A Gallup poll conducted in August 2025 found that 66% of Democrats view socialism favorably, while only 42% of those same Democrats viewed capitalism favorably. At protests across American cities, demonstrators have carried Soviet flags, the hammer and sickle on red cloth, as symbols of resistance. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), and […]
The 13th Amendment abolished slavery. Most Americans know that. Fewer know the rest of that sentence: “except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted.” That clause has governed American prison labor for 160 years, and neither party will debate it honestly. The reasons are straightforward, and neither is constitutional. […]
On May 28, the Federal Trade Commission announced an ill-considered investigation into fertilizer pricing in light of rising farming and food costs. This inquiry is unwise, not because people are facing food affordability challenges. Rather, the circumstances creating the drastic rise in critical farm supplies are primarily the result of a confluence of escalating geopolitical […]
Even a casual observer of college sports can see the system is broken. What was once a haven for amateur athletics has become big business, even bigger perhaps than the professional leagues that many of these young sportsmen and women hope someday to join. Fans are understandably aghast at the insanity of the new rules […]
CBS has reached a licensing agreement with the music company that owns the famed "Peanuts" song used by late-night host Stephen Colbert during his final show last month, with the funds set to go to charity. During his last "Late Show" on CBS, Colbert made a joke about the music company, which he said had...
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) said Tuesday his conference does not have enough votes to bypass the filibuster to pass the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE America) Act. “The only way you can get … this done is to nuke the legislative filibuster, and that is not something that we have anywhere close to...
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said Wednesday that leaving the Group of Seven (G7) summit in France without holding a bilateral meeting with President Trump was not a snub. "I wouldn't take a big message from that," Carney said. "I had seven or eight discussions with President Trump over the course of the last 36...
The U.S. military on Tuesday struck another boat it claimed was carrying drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing one man and leaving two survivors. U.S. Southern Command announced the strike on social platform X, claiming that the vessel was “transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the Eastern Pacific and was engaged in narco-trafficking operations.” Following...