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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 ...

American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten is sounding the alarm about the decade-long decline in student test scores, pointing to screens and devices as a culprit. She's calling it a "call to action." She left out the part about how ...

When policymakers talk about housing affordability, the focus is usually on interest rates, inventory shortages, zoning reform, or construction costs. All are important. But one factor rarely making the conversation is fraud prevention - and the ...

California is about to test whether two timeworn political maxims still ring true in 2025. The first is the tried-and-true "All politics is local," a phrase dating as far back as 1932 and most closely associated to former House Speaker Tip O'Neill.

Over the last week, the decision on whether to extend the enhanced ACA subsidies has increasingly become the defining issue of the shutdown. It is an issue that is fracturing the Republican Party and threatening to derail their midterm election ...

Well, Donald Trump has done it again! He stumped the chumps. The "chumps" in this case were the "blue-chip" academic and financial economists whose consensus forecast this time last year was of high inflation and low economic growth. Wrong on both ...

President Donald Trump's address to the United Nations General Assembly was the latest example of how our "independent fact-checkers" are better defined as Democrat-dependent messaging machines. Their selection bias is transparent. PolitiFact was ...

Catholics have been some of Trump's most important voters. But right now, 55% of Catholics give Trump a D or F grade on handling inflation. Affordability is the central issue for most Americans, especially swing voters. Patriotic middle-class ...

Since Democrats have shut down the federal government because they want another $1.5 trillion bailout of Obamacare, it's a good time to remind everyone that the law has been a wide-ranging and expensive fiasco. Virtually every promise made by ...

Is Great Britain on the brink of a Trump revolution? The president's visit to the U.K. coincides with indications Prime Minister Keir Starmer's Labour government is tottering. Starmer's own party increasingly thinks he has to go -- and if Labour ...