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The answer was not Trump alone. Indeed, irony abounds when Democrats resonate with the claims of the vestigial Never Trumpers that the MAGA... Read More

The states have adopted many of the policies contributing to California’s problems. Read More

Some National Guard units patrolling the nation’s capital at the direction of President Donald Trump have started carrying... Read More

D.C. officials are always exercising delegated federal authority. Read More

In assessing the current controversy over Texas Republicans’ proposed redistricting of the state’s House seats, two historic... Read More

First period is English, where her class is reading a young adult novel about a teenage girl who self-harms, spirals into depression, and... Read More

“I just feel that I have a wonderful opportunity.” Read More

Saturday Night Live's Lorne Michaels had harsh words for President Trump in a new interview. The chat also revealed something else of note. Read More

The administration is full of enablers. Read More

On August 8, 2022 about 30 FBI agents descended on Donald Trump’s home at Mar-a-Lago and searched the place with less civility than they... Read More

Today on TAP: The committee can either put the party on record opposing those sales, or regurgitate Biden’s do-nothing policy. Read More

The accusation that Israel is committing a “genocide” in Gaza has become pervasive on the Left, and particularly in academia. I think... Read More

Editor’s Note: The UN’s famine declaration in Gaza is not neutral data but the latest mutation of an old slander — the blood libel —... Read More

From Ottawa to Wellington, the non-American Anglosphere has clearly begun to relinquish the will to endure. Read More

Across the United Kingdom this weekend, people turned out to protest against the government’s immigration policies.  Read More

Europe is choosing to be poor by putting restrictions on labor, trade, energy, and technology. Read More

Last month, former President Joe Biden made headlines lamenting that his legacy and accomplishments are rapidly being undone by the... Read More

Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man who was unlawfully deported to El Salvador earlier this year, urged supporters at a rally to... Read More

The threat came in response to an invitation from Maryland's Democrat Wes Moore for Trump to attend a safety walk. Read More

Megyn Kelly is joined by Glenn Greenwald, host of Rumble's "System Update," to discuss how the newly declassified Durham report appendix... Read More

Join the conversation as Jerry Rogers returns to WBAL after a three-week absence. Jerry is excited to talk about Johnny Olszewski's visit to... Read More

Friday on the RealClearPolitics radio show, Andrew Walworth, Tom Bevan, and Carl Cannon consider the latest jobs data from the Department of... Read More

Ian O’Doherty on the anti-asylum protests, anti-Semitism and how woke displaced the Catholic church. Read More

The One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBB) contains the most substantial conservative reforms to federal health care programs of any legislation in... Read More

This was quick work from the Trump administration. Read More

Polling reveals what politicians already knew: disclosing nonprofit donors is a recipe for chilling speech. Read More

Faith and religious practice are the foundational bedrock of culture upon which the morals, values, and principles of political governance of... Read More

Last summer, after George Floyd died under Derek Chauvin’s knee, protesters in Pensacola, Florida, held a week’s worth of rallies... Read More

In a statement issued last week, Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman once again called for an end to Governor Sisolak’s indefinite... Read More

While New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham ordered the closing of certain grocery stores over COVID-19 concerns, she spent $16,248 in... Read More

Officials from Petaluma, California have decided their city has enough places to fill up gas-powered cars. Last week, the local city council... Read More

When one side refuses to give up power, they don't think anyone else has a right to representation. Read More

The reaction of Democratic politicians and the mainstream media to the president’s announcement exemplifies “defining deviancy down.” Read More

Marco Rubio confronts Martha Raddatz about Trump's approach to Putin and the Ukraine War. Read More

Democrats have been branded "soft on crime" for 60 years. Will they ever learn to turn the tables? Read More

“Virtually everything the administration is doing is pro-crime.” Read More

DC is built for protests. But after Trump’s takeover, they aren’t happening. Read More

Trump was the choice of voters who had had enough of the Obama Democrats who were wrecking the country. Read More

That was the title of a Wall Street Journal editorial on Friday. The editors’ point is that, while the focus in recent days... Read More

Prestige media has turned “antiracism” into a farce. It’s time to move beyond it. Read More

Spending in July was $55.5 billion higher than it was a year ago. Read More

Today the Washington Post published a long hit piece on Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s security detail. The article is... Read More

In 2019, pickleball was half as popular as badminton. Last year, it was more popular than baseball. What does its rise tell us about fads,... Read More

Young white men finally notice that the Democrats want them dead. Read More

The Fifth Circuit has done the mogul’s bidding and neutered the National Labor Relations Board, in a move that will likely substantially... Read More

A political movement rooted in ancient Jew-hatred is now a generational identity. Read More

The liberal media and others spin attempts to call out the Democratic mayoral nominee’s hatred for Israel as hatred for Muslims. Read More

Below is my column on Fox.com on the debate that Democratic New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani is a socialist, a Democratic Socialist,... Read More

We hope our conservative friends in the House are paying attention. In addition to preventing a $4 trillion tax hike, both bills contain... Read More

As we prepare to note the 249th anniversary of our country, getting ready for the great celebration next year of America's 250th, Gallup... Read More

That’s what almost every news outlet is saying about the Senate tax plan. ABC News worries that the plan will “crush... Read More

As Americans prepare to celebrate the 249th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, we should also toast the 250th anniversary of a... Read More

If the well-examined life is worth living, then C.S. Lewis’s must have been extraordinarily worth living, because few lives have been quite... Read More

Andrea Widburg called it “the nastiest judge-on-judge smackdown I’ve ever seen.” She wasn’t wrong. Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s... Read More

America has suffered the consequences of false compassion for illegal immigrants for too long. Read More

Small business owners across America are telling similar stories. Caught in the crossfire of a global trade war, tariffs are crushing their... Read More

Buried in the 940-page “big, beautiful” budget blueprint is an unprecedented tax credit that, if approved, will be a long-sought... Read More

Blaming the president is a popular pastime these days, but one of America’s cultural leaders has come up with something really novel in the... Read More

Supreme Court makes it clear: ‘Federal courts do not exercise general oversight of the Executive Branch.’ Read More

The American eschatological impulse to war is to achieve a definite victorious outcome, even when the costly extra effort is not... Read More