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Biden Takes Aim at Trump-Era Tax Cuts

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We Chose Yale and It Chose Us, But One Party Was Betrayed

We chose Yale and it chose us, but one party was betrayed

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How We Kept College Radicals in Check in Florida

America's academic leaders seem powerless only because they've spent decades promoting the ideologies now on such brutal and ugly display.

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Biden's Worst-Case Economic Scenario Unfolding at Worst Time

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November Will Hinge on the Youth Vote

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Coming Soon to Your State: Californication

By David Bittinger May 1, 2024 California has become a bad movie. It's a big-budget turkey produced by the state's Democrat rulers for the two audiences they care about: the prosperous and fabulous in elite enclaves, the benefit-dependent most everywhere else. Once upon a time, California's large numbers of middle-class citizens were largely contented. But their ability to live comfortably ... Read More

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Will Campus Protesters Turn to Terrorism?

The chants and signs in support of Hamas are becoming increasingly dangerous and go well beyond supporting the people in Gaza, or even opposing Israel's right to exist.

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How To Watch the Trump Veepstakes

New names are popping up constantly, but don't put too much stock in rumors.

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Biden Needs To Get Real With Ukraine and Israel

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What Progressivism Wrought

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When Silicon Valley Stopped Trying To Save the World

Four years ago, Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong was treated as a heretic when he insisted on leaving politics out of work. Now he looks prophetic.

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Anti-Israel Students Want To Spew Hate With ‘Amnesty'

Hundreds of pro-Hamas college demonstrators are about to learn a valuable life lesson: Sometimes there are consequences for your actions.

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The State of the American Teenager

From the dislocating effects of the pandemic that impacted teens' academic and social development to the effects of widespread smartphone use, there are plenty of reasons to be concerned.

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Viral Moments May Signal Mood Swing in Trump-Biden Rematch

A string of potentially defining exchanges have gone viral in recent weeks, potentially capturing a major shift in mood as the nation appears headed for a Trump-Biden rematch in November.

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A Great Week for American Workers

Thanks to autoworkers, baristas, and some Biden administration agencies

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Academic Freedom Under Fire

Politicians despise it. Administrators aren't defending it. But it made our universities great-and we'll miss it when it's gone.

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The Storm Brewing for Democrats in Michigan

Michigan has the power to unravel a second Biden presidency. It just might.

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Trump Attorney's Embarrassing Courtroom Apology

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Will the Supreme Court Crown King Donald?

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The Most Infamous Public Toilet in America

We think of adding regulation as something liberals do and removing regulation as something conservatives do. But that is only part of the story.

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The 'Deep State' Is Far Deeper Than Anyone Imagined

Another week and another first for Donald J. Trump.

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GOP Establishment's Days Are Numbered

The recent House vote on foreign aid while the southern border remains wide open reveals a divide within the GOP.

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Giving Up on Elite Colleges--and Heading South

'Even if I could've gotten into Harvard, I wouldn't have gone.'

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Trump Has a Path to Victory

The upcoming 2024 U.S. presidential election is shaping up to be tightly contested between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump. Amidst economic struggles and concerns over border security and global conflict, the polls show a narrowing gap, with Trump gaining a lead in key swing states.

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Trump Can't Be in Two Places at Once in Courtroom Drama

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Jewish Students Fear for Their Safety. Where's Biden?

The recent explosion of antisemitic demonstrations on Ivy League campuses is a tipping point for President Joe Biden's America.

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Democrats Have a Trump Trial, Now Just Need a Crime

We've never seen a case like this one where a dead misdemeanor from 2016 could be revived as a felony just before the 2024 election

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It's a Tough Time for Those Awaiting the End of History

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Why Elites Are Rarely Held Accountable for Terrible Mistakes

Lionel Shriver on why elites are rarely held accountable for their most damaging mistakes.

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Abolish DEI Statements

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We're at Peak Sports Right Now for a Reason

Americans are tuning out a presidential election in favor of distractions.

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Will Israel Be a Game-Changer In The 2024 Election?

Republicans now the only major party that remains solid in its support for long-time ally Israel.

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Columbia Left-Wing Radicalism as Dangerous as It Was in 1968

More than 50 years after anti-Vietnam War demonstrators roiled the Columbia campus in 1968, anti-Israel agitators are disrupting the school's operations.

