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New Documentary Answers the Question UK’s Ruling Class Won’t Ask About Mass Immigration

The West is in a self-inflicted crisis, and the only way to fix it is to recognize the problem. A new documentary created by the Heritage Foundation...

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German Chancellor’s Attack on Free Speech Reveals Europe’s Growing Fear of Dissent

Free speech isn’t just dying in Europe; it’s being ruthlessly strangled by an out-of-touch ruling class that’s desperate to snuff it out before...

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Grad Schools Are Training Activists, Not Teachers

Who is teaching the teachers? Critical theorists, DEI peddlers, and all manner of indoctrinators who have weaponized the American education system to...

09.09.2026 7

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Even After Affirmative Action’s Fall, DEI Thrives at Elite Law Schools

DEI may be crumbling in the federal government and waning in the public esteem, but it is still going strong in elite educational institutions despite...

31.08.2026 6

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Mamdani Turns Rikers Murderer Into Victim in Larger Plot to Abolish Prisons

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani demonstrated yet again this week how much of his ideology ultimately leads to mass mercy to the guilty and cruelty...

29.08.2026 7

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Every State Can Open Its Doors to Nuclear Energy

States want nuclear energy. That makes sense. They all face the same problem. States need energy now and lots of it. According to one industry...

24.08.2026 10

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You Don’t Have to Help. You Do Have to Police.

I spent 24 years in Enforcement and Removal Operations. Every officer who has worked in an arrest team knows the moment. The target is in custody, the...

24.08.2026 10

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He Can’t Vote for Congress. The Census Still Gives Him a Seat.

A draft rule now moving through the Commerce Department would rewrite how many House seats each state gets, by narrowing who counts as a...

24.08.2026 10

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How to Defend Your Faith

I taught the senior theology course at a Catholic high school for seven years. The course name was “Apologetics.” This term has its roots in the...

24.08.2026 8

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The Unholy Alliance You Weren’t Supposed to Notice

Something unusual happened on Oct. 8, 2023. The morning after Hamas slaughtered 1,200 people in southern Israel, after women were raped, children were...

23.08.2026 10

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National Media Skip Extreme Pro-Abortion Law in Massachusetts

On Aug. 10, Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey signed a bill allowing abortion at any point in pregnancy. Abortion advocates call it “closing the...

23.08.2026 8

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Data Centers, Polling, November Elections, and the Way Forward

Data centers are about as popular as cancer right now, and my latest battleground polling proves it. In Wisconsin, the consummate swing state,...

21.08.2026 10

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Ending the Welfare State as We Know It

President Bill Clinton signed the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act, otherwise known as welfare reform, into law 30...

21.08.2026 10

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The Bond Vigilantes Are Stirring Again

Bob Woodward is undoubtedly one of the most famous, yet controversial, “journalists” of the contemporary era. Some people–mostly those on the...

21.08.2026 9

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You May Not Care About the National Debt, but the Debt Cares About You

The national debt just crossed $40 trillion, months ahead of schedule. For many Americans, though, that sentence lands with a thud rather than a jolt....

21.08.2026 10

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In Wake of Arday Scandal, European Elite Institutions Attack Free Speech

The Western value of free speech appears to be hitting a terminal phase outside the United States, especially in the Anglosphere where censorship in...

20.08.2026 10

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The DEI Admissions Scam Is Catching Up With Elite Universities

The higher education racket is being exposed in America as diminishing standards, collapsing public trust, and a cult-like, often unlawful devotion to...

19.08.2026 10

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The Fauci Revalations Prove That Congress Must Take Back Its Power

For too long, Congress has allowed unelected bureaucrats to wield far too much power over the lives and liberties of the American people. It is time...

19.08.2026 10

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Muslim Mass Migration and the Michigan Election

Brand-new polling shows a horse race in the U.S. Senate race in Michigan and suggests that the controversial topic of Muslim immigration to that state...

18.08.2026 10

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America’s Transparency Problem Reaches the Salad Dressing Aisle

Even as the food industry takes big steps toward “Making America Healthy Again,” transparency remains in short supply. A July 2026 study by...

18.08.2026 10

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COVID-19: America Needs Closure, but Fauci Says No

Victor Davis Hanson nailed it: Dr. Anthony Fauci’s dramatic fall from grace—rooted in his own flaws—is a modern play in the style of an ancient...

17.08.2026 10

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Thune Flubs SAVE America Act, Flees for 5-Week Break

Does Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., secretly want Republicans to lose the midterm elections? Rather than pass the SAVE America Act and other key...

17.08.2026 10

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The DSA Has a Diversity Problem

For a movement that talks incessantly about diversity, the Democratic Socialists of America has an awkward problem of its own: it is remarkably white....

17.08.2026 10

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Ceuta–Lessons Learned Two Weeks Later

On July 30 up to 80,000 people crossed illegally from Morocco into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta. They swam or climbed the fence separating the North...

17.08.2026 10

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Europe’s Regulatory Overreach Is Becoming a U.S. National Security Risk

As the Trump administration acts to solidify America’s economic security and lock down critical supply chains, one threat continues to slip past the...

17.08.2026 10

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DSA Praises Fidel Castro in 100th Birthday Tribute, Denounces Marco Rubio as ‘Genocidal’

The Democratic Socialists of America website called deceased Cuban dictator Fidel Castro a “stalwart symbol of anti-imperialist struggle and...

