Opinion

When I was born in 1978, the median American was 30 years old. These days, the median American is 38.9, the U.S. Census Bureau reported Thursday. That’s a rapid aging of the American population.

A healthy society is one in which people know their neighbors and hang out with them for no real reason.

While Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) continues to boast about just how great California’s economy is, the state actually is failing all but its wealthiest residents. That includes the state’s homeless population.

Students in a Washington school district whose parents don’t want them indoctrinated with LGBT “Pride” lessons have no other option but to hurt their academic standing.

That the people ought to exercise some control over those who rule us is an axiomatic idea in American politics. Yet, in practice, it is frequently not the case. In Washington, unelected bureaucrats are often the ones with true power.

Monongahela, Pa. — Last September, Rep. Guy Reschenthaler (R-PA) told then-House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) that if Republicans were going to be successful in gaining the majority in the House in November, they needed to announce their pledge to voters in the heart of America.

Bipartisan members of Congress, including Democratic congressman Ro Khanna (D-CA), urged Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) to invite Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to address a joint session of Congress during his state visit this week. But not all Democrats were so welcoming of Modi, and many of them showed hypocrisy in how they voiced their objections.

The U.S. Marine Corps recognizes that war with China over Taiwan or in the South China Sea will mean conflict on a combined naval, air, and land scale unseen since 1945. And unlike in 1945, space will be part of the battle. In turn, and with far greater speed and intrepidity than the other service branches, the Marines have been reforming to maximize their readiness to fight and win if the China war arrives.

WASHINGTON — During Wednesday’s event in the Capitol hosted by American Compass and centered on its new policy handbook, Rebuilding American Capitalism, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) detailed how his own thinking on economics has changed over time.

WASHINGTON, DC — The Kennedy Caucus Room room was filled in the Russell Senate Office Building Wednesday afternoon. Hill staffers, think tankers, and journalists all came to hear four senators — Sens. Tom Cotton (R-AR), Todd Young (R-IN), Marco Rubio (R-FL), and J.D. Vance (R-OH) — speak about a new policy handbook from the conservative think tank American Compass titled Rebuilding American Capitalism.

In a June 20 special called One Year Post Roe, Vice President Kamala Harris told Joy Reid of MSNBC that her goddaughter, who just graduated high school, has friends who “are starting to make decisions about where they will actually go to college depending on what’s happening in that state.” She was referring to abortion legislation.