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The First Amendment comes first for a reason: Free speech is a fundamental American right. But does the First Amendment cover everything? As Americans, we generally agree that free speech is highly beneficial to society, but that there are some valid ...

Republicans are beginning to sound the alarm about the 2026 midterm elections, and not without reason. The concern was crystallized by a Texas state Senate race in a district President Donald Trump carried by 17 points in 2024 but which recently ...

Progressives are the last bastion of unbounded exceptionalism. The unblinking moral duty to redeem our country and the world by recasting both in their image reflects a city on a hill, God is on our side sense of manifest destiny that would have made ...

The Department of Education deserves credit for shining a national spotlight on a crisis that schools and regulators have often ignored: the sexual abuse of children in America's classrooms. Secretary Linda McMahon's July Dear Colleague letter lays ...

While voters are focused on a vast array of issues these days, nothing seems to shake Americans' concerns with inflation and affordability. That's why President Trump's recent endorsement of the Credit Card Competition Act deserves the utmost ...

For the better part of two decades, Democrats, journalists, and progressive academics have marshaled data seeming to show that consumption of conservative media (for much of that time, this mostly meant Fox News) was likely to harbor warped views of ...

Knowingly or not, President Donald Trump, in his decision to attack Iran, has embarked on a foreign policy that has been, on and off, both persistent and controversial in the great English-speaking nations. You can trace it back at least to the ...

Paul Krugman remains one of the left's most influential voices. In his latest column, he argues that President Trump avoids taking credit for the drop in murders because Trump's ultimate goal is cruelty rather than public safety. Krugman contends ...

At this writing, the House is expected to pass the SAVE (Safeguard American Voter Eligibility) America Act, after which it will move to the Senate. The challenge will be in the Senate, where at least seven Democrats are needed to join 53 Republicans ...

Why pay taxes when so much of your hard-earned money goes to fraudsters instead of doing good? Government bureaucrats and elected politicians, mostly Democrats, scream in outrage when any effort is made to crack down on fraud by requiring proof of ...