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How Ohio Became the Center of the Republican World

Florida gets all the attention. The GOP power center of the future is closer to D.C.

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Colleges Must Revive Free Press on Their Campuses

Elite universities can work toward greater free speech, but things won't improve until legacy campus publications are challenged.

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Iran vs. Israel: Outline of a Different Future Is Visible

Both seem keen to limit hostilities, and key Arab states are ready to resist Tehran. But real change will require new Israeli leadership, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

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University Safe Spaces Only for Terrorist Supporters

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Biden and the Blame America First Democrats

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Why Anti-Israel Protesters Won't Stop Harassing Jews

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Obamas, Media Feed Children's Climate Anxiety

This type of children's content on climate change may seem ridiculous, but it's widespread.

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Earth Day: It Doesn't Have To Be 'Mother Nature Versus Man'

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The Death of the GOP Is Not a Tragedy To Be Celebrated

Richard Nixon infected the modern Republican party with a sickness that would kill it - Donald Trump has finished the job

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The New Litmus Test for GOP Candidates

The U.S. needs political leaders who will get serious about fentanyl.

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U.S.-Israel Relations Are at a Crossroads

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Hush Money Trial Has Begun--Not a Good Look for Trump

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Trump Prosecutions a Weaponization of Justice System

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Now or Never Time for Israel?

If Israel allows itself to be cowed now, will it ever regain the optimism and sense of security it enjoyed on 10/6?

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Dems Bail Out 'Death to America' Road-Blockers

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Privileged Youth in West Celebrate Terror Thugs for Kicks

Since Oct. 7, myself and others in the Iranian community have been unsettled by an anxious awareness of how radicalized Westerners are inching dangerously close to support for the Islamic Republic.

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Trump Begins the High-Wire Act

The former president's fight extends beyond the courtroom.

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Biden's Inflation Matters to Swing-State Voters

It seems the so-called experts on the economy cannot understand or even accept the financial despondency of the American people.

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Can There Be Impartial Jurors When It Comes to Trump?

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Ukraine's Border Is Now Johnson's 'Hill To Die On'

The battle this 'wartime speaker' is ready to fight isn't at home for his voters but nearly 5,000 miles and an ocean away.

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Mike Johnson's Gambit Could Blow the GOP's Chances

Right-wing backlash in the House threatens Speaker Johnson's job - but blowback in the Senate could risk GOP seats

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As a Palestinian-American, I Can't Vote for Biden Any More

The president's moral failure in Gaza has taken on historic proportions, like Lyndon Johnson's in Vietnam before him

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Speaker Johnson Is Already Running a Coalition Government

The sooner the speaker admits he needs to choose between the GOP's MAGA wing and working with Democrats, the better.

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Hit the Mullahs and Hit'em Hard, Israel

Joe Biden's timid advice for restraint notwithstanding, there's zero doubt that Israel will retaliate against Iran.

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UN Resolution on the Balkans Would Be a Mistake

A draft U.N. resolution, proposed by Germany, Rwanda and Bosnia and Herzegovina, and supported by a group of countries including the U.S., France and Turkiye, that declares July 11 the Internatio

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Israel Must End the Gaza War

Dennis Ross thinks the only strategic objective that matters is close - or close enough - to being met.

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This Week's Other Trump Legal Story

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The Sinister Censorship of NatCon Brussels

The technocratic elites are the true menace to liberty.

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'Civil War' Isn't Really About a Second American Civil War

Alex Garland's new anti-war film isn't just about the possibility of a second American civil war. It's about much more than that.

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To Voters, Trump Trials Are Just Reality TV

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Donald Trump's Abortion Conundrum

Trump is walking a tricky tightrope trying to appeal to his evangelical base and moderate voters. His solution? A bunch of contradictory nonsense

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O.J. Simpson's Strange Internet Afterlife

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Trump Derangement Syndrome: 'Bloodbath' Lie Edition

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Hamas' Bet on the World Is Paying Off

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Biden Tries To Buy Time on the Border Crisis

Joe Biden claims he's 'examining' his authority to control the border. It's a lie, and he's just trying to buy time until the election.

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Republicans Can't Run From AZ's Draconian Abortion Ban

Pretending to be moderate is a lot harder when Democrats can just roll tape showcasing Christian right radicalism

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There's a Silver Lining in Trump's Deep State Fantasies

Congress is struggling to pass a reauthorization of the Foreign Surveillance Act's Section 702 spying program. That's not the worst thingMAGA diehards are banding together wold.

