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Trump talks Greene feud in NC speech: ‘What the hell happened to her?’

President Trump on Friday attacked former ally Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) and claimed she became a "stone cold liberal," asking supporters at a rally, "What the hell happened?" Trump revived the feud by calling her "Marjorie Traitor Brown," which he said was "because green turns to brown under stress." "But what the hell happened...

Trump at NC rally: Democrats ‘will shut down government’ in January

President Trump on Friday told supporters that Democrats will shut down the government over health care in January, after Affordable Health Care (ACA) tax credits are set to expire going into the new year. "The problem is that Democrats will shut down the government because they are beholden ... to the insurance companies," Trump said...

Trump signs order to put Americans on the moon by 2028. But is it feasible?

The order, titled "Ensuring American Space Superiority," emphasizes the role of the upcoming Artemis missions for Americans to journey to the moon and Mars.

Doctors warn of ‘super flu’ variant circulating in hot spots across the country 

Ahead of the holiday tourist rush, city health officials in New York City reported nearly 14,000 flu cases in the first week of December.

Trump administration touts ‘most secure border in history’ as 2.5 million migrants exit US

DHS reports over 2.5 million illegal immigrants left the U.S. since Trump returned to office, with border crossings down 93% and major drug seizures up.

Nuzzi-Lizza farce exposes Washington as the ultimate cesspool of vanity

Christmas came early for Washington gossips this week with the running saga of Olivia Nuzzi and Ryan Lizza, two accomplished political writers who just...

The week in whoppers: Zohran Mamdani goes to bat for criminals from abroad, Gavin Newsom gaslights on democracy and more

Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani claimed that immigration raids don't do anything to improve public safety in New York City.

Gen Z has a case of long Covid — and society is enabling it

It’s been five years since the pandemic, but schools are continuing to let sub-par performance fly — and mental health diagnoses are soaring.

Closing the door on immigration? Not yet

Can the United States come up with an immigration policy that will prove sustainable? Two writers whom I respect and take delight in reading, despite their widely differing views, Tyler Cowen, who favors more immigration, and Christopher Caldwell, who favors less, have their doubts. Both, incidentally, are writing for the Free Press, Bari Weiss’s eclectic startup. […]

Everyone is wrong about this viral controversy at the University of Oklahoma

People all across the internet are once again at each other’s throats over a minor incident that’s morphed into the latest fuel for the culture war. This time, it’s a controversy out of the University of Oklahoma, where a college student received a zero from a transgender instructor on an assignment in which she cited […]

Parental rights win in California

A public school district in an idyllic beach town north of San Diego is finally acknowledging a Supreme Court decision to allow opt-outs for parents and students when schools are promoting leftist gender ideology. The Encinitas Union School District was sued by a fifth-grade student, Shea Encinas, who was forced to teach a fellow student […]

AI and the death of macroeconomics as we knew it

It’s not inflation or recession that has blindsided traditional macroeconomists, but irrelevance. Artificial intelligence has not just transformed markets but made our dominant frameworks for understanding them obsolete. For over a century, macroeconomics has relied on tools honed in the industrial age: GDP to measure growth, yield curves to signal recessions, and productivity metrics built […]

Trump rightly changes the rules of engagement

Congressional critics of President Donald Trump’s tactics in the war on drug cartels are badly confused. Because the Department of War, instead of the Drug Enforcement Administration, is now engaging the cartels, members of Congress on both sides of the aisle are demanding that the U.S. follow rules of engagement for combat with foreign armies. […]

What are Trump’s motivations in Venezuela?

If you take his comments at face value, President Donald Trump’s objectives in Venezuela seem clear enough: dictator President Nicolas Maduro needs to pack up his things and get out of Caracas before it’s too late. Trump reportedly reiterated that demand during last week’s phone call with Maduro, even as he rejected the Venezuelan dictator’s demands […]

It’s time for Congress to review the pardon power

Alexander Hamilton defended the unilateral presidential pardoning power as a practical necessity for a young republic. He argued that it enabled the chief executive to act with the speed and secrecy required to offer timely mercy and restore tranquility “during seasons of insurrection or rebellion.” He also argued that the power was needed to soften […]

There’s a special place in hell for women like Olivia Nuzzi — whose career as a journalist is over

There's a reason that women like Olivia Nuzzi used to be shunned by polite society in more orderly times.

President Trump is a champion in the fight for ‘Venezuelan freedom’

María Corina Machado won this year’s Nobel Peace Prize for her tireless fight to restore freedom in Venezuela and defeat the authoritarian regime of...

The GOP underperformance in Tennessee matters less than you think

A favorite pastime of election watchers and political operatives is to extrapolate every little detail possible from the results of an off-year or off-cycle election. This week was no different. On Tuesday night, Republican congressional candidate Matt Van Epps successfully held Tennessee’s 7th Congressional District for the GOP, while underperforming the district’s recent GOP margins. […]

Just symbolically purging Andrew Cuomo’s legacy isn’t remotely enough

After a decade as New York's governor, Andrew Cuomo left an extremely mixed legacy; the state would be far better off if it could...

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