Opinion

Thirty minutes after being sworn in as president of the University of Michigan’s student government, Summit Louth was already back onstage campaigning for someone else. The rising senior, a leading figure in the ascendant Human Rights Party, had just won office on promises to resist immigration enforcement on campus and force the university to divest […]

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) wants her fellow progressives to receive amnesty for the insane policies and rhetoric they promoted during the 2020 pandemic because she knows those positions are anchors that will be hung around their necks in future elections. Ocasio-Cortez made these comments while defending Francesca Hong, the socialist state representative who is about to be […]

The Marxist revolution, symbolized by the hammer and sickle and animated by the cry “Workers of the World, Unite!”, killed at least 50 million people through mass murder and gross economic mismanagement in the 20th century. The United States rightly saw it as an existential threat. Patriots fought hot and cold wars to reverse its […]

North Korea has previously sent approximately 15,000 troops to join Russia’s war against Ukraine. That’s not all. North Korea has also provided Russia with hundreds of thousands of artillery shells and dozens of ballistic missiles. But Pyongyang is now escalating. As Reuters reported last week, “A North Korean missile unit has begun deploying to western […]

Generation Z is constantly bombarded with news, media, and memes blaming capitalism for high rents, student debt, and wealth disparities. Socialism often sounds appealing — free stuff, less greed, and more equality — but it’s worth breaking down how it operates and why it doesn’t work. Younger people are far more open to socialism than […]

There is a quiet crisis unfolding in our constitutional system, one that goes to the heart of whether we remain a self-governing people. The framers designed Congress as the first branch: Article I of the Constitution. It’s the body of our federal government that is closest to the citizenry, charged with the hard, deliberative work […]

For years, Cuba’s hardships have been explained primarily as the fault of the United States. External pressure can be real. But when the same explanation is repeated year after year, decade after decade, it becomes something else: a convenient refusal to confront internal failure, mismanagement, and the incentives that steadily destroy competence, initiative, and hope. […]

This week, the Kids Online Safety Act was favorably reported out of committee — an important procedural hurdle in bringing the bill to the floor of the Senate for a vote, and eventually, to the president’s desk.  KOSA has been a long time coming. Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R‑TN) and cosponsor Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) first […]

Voters are disgusted by the unchecked expansion of AI data centers and made their concerns known across the country in Tuesday’s primary elections. There were obvious signs this would happen that politicians across the country ignored — and they paid for it. A recent Gallup poll shows 71% of people oppose building AI data centers […]

A severe healthcare crisis is unfolding across the United States. Private Medicare Advantage plans are systematically denying vital hospital care to older people. Rejection rates in certain regions hit 80%. Do not let the word “Medicare” obscure the broader threat. This is not just a problem for retirees. Traditional Medicare dictates the baseline regulatory rules […]

Across the American political firmament, from far-left progressives to centrist Republicans and Democrats to far-right conservatives, a remarkable new consensus is forming and gathering strength: put “America First” once again. Out with the unwanted burdens of U.S. global hegemony in the guise of primus inter pares to prevent the emergence of rival regional hegemons outside […]

In the 1998 poker movie Rounders, Matt Damon plays Mike McDermott, a gifted card player who turns a climactic rematch with Teddy KGB after recognizing his opponent’s tell. Teddy has a ritual with Oreo cookies that gives away information about the strength of his hand. Once Mike sees the pattern, he knows something Teddy does […]

A federal judge in Rhode Island handed property owners a rare and useful win last week, and the reasoning behind it deserves more attention than the case has gotten. In SCLS Realty, LLC v. Town of Johnston, Judge Melissa R. DuBose ruled that Johnston’s seizure of a 31-acre parcel off George Waterman Road was void […]