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Trump’s encouraging pivot on Putin

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Democrats defend child labor at California marijuana farms

Waving and wearing Mexican flags, Democratic Party activists threw rocks and water bottles at federal agents as they executed a warrant to find...

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AI policy’s deadly energy supply delusion

The rapid rise of artificial intelligence has both positive and negative consequences, many of which have yet to be fully understood. But the...

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Rep. Pat Fallon

We signed the United Nations refugee protocol, but we never signed up for mass migration

Greece just announced that it is suspending the processing of illegal North African immigrants making asylum claims for three months after a...

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Rep. Pat Fallon

Natural resources at home are key to continued American prosperity

America is the Land of Opportunity because of the plentiful and unique natural resources from the East to the West Coast. Over the past nearly 250...

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Rep. Pat Fallon

Why used-car shoppers can ignore odometers

The day after the odometer on his father’s 1973 Ford Maverick “turned over” from 99,999 to 100,000, my friend Scott skipped school for the first...

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Micah Mattix

When books were actually banned

Every fall, the American Library Association publishes a list of banned books during its Banned Books Week campaign. No book on this list is...

previous day 10

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Micah Mattix

The Democratic Party’s extreme rhetoric is coming home to roost

If 10 people had been arrested as part of a conspiracy to kill Internal Revenue Service agents or Environmental Protection Agency inspectors, and...

previous day 10

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Micah Mattix

Will this Superman save Laken Riley or Rachel Morin?

Hollywood can never leave well enough alone. They always try to propagandize and weaponize the country’s cultural icons. This is happening again...

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Christopher Tremoglie

Our closest Afghan allies are in limbo

Nearly four years after the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, America’s Afghan allies remain in limbo due to a combination of bureaucratic dawdling...

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Conn Carroll

A warning much too late to spare academia

At the University of Pennsylvania, left-leaning faculty warn that ideological policing could have negative effects on the intellectual environment....

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Tiana Lowe Doescher

You can’t live without the American healthcare system

Over on X, a podcast host named Abby Libby wrote that she only had to pay $6,000 to deliver her second son at just 33 weeks of gestation. Three...

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Tiana Lowe Doescher

The WNBA should guard Caitlin Clark like gold

Caitlin Clark has the strangest job in professional sports right now. She’s the most popular player in a league where most of her coworkers can’t...

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Emma Fuentes

Pride in Budapest: Does a parade in Hungary’s capital augur trouble for Viktor Orbán?

“When it comes to pronouns, we don’t even have any!” said Tibor Várady, owner of Espresso Embassy, a popular cafe and specialty coffee shop in...

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Emma Fuentes

Apple’s golf show Stick drowns us in therapy culture

If Apple TV ’s new series Stick were any more affirming of left-coded mental-health assumptions, we’d have to watch it on the American Psychiatric...

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Graham Hillard

NIH is still funding animal torture with your tax dollars

The NIH is working hard to rebrand its image after Fauci’s legacy of animal torture, risky research, and lies finally came to light and left the...

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Hannah Cox

Millions of deaths by a thousand tax cuts? Not quite

If you haven’t already been killed by the great net neutrality repeal of 2017 or the Title X gag rule of 2019, you’re in luck. For the umpteenth...

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Tiana Lowe Doescher

The third-party breakthrough already happened — under Trump

Third parties don’t win. It is perhaps the last of the old rules that still holds. As President Donald Trump put it in response to Elon Musk’s...

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Dan Hannan

Mamdani’s Salt Path to perdition

Raynor and Moth Winn’s world collapsed when they were in their 50s. The British couple lost their home and savings after investing in a friend’s...

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Dominic Green

Family ties, and splits

If it were a matter of polling, “the land of the free” might rather be named “the land of the family.” Recent Gallup surveys show as much,...

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Emma Fuentes

In stadiums nationwide, prices are up, and families are down

Professional sports: Fun for the whole family, assuming the family is rich or just watching from home. The surge in ticket prices for live sports...

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Emma Fuentes

Energy bills could be big but not beautiful in GOP-led areas

With the One Big Beautiful Bill Act now law, there could be a spike in consumer energy bills in states represented by Republicans and handouts to...

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Emma Fuentes

Banning the Muslim Brotherhood 

“The Muslim Brotherhood,” the late historian Barry Rubin once remarked, “is by far the most successful Islamist group in the world.” But nearly a...

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Sean Durns

Dino Another Day

When Jurassic World premiered in 2015, it had been 14 years since the release of the previous installment in the series, the very polarizing...

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Ben Appel

The Left’s obsession with illegal immigration gets weirder

The Left’s obsession with illegal immigration is getting worse, and weirder, as it strains to resist any and all attempts to...

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Zachary Faria

Big Brother on your wrist

“My vision is that every American is wearing a wearable within four years.” The speaker was Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy,...

