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All right, let's wrap this up quickly. We've all got a weekend to get to. 1. The NAACP Goes Full Blazing Saddles In perhaps the greatest... Read More

House Democrats unanimously voted this week against legislation to build a new women’s history museum on the National Mall. The reason... Read More

President Trump’s successful dispatch of Thomas Massie, the Kentucky Republican gadfly, came quickly as no surprise.  Read More

The reality star's mayoral bid is running on outrage, celebrity and A.I. slop—and might just seal Karen Bass' re-election. Read More

The lesson L.A. should learn: credentials are the disease, not the cure. Read More

Political scientist Meredith Conroy says that late-night shows are still politically relevant in as their audiences shrink. Read More

The media isn't taking Stephen Colbert's Late Show cancellation well. That reaction tells you plenty about his show and its political intent. Read More

The suspicious website, Kiddle, is spreading biased information to children that soft-pedals authoritarian regimes and terrorist... Read More

A new animated 'Animal Farm' transforms Orwell’s anti-authoritarian satire into an anti-capitalist fable, ideologically inverting its... Read More

This week, Rep. Nancy Mace of South Carolina introduced a joint resolution to bar foreign-born U.S. citizens from serving in Congress, the... Read More

Unlike the last administration, which issued vague threats to lenders who dared to consider whether would-be alien borrowers might be... Read More

Institutional investors are not the problem, they are one of the solutions. Read More

American cities need bold renewal. What we need is a “MadeCity” vision — a vision for intentionally crafting... Read More

James Piereson on European economic troubles. Read More

Maureen Galindo, a Texas Democrat running for Congress, is not an outlier. She is a faithful representative of the monstrosity that this... Read More

Rather than being a product of historical circumstance or will, our rights are grounded in a prior truth: that we are created by God. 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

Thomas Massie's humiliating loss in Kentucky shows that at least one party is serious about policing antisemitism. It's the Republican Party. Read More

A new report shows how dangerous groups exploit legal protections. Read More

I am willing to assume that there was a time when the NAACP did some good.  Read More

President Trump says ‘no más’ Read More

We may have witnessed the most MS NOW moment of all time. Read More

What’s the point of formation over efficiency, leisure over work, and wisdom over perfection? Read More

I have a confession to make: I use AI chatbots. A lot. I ask them questions about many things, from fixing the dishwasher (accurate) to who... Read More

With the affordability crisis a key concern of the general public, Trump has been accused of being "out of touch" regarding the economic... Read More

A fair criticism of politicians is that they all lie, at least to the extent of engaging in extreme levels of spin and/or exaggeration to put... Read More

Before demanding more money from America’s wealthiest, lawmakers should account for the billions of dollars the federal government wastes... Read More

Some state lawmakers are focused on making leaving costly, while ignoring the reforms that could make staying attractive. Read More

Protecting central bank independence will be an ongoing struggle; the most important thing is that no board members resign anytime soon. Read More

The president’s slush-fund-and-tax-penalty “settlement” is brazenly criminal. If our governing institutions can’t... Read More

The distinguished political scientist Graham Allison, author of the 2015 Atlantic article “The Thucydides Trap,” argued that... Read More

The House Energy and Commerce Committee is considering legislation that would effectively ban the sale of Chinese electric vehicles (EVs) in... 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