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Around 1:30 a.m. on March 19, Sheridan Gorman, an 18-year-old student at Loyola University in Chicago was shot and killed by a masked gunman... Read More

America’s “sanctuary” communities claim to possess higher levels of compassion for others, but the reality is that the... Read More

The California governor will be haunted by his noble pledge to house the homeless, and his failure to give them temporary shelter. Read More

A recent New York Times article peddles all the fictions that keep the game going. Read More

Empower markets over bureaucrats. Allow private capital to flow. And most importantly, let builders build. Read More

A ruling class of “Know Betters” untethered from principle governs not by consistency, but by narrative, control, and the convenient... Read More

The West won’t survive if citizens are taught how to argue before they are taught what is true. Read More

In our Semiquincentennial year, America’s civic muscle needs to be exercised. Years ago, my parents and I used to watch Watters’ World... Read More

This analysis explains how many colleges are closing, why it’s happening, and whether the trend is good or bad for students and society. Read More

Three Hollywood Reporter editors debate the biggest tech news this year. Read More

California kills yet another industry Read More

Even as inflation shows signs of cooling, affordability remains top of mind for families and businesses navigating an uncertain economy... Read More

Everything would be funded except ICE enforcement, and some reforms added, while Republicans would try a long-shot reconciliation bill for... Read More

Key negotiators circulated a potential deal Tuesday to end a five-week standoff over Department of Homeland Security funding and,... Read More

Two very special guests joined Jerry Rogers. Jeremy Portnoy, an investigative journalist with OpenTheBooks.com. His work has been cited by... Read More

Tuesday on the RealClearPolitics podcast, Tom Bevan, Andrew Walworth, and Carl Cannon speak with White House reporter Phil Wegmann about... Read More

Brendan O'Neill and I discuss why America and Israel have to win this war. Read More

Explaining the reluctance of America's European allies to help in the war on Iran, even as they acknowledge the threat from Iran. Read More

Energy affordability has become a top concern for  .... Read More

Voting by the non-citizen mayor of Coldwater, Kan., highlights a problem created by Congress. Read More

The Department of Energy’s (DOE) appliance efficiency standards program has been in place for decades, subjecting nearly every major... Read More

Download I am Brian Blase, founder and president of Paragon Health Institute. From 2017 through 2019, I served as a Special Assistant to the... Read More

Introduction In August, AHIP, the trade association for health insurance companies representing the industry’s top players, announced... 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

Democrats who want to defund Immigration and Customs Enforcement aren’t getting away with the political hostage-taking they’re... Read More

People attend Eid al-Fitr prayers, marking the end of Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan, amid the US-Israeli conflict with … Read More

Many on the Isolationist Right are revealing themselves as, well, Leftists—not against war but against power of any kind and the idea... Read More

On the future of centrist heterodoxy in the party. Read More

Trump has the highest disapproval rating of any President at this point in his presidency in this century. Read More

The cold-blooded execution of Loyola University freshman Sheridan Gorman last week has sparked heartbreak and outrage across the country... Read More

The Department of Defense announced a new media policy on Monday, three days after a federal judge ruled Trump administration... Read More

A reader reports from the front lines - a troubled California city. The awfulness of local Democratic governance has become something of a UT... Read More

Trump’s top officials are in the pocket of Big Tech. It remains to be seen whether Democrats will be much better. Read More

It’s not the handful of athletes that matter—it’s the wholesale rewriting of reality required to include them. Read More

Believe it or not, this one is worth it. Read More

Cesar Chavez, founder of the United Farm Workers, eventually became the symbolic leader of the entire Mexican American community of the 1960s... Read More

The history of congressional reform is the history of unintended consequences. Read More

In the unforgiving arena of twenty-first-century great-power competition, Iran stands as the fulcrum upon which American resolve will either... Read More

Data from the late nineteenth and early twentieth century show why certain immigrant groups assimilated—and offer lessons for today. Read More

The Supreme Court is about to undermine voting rights just before the midterm election. Read More

Hochul invited those who opposed her policies to leave. Many did. Now she wants them back. Read More

The structure of a tax system shapes economic incentives, capital allocation and long-run growth. Read More

The White House and Senate Democrats reached a deal Thursday to separate the fight over ICE funding from the threat of a broader... Read More

The deeper significance of California's billionaire tax is in how it redefines what it means to own property in the United States. Read More

For many decades now a federal policy called the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) has raised gas prices and transferred billions of dollars from... Read More

Conservatives have long stood for a simple but powerful idea: prosperity is achieved through freedom, competition, and growth. That principle... Read More

We like the Trump Accounts because they are designed to create a nation of owners and it democratize stock ownership allowing today’s... Read More

Family farmers are among the great guardians of the sovereignty of the United States. By putting American grown and... Read More

Only in America, with the army of lawyers looking for opportunities to make money, could an industry crop up to promote litigation. There is... Read More

Changes in supply and demand—plus the toll of a million deaths—have disrupted the fentanyl market, writes Sally Satel about the dramatic... Read More

What’s the best thing to do if you’re in a life-threatening emergency? Read More

On the contrary, notwithstanding various ongoing problems in the real economy, the US is a gathering economic success story. Read More

All of Thomas Sowell’s “considerable learning” is front and center in his 2007 book A Conflict of Visions: Ideological... Read More