As its candidates win races nationwide, the Democratic Socialists of America is honing its message. The DSA’s new platform, released July 14, offers Marxist nostrums that would destroy American prosperity and liberty.  This is especially true on foreign policy, an often-overlooked aspect of the DSA agenda. The DSA wants a weak United States unable to […]

On July 1, California’s Assembly Appropriations Committee advanced AB 1383, a bill that guts the pension reform Sacramento passed in 2013 to keep its own promises honest. It would drop the public safety retirement age from 57 to 55, invent a new 3%-at-55 benefit formula, and let cities bargain away the cost-sharing rules that reform […]

Washington spent years restricting China’s access to advanced semiconductors and the equipment used to manufacture them. Those controls protect an important American advantage. They do not tell states and communities how to evaluate the facilities needed to install, power, and cool those chips at home. New York exposed that omission on July 14, when Gov. […]

We live in a world where access to information is more plentiful than ever, yet truth has never felt more elusive. AI summaries, 24/7 media, and never-ending social media “takes” create more opportunities for content to be corrupted by misinformation and disinformation. Wikipedia is another example. Fresh claims of left-wing bias have triggered congressional concerns […]

Electricity bills are rising fast and eroding household budgets for millions of the public. The median household in the bottom fifth of earners spends nearly 10% of its income on energy, while the top fifth spends around 1%. In 2024, 43% of adults in households earning under $25,000 reported being unable to pay an energy […]

Congress does this often: it passes a law directing an agency to solve a hard problem, and then the real work, the part that determines whether the law means anything, happens quietly inside the executive branch months later. A provision of last year’s defense authorization act is a clear case. Section 1513 of the Fiscal […]

Over the past decade, jihadist violence in sub-Saharan Africa has killed more than 150,000 people — a toll that likely exceeds the entire recorded history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, including after Oct. 7, 2023. Amnesty International has not called an emergency session of the U.N. Security Council, the university protesters are absent, and op-ed pages […]

In 2025, President Donald Trump gave small businesses one of the largest regulatory relief victories ever by exempting U.S. businesses from the burdensome and unconstitutional Corporate Transparency Act. This little-known but highly intrusive law mandated that over 30 million small businesses register their beneficial ownership information with the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network. Failure to comply […]

Progressives have increasingly claimed they condemn Zionists, not Jews. However, in practice, their efforts often use a very broad definition of who is a Zionist, unfairly harming Jewish individuals and organizations that are deemed not sufficiently critical of Israeli policies. Thus, they severely limit the Jewish individuals who are acceptable. The two most visible Jews […]

 In this age of original intent, surely it means something that the people who wrote the document intended to deny Congress the authority to summarily punish third parties.