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It's a new year and the stock markets are already making new record highs. Pretty soon you're going to get 50,000 on the Dow, over 7,000 on the S&P 500. The lefty press never talks about this. Yet more or less, 135 million American investors are ...

Extraordinarily effective Hamas propaganda has delegitimized Israel's right of self-defense by confirming for a world that scorns Israel that its demon is engaged in genocide. It is not, but the same cannot be said of Hamas, the aggressor which has ...

It's known as the Easterlin Paradox. Though rising wealth at early stages in the lives of individuals and countries fosters greater happiness, perpetually rising wealth does not make individuals or countries perpetually happier. At some point,

So let me get this right. After every Democrat in the House and Senate who voted against One, Big, Beautiful Bill - and therefore promoted a roughly $5 trillion tax hike - now a couple of presidential wannabees, like Senators Cory Booker and Chris ...

The aerobic freakout has begun inside the liberal media over the new owners of CBS News appointing "anti-woke" Bari Weiss to the new post of editor-in-chief. None of the CBS veterans want a new boss with a new ideology. They like pretending they don ...

In a country desperate for unifying issues, there is growing consensus on one: surveillance of American citizens. From progressives who want to hold ICE accountable to conservatives who fear Big Government, an ever-expanding federal government has ...

What started as a call from President Trump to Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has become an arms race that will reshape congressional districts and determine control of the House of Representatives. But the most troubling aspect isn't the gerrymandering ...

The leftist media cabal constantly imagine themselves as the grand embodiment of Democracy and Freedom of Speech, even as they seek to put Republicans in jail and hope to censor them out of speaking on social media. They don't live up to their First ...

Maybe money can't buy happiness or wisdom, but it can help buy power. JB Pritzker knows this better than most. Over the years, he has spent some $347 million of his own, largely inherited, wealth to acquire and hold on to the governorship of Illinois ...

Speaker Mike Johnson shrugged. With a brave face, the House Republican leader downplayed the results of the first major election since President Donald Trump returned to the White House. He called Tuesday's outcomes the kind of off-year "anomalies"