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In just a few days, the Jewish community will sit around the Seder table and retell the story of our people's journey from slavery to freedom, a story often defined by miracles. But there is a detail in that story that is often overlooked. The ...

We get the government we choose to elect, hence the government we deserve. Voting for ever-higher punitive taxes on the rich is arguably a form of civic suicide. Consider that a wealthy New Yorker can get a raise of almost 40% just by moving. That's ...

Despite stiff competition, the Democrats' recent attack on President Trump may be their most dangerous to date. The six members of Congress whose viral video told our armed forces that "you must refuse illegal orders" crossed a perilous line. By ...

There is a shared idea behind all prize programs, and here it is: We get the world we praise. The arc of the future is bent by what we praise in the present. Praise is an incentive. The human animal responds to incentives. Why is it that with every ...

The State of the Union speech is an effective annual exercise to measure how journalists feel about a long speech on national TV by Donald Trump. They hate it intensely, like most children hate broccoli. They would like to scrape that steaming plate ...

The buzzword of the month is "affordability," and based on the election results from New York, New Jersey and Virginia, voters think that's declining. Democrats think they've found a winning issue here to win back the hearts and minds of voters after ...

Recent regional special elections have seen Democratic candidates win a number of special election races. Now energized left-wing politicos remind the nation daily that every incumbent president, except three over the last century, has suffered ...

You'd think being president of the United States and commander in chief of the nation's armed forces would be enough of a job for anyone. But no, Donald J. Trump spent Monday in his newest self-appointed role - as America's top medical expert. He ...

Does anyone really believe the international media cares what Olympic snowboarders and curlers think about President Donald Trump's ICE raids, or whatever panic de jour is on the menu this week? Of course not. They want U.S. athletes to bash the ...

We just went through the longest government shutdown in history over contention regarding renewal of temporarily enacted government subsidies to Obamacare premiums. This battle is not over. Eight Democrats threw in the towel and agreed to postpone ...