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Donald Trump’s decision to host a UFC fight at the White House is a sign of far-reaching changes in American culture and politics. Read More

More democracy will not solve America’s political woes. We must revitalize the counter-majoritarian elements of the Constitution. Read More

What accounts for this disconnect between perception and reality? Read More

When Nicolás Maduro’s regime froze Venezuela’s banking system in 2020, doctors and nurses kept showing up anyway. They... Read More

President Trump has reached an agreement with Iran, but Iran is only part of the overall regional conflict. The struggle between Jews and... Read More

A House Appropriations Committee bill would direct funding traditionally used for school safety to grants for school-based mental-health... Read More

George Santayana famously said that those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it. The same is true for judicial overreach. Those judges... Read More

Growing economies benefit all people, not just the uberwealthy. Read More

Hasan Piker is the latest in a long line of socialist figures—from Marx and Lenin to Castro and Chávez—who denounce... Read More

Faith, Family, Freedom: Protect kids from real harm without building a digital ID system. Read More

One’s a narcissist, the other’s a socialist, but there’s room for all in this improbable coming together. Read More

Electrification and automation may have started the next automotive transformation, but software and AI will determine who leads it. The... 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

The Democrats promised to focus on affordability in November—for two days. Read More

The Senate hopeful is too typical of a wave of radical and unprepared Democrats who seem poised to take power. Read More

The anti-establishment Democrat in Maine won much bigger than the establishment Republican in South Carolina. Read More

Tech guru Elon Musk just hit a major milestone by solidifying his status as the world’s first trillionaire. And naturally, leftists are... Read More

In a post back in January , commenting on the November 2025 off-year elections, I remarked that the buzz-word of the moment for the Democrats... Read More

Two college students discuss America’s broadest challenges. Read More

Washington keeps blaming inflation on the latest crisis. The real problem is decades of monetary expansion enabling fiscal excess. Read More

Democrats spent decades scaremongering on entitlement reform. What did they think would happen? Read More

According to the poll, 71% of Democrats now support deporting criminal migrants, compared to 63% in April — an 8-point increase in just... Read More

This report examines welfare use (means-tested anti-poverty programs) for households headed by non-citizens by state using the 2021 to 2025... Read More

The UFC fighters won’t be the only bloodthirsty ones at the event. Read More

A tale of two Americas. Read More

Author David Jones III felt frustrated by the lack of American stories coming out of Hollywood. So he did something about it. Read More

The American Founding was an epic, earthshaking, history-making event that still reverberates through the ages. Read More

Iran does not need to defeat America. It only needs to outlast our patience. Read More

The Iranian regime remains a threat not because it’s strong, but because America is weak. 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