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The case for protectionism revolves around a host of doom-and-gloom myths that we should not accept. "We don't make anything anymore!" I don't know how many times I've heard defenders of President Donald Trump's new tariff regime bleakly note that ...

The 47th U.S. president has a new national security adviser. One might think the job title "Secretary of State" is a big enough job itself. But Marco Rubio works for a man who has added several positions to his own portfolio. Yes, Donald Trump is ...

In April 1775, Paul Revere set out on horseback from Boston to warn the patriots that the British king in London was sending redcoats to suppress their demands for liberty. When I was a kid, I dreamt I was there. In April 2025, nearly 100,000 people ...

Anyone who requires a lifetime of mutilating surgery and hormone treatments to avoid depression, self-harm, or suicide, is both ill and worthy of compassion. Yet the approximately 1-2% of Americans who suffer gender dysphoria - along with and their ...

WASHINGTON -- Hunter Biden is making news again. Former President Joe Biden's son sat down for a lengthy interview with podcaster Andrew Callaghan that dropped Monday. With his father out of the White House, Hunter Biden could use 2025 to retreat ...

On August 22, 2025, Iryna Zarutska, a young white woman who recently fled Ukraine, was brutally murdered in North Carolina by a black man, Decarlos Brown, who celebrated and declared, "I got that white girl," before Zarutska's blood had a chance to ...

As the Trump administration takes on the latest wave of left-wing violence, an obituary reminds us what happens when political killers get away with their crimes. The law never caught up with Joanne Chesimard, aka Assata Shakur. She died last ...

Now they tell us. "We were badly misled about the event that changed our lives." So reads the headline on Princeton professor Zeynep Tufekci's March 16 article in The New York Times. The event was, of course, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the bad ...

A new war between the states is erupting -- this time over abortion. A dozen states, including Texas and Louisiana, have enacted near-total bans on abortion. Eight other states, including New York, are going on the offense against these anti-abortion ...

China has a death grip on our medical supplies and consequently our ability to survive. It is the sole manufacturer of one hundred medications we commonly use, including antibiotics and blood thinners, and is the largest supplier of nitrate gloves,