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They’re not on the right side of history anymore. Read More

Dustin Guastella is director of operations for Teamsters Local 623 in Philadelphia and a research associate at the Center for Working-Class... Read More

Earlier this month, Americans learned that the final culmination of Elon Musk’s fallout with President Donald Trump has been... Read More

She just wanted to go to a concert, sit with some friends, and pass the time listening to music on a sultry summer evening.  Read More

Marxism didn’t die. It just changed costumes. A historian of communism breaks down how today’s radicals rebranded the ideology for a new... Read More

The Obama intelligence community’s claim that Russian President Vladimir Putin authorized dirty tricks to try and help Donald Trump win... Read More

The nation’s largest oil refiner added racial hiring goals to its bonus compensation formula while eliminating a safety metric. Read More

A new ruling from the International Court of Justice means that, at least in theory, the U.S. could be held liable for trashing climate... Read More

Years of harsh regulations that have weakened the electricity grid and Democratic policies that have worked to eliminate consumer choice... Read More

The devastating Texas flooding over the July 4 weekend was a natural disaster of immense proportions. The lives lost brought unthinkable... Read More

During the first half of 2025, a new record was set for the number of deaths caused by climate and weather disasters. Can you guess what that... Read More

One of the most important provisions in the One Big Beautiful Bill has gone completely unnoticed. Read More

Small groups of audacious men built our nation. Now, it falls to us to reindustrialize it—and carve out a new American century. Read More

The administration is working hard to eliminate taxes and regulations on Silicon Valley firms—even in other countries. Read More

Policymakers around the country are grappling with a generational crisis in the face of learning loss that resulted from pandemic lockdowns.... Read More

The Director of National Intelligence has declassified a 2020 House Intelligence Committee report that includes information gleaned... Read More

Multiple Democratic members of Congress have weighed in to demand Colbert's reinstatement, from Bernie Sanders to Elizabeth Warren. Read More

FCC Chair Brendan Carr cheered Skydance's commitment to making "significant changes" at CBS. Read More

The Trump administration is suing New York City and Mayor Eric Adams (D) over its "sanctuary... Read More

The President himself must decide whether someone deserves a pardon. The buck stops at the Resolute desk. Read More

On this emergency edition of "The Federalist Radio Hour," Federalist CEO Sean Davis and Federalist Editor-In-Chief Mollie Hemingway break... Read More

Wednesday on the RealClearPolitics radio show -- weeknights at 6:00 p.m. on SiriusXM's POTUS Channel 124 and then... Read More

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New York Mayor Eric Adams sits down with Miranda Devine to reveal shocking details of his troubled childhood. The mayor also tells Miranda... 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

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard just released a trove of apparently once-classified documents—with promises of much more to... Read More

The Trump administration's feverish push for "transparency" over the 2016 Russia investigation is fast becoming a vehicle for... Read More

For all his feigned concerns about the state of ‘democracy’ in America, Obama has shown himself to be one of the biggest threats... Read More

Mass detention isn’t merely a step along the way to achieving Trump’s goal of mass deportation. Mass detention is also the goal. Read More

Explore Americans' opinions on Trump's immigration policies and their misconceptions. Read More

The percentage of criminal alien arrests remains the same, but the president’s opponents aren’t happy because he’s... Read More

Between fiscal years 2019 and 2023, more than 448,000 unaccompanied alien children were transferred from ICE custody to HHS. Read More

Short of the Carthaginian solution, what sort of agreement would redress the wrongs that Columbia University has tolerated, facilitated,... Read More

Is it alarmist to point out the parallels? Read More

If we don’t confront the Left's dehumanizing rhetoric, America risks a future where destruction is not just tolerated but celebrated. Read More

He rocketed to national attention during the BLM movement—then endured a storm of criticism. The author and professor debates America’s... Read More

Late Night TV hosts covered for President Biden's dementia-like conditions. Now, one program insists Trump has dementia. Really. Read More

The pay hikes may be politically popular, but new research confirms they come at a price for workers. Read More

After President Trump signed H.R. 1 into law, working Americans won a quiet but critical victory — one that protects their wallets,... Read More

More than 16,000 tweets in 18 years reveal a vision far more revolutionary than the candidate’s veneered campaign bio, writes Olivia... Read More

If Zohran Mamdani turns socialist rhetoric into policy, New York’s financial giants may not stick around to see how that plays out. 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