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Today’s blockbuster GDP report should serve as a strong reminder that this year’s biggest present to the American people came... Read More

Despite the positive results, other data releases have raised questions about the economy’s underlying strength in recent months. Read More

Nearly a year into Trump’s second term there is a noticeable shift in the range of opinions one can find expressed in mainstream... Read More

The murder of Charlie Kirk showed how desperate and dangerous woke culture warriors became in 2025. Read More

The DEI fad undermined a core strength of America, even as it wrecked millennials’ prospects for good jobs and stable futures. Read More

Jimmy Kimmel will decry fascism in a Christmas Day speech broadcast on British TV. Can he really do that while ignoring UK's speech crisis? Read More

Nicki Minaj is not a theologian, a historian, or a political philosopher. However, during a Sunday conversation with Erika Kirk at Turning... Read More

With his election, the Democratic Party's reinvention of itself for a more populist age now looks a bit clearer. Read More

Many Jews came to Australia precisely because they thought they would be safe. The Bondi massacre changed that. Read More

Not entirely, but Democrats could still win if courts do their job. Read More

"You've been lied to." In this episode of The Miller Report: Real Clear Journalism, Maggie Miller sits down with Jason Hayes, Director of... Read More

Lost in the din of a violent week is CBP’s release of its statistics for agency “encounters” for the... Read More

Birthright citizenship — the idea that anyone born in the United States is automatically a citizen, with full right to receive all benefits... Read More

Child-welfare agencies have stretched the preference for “kinship care” in foster-family placements to the point of absurdity. Read More

For nearly a decade, MAGA and Donald Trump were synonymous. Read More

He is just a man. He has flaws. He makes mistakes. It’s not a sin to point this out. Read More

Follow along for the latest news on the major headlines of the day. Read More

Last week Matt Taibbi published his column “The Jeffrey Epstein Saga is the Worst-Reported Story of All Time” at Racket... Read More

Join the conversation with Jerry Rogers, who discusses illegal immigration, and Pete Hegseth. Brian Darling joined the show for the Liberty... Read More

Victor Davis Hanson on the dangers of illegal immigrants on our nation’s highways and flooding our health care system. Read More

On this episode of The Time of Monsters: David Broder on centrist failures feeding extremist politics. Read More

Tom Bevan, Andrew Walworth, and Carl Cannon discussed the ideological tension between neocons and MAGA at this weekend's Reagan Defense... Read More

Immigration judges’ asylum grant rates have been plummeting since the height of Biden-era bedlam. In the year and a half from February... Read More

Brookings scholars Alikhani, Harris, and Patnaik break down the latest evidence on how Americans use AI, both personally and at work Read More

Economic advisor Stephen Moore's new report claims credit card interest rate caps would harm consumers and revive predatory lending practices. Read More

The safety net for low-income families aims to offer temporary and targeted assistance so that, among other things, work-capable individuals... 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

Some books that we think are worth your time over the holidays. Read More

Stand By Me is the closest Reiner came to dramatizing the relationship between suffering and seriousness, and he deserves our gratitude for... Read More

Back in October, failed candidate for the U.S. vice presidency, Tim Walz, made a post to X invoking a blast from America’s... Read More

Twenty GOP Zoomers on Trump, Hitler, dating, racism, politics, the economy, and more. Read More

Divides over how to address conspiracy theories and antisemitism were put on full display. Read More

Conflicts came to a head in the first America Fest since the death of Charlie Kirk. Read More

Counter reverence with ridicule. Read More

Jews celebrating Hanukkah were just slaughtered by Muslim gunmen on an Australian beach, in an imitation of the October 7 massacres. At Brown... Read More

A case study in how a deeply unpopular political party manages to win elections. Read More

We are not living through a mass extinction. Read More

It's embarked on the most extensive project since at least the 1930s to reclaim executive power from unelected bureaucrats and judges. Read More

As the calendar year comes to a close, the Trump administration is projecting a dazzling economy in 2026 — but a... Read More

The holiday season is often associated with joy, generosity, and connection. Yet, it also marks a peak period for financial fraud and scams.... Read More

Yesterday’s report on inflation was filled with encouraging news as the CPI has fallen to 2.7% year-over-year and the trend in the last... Read More

The young and ambitious are fleeing the stagnant coastal states for the booming heartland. Read More

If you care about happiness, well-being, or growth, you should care about GDP. Read More

A HOTLINE reader recently sent us a classic oldie-but-goody economics lesson from economic scholar Mark Perry. Given all the chaos in... Read More

Even as many scholars and pundits deny the differences between the sexes and vastly expand the concept of gender, society is increasingly... Read More

On his first day in office in his second term, January 20, 2025, President Trump issued a collection of Executive Orders. One of those was... Read More

For fifteen years I’ve scalped tickets to pay the bills. But in January 2016 I almost managed a real career. Read More

Jasmine Crockett’s candidacy could all but end their chances of flipping a much-needed Senate seat next year. Read More

Or so says the Government of Australia .... Read More

During the ridiculous controversy over flags flying at the house of Justice Samuel Alito, the media and the left went into vapors over the... Read More

Like the classic Clint Eastwood western, the Trump Administration should have titled its National Security Strategy: “The Good, the Bad,... Read More

If you’re new around here, we have a little holiday tradition — we ask the writers, editors, and contributors at The Federalist... Read More