President Donald Trump's executive order seeking to change how U.S. elections are run is creating uncertainty for state and local election officials and worries about voter confusion before the next federal election, the 2026 midterms.
Over the past four years, states across the country have been under assault from a federal government intent on eviscerating the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, especially the 10th Amendment. Thankfully, the Trump administration has begun to reverse this dangerous trend, and not a moment too soon for my state of Oklahoma, which had […]
President Trump took to social media Saturday to wade into the upcoming Florida special election, which will fill the seats left vacant after Trump returned to office and nominated lawmakers to his administration. Trump doubled down on his support for Florida State Sen. Randy Fine (R), who is running to replace national security adviser Mike...
In his Inaugural Address on Jan. 20, President Donald Trump pledged “to immediately stop all government censorship and bring back free speech to America.” It was a shallow pledge. That much is made clear by the Trump administration’s escalating crackdown on U.S. visa holders who have criticized Israel, expressed support for Palestinian causes, or both. […]
The CEO of National Public Radio, Katherine Maher, just testified before Congress amid a push to defund NPR and PBS. It’s hard to imagine how it could’ve gone worse for Maher. Rep. Brandon Gill, a Texas Republican, confronted the NPR executive with her own statements and completely destroyed her credibility in just a few minutes […]
NPR and PBS used to justify their unjustifiable taxpayer funding by telling people that poor children would be harmed if their educational programming was cut. Then, in 2015, Sesame Street got a private deal with HBO, and a stream of educational content came online. Now, the mantra is that without public broadcasting, there will be […]
This must have been what it was like to live through the French or Russian revolutions. Our old assumptions are crumbling. The hierarchies, doctrines, and habits we held up as praiseworthy a few months ago are suddenly detestable. The speed of the vibe shift has been vertiginous. Affirmative action in universities has been ruled unconstitutional. […]
Two high-profile news executives at the end of March demonstrated the extraordinary inability of their caste to see things other than through a distorted left-wing lens. Both executives intended to defend their organizations but did so with arguments, and even more with attitudes, that underscored rather than erased the legacy media’s dishonesty, blindness, or bias […]
President Donald Trump, members of his administration, and Republican members of Congress talk a lot about reducing the federal deficit. Unfortunately, their words are empty of substance. What matters to the long-term fiscal and economic health of the nation is enacting legislation to reduce the deficit. But the Republican Party’s major legislative effort, a giant reconciliation bill, […]
There is nothing a public policy analyst enjoys more than a good analogy. Artificial intelligence literature is replete with them, provided regularly by think tank experts, industry luminaries — Anthropic’s Dario Amodei’s “Machines of Loving Grace,” referencing poet Richard Brautigan, remains my favorite — and philosophers of diverse perspectives. Recently, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt […]
In the Republican-controlled House of Representatives, adopting tactics of the minority will never yield substantive wins for the majority. Caving to that temptation will backfire and undercut our ability to govern and legislate, circumventing President Donald Trump‘s agenda and the mandate given to this majority entirely — a result that should never occur. Discharge petitions, […]
Not since 2023’s Barbie have conservatives found a film they so love to hate. Snow White’s press tour was doomed from the start, with lead actress Rachel Zegler first bashing the source material and then proudly endorsing various progressive shibboleths. If all press really were good press, the film probably wouldn’t have had such a […]
If you like underdogs, you will not like the NIL (short for name, image, and likeness) era of college athletics. Since expanding to a field of 64 in 1975, at least one school from a mid-major conference has made the NCAA Tournament’s second weekend of play, more commonly known as the Sweet 16, every year. […]
California Democrats are once again proving they do not plan much of anything carefully, which shows exactly the kind of short-sighted thinking that has run the state into the ground. As of last year, California had the highest gas tax in the country. The state has jacked up the gas tax in recent years, using […]
Nothing has gone to plan for the Democratic Party since the 2024 election votes were counted — except one thing. Lacking a governing vision and desperate for a new villain — the old one had proven unbeatable — Democrats found one in Elon Musk, and they’ve managed to bring him down a notch. Musk’s dual […]
The group chat that broke Washington has sparked a weeklong war of words between President Donald Trump’s top staff and Jeffrey Goldberg, the liberal editor-in-chief of The Atlantic. He reported in a March 24 blockbuster story that he had been erroneously added to a Signal group chat of top national security officials. Yet, neither side […]
Americans are wealthier than ever before by some measures, but there’s evidence that we’re all walking close to the edge, thanks to the post-COVID-19 Biden-Era inflation. While off its record highs, the stock market is still far higher than in the recent past. In late March, the S&P 500 was 20% higher than its late […]
