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Since 2012, the percentage of young adults who talk to their neighbors at least a few times per week dropped from 51 percent to 25... Read More

The Democratic Party spent sixty years selling political segregation as civil rights until the Supreme Court stopped it. Read More

It’s not a short-term plan, but that’s because the goal is so totalizing: reassert global dominance for the singular goal of protecting... Read More

Any re-election campaign in 2028 is doomed. Will he spend the remainder of his term completing the betrayal of his own constituents? Read More

The Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) — the administrative DOJ tribunal that considers challenges to immigration decisions —... Read More

While school choice has gained momentum around the country, zoning and land-use rules needlessly constrict supply. Read More

The head of the EPA has had it with the lying climate cabal. Read More

What would it mean for Bezos to pay his fair share? Is his fair share more than $2.7 billion? Because that's how much he likely paid in taxes... Read More

John Adams’s evolution from mere toleration of Roman Catholicism to open support for religious liberty personifies a revolution in the... Read More

As the U.S. Department of the Interior is making big plans for wildfire fighting, American companies are scrambling to provide... Read More

The U.S. and Iran are nearing an agreement on a one-page memorandum to end the two-month conflict in the Middle East, a source... Read More

In Louisiana’s attempt to restrict the telehealth prescription of mifepristone, the lawsuit redefines reproductive freedom as... Read More

Zeldin was himself almost the victim of a stabbing at a campaign event in 2022. He reflected on our current moment and the big news stories... Read More

The New York Times interviews Tucker Carlson. Read More

Changes in foreign migration caused US population growth to slow last year and potentially turn negative in 2026.  Read More

Earlier today, I appeared on Sky News Australia’s Outsiders to discuss last Wednesday’s stabbing attacks on Jews in... 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

No one ever quite knows the nature of the aftermath of any war in the Middle East. The current effort to disarm and neuter the Iranian... Read More

The first suspected Iranian attacks since the start of its cease-fire with the U.S. come amid Trump’s mission to “guide”... Read More

In a now-notorious video, play-acting revolutionaries celebrate stealing and normalize political violence. Read More

On April 29, the Supreme Court decided Louisiana v. Callais . That’s the case where the Court held that the Voting Rights Act did not... Read More

To be legitimate, revolutions must be something more than the overthrow of a regime—they must be the restoration of moral order. Read More

Maryland governor Wes Moore’s (D.) military service record has once again come under scrutiny, with a coalition of local news outlets... Read More

If a white Democrat representing Memphis is fine, but a white Republican is not fine, then the problem is a Republican winning a House seat. Read More

Democrats have multiple paths to a Senate majority—but losing John Fetterman to the GOP would make each one harder. Read More

Tyrants and dictators often dream of building gigantic monuments to themselves. It usually doesn't work. Read More

Maine Gov. Janet Mills has suspended her Senate campaign after failing to raise enough money to compete with socialist Graham Platner, who... Read More

Mamdani’s quarrel with the hedge fund billionaire spotlights the illogic of levies that punish single-family homeowners at Staten... Read More

Not a single Democrat in the Senate is willing to support the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) America Act, and a new op-ed... Read More

The last thing we expected in attending “The Gen-Z Debate with Harry Sisson and Isabel Brown” at the University of Virginia was... Read More

The Supreme Court needs to give lower federal courts a more workable test for determining when facially neutral conditions constitute... Read More

The latest migration data show Americans moving toward lower taxes and greater economic freedom. 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