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Trump administration returns immigration authority to the states

Over the past four years, states across the country have been under assault from a federal government intent on eviscerating the Constitution and...

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Gentner Drummond

FBI’s Tesla task force is justified

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To save the country, we must deport people such as Mahmoud Khalil

The Trump administration’s latest wave of attempted deportations — including Mahmoud Khalil, a former Columbia University student and green card...

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Elizabeth Stauffer

A DC whodunit: Who added Jeffrey Goldberg?

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) might be the happiest man in Washington this week. Jeffrey Goldberg’s shocking exposé about his...

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Elizabeth Stauffer

Stop pretending Republicans are cutting the deficit

President Donald Trump, members of his administration, and Republican members of Congress talk a lot about reducing the federal deficit....

friday 20

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Mike Gonzalez

We are living through a vertiginous anti-woke revolution

This must have been what it was like to live through the French or Russian revolutions. Our old assumptions are crumbling. The hierarchies,...

friday 10

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Brad Polumbo

Embarrassing displays of media blindness

Two high-profile news executives at the end of March demonstrated the extraordinary inability of their caste to see things other than through a...

friday 7

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Mike Gonzalez

The bonfire of the Teslas: Political violence and the Left

Nothing has gone to plan for the Democratic Party since the 2024 election votes were counted — except one thing.  Lacking a governing vision and...

friday 2

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Peter Laffin

Vance gives Marines a boost with visit to Quantico

On Wednesday, at Marine Corps Base Quantico, Marines from Virginia came face-to-face with Vice President JD Vance, the first Marine vice president...

friday 6

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Emma Fuentes

RFK Jr. would be wrong to ban pharmaceutical ads

Back when Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was running for president, he expressed interest in banning pharmaceutical ads...

friday 2

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Kimberly Ross

American precarity

Americans are wealthier than ever before by some measures, but there’s evidence that we’re all walking close to the edge, thanks to the...

friday 2

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Timothy P. Carney

Mike Waltz was right about one thing: Ending Red Sea Houthi attacks is in America’s self-interest

The group chat that broke Washington has sparked a weeklong war of words between President Donald Trump’s top staff and Jeffrey Goldberg, the...

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Tiana Lowe Doescher

Trump saves Columbia from itself

Columbia University’s decision-makers had the good sense to yield to Trump administration demands this week, allowing the university to meet the...

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How NIL killed March Madness

If you like underdogs, you will not like the NIL (short for name, image, and likeness) era of college athletics. Since expanding to a field of 64...

friday 2

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Conn Carroll

Why doesn’t NPR defund itself?

The CEO of National Public Radio, Katherine Maher, just testified before Congress amid a push to defund NPR and PBS. It’s hard to imagine how it...

friday 2

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Brad Polumbo

Mutually assured malfunction and the new AI cold war

There is nothing a public policy analyst enjoys more than a good analogy. Artificial intelligence literature is replete with them, provided...

friday 2

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Mike Gonzalez

Discharge petitions are tools of the minority, not the majority

In the Republican-controlled House of Representatives, adopting tactics of the minority will never yield substantive wins for the majority. Caving...

friday 2

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Mike Gonzalez

Who asked for this Snow White remake?

Not since 2023’s Barbie have conservatives found a film they so love to hate. Snow White’s press tour was doomed from the start, with lead actress...

friday 2

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Madeline Fry Schultz

Women’s issues cannot subsume family issues in AI debate

Personal, Luddite-esque aversions to technology can still couple with the Trump administration’s plans to lead on artificial intelligence. It is a...

friday 2

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Emma Fuentes

The Trump administration turns the screws on free speech

In his Inaugural Address on Jan. 20, President Donald Trump pledged “to immediately stop all government censorship and bring back free speech to...

friday 2

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Emma Fuentes

Reauthorizing the DFC puts China on a belt and road to nowhere

Will the developing world, home to billions of possible customers and enormous reserves of critical minerals necessary for defense and...

friday 5

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Ted Yoho And Rob Mosbacher

Yes, the State Department should move Turkey to its Near East bureau

Reps. This month, Brad Schneider (D-IL) and Gus Bilirakis (R-FL) introduced a bill to ask the State Department to remove Turkey from its Bureau of...

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Ted Yoho And Rob Mosbacher

DEI was destroying the University of Michigan

The University of Michigan is shutting down its diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives, which has only made the university more divided and...

friday 2

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Ted Yoho And Rob Mosbacher

The Abundance Bros have already won

The insular nature of the “abundance agenda” is revealed just two pages into Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson’s new book, Abundance, as the authors...

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Ron York

California didn’t think its highway funding through

California Democrats are once again proving they do not plan much of anything carefully, which shows exactly the kind of short-sighted thinking...

friday 2

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Zachary Faria

NPR and PBS are begging for mercy. They don’t deserve it

NPR and PBS used to justify their unjustifiable taxpayer funding by telling people that poor children would be harmed if their educational...

friday 20

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Mike Gonzalez

The Katherine Maher case for defunding NPR

The Katherine Maher case for defunding NPR

Taxpayers should have stopped funding the Corporation for Public Broadcasting long ago, but National Public Radio CEO Katherine Maher’s cowardly,...

friday 2

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Carson Becker

The Bible cinematic universe?

