President Trump headlined the second and final night of the Republican's midterm convention, but Vice President J.D. Vance debuted as the party's political future. Mr. Vance, 42, delivered the penultimate speech at a convention dedicated to getting Republicans elected in the 2026 midterms.
Vice President J.D. Vance on Thursday pushed back against Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic U.S. Senate candidate in Michigan, who suggested that Mr. Vance's grandfather was a racist who would not have approved of Usha Vance because she is of Indian descent.
Vice President J.D. Vance's speech Thursday night at the Republican midterm convention was interrupted by chants of "48!" from the enthusiastic crowd, which made it clear that he was their choice to succeed President Trump.
The death tax, officially known as the estate tax, is once again on the table in Congress. The One Big Beautiful Bill Act, as written, would make permanent the large exemption created by the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. Currently, Uncle Sam takes a slice of every inheritance greater than $13.99 million, an amount […]
This week marked the third anniversary of the landmark decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. On June 24, 2022, the Supreme Court announced the 6-3 split, essentially returning the abortion issue to individual states. In the years since, abortion laws across the country have changed. But, according to The Guttmacher Institute, the number […]
Last Sunday, Audi Field in Washington, D.C., hosted what seemed a world-class soccer match: Red Bull Salzburg, a Union of European Football Associations Champions League regular, versus Al Hilal, one of Asia’s most decorated clubs. It was competitive, but the energy was flat, the players looked disinterested, and the fans who showed up mostly stayed […]
By upholding South Carolina’s directive to cut Planned Parenthood from its Medicaid program, the Supreme Court affirmed what pro-life taxpayers have long demanded: to prevent their tax dollars from supporting an organization that performs abortions. In light of the court’s ruling, a question emerges: If taxpayer dollars are no longer allocated to organizations that perform […]
For the past four years, the American people struggled to keep their heads above water. Facing a tidal wave of government red tape, unchecked inflation, and economic uncertainty, voters spoke their minds at the polls. “Bidenomics” clearly wasn’t working, and Americans weren’t interested in a copy-and-paste shell of the last administration in former Vice President […]
One of the most baffling and depressing realities of life in the digital (and now AI) world is the way young people resist books that challenge their worldview. The problem is particularly bad among liberal, college-aged students. Now, with all the world’s literature available to download on a phone, students still resist reading books that […]
American politics today is a blood sport with polarizations unseen since the Civil War era. One thing unifies American politicians, from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to Donald Trump: ego. Every congressperson looks in a mirror and sees a senator, and every senator sees in his reflection a president. When politicians reach such echelons of power, they seek […]
With long-term oil prices in question as tensions in the Middle East rise, America must ensure a stable and predictable environment for domestic energy production. That stability is threatened by a wave of climate lawsuits filed by states seeking to punish American energy producers for lawful, federally regulated activity. American fossil fuel producers only account […]
CNN reported Wednesday that a leaked preliminary intelligence assessment found that President Donald Trump’s strikes on Iran did not destroy the core components of its nuclear program, but only set it back a few months. On Thursday morning, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth pointed to numerous other assessments, including from the International Atomic Energy Agency […]
HEGSETH IS RIGHT. This newsletter has often noted a peculiar feature of some media coverage of President Donald Trump: When Trump or Republicans say something, many reporters and commentators reflexively seek to knock it down. When Trump or Republicans say A, they immediately say not-A. Do Trump and his GOP allies say former President Joe Biden […]
Props to Senate Majority Leader John Thune for keeping that President Donald Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill moving ahead, herding cats as masterfully as Speaker...
