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Reclaiming the middle: Chautauqua’s slow push toward balance

Reclaiming the middle: Chautauqua’s slow push toward balance

CHAUTAUQUA, New York — The road here feels like one of those places that America keeps tucked away on purpose — the kind that you don’t stumble...

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Salena Zito

Max Miller’s career is over. It’s just a question of now or November

Max Miller’s career is over. It’s just a question of now or November

The acrimonious nature of divorce proceedings often renders the records an unreliable game of he-said-she-said, with grand accusations lobbed at one...

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Tiana Lowe Doescher

California Democrats endorse a self-destructive ‘billionaire tax’

California Democrats endorse a self-destructive ‘billionaire tax’

The California Democratic Party is continuing its economic destruction of the state, driving taxpayers out while ramping up spending year after year....

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Zachary Faria

I oppose sanctuary cities. The Constitution still protects them

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John Malcolm

Kick Gianni Infantino out of FIFA’s front door

Kick Gianni Infantino out of FIFA’s front door

To FIFA President Gianni Infantino and the Trump administration’s credit, the recently concluded soccer World Cup was a huge success. The...

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Tom Rogan

Trumponomics: Big government is a racket

Trumponomics: Big government is a racket

Big government can be thought of as a toll collector. Through regulation, taxes, or outright government ownership, politicians limit the ability of...

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Timothy P. Carney

Red tape will kill the next AI startup, and Big Tech couldn’t be happier

Red tape will kill the next AI startup, and Big Tech couldn’t be happier

Artificial intelligence has brought a revolutionary change to industries, economies, and how the government provides public services. In fact, it has...

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Aditi Jaiswal

Sudan is a 10-nation proxy war. Why are we pretending there’s only one culprit?

Sudan is a 10-nation proxy war. Why are we pretending there’s only one culprit?

I am not here to deny that foreign powers have intervened in Sudan, nor to defend any external intervention, regardless of its source. But if foreign...

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Abdulmoniem Suleiman

The FDA’s strategy on vaping is going up in smoke — now Americans are put at risk

The FDA’s strategy on vaping is going up in smoke — now Americans are put at risk

The Food and Drug Administration is hoping to take a page out of John Kerry’s flip-flopping playbook. While running for president in 2004, Kerry...

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David Safavian

Clarity countdown: Every day the Senate delays, foreign rivals win

Clarity countdown: Every day the Senate delays, foreign rivals win

For years, Washington has rightly demanded that digital asset markets operate under stronger consumer protections, meaningful federal oversight, and...

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Summer Mersinger

Europe can’t innovate, so it regulates. It’s time for Washington to fight back

Europe can’t innovate, so it regulates. It’s time for Washington to fight back

The European Union has, time and time again, promised “fairness” and “competition” in its digital regulations. Instead, what it has delivered...

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Paul Teller

Woke in 2021, anti-woke in 2026: Pension trustees are making the same mistake twice

Woke in 2021, anti-woke in 2026: Pension trustees are making the same mistake twice

A public pension trustee who strikes the diversity and climate language from an investment policy statement this summer is not doing housekeeping. He...

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Jay Rogers

They’re firebombing CEOs and shooting at local officials. Welcome to the era of techno-terrorism

They’re firebombing CEOs and shooting at local officials. Welcome to the era of techno-terrorism

On Thursday, East Tennessee authorities arrested Adam Lee Heimerman, an independent candidate for Tennessee’s 2nd Congressional District, after...

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Colton Overcash

The terrifying new blue-state strategy to bankrupt Christian ministries

The terrifying new blue-state strategy to bankrupt Christian ministries

There is a troubling pattern emerging of government officials in America’s bluest states punishing religious organizations and individuals for...

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Andrea Picciotti-Bayer

Georgia is demolishing its Western future — one landmark at a time

Georgia is demolishing its Western future — one landmark at a time

Tbilisi keeps losing pieces of itself. The Bridge of Peace, the glass-and-steel span across the Mtkvari that Bidzina Ivanishvili called “nothing but...

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Emzari Gelashvili

Tired of clicking ‘accept cookies’? Blame Brussels, not Big Tech

Tired of clicking ‘accept cookies’? Blame Brussels, not Big Tech

If you’ve clicked “Accept All Cookies” for what feels like the billionth time, you’ve experienced something most Americans never think about:...

