Opinion

Democrats initiated the longest government shutdown in history under the guise of caring about Americans’ access to affordable healthcare. Now they have an opportunity to put their money where their mouth is. The Senate will vote in mid-December on Democrats’ demand that temporary, and soon-to-expire, “enhanced” subsidies under the Affordable Care Act be made permanent. Doing this, they claim, is critical to keeping healthcare “affordable.”   Who are they kidding? Healthcare is more expensive than ever. Obamacare was supposed to fix this, but failed. And Democrats’ dream of a government takeover of the entire system with “Medicare […]

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. During a recent stop on her image rehabilitation tour, Rep. Marjorie […]

Chicago refuses to treat teenage criminals like criminals. Over the weekend, a 14-year-old boy was murdered and eight other teenagers were shot in two shootings in Chicago’s “Loop” shopping center. That same weekend, a homeless man was stabbed to death by three teenage boys in the Loop as well. The shooting was the result of a “teen takeover,” where […]

THE ROAD TO THE CHICAGO TRAIN FIRE ATTACK. On April 23, 2020, a man poured gasoline around the Illinois state government building in Chicago and set it on fire. The man, identified as Lawrence Reed, 44, was said to be angry because he had not received his monthly government Supplemental Security Income check. According to the […]

In our political and cultural landscape, seemingly countless issues represent clear divides along party lines. While certain issues remain hopelessly polarized, the Republican Party should be proud of several key and monumental successes. One example is obviously the protection and expansion of gun rights across the country. Another could be immigration — unless some on the fringes […]

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. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated its webpage on […]

Peter Navarro, who spent four months in federal prison for a contempt of Congress order over the Jan. 6 investigations and now serves as senior counselor for trade and manufacturing, said in an interview about his newest book, I Went to Prison So You Won’t Have To: A Love and Lawfare Story in Trump Land, […]

“Our regional and global order is being redrawn. And Europe must fight for its place,” European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen told the European Parliament not long ago. The message could not be timelier. China‘s tightening of export controls on rare earth magnets has turned a decade of whispered warnings into a live test […]

Prior to delivering a brief keynote and moderating a panel at the Global Family Offices Summit in Miami last week, I instinctively had a cursory glance at the artificial intelligence news du jour. Much to my dismay, it was an excruciating and depressing experience, with gloom and doom plastered on clickbait headlines about the AI […]

Elected Democrats have every right, indeed, they have a duty, to conduct oversight over the president’s use of the military to defend the nation. But what they may not do is encourage service members to disobey orders they don’t like, and that is what Sens. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) and Mark Kelly (D-AZ) and Reps. Jason […]