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Republicans Can't Outrun Their War on Abortion Rights

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RFK Got It Right on Biden

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Are Young Voters Really Embracing Donald Trump?

Plenty of data suggests Trump is making surprising gains with young Americans. The debate, explained.

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Stop Relying on Victim Narratives To Sell Books

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Stop Russia-Ukraine War at the Negotiating Table

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Trump's Abortion Stance Is More 'Democratic' Than Dems'

Donald Trump released a statement contending that the abortion issue should be left to the states and refused to endorse any federal law.

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How to Stop MTG From Throwing Congress Into Chaos

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Trump Made the Right Call on Abortion

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The Secret Side of Facebook

A hugely woke company came face to face with the reality that misinformation spread on Facebook impacted voter's decisions.

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RFK, GOP Just Can't Spread Enough Falsehoods

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Putin and Xi's Unholy Alliance

Why the West won't be able to drive a wedge between Russia and China.

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Michael Cohen, Star Witness

If all goes as scheduled, former President Donald Trump's trial will begin next Monday.

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The Sullivan Doctrine

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How We Got to 'Death to America' in Dearborn

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Biden-Weary Black Voters Could Help Trump Win in 2024

While enthusiasm for Biden is dismal, Democrats will certainly try to harvest the ballots of voters who aren't motivated to get to the polls.

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Too Many Choices Rattle Young Children

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The Truth About Communism, Through Popular Fiction

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How To Spot an 'Election Denier'

They could be anywhere.

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RNC Cleans House To Get Serious About Election Integrity

The RNC personnel change-up was part of a bigger shift that all Republican gatekeepers should make to focus on election integrity.

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No Labels Was Too Beltway to Ever Succeed

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The Obstacles to Diplomacy in Ukraine

Russia's extreme demands-and Ukraine's desire to survive-make negotiations unlikely.

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Disorder on the Border: What Was Biden Thinking?

President Biden surely misread the mood of the American public about illegal immigration. Its record levels are hurting him politically, as well they should.

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Confronting the Anti-Israel Narrative-Industrial Complex

"Israel has become so demonized" in human rights organizations, says Danielle Haas, former senior editor at Human Rights Watch (HRW), that there's "no space to see Israelis as victims, or to absorb nuance or voices that challenge their orthodoxies. In a conceptual universe where Israel is an occupier-colonizer-apartheid state, it is a priori the aggressor, regardless of the brutal human-rights abuses it suffers."

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It's Time To Set the Record Straight on Birth Control

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Censoring Our Story May Have Swung '20 Election

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GOP Must Learn How To Fight 'Abortion vs. Border' Battle

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Israel's War Is a War for Global Stability

Failure by global leaders to recognize Israel's battle against an irrational adversary resistant to conventional diplomacy threatens to unleash a surge in global instability.

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Why We Must All Stand With JK Rowling

The SNP's Hate Crime Act is an unhinged assault on liberty and common sense.

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Has Israel's Moment of Reckoning Finally Arrived?

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The Great Trumpkin Returns!

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Swing State Voters Put Joe Biden on Notice

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Florida Just Crushed Abortion Rights

Conservatives don't understand that abortion is controversial only in theory; faced with a material choice, Americans support abortion rights

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The Cruelty of Cancel Culture

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The Decline of Christianity Means the End of Neutral Spaces

The fading of Christianity in the West doesn't mean the triumph of secular liberalism but the return of an oppressive paganism.

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25 Years Later, 'The Matrix' Is Less Sci-Fi Than Tech Reality

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Surprise: Biden Has Lost Its ‘Sense of Urgency' on the Border

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Biden Doesn't Have the Stamina To Serve Four More Years

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When a 'Difficult Conversation' Threatens Free Speech

Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) is perhaps the leading Trump inquisitor in the House of Representatives.

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America Must Check Its Ageism at the Ballot Box

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Trump's Inflammatory Rhetoric Poses Real Danger

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GOP Doubling Down on Misogyny in 2024

Republicans placate an evangelical base that's getting nastier with sexism a€”A even if costs the party women's votes

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California's Crazy ‘Fast Food' Minimum Wage Takes Effect

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Biden's Defiling of Easter Sunday Was a Punitive Decision

This was a nod to the far left and an attack on the Christian demographic despised by the Democratic party.