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FAA unveils new air traffic controller hiring plan after chief warned system was ‘chronically understaffed’

The FAA unveiled a workforce overhaul to tackle chronic air traffic controller shortages, excessive overtime and aging technology across U.S. airspace.

Unlikely bipartisan Senate duo seeks to permanently ban ex-lawmakers from lobbying

In a demonstration of bipartisanship, GOP Sen. Rick Scott and Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren are advocating a measure to permanently ban former lawmakers from lobbying.

Gavin Newsom’s budget ignores California’s ticking fiscal time bomb

Gavin Newsom claims to have balanced the budget for the first time in five...

Trump’s Anticlimactic China Trip

‘This felt like the two great powers of the world deferring any major issues.’

Our Screen Culture Increasingly Can’t Read

Over the past ten years, reading scores have declined in 83 percent of school...

Gavin Newsom’s budget ignores California’s ticking fiscal time bomb

Gavin Newsom claims to have balanced the budget for the first time in five years, but the revised proposal he presented this week gives...

Democrats and activists demand black college athletes do their bidding

Democrats and left-wing activists continue to try to use black college athletes as puppets for their political agenda, demanding that those athletes make sacrifices so that Democrats can score political wins. After the Supreme Court ruled against racially drawn congressional districts, GOP-run southern states have begun planning to redraw their congressional maps. Democrats claim that it […]

When Washington picks up the states’ tab, waste and fraud follow

This essay is a part of The Right Way Forward, Restoring America’s new think tank debate series in which leading conservative institutions argue the defining questions of the post-Trump era. Read about the series here. Congress has caught on that how welfare and related programs are funded, and who does the spending, helps explain how […]

Car repairs have never cost more. Congress can fix that

Cars and trucks are the American economy’s backbone. In 2024, nearly 7 in 10 working adults drove alone to their jobs, and trucks carried more than 70% of the country’s freight. While many of our industry’s supply chain challenges have rebounded since the COVID-19 pandemic, any examination shows the backbone is under heavy strain and […]

America’s love affair with the road endures

BEDFORD, Pennsylvania — For the briefest of moments, a line of vintage Rolls-Royce automobiles chugged along the curving Cumberland Road. They passed over the Cumberland Run a handful of times and wound themselves down the mountains, away from Pennsylvania and toward the city of steeples, Cumberland. The sight gives the bystander a moment to imagine […]

The $100,000 hidden tax on every home — and how to kill it

This essay is a part of The Right Way Forward, Restoring America’s new think tank debate series in which leading conservative institutions argue the defining questions of the post-Trump era. Read about the series here. Americans know all too well the taxes they pay: federal taxes, state taxes, local taxes, sales taxes, and even property […]

Chain reaction of regulation is crushing American families and businesses

American families don’t need abstract economic theory — they are living the reality every day. Groceries cost more, rent stretches paychecks thinner, and wages, while rising on paper, often fail to keep pace with the true cost of living. The recent Iran conflict spiked gas prices to above $4 a gallon. Beyond inflation and gas […]

How our schools’ foolishness is courting ‘civilizational failure’

Our children aren’t learning to read — first because we’ve forgotten how to teach them, then because we're outsourcing their education to screens. 

Trump and Xi talk Strait past each other at summit

Trump and Xi met face-to-face, but their minds are worlds apart.

Those cheers for Mamdani’s budget ‘heroism’ can’t help when the bills come due

Mamdani managed to avoid any real spending cuts this year, at the price of spending all his available political capital — and of putting...

America’s global financial leadership hinges on Clarity Act

Americans have an abundance of payment mechanisms available to them, including cash, debit cards, credit cards, and others. Although inflation has eroded purchasing power, by world standards, the U.S. dollar remains a bastion of stability and credibility. In this menagerie, stablecoins and cryptocurrency remain niche payment products for many Americans. The relative novelty of digital […]

Democrats discover ‘rigged’ elections

Remember when it was bad to describe elections as “rigged?” Such terminology was Exhibit A, proving President Donald Trump’s anti-democratic tendencies. That’s all gone out the window as Democrats protest both Republican redistricting efforts ahead of the midterm elections and the recent Supreme Court Voting Rights Act decision by using the “r-word.” House Minority Leader […]

Flight 93 Democrats

In 1861, President Abraham Lincoln announced he was suspending the most basic of civil rights: the right of habeas corpus, which prohibits the government from imprisoning you without charges. When a court ordered the federal government to release an unindicted U.S. citizen, Lincoln simply ignored the order. The Bill of Rights and the courts were […]

Karen Bass is terrible at this

Karen Bass is the unpopular Democratic mayor of Los Angeles, where a recent poll found her favorability rating languishing at just 31%. She is currently fighting to keep her job for another term, battling a city council member from the far Left while being challenged from the center by former reality television star Spencer Pratt. […]

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