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Chloe Anagnos

Trump was right: Europe’s border chaos proves weak policy kills

Trump was right: Europe’s border chaos proves weak policy kills

Europe is learning a lesson that the Trump administration understood long before the rest of the West: Border policy is about incentives. This week,...

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Sophia Aros

Mamdani’s Jim Crow 2.0: How will women and minority groups get groceries in socialist NYC?

Mamdani’s Jim Crow 2.0: How will women and minority groups get groceries in socialist NYC?

An old saying suggests that actions speak louder than words. Assuming that to be true, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is an ardent supporter of...

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Christopher Tremoglie

The reverse Reconquista: How 60,000 Moroccan men exposed Europe’s softest border

The reverse Reconquista: How 60,000 Moroccan men exposed Europe’s softest border

In the past few days, we’ve witnessed the unsettling images of tens of thousands of Moroccans, young unemployed Muslim men, clambering over the...

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Ken Strange

Sorry, Europe: Trump has found better allies in Asia

Sorry, Europe: Trump has found better allies in Asia

President Donald Trump is not a leader who thinks in shades of grey. He has sorted the United States’s allies, by and large, into two categories:...

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Derek Grossman

Dr. Oz just fired a $4.5 billion shot at big hospital hypocrisy

Dr. Oz just fired a $4.5 billion shot at big hospital hypocrisy

The 340B drug discount program grew to an eye-popping $100 billion in drug sales in 2025, making it the largest government program most people have...

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Phil Kerpen

Silicon Valley can’t own the Pentagon’s kill switch

Silicon Valley can’t own the Pentagon’s kill switch

U.S. Special Operations Command chief Adm. Frank Bradley recently warned that troops must be careful about how artificial intelligence enters the...

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Burak Oktenli

Forget Cold War 2.0: The US‑China ‘hedging war’ has already begun

Forget Cold War 2.0: The US‑China ‘hedging war’ has already begun

Is there a war going on between the United States and China right now? Yes — but not the kind we’re used to labeling. There is no hot war in sight...

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David W. Wang

Meet the Ozempic voters. They could decide the midterm elections

Meet the Ozempic voters. They could decide the midterm elections

The midterm elections are upon us. As both parties scramble to make their last appeals to voters, they may be overlooking a key demographic among...

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Sean Spicer

Trump’s alternative to war with Iran isn’t peace. It’s a bloodbath

Trump’s alternative to war with Iran isn’t peace. It’s a bloodbath

For years, the Iranian government has attacked Israel mainly through proxies — Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis. More recently, it has launched...

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Walter E. Block

Trump is wasting time negotiating with terrorists. Here’s what he should do instead

Trump is wasting time negotiating with terrorists. Here’s what he should do instead

It has been 157 days since the United States initiated its military campaign against the Islamic Republic of Iran.  The beginning of the Islamic...

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Adam Turner

Meet the Gaza athletes unmasked as terrorists

Meet the Gaza athletes unmasked as terrorists

Abdullah Khattab emerged as one of Gaza’s rising soccer talents at a young age. But he was committed to more than just athletics. On July 22, the...

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Natalie Ecanow

Abdul el Sayed has one answer for every Michigan problem: Israel

Abdul el Sayed has one answer for every Michigan problem: Israel

Abdul el Sayed faces Rep. Haley Stevens (D-MI) in Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary on Tuesday. Just one week ago, the two squared off in their...

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Alexandra Orbuch Horowitz

Trump talks peace while Tehran hangs protesters. Don’t sign a deal written in blood

Trump talks peace while Tehran hangs protesters. Don’t sign a deal written in blood

As President Donald Trump recently spoke of “good talks” with Iran, Tehran publicly hanged Amir Hossein Safari Hosseinabadi and Abolfazl Sepahi...

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Hamid Enayat

Responding to punitive tax rates, BP says bye to the North Sea

Responding to punitive tax rates, BP says bye to the North Sea

Last week, BP, formerly known as British Petroleum, announced plans to sell its oil and natural gas business in the North Sea. The news was another...

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James Rogan

Trump should pull the plug on Truth API

Trump should pull the plug on Truth API

“We will fight with every measure of our strength and with every ounce of our energy to lift up the working men and working women of America,”...

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Washington Examiner

We can’t ‘ban gerrymandering’ if we don’t agree on what gerrymandering is

We can’t ‘ban gerrymandering’ if we don’t agree on what gerrymandering is

Democrats gerrymander just as much as Republicans, but Democrats claim their party has the moral high ground because, according to liberal...

