The Democratic Party may be planning to campaign against President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act “from now until November 2026,” but new polling shows it will need more than anti-Trump rhetoric to break up Republican control of the House and Senate next year. Trump’s polling numbers may be underwater right now — the […]
In the immediate hours after at least four people were fatally shot, including an off-duty police officer, after a man carrying a long gun opened fire in Manhattan, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle began taking familiar sides in the gun control debate. On Fox News, Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) suggested that gun control laws...
As a grandchild of Whittaker Chambers who has studied the historiography of the famous events around my grandfather, I’m always eager for the next book on the Hiss-Chambers Case of 1948-1950. After all, in my family, family lore is a matter of public dispute. When my grandfather included Alger Hiss in 1948 congressional testimony about […]
KITTANNING — In April 1775, William Thompson, a man rarely if ever mentioned in American history books, became the first commissioned colonel in the Continental Army of a rifle battalion in the 1st Pennsylvania Regiment. The men who served with him were German, Irish, and Scottish settlers. They were fiercely independent frontiersmen, farmers, and artisans […]
This Fourth of July, consider the fireworks a reminder that freedom isn't granted by government, it's something that must be protected from government.
The madcap exhibition team has made America’s pastime even more American, tapping into the antic spirit of minor-league baseball and the showmanship of the...
The online literary wars rage on, with faulty arguments and inconsistent narratives. In an age dominated by short-form “BookTok” content, the New York Times, in a recent article, suggested that the “literary man” is on the way to extinction. Liberal media call this a grave concern, but it’s only posturing. Any man who does read […]
Gavin Newsom hasn’t exactly hidden his presidential ambitions over the past half decade, but only now has the California governor finally conceded that his state has become a political punchline rather than a model, demonstrating the consequences of progressive governance. In a de facto admission of policy failure, Newsom signed two rare bipartisan bills dramatically […]
As the fight over the “big, beautiful bill” comes to an end, President Donald Trump maintains political momentum that can push the GOP into a favorable position for 2026, so long as Trump doesn’t get reckless. Since taking office, around 50% of voters say the country is on the wrong track under Trump, while around […]
In recent years, state governments have regulated pornography according to a notion of absolute freedom of speech. In a 6-3 decision on Free Speech Coalition, Inc. v. Paxton, the Supreme Court ruled against this misunderstanding. Namely, the court upheld Texas House Bill 1181, requiring that websites with sexually explicit content verify their visitors’ ages. The […]
As part of the budget legislation being debated on Capitol Hill, the Senate this week rejected an amendment that would have prohibited states from regulating artificial intelligence. Backers of the amendment feared, with some merit, that a patchwork of rules would slow down technological development. But the amendment went too far. The answer to this problem […]
I’ll never forget the dentist appointment I had when I was 18. It was supposed to be a routine cleaning, the kind of thing you do every six months without a second thought. After my teeth were polished, the dental assistant took me to get X-rays. As I sat in the chair, I couldn’t help […]
