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The Trump administration swept into office with a noble goal: Burn federal grantmaking to the ground. Taxpayers throw hundreds of billions of dollars at nonprofits each year, propping up a massive number of special interest groups while encouraging ...

When the Senate passed the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act earlier this year, my stated view was that the bill was, like many bipartisan pieces of legislation, imperfect. The challenge in a deeply divided Washington is always whether "perfect will ...

WASHINGTON -- Two California Democrats could run for president in 2028: Gov. Gavin Newsom and former Vice President Kamala Harris. Republican operatives must be thinking: Bring it on. Under Newsom, California's image has become less golden than it ...

A year ago, President Trump signed one of his most important executive orders. He called out the decline of higher education, where merit and excellence have given way to indoctrination in "diversity, equity, and inclusion." He then targeted the ...

Sharyn Alfonsi represents the overweening pomposity of the hard-left partisans that have ruled CBS News. She responded to Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss with "resistance" lingo when her contract was not renewed. "This was not a routine corporate ...

So, after today's Cabinet meeting and intense discussions with envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, as well as Vice President Vance, President Trump decided that the talks are going well enough so he's going to extend Friday's deadline to a week ...

California's elected Democrats can't move beyond pandering. Gov. Gavin Newsom is fixated on reparations for African Americans, and the legislature's Democratic Party majority is once again trying to divide Californians by race, sex, and gender ...

As the sun rises on a new Trump-era geopolitical chapter, Washington confronts a defining choice: Will America view the People's Republic of China and its regnant Communist Party through the rose-colored lens of transaction and diplomacy, or will it ...

There's vastly too much hand-wringing over President Trump's diplomacy and potential dealmaking with Iran, and it's coming from friends and foes alike. I think it has more to do with America's crumbling political infrastructure, than it does ...

It felt good to be a Democrat in California. Well, it used to, and the State of the Union address by President Trump illuminated exactly why I left the party. In Silicon Valley, it often feels like the default setting. In many professional circles,