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Together, these five documents showcase the ideas that built America and its journey towards “a more perfect union” – and how we can... Read More

The justices need to understand the full range of considerations underlying Trump v. Barbara. Read More

The history is far more convoluted than the standard accounts provide. Read More

Their children may grow up physically present in the U.S., but they are undoubtedly spiritually foreign. Read More

Apart from developing a reputation for virtue and intellectual acumen, one of the least recognizable members of the Court, Justice Samuel... Read More

The president won’t increase the conservative bloc’s margins, but he could more deeply entrench the high court’s Trumpist bent. Read More

The Left and some on the Right went crazy over a recent Trump tweet. He warned that if the Iranian regime did not cease blocking the... Read More

President Donald Trump is not committing war crimes in Iran. Arguments by lawyers that he is doing so don't stand up. Read More

The foreign policy establishment is still focused on salvaging NATO but the rest of the world has already moved on. Read More

While cities cannot remove every difficulty of urban life, there is plenty they can do to keep them. Read More

Sustainable budgets are the surest way to cut taxes and avoid New York-style dysfunction. Read More

America’s public-sector unions have a problem they can’t explain away: Workers are leaving. Ask a public employee when they... Read More

Reversing anti-human doomerism will be a decades-long project. Read More

The latest No Kings marches attracted a record eight million people. Most of them were of an advanced age that suggested they personally... Read More

America is living the meme. Some of us don't want a solution, we just want to be mad because being mad is the point. Read More

I had the absolute pleasure of talking to Ruy Teixeira of The Liberal Patriot, which recently shut down over a lack of funding. Read More

Rudy Giuliani, America’s mayor, sits down with Miranda Devine. Giuliani blasts current New York mayor Zohran Mamdani for turning the... Read More

Tom Bevan, Andrew Walworth, and Carl Cannon debate whether the administration's Iran cease-fire deal is the "historic victory" President... Read More

Join the conversation with Jerry Rogers on a special Easter Sunday edition of the Jerry Rogers Show. Jerry talks about the history of Easter... 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

In this episode of The Miller Report: Real Clear Journalism, Maggie Miller and Paul Thacker break down the latest developments after oral... Read More

The Supreme Court’s skepticism of Trump’s birthright citizenship order shows why an independent judiciary is essential to... Read More

Colorado arguably ranks as the most anti-free speech state, pushing unconstitutional measures that have led to major First Amendment court... Read More

What does lipstick say about our worldview?  Read More

Six recent rulings uphold the rights of parents and governments to preserve a traditional understanding of gender. Read More

Unfortunately, many elected officials do not grasp what drives small business viability and growth. There are still too many theoretical... Read More

What the Fairfax prosecutor, ‘open borders’ advocates, and the DHS funding shutdown all have in common Read More

When the Boston Red Sox’s legendary Fenway Park posted archival footage of 1950s Opening Day last week, the team expected a... Read More

I woke up this morning with that usual sense of dread I get every time I log on to Twitter. What now? Trump had sent out a Truth Social post,... Read More

The last-minute deal has elicited a mix of caution and relief among U.S. lawmakers. Read More

Henry Maine saw the US Constitution as being able to resist the pernicious features of popular government. Read More

It turns out he’s still alive, and still teaching at Fordham Law. We had some questions about an amendment that wasn’t written to meet a... Read More

Tech leaders want you to believe that AI is the key to a new golden age. The reality looks more like a bold, government-backed heist. Read More

In a recent essay for Social Science & Medicine–Mental Health, epidemiologist Catherine Gimbrone and coauthors identified a significant gap... Read More

President Donald Trump ousts Pam Bondi as attorney general. Read More

The State of Texas has become as synonymous with crippling public school debt as it is with oil wells and tumbleweeds. Its public schools... Read More

Maryland parents want more educational freedom. Read More

Gov. Tim Walz has been a fan of Wallethub’s work, including its recent raking of Minnesota as the second-best state to raise a family.... Read More

A bill designed to address consumer costs will turn out to be a death sentence for credit card access. Written as an emergency action,... Read More

They would push more businesses out and further erode the state’s tax base. Read More

Health Policy Solutions Americans Can Trust. Read More

I am old enough to remember when your family members could accompany you to the airport and share a meal with you before your flight or wait... Read More

U.S. employment growth is at a near standstill. In February 2026, total nonfarm payrolls grew by just 0.1 percent year over year to 158.5... Read More

"If requiring identification is truly racist, why do we only hear the outrage when it regards elections?" asks Project 21 Ambassador Curtis... Read More

America finds itself in a tremendously dangerous era.  Read More

Middle East fighting creates an opportunity for Ukraine—the world’s drone superpower—but Kyiv and America’s allies must seize the... Read More