Political Commentary & Opinion

Slimming down the cost of the Democrats’ massive $3.5 trillion social-welfare spending bill is a compromise that misses the point. Opposition to the tax-and-spending bill is not just about cost, it’s about a policy agenda that shifts more power and control to the federal government and away from patients and families.   The so-called Build…

America lost a great man this week. Colin Powell, the first African American to become both the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the secretary of state, died at the age of 84.    A man of character by all accounts and a leader in every sense of the word, Powell was born…

Moderate and left-wing congressional Democrats continue to wrangle over the details of their partisan $3.5 trillion tax-and-spend bill, but there’s one thing they agree on: As much as 17% of the new spending will go to profitable health insurance companies. The 133 House and Senate Democrats who have co-sponsored “Medicare for All,” which would abolish…

There has been an extraordinary amount of talk in policy circles recently about Taiwan and the U.S. commitment to Taiwan’s security—and for good reason. The Chinese are ratcheting up pressure on Taiwan to a degree unseen in at least 25—and perhaps 60—years. The good news is that the U.S. is not alone. It has friends…

House Democrats a few weeks ago released the full text of their big-government socialism $3.5 trillion tax-and-spend package. Many important elements were already clear. It would recklessly boost federal spending at a time of already high inflation, impose ruinous tax hikes when the post-pandemic economic recovery is still vulnerable, and impose an anti-work welfare state….

All the news that’s fit to coddle the minds of woke social justice warriors. That’s the message to the world from prominent television journalist Katie Couric. The former “Today” co-host actually admitted in her memoir “Going There” that she edited a 2016 interview with the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg to “protect” her….

The Supreme Court this term will hear a major abortion case, which will provide the justices with the opportunity to make a long-overdue course correction on vague and unworkable standards set in motion by the court’s 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that don’t account for advances in modern science. Specifically, the court will answer “whether…

The following is excerpted from Jason Riley’s book “Maverick: A Biography of Thomas Sowell,” about the iconoclastic economist. The book is available here. Though he’s better known for his writings on racial controversies, Thomas Sowell spent the early part of his career writing mostly about economic history. After releasing an undergraduate economics textbook in 1971, he…

The Heritage Foundation announced Thursday that Kevin Roberts will serve as the organization’s next president.  Roberts says he is eager to advance the conservative movement and address some of the most pressing issues facing our nation today.  “The top three [critical issues that we are facing right now] are education, education, and education,” Roberts says,…

In A.D. 286, the Roman emperor Diocletian split in half the huge Roman Empire administratively—and peacefully—under the control of two emperors. A Western empire included much of modern-day Western Europe and northwest Africa. The Eastern half controlled Eastern Europe and parts of Asia and northeastern Africa. By 330, the Emperor Constantine institutionalized that split by…

Ben & Jerry’s newest flavor is hypocrisy. Axios reporter Alexi McCammond recently conducted an interview with progressive darlings and Ben & Jerry’s co-founders, Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield. Cohen and Greenfield both touched on the company’s decision to stop selling its ice cream in what they call occupied Palestinian territory of the West Bank and…

An explosive piece published this week by The Daily Wire shows what happens when crime, liberal school policies, and leftist law enforcement induce a parent’s worst nightmare. In “Loudoun County Schools Tried To Conceal Sexual Assault Against Daughter In Bathroom, Father Says,” investigative reporter Luke Rosiak reveals a story about a young man who sexually…