16.08.2026 10

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Duke Law Case Shows Why the Fight Against DEI in Higher Education Isn’t Over

The battle to end DEI in higher education is one that can only be won through attrition against a stubborn enemy that won’t back away from the...

16.08.2026 10

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The State Department’s DEI Reckoning Exposes the Global Reach of Wokeness

The menace of the “woke era,” which I’d argue we are still suffering through despite the current counterrevolution, was about far more than just...

13.08.2026 10

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After Billions Spent and Zero Trains, California’s Rail Boondoggle Nears a Reckoning

California’s high-speed rail boondoggle may finally be running out of money. It’s bad news for Gov. Gavin Newsom, possibly good news for the...

12.08.2026 10

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Mamdani Promised Affordability. His New Amazon Delivery Plan Could Make NYC More Expensive.

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is once again using a big corporation as an easy target in a scheme that will likely make New York City more...

11.08.2026 8

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Trump Slams Mamdani’s Pied-à-Terre Tax as Judge Halts Implementation

President Donald Trump slammed New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s pied-à-terre tax on certain second properties in a Tuesday post on Truth Social...

11.08.2026 10

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AOC Laughs Off the ‘Woke 1’ Era. The Damage Was No Joke.

Peak woke revealed a totalitarian mindset in America that raged out of control for a few years, until unpopularity, a little courage from the minority...

10.08.2026 10

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Don’t Let Socialists Fool You: They Still Want to Abolish Police, and Prisons Too

Socialists just can’t let the “dream” of prison abolition go until it becomes your nightmare. Leftist politicians are struggling to handle the...

08.08.2026 10

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Mamdani Blames E-Bike Sellers for Crisis He Refuses to Police

When real-world problems arise, you can always count on socialists to fall back on blaming their old ideological bugaboos rather than addressing them...

07.08.2026 10

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Mamdani Releases Video Demonizing Landlords. But He Is NYC’s Biggest Slumlord of All.

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani released a slick video this week portraying landlords as villains and housing advocates along with their government...

06.08.2026 10

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Mamdani Purges Business Leaders to Cement Socialist Control of NYC

When New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said he intended to govern as a socialist, he meant it. And he is doing what any dedicated communist does when...

05.08.2026 10

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Francesca Hong’s Anti-Thanksgiving Rant Reveals What the Socialist Left Really Wants

Another day, another example that the Left’s pathological hatred of America permeates the entire socialist movement. Far-left darling Francesca...

04.08.2026 10

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The Fall of a DEI Darling Reveals Why Universities Won’t Reform Themselves

An almost unbelievable scandal involving a professor of black studies at Cambridge University demonstrates how institutional DEI can only be defeated...

03.08.2026 10

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Radical Democrats Are Determined to Tear Down Our Country and Tear Up the Constitution

On the floor of the U.S. Senate Thursday, Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., spoke about the rise of dangerous far-Left radicals who intend to shred the...

02.08.2026 10

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Don’t Forget How Florida Defeated Faucism and Vindicated Federalism

Anthony Fauci, the public health bureaucrat who became the face of America’s botched COVID-19 response, testified this week on Capitol Hill. Except...

02.08.2026 10

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Dennis Prager Is a Modern-Day Stoic Leading Us Out of Toxic ‘Therapeutic Culture’

Dennis Prager’s legacy for generations of Americans looking for deeper meaning and happiness can’t be overstated. As Prager turns 78-years-old on...

02.08.2026 10

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‘NEVER AGAIN’: Spain’s Border Chaos Is a Warning for America

Spain’s border is being overrun by migrants, and it is a dramatic reminder of how things could be again in the United States. On Thursday, dramatic...

31.07.2026 10

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New York Immigrant Business Coalition Threatens Lawsuit Over Mamdani’s Government-Owned Grocery Stores

A coalition of immigrant business owners has threatened New York City with a lawsuit over planned government-owned grocery stores they say will...

31.07.2026 10

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Ceuta Invasion Is the Predictable Result of Spanish Amnesty

On Thursday, Americans watched in stunned recognition as thousands of young men poured from Morocco into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta. Like Melilla,...

30.07.2026 10

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The Strategic Relevance of the Abraham Accords Matters Now More Than Ever

The practical and strategic utility of the Abraham Accords matters more than ever despite the ongoing geoeconomic and security challenges. Victoria...

30.07.2026 10

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The Problem of Post-SSRI Sexual Dysfunction

A 21-year-old college student struggles to sleep during finals month. On a friend’s recommendation, she decides to seek out a sleep aid. She books a...

30.07.2026 20

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Fauci’s Downfall Reveals the Danger of Rule by ‘Experts’

The rise and fall of Fauci is one of the great political lessons of our time about the folly and destructiveness of rule by so-called expertise. On...

29.07.2026 20

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Mamdani’s Tax List Reveals the Dark Side of Socialist Class Warfare

It should be no surprise that New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani not only wants to tax the rich but dox them too. On Monday, New York’s Department...

28.07.2026 10

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Mamdani Announces City-Run Grocery Stores Will Offer 30% Discount. Critics Say It Will Crush Local Businesses.

New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced Monday that a “core basket of everyday groceries will be 30 percent cheaper at the five new municipal...

28.07.2026 10

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Fauci Diaries Reveal Gloating About Lockdowns, Fame Seeking

The former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Dr. Anthony Fauci, as early as January 2020 did not believe that...

27.07.2026 20

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