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Even the trails are bigger in Texas

It is amazing what Americans can accomplish without involving the government. There are, of course, multiple highways that crisscross the Lone Star State, but if you want to bike, run, or ride across the state, you are out of luck … until now. Bike enthusiast Charlie Gandy, along with his friends at Bike Texas, a […]

Any other Democrat would have won

Had the Democrats picked a different candidate, they would have won. All the talk of realignments, Latinos, blue-collar workers, and whatnot, while interesting, is beside the point. Around the world, the politicians in office when the bills for the pandemic came in were walloped. Voters in the United States displayed the same selective amnesia about […]

New York executes pet squirrel

When people complain about how much they must spend in taxes, big government Democrats often mock them. Who, then, is going to fix the roads? Or keep schools running? Or launch SWAT team raids to detain and execute people’s pet squirrels? That last one is what your tax money helps fund if you are a […]

A federalist approach to anti-car urbanism

Back in the early 1990s, anxious about long-term regional decline and hoping to put my hometown of St. Louis, Missouri, back on the map, local leaders embarked upon constructing a totally new light rail system that was to provide living proof of our dynamic vision for the future. The MetroLink promised to unite the diffuse […]

A baker’s nightmare comes to an end

When the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, some demonstrators held up signs that said, “IT’S NOT ABOUT THE CAKE.” Oddly enough, the activists are right. It wasn’t about the cake then, and it isn’t now in 2024. It is especially not for custom cake baker Jack Phillips, […]

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...

Tim Scott launches bid to chair NRSC as GOP seeks to capitalize on new minority gains

South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott is seeking to lead the Republican Senate campaign arm ahead of the 2026 Senate elections. Scott ran for president in the 2024 Republican primary.

Shutdown standoff looms in Congress’ final weeks before Trump’s return to White House

The 118th Congress is likely to have at least one final political standoff before the balance of power shifts, and it's over how to fund the federal government through September 2025.

5 mistakes that doomed Kamala Harris’ campaign against Trump

Vice President Harris lost her election effort against President-elect Donald Trump after making a series of mistakes and missteps while on the campaign trail.

Why the media waited till now to admit Harris ran a lousy campaign

Media coverage of Kamala Harris was overwhelmingly positive throughout her 107-day campaign, but a different portrait of her emerged after Donald Trump was declared president-elect.

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