When I tell my friends in show business that I am now at Princeton Theological Seminary, getting a master’s degree in divinity and on my way, I...

friday 1

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Carson Becker

Andrea Dworkin’s unfinished business 

“We will know that we are free when the pornography no longer exists,” Andrea Dworkin concludes in her book Pornography: Men Possessing Women,...

friday 9

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Carson Becker

Total recall: Administrative overreach stifles small businesses and limits mothers’ choices

When I gave birth to my first baby over a decade ago, I had many options for baby products to put her down in. Baby bouncers, baby pillows, baby...

friday 7

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Bethany Mandel

The miniseries of Procrustes: Review of The Leopard on Netflix

Fitting a novel‘s plot into two hours is an undertaking like jamming Cinderella‘s stepsister’s foot into the glass slipper: You have to hack off...

friday 7

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Bethany Mandel

For Lorne: Another Saturday night

Born in Toronto in 1944, Lorne David Lipowitz, as Lorne Michaels was known at birth, was, like all baby boomers, seemingly predisposed to...

friday 8

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Carson Becker

The real DOGE

THE REAL DOGE. It’s not an exaggeration to say that much of the media’s coverage of Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency effort...

friday 10

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Ron York

The curdling of California and Gavin’s party

In November 2023, downtown San Francisco underwent a sudden transformation. Its streets were power washed, graffiti was erased, trash was cleared,...

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Carson Becker

The Trump administration’s Signal group chat leak and its consequences

The person who added a journalist to a Signal message thread that top national security officials used to discuss military strikes should resign if...

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Can conservatives make great movies?

Quick — name a great conservative movie that came out in the last five years.  How about the last 19 years? Not easy, is it? Despite crushing the...

27.03.2025 6

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Mark Judge

CBO says refusing to reform Social Security means a 24% benefit cut in 9 years

As recently as last year, Social Security trustees bragged that Social Security wouldn’t reach insolvency until 2034 and that the following year,...

27.03.2025 4

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Tiana Lowe Doescher

Tillis faces a challenging reelection bid

Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) has begun raising funds for his 2026 reelection campaign, a seat that will be a top target for Democrats to flip. Tillis...

27.03.2025 2

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Tiana Lowe Doescher

A night scramble

On the night of Oct. 10, 1985, Lt. Cmdr. Barry Steel, call sign Vert, was relaxing aboard the aircraft carrier USS Saratoga. The ship was cruising...

27.03.2025 2

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Trent Reedy

A short history of the Woke Right

This column will be boring to read. You know I try. I really do, but there is no other way. This week I write about antisemitism. There is so much...

27.03.2025 2

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Trent Reedy

California’s high-speed rail will never be completed

All we ever hear about California’s high-speed rail project is that it needs more funding, has been delayed, or both. It is time for California to...

27.03.2025 1

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Tiana Lowe Doescher

Soderbergh’s stylish spies

It is old hat to say that Steven Soderbergh’s movies are stylish, but a look through the auteur’s catalog inspires few descriptors that are more...

27.03.2025 1

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Trent Reedy

Swatting: A frightening hoax demanding serious attention

In an era where technology connects us like never before, it is both shocking and disheartening that this same connectivity is being weaponized to...

27.03.2025 10

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John Roberts

Why the Education Department has to go

Over the past half-decade, millions of parents have learned the hard way that when ideologically driven, unresponsive officials control public...

27.03.2025 10

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John Roberts

RFK Jr. is right: Cell phones don’t belong in schools

Media outlets were quick to pounce when Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. declared that cell phones should be banned in...

27.03.2025 1

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John Roberts

Pregnancy centers have a bigger responsibility than ever before

When Tonia walked through our doors at Prestonwood Pregnancy Center, she was ready to order abortion pills and had found a website that promised...

27.03.2025 2

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Leanne Jamieson

Activist judges shouldn’t block the will of the people

Activist judges shouldn’t block the will of the people

Our Founding Fathers created a system of checks and balances that serves as the foundation of our great American republic. While our founders...

27.03.2025 2

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Leanne Jamieson

FBI Director Kash Patel is off to a strong start

Though highly controversial when nominated for his role by President Donald Trump and only confirmed by 51-49 votes, FBI Director Kash Patel has...

27.03.2025 1

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Tiana Lowe Doescher

Gomez’s questions about Hegseth drinking show Democrats aren’t serious people

Democrats are faking outrage over the Signal group chat incident.  Rep. Jimmy Gomez’s (D-CA) rant on Wednesday at a House Intelligence Committee...

27.03.2025 2

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Christopher Tremoglie

Republicans should focus on flipping Georgia’s Senate seat in 2026

Georgia’s Senate election will likely pose the best chance for Republicans to pick up a seat in 2026. Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) is running for...

27.03.2025 2

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Christopher Tremoglie