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Hochul-Mamdani pied-à-terre folly shows it never stops at ‘tax the rich’

Gov. Kathy Hochul and Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced a surtax on 13,000 uber-wealthy nonresident NYC owners of second homes worth $5 million or more.

The data center doomers must be defeated

Led by socialist Democrats and foreign billionaires, the anti-data center movement has gained significant momentum. A new Gallup poll has found that seven in every 10 Americans now oppose new data center construction near their homes. Conservative leaders must do better at pushing back against hysterical claims of activists and making the case for more energy, more […]

After Indiana purge, Trump sets sights on Louisiana’s Bill Cassidy

Sen. Bill Cassidy fights for political survival in Louisiana's GOP primary as Trump and allies back Rep. Julia Letlow to unseat the incumbent.

Red-state auditor reports ‘explosion’ of fraud tips as he targets state employees ‘racking up’ taxpayer waste

Nebraska's top auditor says fraud tips are exploding as he uncovers alleged waste by state workers and challenges Gov. Pillen over a $2 million contract.

What Democrats should learn from Kamala Harris’ ‘Bad Ideas’

Even when the umps are unfair, the smart teams figure out how to improve...

Trump’s new Iran doctrine: Peace through relentless pressure

In 2016, President Donald Trump entered the White House promising peace through strength. By the time he left office in 2021, Trump had largely fulfilled that pledge without squandering American blood and treasure on endless wars.  But after the humiliating and deadly Biden administration withdrawal from Afghanistan, international bad actors took advantage of American weakness, […]

Trump’s US Steel deal is a win for America 

President Donald Trump’s decision to green-light a restructured deal between US Steel and Japanese-owned Nippon Steel was a turnaround for him and perhaps for American manufacturing. Trump, who vowed to block the deal throughout the 2024 presidential campaign on the grounds of protecting domestic industry and national security, eventually came to a different and truer […]

Michelle Obama couldn’t be more wrong about women Trump voters

I resent Michelle Obama’s sneering, demeaning, strangely ignorant and massively sexist remarks about women, our reproductive systems and, especially, our vote.

Campaign Finance Board’s voter-guide fiasco errors are no laughing matter

A near-$7 million bungle by the city Campaign Finance Board is fresh sign that an outfit with huge power over city elections is in...

Miranda Devine: Jill Biden’s ‘work husband’ Anthony Bernal may have played a key role in covering up Joe’s cognitive decline

There are few doubts in the White House about Jill “Lady Macbeth” Biden’s role in covering up her husband’s cognitive deficits as she urged...

Biden coverup demands ‘Watergate’ hearings, Democrats’ Hispanic exodus and other commentary

“Missing from the hand-wringing” over “the massive coverup of Joe Biden’s mental decline,” fumes Kenneth L. Khachigian at The Wall Street Journal, “is a demand...

Ukraine’s surprise strike deep in Russia — an excellent way to push Putin to talk peace

The Ukrainians are not only fighting heroically on, more than three years after Moscow launched its savage and utterly unprovoked war to destroy their...

Remembering my friend Bernard Kerik — NYC’s top cop

In his good years, Bernie Kerik was good. Very good. Nobody gooder.

Trump’s budget bill cuts off the green-energy cash spigot — and it’s about time

Far from being temporary, federal tax credits for green-energy projects have become a permanent crutch — while socking us with soaring electricity rates.

Supreme Court helping Trump undo one of Biden’s most egregious migrant moves

If the Supreme Court does not once and for all put the kibosh on categorical parole programs, the next Biden, the next Mayorkas, could...

How Zohran Mamdani’s promises would destroy working-class New York

Wannabe mayor Zohran Mamdani is brushing aside centuries of economic truth, asking voters to ignore mismatches between budget reality and the havoc he would...

Democrats made themselves toxic — now they’re addicted to their own poison

A few party fossils think they know how to save it — but they're terrified that the medicine would be considered far worse than...

Courts’ power over President Trump: Letters to the Editor — June 2, 2025

The Issue: Federal lower-court judges repeatedly blocking President Trump’s policies. Everyone should take a step back and take a deep breath (“Court KO’s Don...

Are fiscal folly and money mischief our new normal?

It didn’t take long for everyone to realize President Donald Trump‘s “big, beautiful bill” is a budget buster. As written, it will add $3 trillion to the national debt over the next 10 years. Policy wonks are worried about the national government’s fiscal integrity. I am, too, but I’m more worried about the independence of the Federal Reserve. It’s […]

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