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Laken Riley Act gains steam, would deport criminal migrants

Senators on Thursday cleared the final filibuster test for the Laken Riley Act, setting up a final vote on legislation that would push the administration to detain and try to deport even lower-level criminal migrants.

Biden says Equal Rights Amendment the law, but is it?

President Biden on Friday declared the Equal Rights Amendment to be officially ratified, saying it should be considered the 28th Amendment to the Constitution.

Study links Obamacare to improved health, reduced costs

Low-income seniors who aged into Medicare after the Affordable Care Act's start saw modest evidence of reduced out-of-pocket costs and health improvements, a federally funded study shows.

Trump talks with Xi, says they will ‘solve problems together’

President-elect Donald Trump on Friday said he spoke with Chinese President Xi Jinping and vowed they would work together to solve problems confronting both nations.

How Chicago’s ‘antiracism’ is getting people killed

When you have to fabricate racism to fight to justify your worldview, you end up doing more harm than good. Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson shows that better than anyone. Johnson is the personification of “antiracist” criminal justice “reform,” and that comes with deadly consequences for Chicago residents. On Tuesday night, Chicago police found 43-year-old Eduardo […]

Don’t put coal on ice

Let’s say it plainly: The United States needs its fleet of coal-fired power plants. Consider, for starters, the rising demands for electricity driven by the expansion of data centers, electrification, and industrial growth. A year ago, public utilities and grid operators nearly doubled their forecasts of the additional electricity needed to power the U.S. economy over the next […]

Biden blues: How the pragmatic moderate became the feckless ideologue

Joe Biden always wanted to be president. He just never knew why. A president who lacked strong priorities or firm beliefs took the White House in 2021 atop a party dominated by group politics. The groups knew what they wanted and knew what they believed, but of course, the various groups — racial, gender, gay, […]

Arizona will fight to avoid becoming California 2.0

As Arizona’s state legislature convened this month, our hearts were heavy with the events of the past couple of weeks in California, where thousands of individuals lost their homes or businesses and dozens were killed. We are saddened by the loss of life and property. With this genuine sympathy toward innocent victims, we must work […]

A free man in Hong Kong 

“A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.” I found myself returning again and again to that cold-hearted quotation, widely attributed to Joseph Stalin, as I read Mark L. Clifford’s stunning new biography of Jimmy Lai, The Troublemaker, How Jimmy Lai Became a Billionaire, Hong Kong’s Greatest Dissident, and China’s Most Feared […]

Investors rejoice at Scott Bessent confirmation testimony

Between wildfires incurring an estimated quarter-trillion dollars of damage in California and Bidenomics delivering a final extinction burst of heightened inflation, financial markets have had an inauspicious start to 2025. So, investors soundly rejoiced as they welcomed the calm, coherence, and competence displayed during the Senate confirmation hearing of President-elect Donald Trump‘s nominee for treasury […]

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