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It's not despite their Nazi tattoos and anti-Zionism that the progressive Left is flocking to their latest candidates. It's because of it. Read More

As Americans increasingly withdraw support for transgenderism, the Democrats’ trans advocacy has become an electoral liability. Read More

More university administrations are refusing to cave to student activists’ demands to cancel commencement speakers. Read More

American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten is sounding the alarm about the decade-long decline in student test scores,... Read More

School is winding down and with it ends one of the year’s most important experiments: the phone-free classroom.   Read More

During President Joe Biden’s term in office, the United States witnessed the largest surge in immigration in the nation’s history. Read More

As the Supreme Court ponders the legality of restrictions President Trump is attempting to impose on “birthright citizenship” in... Read More

When Ambassador Jean Kirkpatrick explained in 1984 that America’s severest foreign policy critics “always blame America... Read More

Spencer Pratt’s AI-fueled Los Angeles mayoral campaign shows cheap viral slop may get views, but not votes. Read More

Four years ago, Cuba-trained communist agitator, Karen Bass, beat real estate developer Rick Caruso in a 53-47 runoff, overcoming some $100... Read More

Delayed vote tallies in Calfornia, attributable to the mail-vote system and generous deadlines, undermine confidence in results, election... Read More

Does America need an Anti-Federal moment? Read More

The only real threat to American tech dominance is America itself. Read More

Trump threw a wet blanket on the New York Knicks and their fans. Read More

If you’re someone like me—a former Leftist who ran screaming from the Doomsday Cult in 2020 and found your way to Trump and MAGA,... Read More

Andrew Walworth hosts RCP president and co-founder Tom Bevan and Washington bureau chief Carl Cannon to break down what the president... Read More

This episode examines the claim that billionaires pay little or nothing in federal taxes while ordinary workers carry the burden. Read More

Is America trading excellence for ideology? In this episode, Rafael Mangual sits down with Heather Mac Donald—author of When Race... Read More

We discuss tackling fraud, including visa fraudsters, why Marty Makary stepped down as FDA chief, and how he is working to upend the prior... Read More

A comprehensive resource that ranks the economic competitiveness of states using fifteen equally weighted policy variables Read More

Following Tax Day, Open the Books is releasing a set of deep dives into data released by the Internal Revenue Service, synthesized with... Read More

Unleash Prosperity is a non-profit, so this is an admission against our own interests, but non-profit tax status is one of the largest and... Read More

On Tax Day, Americans should consider not just how much they pay in federal income taxes, but where that money is going. 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

Fans of outlaw country music will recall an old song called “Good Time Charlie’s Got the Blues,” which appeared on Waylon Jennings’s... Read More

Spencer Pratt loses to a Democratic Socialist. Read More

As the Los Angeles mayoral race shows, the Golden State must deal with serious systemic defects. Read More

Why Murkowski, McConnell, Collins, and Tillis sided against a popular voter-ID and proof-of-citizenship bill. Read More

I don’t know what to believe about Graham Platner’s past. But I know this. He hasn’t spent the last 40 years transferring... Read More

Below is my column in The Hill on the Graham Platner controversy on the eighth anniversary of the Kavanaugh nomination. It now appears that... Read More

A strong performance from Janet Mills on Tuesday could present challenges for Graham Platner, while a commanding win for Platner could help... Read More

An internal memo lays out how Democrats could flip key statehouses to gain potentially dozens of House seats before 2028. Read More

In its more than two centuries of existence, the Democratic Party has, from time to time, demonstrated that it knows how to do politics. This... Read More

Free markets create the incentives that drive innovation, investment, and opportunity. Read More

Will we build a moral architecture disguising a perennial human impulse? Read More

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the national median hourly wage was $24.51 and growing in May 2025. Read More

Yet another blowout jobs report this morning, with the addition of 172,000 jobs beating all expectations and the prior months revised upward... Read More

Walter Isaacson’s new book, The Greatest Sentence Ever Written, reminds us that we are a nation dedicated to a proposition. Read More

Hillsdale has once again given its time, its treasure, and its talent to the republic with Revolutionary America. Read More

President Trump extends Iran ceasefire amid fractured regime and ongoing US blockade. Read More

Senior officials knew election systems had meaningful vulnerabilities... Read More

Donald Trump’s labor secretary, Lori Chavez-DeRemer, is leaving the administration under a cloud of misconduct allegations. These... Read More

Real medical freedom will require something greater than replacing the public health establishment: ending the FDA's monopoly. Read More

Revisiting Tax Changes in New York and Massachusetts. Read More

The SNAP program has suffered from a lack of national oversight for decades. Read More