Republicans returning to Washington on Monday are facing questions about a $1 billion Senate security proposal that could help pay for President Donald Trump's ballroom as Democrats say they will try to defeat it.

This essay is a part of The Right Way Forward, Restoring America’s new think tank debate series in which leading conservative institutions argue the defining questions of the post-Trump era. Read about the series here. In the Trump administration’s second term, there has been more focus on implementing “state capitalism” than during the first. And, […]

California Gov. Gavin Newsom is desperate to find things to hang his hat on for his eventual 2028 presidential run, but not desperate enough to shed the California model of funneling taxpayer dollars through allied nonprofit organizations. Newsom announced that the California government is partnering with the nonprofit Baby2Baby to use taxpayer dollars to provide […]

This essay is a part of The Right Way Forward, Restoring America’s new think tank debate series in which leading conservative institutions argue the defining questions of the post-Trump era. Read about the series here. President Donald Trump’s tariffs are controversial among conservatives, just as they were for Ronald Reagan in the 1980s. Free-traders argue […]

President Ronald Reagan had Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s (D-NY) number years before she was born. In his famed 1964 speech at the Republican National Convention, Reagan quipped: “The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they’re ignorant; it’s just that they know so much that isn’t so.”  In recent remarks at the University of Chicago’s […]

Why is President Donald Trump so tolerant of Iran’s diplomatic intransigence and military escalations? The question bears asking. After all, recent days have seen Iran both reject the latest U.S. negotiating position to end the conflict and successive Iranian attacks on U.S. and allied interests. The United Arab Emirates has suffered Iranian attacks, as have […]

As a teenager in 1976, I remember the excitement building up to the bicentennial celebration of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Seemingly every clothing store, whether the elevated department stores of the day or the bargain clothing stores, was filled with red, white, and blue clothing to show our enthusiasm for the Fourth […]

Economists call it the “tragedy of the commons” — when people pursue short-term interests at a shared resource’s expense, they eventually destroy it for everyone. Fisheries collapse this way. Pastures go barren. And right now, something similar is happening to the American republic. What’s being depleted isn’t land or water. The constitutional ecosystem — the […]

This essay is a part of The Right Way Forward, Restoring America’s new think tank debate series in which leading conservative institutions argue the defining questions of the post-Trump era. Read about the series here. Liberal economic policies typically include high taxes, high spending, high levels of regulation, restrictive labor and employment laws, government-sponsored enterprises, […]

The Left is good at theater. The Supreme Court’s April 29 decision in Louisiana v. Callais reinterpreted Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act and cleared the way for states to redraw majority-minority congressional districts. The response was immediate and predictable: rallies, social media outrage, Confederate flag burnings, and declarations of a second coming of […]