PITTSBURGH — The rise of the Democratic left in Pittsburgh did not happen overnight. It was built over years through patient organizing, disciplined recruiting, and a clear-eyed focus on the races that mattered most: low-turnout primaries where entrenched power was vulnerable. Mik Pappas’s 2017 race for Pennsylvania’s 31st Magisterial District judge offered an early hint […]
By nearly every metric, California is the worst-governed state in the country, as California Democrats continue to smother its residents with burdensome regulations and offer them nothing but incompetent governance. The 2026 state ratings from US News & World Report put California at a mediocre 35th overall ranking, highlighted by the Golden State ranking dead last in “opportunity,” which is meant […]
The emergence of the Democratic Socialists of America and their political victories, from New York City across the fruited plains of Michigan and Wisconsin, all the way to Colorado, strikes many as a new thing in U.S. politics. Previous movements have, in fact, increased, sometimes significantly, the size and scope of government. But it has […]
I called Dr. Anthony Fauci “the nation’s most dangerous sociopath” in March 2020. I’ve been known to get a few things wrong from time to time, but I was Chris Kyle-accurate when discussing the man who would become one of the great villains of modern America. Fauci was a test, and it is important to […]
There’s nothing inherently wrong with invoking the Fifth Amendment. The perception that anyone who pleads the Fifth to protect themselves from self-incrimination is only hiding guilt is wrong. Innocent people are often intimidated or tricked by those in power into implicating themselves. Others might get nervous under oath and worry about misspeaking under pressure. Former […]
Shortly before mourners filled Washington National Cathedral for the funeral of Sen. Lindsey Graham on Tuesday, President Donald Trump received Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in the Oval Office. Graham, who died suddenly days after returning from his latest visit to Kyiv, had spent his final week negotiating a Russia sanctions package with the White House. By […]
Twentysomething writer Jordan Jantz recently did an amazing thing — she wrote a piece about her and her friends’ frustrations with modern dating, about “broken hearts and faltering dreams,” without blaming men, and without a negative reference to even one individual man. I read her piece three times just to make sure I wasn’t imagining […]
I am a mother of four who has spent more than 25 years delivering babies and caring for women across Virginia. Through my work with a nonprofit group advocating for healthy children, I spend a lot of time thinking about what it means to truly protect children, not just at birth, but throughout their lives. […]
President Donald Trump just declared to thousands of American manufacturing workers in Michigan, “You were sold out and betrayed by globalist politicians” who let foreign countries “steal your jobs, pillage your factories, and then loot the crown jewels of American industry.” Under Trump’s leadership, we are reducing our dependence on foreign countries for materials essential […]
Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-NY) recently signed an executive order placing a one-year moratorium on all new data center developments. As someone from Oswego, New York, a small, historically underinvested Rust Belt community upstate, Hochul’s moratorium ensures that the benefits of the artificial intelligence boom in my hometown are dead on arrival. In addition to New […]
America is having the wrong argument about AI data centers. One side sees windowless industrial giants devouring electricity and water while shifting the infrastructure bill onto families who are already struggling. The other sees the physical foundation of the next scientific revolution and warns that every local delay is a direct gift to Beijing. Both […]
