Republicans did something rare in Washington. They passed a bipartisan permitting reform bill through the House. The Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act of 2026 would speed up construction of the pipelines, power plants, and grid upgrades this country needs. It should be an easy win, but Senate Democrats have put in a poison pill […]
As in 2024, with polls open for the midterm elections, the cost of living remains voters’ top priority. As for investors, their primary concern in the aftermath of the Federal Reserve’s first rate hike since 2023 isn’t inflation in particular. Rather, it’s the federal government’s deficit. It’s the classic good-news-bad-news dichotomy of the economy approaching […]
The academic and feminist author Camille Paglia once wrote that “Leaving sex to the feminists is like letting your dog vacation at the taxidermist.” So it might be that leaving the story of the now-infamous “Cornell Seven” alleged rape case up to leftists and many legacy media outlets is like letting the accused write the […]
The problem with President Ronald Reagan being called “the Great Communicator” is that it showed how much worse other Republicans were at political messaging. The Gipper would not have earned the compliment if the GOP wasn’t so bad at it. It still is. Democrats are far more often successful at framing debate, not least because […]
Seven years before Zohran Mamdani upset Andrew Cuomo on the strength of his relentless messaging about the obscene cost of living in the Big Apple, another New York Democrat shocked the world by centering the very same issue in her own campaign. “We’re having an affordability crisis in New York City,” a young Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez […]
After 50 years of protecting life by preventing mass taxpayer funding of abortions, the Hyde Amendment is increasingly under threat. With Hyde’s protections annually threatened by left-wing activists in Congress, it’s time to make this long-standing policy permanent. Enacted on Sept. 30, 1976, as the first major pro-life legislative victory on the national level following […]
Americans are heading into November with a choice that is more consequential than most political observers are willing to say plainly. If Democrats win the House in November and take over control of the House in the 120th Congress, voters should understand in clear terms what their first priorities will look like. The Left has […]
Polling — and poll “unskewing” — can be perilous business. Back in 2012, many smart Republicans were convinced pollsters were slanting their results by oversampling Democrats, leading to many enthusiastic predictions that Mitt Romney was actually ahead in key battleground states. The Romney campaign itself believed its candidate would win. He did not. The polls […]
The near-apocalyptic critical and commercial failure of the big-screen satire Digger should be taken as the most encouraging of cultural indicators. Here is a movie that is so deeply woke in its ideas and attitudes that it deserves to be called pre-woke. Director and cowriter Alejandro G. Inarritu’s outraged portrayal of a venal, lawless, environment-destroying […]
Former Reps. Christopher Shays and Richard Swett argue that the Trump administration should reject proposed seasonality protections for Florida produce growers to avoid disrupting the North American food supply chain and inviting Mexican retaliation.