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Timothy P. Carney

For parents, ‘big, beautiful bill’ is pretty drab

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act did a lot of good for a lot of people, but parents, as a group, came home empty-handed. The bill did increase the...

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Timothy P. Carney

Where did all the male role models go?

Boys will always have professional athletes and musicians to look up to, but as the New York Times’s Claire Cain Miller correctly notes, it is the...

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Conn Carroll

Teachers union — antifa ally

A powerful opponent of school choice, the National Education Association, made a great case against itself recently by secretly deciding to refer...

previous day 2

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Conn Carroll

The ‘experts’ were wrong about Javier Milei

Weeks before Argentina’s November 2023 presidential election, which saw the anarcho-capitalist economist Javier Milei ascend to power, 108 leading...

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Conn Carroll

Mamdani is the mayor New York Democrats deserve

That people get the government they deserve is a cruel adage, too cruel if you live in dark places where a small minority with guns terrorizes an...

previous day 2

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Conn Carroll

Why I warmed up to Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’

My disillusionment with politics began in 2005. I was interning at the White House, fresh off George W. Bush’s reelection, which also saw the GOP...

previous day 2

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Jon Miltimore

A history of teen movies

Those of us who grew up in the 1980s are apt to associate the teen movie with other hallmarks of that decade’s culture, such as big hair, the...

previous day 2

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Peter Tonguette

Trump’s unacknowledged victory on public sector unions

President Donald Trump’s efforts to streamline the federal workforce and tame the bureaucracy have hit early snags as blue-state federal district...

previous day 2

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Maxford Nelsen

Why I said ‘no’ to the One Big Beautiful Bill Act

During recent Senate consideration of the new spending and tax bill, I had one simple mission: Stop Congress from plunging this country deeper...

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Tiana Lowe Doescher

Psychoactive ‘hemp’ is harming our youth — Congress must act

In 2018, Congress legalized industrial hemp with bipartisan enthusiasm. The intent was clear: to unleash the potential of nonintoxicating hemp to...

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Christopher Tremoglie

Noem deserves praise for ending left-wing indoctrination program at DHS

It’s an achievement that could be considered another example of the Trump administration’s “promises made, promises kept” mantra.  With their...

thursday 2

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Christopher Tremoglie

Why Republicans should embrace the America Party challenge

It’s true — every attempt to start a third party in the modern era has ended poorly. Ross Perot poured millions into his Reform Party only to see...

thursday 30

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Peter Laffin

Trump gets serious on farm-related national security

China and other adversaries are threatening America’s food supply. A recent legislative push promises to better protect Americans while redefining...

thursday 10

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William Mills

Learning to love the AI bomb

The American Federation of Teachers (AFT) — America’s second‑largest teachers union — has teamed up with Microsoft, OpenAI, and Anthropic to...

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Joe Concha

Epstein conspiracy theories are easier to believe than reality

Six years after Jeffrey Epstein evidently hung himself to death in a Manhattan jail cell, the infamous child rapist now commands more public...

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Joe Concha

A new book on police shootings tries to answer what were until very recently the biggest questions in public life

It’s now been more than a decade since the death of Michael Brown, and half a decade since the death of George Floyd, two incidents that thrust...

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Robert Verbruggen

California imposes its egg and pork regulations on the rest of the country

California Democrats try to use the weight of the state’s economy to regulate how the entire country operates. This extends California’s...

thursday 4

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Zachary Faria

Superman is an immigrant? Hollywood succeeds in ruining another classic

“Truth. Justice. And the American way!”  Of course, that is the iconic phrase that was part and parcel with earlier iterations of  Superman...

thursday 2

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Joe Concha

Trump’s FCC chair points a way forward for new GOP

Amid the noise and theatrics of the capital, something rare is happening in Washington, D.C. Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan...

thursday 3

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Peter Laffin

Time to end UNIFIL

Every United Nations peacekeeping force should work toward its own dissolution. Otherwise, it is no peacekeeping force; it is a welfare program for...

thursday 3

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Peter Laffin

The status quo in embryo research is barbaric

Roughly 50 years ago, scientists pursued a line of inquiry about the creation and development of human embryos in the lab. As of now, the extent of...

thursday 2

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William Mills

Jurassic World: Rebirth is an unexciting relic

In what is now the seventh installment of the Jurassic saga — rebadged as Jurassic World to denote the presence and prevalence of dinosaurs beyond...

thursday 2

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William Mills

ICE, antifa, and the Democratic Party

ICE, ANTIFA, AND THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY. Yesterday, this newsletter included the violent anti-ICE ambush in Texas as an example of the anger building...

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Kagan’s exemplary rebuke

Another day, another left-wing judge abuses judicial authority! This time, the judge held that not even Congress may cut funds from activist...

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