do not. To the end of promoting the...


The nation will this week partake in a ritual unlike any other in the rest of the world. Americans of all persuasions, races, and creeds will...


It has been 10 months since the wildfires in Los Angeles ended. Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass have been running around...


Peter Navarro, who spent four months in federal prison for a contempt of Congress order over the Jan. 6 investigations and now serves as senior...

In Focus delivers deeper coverage of the political, cultural, and ideological issues shaping America. Published daily by senior writers and...


Democrats initiated the longest government shutdown in history under the guise of caring about Americans’ access to affordable healthcare. Now they...
