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Christopher JacobsThe Federalist |
As our nation nears its 250th birthday, Ken Burns’ miniseries should give us a newfound appreciation for the sacrifices of our ancestors.

When the vote on the enhanced Obamacare subsidies comes around, GOP lawmakers should keep the wailing of Democrats over the past few days in mind.

Individuals can most excel when asked to do so, and Harvard should embody that call to greatness.

If Republicans don’t pass a tangible agenda over the next 12 months, they will face another electoral reckoning next fall.

By punting the issue into 2025, Democrats hoped they could secure a permanent extension of Obamacare subsidies. That plan backfired.

The battle over Obamacare subsidies that led to the government shutdown is shining a light on corruption in the insurance industry.

If you’re at a loss for what to do in Washington during the shutdown, or if you're looking for off-the-beaten-path places to visit once the...

The arguments for extending the enhanced Obamacare subsidies are not just biased but contradictory, almost to the point of incoherence.

Here are some fast facts about open enrollment and the enhanced Exchange subsidies set to expire at the end of the year.

Groups on the left know full well that allowing the enhanced subsidies to expire as scheduled wouldn’t cause a catastrophe for most families.

CBO's review of the 2025 fiscal year shows Republicans have every reason to reject Democrats’ demands to end the 'Schumer Shutdown.'

Brian and Maggie shows how a good interviewer can still reveal much about a subject that the subject does not necessarily want to reveal.

Democrats’ present conditions for ending the shutdown essentially amount to a demand that they succeed where Republicans failed.

In addition to calling on Jay Jones to drop out, Democrats should also end the nonsense of a months-long 'election season.'

Contrary to Marjorie Taylor Greene’s claim, most of the Obamacare subsidies are not expiring, for good or for ill.

To state what should be obvious but isn’t to most members of Congress, an Obamacare bailout wouldn’t make anything more 'affordable.'

In a social media post last week, President Trump noted that what Democrats are demanding in exchange for their cooperation in reopening government...

Republicans shouldn’t bail Democrats out of their own political problems; they should make Democrats swallow the bitter pill of surrender.

The Biden administration’s actions demonstrate Democrats' desire to turn Medicaid into a vehicle for an all-encompassing government.

If Tom Brady wants to own a piece of the Raiders, more power to him. But then he should stay the heck out of the broadcast booth.

The display of the full Constitution seems timely, given not just our country's impending 250th birthday but our polarized political climate.

The Congressional Budget Office finally admitted that enrollees are lying about their income to qualify for Obamacare subsidies.

However much we want to blame Congress for the nation’s budgetary woes, our lawmakers do little more than reflect the societal zeitgeist.

Republican 'leaders' thinking about playing footsie with Democrats to enact policies that will perpetuate wasteful spending and enrich the abortion...

The absenteeism problem has hit hardest in those communities with the biggest need for quality education.

Politico's latest story about a potential Obamacare subsidy extension ignored sizable evidence of fraud, while including not a single quote from a...

The entire administration should spend every day convincing Americans that they're doing everything in their power to help families get ahead, for...

The way the citizens of New Orleans united to restore their home and regain their destiny should serve as an inspiration to us all.

On Saturday, Lee Corso will make his final appearance on College GameDay, the ESPN show he has worked for since its inception in 1987.

When it comes to potential spending reductions via the sequester, congressional Democrats are bluffing, and everybody knows it.

The Kingdom takes viewers behind the scenes to find out how the Chiefs got close to a three-peat — and why they came up short.

State and federal officials ought to be doing everything they can to protect their hard-earned dollars from being used improperly or illegally. For...

Two recent deals demonstrate the immense power of live sports.

The idea that this provision would somehow 'increase the uninsured' seems, if not laughable, at least highly speculative.

Little Beasts gives viewers a chance to take a step back, appreciate the beauty of nature, and contemplate mankind’s place in the universe.

For the past 55 years, Jim Lovell served as living proof of what man can accomplish when he puts his mind to it.

Portions of the VA medical staff seem to have settled upon powerful narcotics as a way to keep suffering patients churning through the pipeline.

Beyond reasonable prices, visitors to Colonial Williamsburg will find history that all ages can embrace.

The existence of duplicate payments demonstrates the left’s desire to make all Americans dependent upon government.

Our country cannot get its fiscal house in order unless and until it starts slowing the explosion of Medicare spending.

Reestablishing a culture of work via the reconciliation bill represents a hard-earned victory for common sense.

Congress should do its job and keep restricting the growth of exploding federal spending.

By promoting Medicaid expansion to able-bodied adults, Kasich helped create the problem that the reconciliation bill begins to address.

But the American people aren’t stupid. Many see right through the media bias, which might explain why trust in the mainstream press continues to fall.

When people only want political 'discussions' that confirm their biases, they make the vulnerability that relationships require impossible.

F1: The Movie shows the triumphs and tragedies that lie behind the world’s most popular open-wheel racing series.

Lawmakers of all parties keep thinking that some magic bullet will solve all of the country’s fiscal problems. It won’t.

It's so easy for scammers to manipulate our health care system in ways that raise costs for all of us.

Groups like this fixate on the number of individuals with health insurance coverage, regardless of whether those individuals engage in fraud.

The Biden-era chaos posed ramifications far beyond our southern border, and Washington must take every effort to ensure that it never recurs.
