Opinion

BEDFORD, Pennsylvania — For the briefest of moments, a line of vintage Rolls-Royce automobiles chugged along the curving Cumberland Road. They passed over the Cumberland Run a handful of times and wound themselves down the mountains, away from Pennsylvania and toward the city of steeples, Cumberland. The sight gives the bystander a moment to imagine […]

This essay is a part of The Right Way Forward, Restoring America’s new think tank debate series in which leading conservative institutions argue the defining questions of the post-Trump era. Read about the series here. Americans know all too well the taxes they pay: federal taxes, state taxes, local taxes, sales taxes, and even property […]

American families don’t need abstract economic theory — they are living the reality every day. Groceries cost more, rent stretches paychecks thinner, and wages, while rising on paper, often fail to keep pace with the true cost of living. The recent Iran conflict spiked gas prices to above $4 a gallon. Beyond inflation and gas […]

Americans have an abundance of payment mechanisms available to them, including cash, debit cards, credit cards, and others. Although inflation has eroded purchasing power, by world standards, the U.S. dollar remains a bastion of stability and credibility. In this menagerie, stablecoins and cryptocurrency remain niche payment products for many Americans. The relative novelty of digital […]

Remember when it was bad to describe elections as “rigged?” Such terminology was Exhibit A, proving President Donald Trump’s anti-democratic tendencies. That’s all gone out the window as Democrats protest both Republican redistricting efforts ahead of the midterm elections and the recent Supreme Court Voting Rights Act decision by using the “r-word.” House Minority Leader […]

In 1861, President Abraham Lincoln announced he was suspending the most basic of civil rights: the right of habeas corpus, which prohibits the government from imprisoning you without charges. When a court ordered the federal government to release an unindicted U.S. citizen, Lincoln simply ignored the order. The Bill of Rights and the courts were […]

Karen Bass is the unpopular Democratic mayor of Los Angeles, where a recent poll found her favorability rating languishing at just 31%. She is currently fighting to keep her job for another term, battling a city council member from the far Left while being challenged from the center by former reality television star Spencer Pratt. […]

The United States has more pressing matters than fixing Europe, but Americans cannot afford to leave Europeans unsupervised. Europeans resent American supervision, but they expect the U.S. to protect their interests, whether they fit with American interests or not. These are not new problems. They were there in 1919, when President Woodrow Wilson got lost […]

It’s easy to blame the politicians. Ask anyone, and they will tell you that Congress is full of cowardly, venal shysters. If that is true, what makes them that way? They are, presumably, ordinary human beings before they get elected. So what is it about asking their fellow citizens for support that turns them into […]

Even as the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia compete across the Middle East and Africa, their security establishments are moving in lockstep with Israel against Iran. In late March, as Iranian missiles rained across the skies of the Gulf states, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held secret talks with Emirati President Mohammed bin Zayed […]

It is no secret that Americans are not the healthiest populace in the world. We are overweight and don’t always make the best food choices. I am a libertarian-leaning Republican who does not like the government telling me what I can and cannot eat or drink, yet I support the dietary guidelines released by the […]