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Bus-fare evasion is just the start of Kathy Hochul’s looming MTA cash woes

Gov. Kathy Hochul will have to use her leverage to neutralize the mayor’s rhetoric — and to fix the upcoming $22.8 billion MTA budget for 2027, whose woes aren’t Mamdani’s fault, but hers.  

We’re about to find out how powerful progressives really are

Michigan is ground zero for the Democratic Party’s ideological war. Its marquee Senate race...

Blanche rescinds fund for Trump allies after senators threaten to block his attorney general bid

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche issued a formal order late Sunday terminating President Trump's $1.8 billion Anti-Weaponization Fund to compensate his political allies, a move that follows weeks of negotiations with two Republican senators who were blocking his nomination to become attorney general.

It is too late for the SAVE Act to save this year

Estimates vary, but even after President Donald Trump’s deportations, somewhere between 10 and 18 million illegal immigrants still live in the United States, and as New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill’s announcement last week shows, thousands of them are illegally voting in our elections. The Washington Examiner has editorialized in support of the Safeguard American Voter […]

Hegseth struggles to sell Senate on Iran war funding

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has yet to win any notable converts in the Trump administration's push for tens of billions of dollars to quickly inject into the Iran war, which has rapidly exhausted U.S. stockpiles and Pentagon coffers. The effort is further complicated by Republican senators losing confidence in Hegseth’s leadership of the U.S. military as the war with...

We Discard the Lessons of WWII at Our Peril

There has arisen of late a cottage industry encouraging the thinker and the policymaker to set aside the Second World War.

Counting All of Justice Barrett’s Votes

A look at her full voting history reveals where the justice’s conservative record is lacking.

Assisted Suicide Undermines Equal Protection

In New York, assisted suicide gets real on August 5. This, after a judge dismissed a lawsuit from patients with disabilities.

The Fed Has Work to Do

Chairman Warsh has committed to restoring price stability, but action would speak louder than words.

The Dramatic Evolution of John Chamberlain

With his left-to-right metamorphosis, the journalist was a bridge between the Old Right and the postwar conservative movement.

Trump is taking his Cabinet meeting on the road to Camp David

President Trump is taking Friday's Cabinet meeting on the road -- to the Camp David presidential retreat in Maryland, a rustic backdrop for sessions that have come to be known for being overly long and consumed by administration officials' endless praise for their boss.

Trump questions Thune’s leadership as SAVE America Act stalls

Trump publicly questioned whether John Thune is the right man to lead Senate Republicans after the SAVE America Act repeatedly failed to secure votes.

Army veteran raves over Trump’s plan to ditch illegal alien truck drivers and hire vets

Trump's "Freedom Haulers" initiative lets veterans with heavy-vehicle experience waive the CDL road skills test, tapping into a disciplined workforce.

Watchdog unleashes database to expose ‘loopholes’ as $5B in foreign cash floods US nonprofits

A new database tracks over $5 billion in foreign spending flowing into 523 politically active U.S. nonprofits not required to disclose donors.

Bombshell voting scandal adds to pattern of noncitizen voters as Trump warns of threat to ‘heart’ of democracy

A 25-year record of state reviews and software failures reveals noncitizens on voter rolls across multiple states, but no federal law compels reporting.

Moreno unloads on Fauci after Senate hearing, calls him Democrats’ ‘hero’ over pandemic policies

Sen. Bernie Moreno says Anthony Fauci is Democrats' "hero" who "treated us like lab rats" after Fauci invoked the Fifth Amendment during a Senate hearing on COVID-19 policies.

Trump admin cannot refuse detained illegal immigrants a chance for release on bond, appeals court rules

A federal appeals court ruled against the Trump administration's expanded mandatory detention policy adopted as part of its mass deportation plan.

The nation’s cartoonists on the week in politics

Every week political cartoonists throughout the country and across the political spectrum apply their ink-stained skills to capture the foibles, memes, hypocrisies and other...

FCC chair Brendan Carr on Trump, free speech and his threats against broadcasters

FCC chair Brendan Carr on Trump, free speech and his threats against broadcasters lead image

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