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Minnesota fraud scandal intensifies debate over stripping citizenship

Massive alleged fraud in Minnesota daycare programs sparks federal review of denaturalization for naturalized citizens who obtained citizenship fraudulently.

Minnesota fraud scandal intensifies debate over stripping citizenship

Massive alleged fraud in Minnesota daycare programs sparks federal review of denaturalization for naturalized citizens who obtained citizenship fraudulently.

The economic policies shaping Trump’s return to the White House

From sweeping tax legislation and aggressive trade policy to rising borrowing costs and legal challenges, Trump’s first year back in the White House has reshaped the economic landscape.

The economic policies shaping Trump’s return to the White House

From sweeping tax legislation and aggressive trade policy to rising borrowing costs and legal challenges, Trump’s first year back in the White House has reshaped the economic landscape.

Here are the key 2026 House and Senate races to watch that could decide control of Congress

Senate Republicans fight to keep their majority in 2026 midterm elections as key races in Georgia, North Carolina and Michigan could determine control.

The Force adrift

Looking back at it now, 10 years later, the warning signs were clear from the start — from the first trailer, in fact. Its initial image was a shot of a speeder zooming past the wreckage of a long-forgotten battle, an X-wing in the foreground dwarfed by a Star Destroyer in the background. Following it […]

Ralph Lauren’s all-American cultural appropriation

After years of Scandinavian and Bauhaus-inflected minimalism, no-frills graphic design, and the Marie Kondo-inspired culling of closets, clutter is suddenly back in style. According to the New York Times, a Ralph Lauren Christmas was the trend of the holiday season, although you don’t need to shop at Ralph Lauren to get the look. Cost-conscious consumers […]

Violence and ‘violence:’ What we should make of new campus data on speech

When President Donald Trump roared to victory in 2024, conservatives told themselves a number of just-so stories. Biden-era profligacy had driven the Democratic Party into its grave, leaving MAGA Republicans to plot America’s future alone. Former President Barack Obama’s “coalition of the ascendant” had permanently splintered. Most importantly, wokeness was spent as a cultural force. […]

Time must have a slop

The American republic is tottering toward its 250th birthday like a character in a Jimmy Buffett song: debauched and in debt, but with its Stanley cup half full and its flip-flops still flapping. Meanwhile, American English remains forever young, a furnace of deregulated creativity. The French language is regulated by the “immortals” of the Académie […]

Mamdani’s lies about the rich are only meant to demonize — they already foot NYC’s bills

“Together, we will tell a new story of our city,” Zohran Mamdani said in his inauguration speech Thursday.

Britain has become a warning to Americans

Any Brits reading will know that, until recently, we had a good thing going in the United States. We were widely held to be smarter, politer, and more refined than we really were. In truth, British people are earthy and Hogarthian, more prone to drunkenness and profanity than Americans. But, for whatever reason, our American […]

Iran’s heroic protesters need to hear that America is on their side

With the people of Iran once again rising in protest against their oppressors, America’s leaders should leave no doubt that they side with the...

Disaster in MacArthur Park is LA’s latest chapter in callous inhumanity

Atrocious scenes in MacArthur Park are just the latest chapter in decades of inhumanity — but the City of Los Angeles has stopped those...

How deadbeat Gavin Newsom put Cali businesses on the hook for his bills

Gavin Newsom has defaulted on California’s COVID $20 billion debt to the federal government — and local businesses will be stuck paying the bill.

Blue states blow nothing but hot air on wind-power boondoggles

Climate-driven Democrats should at least admit they’re making decisions based on ideology.

On immigration and citizenship, listen to George Washington

As news reports proliferate of multimillion-dollar — and possibly billion-dollar — fraudulent diversions of government funds involving Minnesota’s Somali immigrant community, it may be time at one year’s end and the next one’s beginning to take a longer look at America’s experience with immigration, and to seek the guidance of the first and one of […]

Is the GOP still the party of life? Hardly

In Focus delivers deeper coverage of the political, cultural, and ideological issues shaping America. Published daily by senior writers and experts, these in-depth pieces go beyond the headlines to give readers the full picture. You can find our full list of In Focus pieces here. In June 2022, the Supreme Court handed down a landmark decision […]

Billionaires are fleeing California — Mayor Mamdani, beware!

Unless Hochul and the Legislature curb Mamdani's worst excesses and stop treating the wealthy like cash cows, New York will be next to learn...

Gavin Newsom cut parents out of trans kids’ lives — until one brave judge said no

In plain English, the court said what common sense has been telling us all along: The government does not get to replace parents.

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