Opinion

Congress wrote the sentence now doing more work than most of the Constitution in the fight over federal immigration policy, and it wrote that sentence in 1946, thinking about grain quotas and radio licenses, not presidential power. Section 706 of the Administrative Procedure Act instructs a reviewing court to “hold unlawful and set aside” agency […]

The early days of the World Cup have offered many inspiring moments — not just the goals, cultural displays, and stories of international tourists discovering America’s incredible treasures, but a quieter revelation: Everyday Americans, not politicians, are the most effective ambassadors our country has. Across the nation, they are showing off their towns, their food, […]

Former President Joe Biden ran as the steady moderate who would restore normalcy. In practice, his presidency became something stranger: a cognitively declining president whose White House staff, driven by “Trump derangement syndrome,” used his office to reverse policies that were working and to impose measures that would have been considered extreme even during the […]

As the nation celebrates its 250th birthday, the most important question is no longer how the United States became the world’s largest economy. It is how we build an even more prosperous future over the next 250 years. That question deserves our attention because the world’s next generation of prosperity is being built today. Artificial […]

You’d think California state Sen. Scott Wiener would be celebrated as a hero on the Left. After all, Wiener has spent his entire career in politics advocating every extreme, absurd, and at times creepy policies that his radical base demanded. Highlights include  Given these examples alone, and the Left’s obsession with all things transgender, surely […]

Two days before our July 4 celebration marked the 50th anniversary of the formal reunification of Vietnam into a single country. The war had ended the previous year, in April, 1975, when North Vietnamese army tanks rolled onto the palace grounds in South Vietnam’s capital, Saigon. Surrender time. During the 14-month period of reunification, to […]

For years, much of the American Left has portrayed the housing crisis (rising rents, soaring prices, and falling affordability) as proof that markets fail at delivering basic needs. The remedies followed: rent control, vast public housing, and “social housing” schemes. Congress just delivered a different verdict. The 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, a merger […]

The Supreme Court handed Republicans a significant advantage this week, ruling in NRSC v. FEC political parties have expanded flexibility to coordinate spending with their own candidates. Having spent more than a decade raising money for Republican Senate campaigns, I can tell you plainly what this means in practice: the single most frustrating conversation in […]

The Supreme Court closed its term last week by opening the one every Second Amendment lawyer in the country has been waiting for. On June 30, the justices granted certiorari in Viramontes v. Cook County, consolidated with a companion case out of Connecticut, and agreed to decide whether the Second and Fourteenth Amendments protect the […]

Most Americans have no idea that Congress is a step closer to making a dangerous decision: allowing bigger, heavier tractor-trailers onto the roads they use every day. The proposal sounds technical, which is exactly why it may escape public notice. But buried in the highway bill in Congress is a plan to let states raise […]

Unable to achieve significant gains on the battlefield, Russia has once again turned to terrorizing Ukraine’s civilian population. It launched a massive attack on Kyiv and the surrounding region using drones and ballistic missiles. According to the latest reports, 34 people were injured and ten were killed. Meanwhile, Washington continues to debate how the war […]

There’s no denying that socialism’s appeal among Americans is growing, especially among Democrats and the young. The consensus of recent polls confirms this. In Gallup’s last major national survey, only 54% of Americans view capitalism positively — the lowest level Gallup has ever recorded, and 39% view socialism positively. Among Democrats, a whopping 66% view […]

The Democratic Party’s radical leftward shift now threatens one of the Constitution’s clearest safeguards.  Shifts once considered impossible — such as senior Republican voices defending Iran’s ballistic missile capabilities as “self-defense” or prominent voices on both sides downplaying Hamas — reveal how fast norms erode when ideological extremists seize control. The same purge that sidelined […]