President Trump’s retribution crusade reached a crescendo Tuesday when the president’s endorsee, Ed Gallrein, prevailed in the GOP primary to unseat Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), extending his winning streak against Republicans who have defied him. Massie, a libertarian-leaning lawmaker whose opposition to key Trump priorities has long drawn the president’s ire, is the latest victim of Trump’s revenge campaign after...
Georgia's Republican primary for secretary of state will head to a runoff between Vernon Jones and Tim Fleming after neither candidate secured 50% of the vote on Tuesday.
Pennsylvania's 3rd Congressional District primary drew multiple candidates vying to represent the nation's most Democratic and Black-majority district.
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 […]
When I gave birth to my first baby over a decade ago, I had many options for baby products to put her down in. Baby bouncers, baby pillows, baby rockers — all manner of vessels that could contain her little body so I could do things like go to the bathroom, cook dinner, or simply […]