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Timothy P. Carney

Ceuta invasion — nothingburger or outrage?

Ceuta invasion — nothingburger or outrage?

Apologists for backward peoples invading wealthy developed nations can’t get their story straight.  One lot dismisses the irruption of 50,000...

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Hugo Gurdon

What if Republicans lose both House and Senate?

What if Republicans lose both House and Senate?

WHAT IF REPUBLICANS LOSE BOTH HOUSE AND SENATE? The odds are Republicans will lose control of the House in the coming midterm elections, for five...

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Byron York

Stop falling for the anti-Markwayne Mullin psyop

Stop falling for the anti-Markwayne Mullin psyop

President Donald Trump deported a staggering 46,000 illegal aliens in July, a record unparalleled by any other president. That same month, Immigration...

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Tiana Lowe Doescher

How Mohammed bin Salman earned Trump’s ear over Netanyahu

How Mohammed bin Salman earned Trump’s ear over Netanyahu

It’s increasingly clear that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is the Middle Eastern leader with the most influence over President Donald...

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Tom Rogan

AI assistants stop assisting when they start controlling

AI assistants stop assisting when they start controlling

A new agentic AI assistant called Orchid is making waves from a viral advertisement that claims humans are incompetent at managing their everyday...

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Sam Korkus

The WNBA’s trans conundrum: What does the ‘W’ stand for?

The WNBA’s trans conundrum: What does the ‘W’ stand for?

Transgender discourse has overtaken the WNBA, leading to an awkward question: If WNBA figures think there is no problem in men playing women’s...

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Zachary Faria

How a gay Gentile went from ‘Karma Chameleon’ stardom to Israel’s most unlikely defender

How a gay Gentile went from ‘Karma Chameleon’ stardom to Israel’s most unlikely defender

Israel’s biggest and most surprising supporter on planet Earth is a gay, Gentile former rock star turned DJ turned actor who just released a song...

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Michael Levin

I’m a Democrat. Socialists need to stop leeching off my party and build their own

I’m a Democrat. Socialists need to stop leeching off my party and build their own

The Democratic Socialists of America was once a fringe movement. Its recent victories confirm it is now an increasingly powerful national political...

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James Christopher

Trump’s Maduro raid has Brazil’s Left in fear — and splinters the Right

Trump’s Maduro raid has Brazil’s Left in fear — and splinters the Right

Brazil has had a complicated relationship with the United States throughout its history. The American Revolution inspired Brazil’s own Independence,...

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Miguel Nunes Silva

There are no socialists in power — only personal capitalists

There are no socialists in power — only personal capitalists

I arrived at the Pentagon in February 2003. Whenever I could, I followed the official tours, learned every corridor, and later guided colleagues and...

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Michael Breeden

They didn’t stop Trump. They just broke America

They didn’t stop Trump. They just broke America

In Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, Mark Antony stands over the murdered leader’s body and repeats with cold irony: “For Brutus is an honorable man;...

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Michael Breeden

North Korea isn’t building a military line. It’s building a new Berlin Wall

North Korea isn’t building a military line. It’s building a new Berlin Wall

The Military Demarcation Line, established by the 1953 Armistice Agreement, was originally intended as a temporary boundary to separate warring...

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Park Joonhye

Obama, the red Trojan horse: How the ‘change’ president mainstreamed Marxism

Obama, the red Trojan horse: How the ‘change’ president mainstreamed Marxism

Let’s separate the facts from the fiction with respect to the rise of communism in the United States. Many people appear shocked by how communism...

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Perry V. Kalajian

The West thought Kim Jong Un was trapped. Then came Putin

The West thought Kim Jong Un was trapped. Then came Putin

There is an old adage in international politics: There are no eternal friends, nor eternal enemies — only eternal national interests.  North Korea...

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Park Joonhye

When ‘criticizing Israel’ becomes plain old bigotry

When ‘criticizing Israel’ becomes plain old bigotry

Antisemitism has become an increasingly visible part of America’s political conversation. While criticism of Israel is a legitimate part of the...

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William Pollack

Willie Nelson is wrong. He’s declaring war on the data centers streaming his music

Willie Nelson is wrong. He’s declaring war on the data centers streaming his music

Willie Nelson has spent decades earning the affection of Americans across political and cultural lines. His music is part of the national soundtrack,...

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Colton Overcash