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As Los Angeles burst into riots this week over a federal immigration raid, one protester took to his social media channels to explain just what was going on -- why arsonists armed with Palestinian flags stood alongside vandals armed with Palestinian flags, why some masked protesters hurled rocks at police cars while others summoned automated ...Read more

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As Senate Republicans turn the One Big Beautiful Bill, passed by one vote in the House, into a major taffy pull, two questions hover in the background.

Where is our country headed? Will Republicans retain their razor-thin margins in the House and Senate in 2026?

Satisfaction regarding the direction of the country has improved markedly since ...Read more

Interviewing for a job or competing for a promotion just got fairer. In a unanimous ruling on Thursday, the U.S. Supreme Court leveled the legal playing field, saying that everyone deserves the same protection from discrimination, including straight white women and men.

In the six decades since Martin Luther King Jr. uttered the aspiration ...Read more

In 2018, some activists, appalled by woke nonsense being published by academic journals, submitted nonsensical research. One paper claimed researchers "closely and respectfully examined the genitals of ... ten thousand dogs" to learn about "rape culture and queer performativity at urban dog parks." Some journals published it! One of the hoaxers,...Read more

A House subcommittee held a hearing on April 16, 2024, that revealed some remarkable problems with federal spending.

"Since fiscal year 2003, federal agencies have reported an estimated $2.7 trillion in total improper payments," Rep. Morgan Griffith (R-Va.), chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee, ...Read more

Nicolle Wallace is one of the original "MSNBC Republicans," a former adviser to George W. Bush and John McCain who quickly swapped sides to become one of the more popular Democrat Party line tap dancers on her show "Deadline White House."

Her reflexive leftist take on the Los Angeles riots was a "uniquely alarming moment" -- not the riots, but ...Read more

In reading "Original Sin," the blockbuster book by journalists Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson, I vividly remembered covering then-candidate Joe Biden when he came to my hometown in April 2019 to begin his run for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination.

As someone who covered Biden for decades because he frequently visited the state in ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- The script for how big media outlets cover left-wing riots never changes.

Progressive protests destroy blue cities. Then cable news anchors inform viewers that protests that have brought chaos and destruction started out peacefully.

Yes, there is a pattern to progressive protests that turn violent. The demonstrations, like ...Read more

The government spent decades trying to make fathers unnecessary. The failure of that experiment put society on the long-term path to collapse.

Father's Day is Sunday. It's much less popular than Mother's Day for a sad reason. Fewer fathers are involved in their children's lives. That's caused by two main factors, the first being children born...Read more

These days it seems that a mysterious group called "the CBO" rules the world, or at least Washington, D.C. Unfortunately, it's not very good at predicting things, and its bad calls can lead to bad policy results.

The Congressional Budget Office and the Joint Committee on Taxation predict what will happen with spending, tax revenues and deficits...Read more

For a while, the favored moniker for Kilmar Abrego Garcia in the media was "Maryland father."

Abrego Garcia was indeed living in Maryland and was indeed a father, but this wasn't what was the most distinctive thing about him. There are hundreds of thousands of fathers living in the state who aren't illegal immigrants and don't have ties to ...Read more

Last November, Donald Trump soundly defeated Kamala Harris among young men 18 to 29 years old, racking up about 56% of their votes according to the Associated Press. That represents a huge decline from 2008, the climax of the Barack Obama coalition, when the Democratic candidate won 62% of the young male vote against GOP challenger John McCain...Read more

Mohammed Sabry Soliman, armed with an improvised flamethrower and Molotov cocktails, attacked a group of peaceful Jews in Boulder, Colo., who were remembering the hostages taken from Israel by Hamas on Oct. 7, 2023. At least one of Soliman's victims was a Holocaust survivor.

Soliman and his family had come to the United States on a tourist ...Read more

The liberal media viscerally hate anything the Trump administration is doing to defund the federal government pushing leftist ideology and squashing conservative counterpoints. One major field has been "misinformation research," in which professors equate conservative arguments with falsehoods.

In the Biden years, "misinformation" experts at ...Read more

You see the same pattern over much of the world. In three consecutive presidential elections in the United States. In the latest polls in Britain, where the 2016 Brexit referendum was the first notable outbreak. In France's most recent national election and in Germany's. In Canada's election last month. And maybe in Poland and South Korea last...Read more

WASHINGTON -- "Democracy is in peril" is the warning bubbling up all over popular culture.

President Donald Trump is enjoying his second term, one made sweeter after wins in both the Electoral College and the popular vote. I don't think the warnings about authoritarian rule are coincidental.

Take the new Max (better known as HBO) movie, "...Read more