PoliticsCommentary
The administrative state will not take President-elect Donald Trump’s reforms lying down, and although his actions as president can severely hamper the deep state, he… Read More
PoliticsNews
THE CENTER SQUARE—President-elect Donald Trump has pledged to drastically cut government and clean out inefficiencies, but he faces an entrenched power in Washington, D.C., that may… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
Après Biden, “L’audace, l’audace, encore l’audace, toujours l’audace!” To paraphrase mixed French 18th-century memorable quotations: After Biden, follows not the deluge, but now daring, and… Read More
InternationalNews
“We built it. We paid for it. It’s ours.” That was Ronald Reagan’s take on how we should think about the Panama Canal when Americans… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
The 118th Congress is all but over. For the House, it ended in much the same way it began: With various factions within the Republican… Read More
EnergyCommentary
President Joe Biden is backing a global effort with other wealthy nations to restrict government funding for oil and gas projects abroad. But instead of… Read More
PoliticsNews
President-elect Donald Trump endorsed House Speaker Mike Johnson for another round as leader of the House of Representatives Monday. Conservatives had wondered if Trump would… Read More
EnergyCommentary
It’s a typical morning over the holidays, the kids have been up since dawn, and you’re making a few pancakes on your gas stove. When… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
For those of us in the news business, 2024 provided a steady stream of stories to cover—and rarely a dull moment. From the Republican primaries… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
PBS, backed by your tax dollars, hosted the leader of a group that compares conservatives to the KKK, and she used the opportunity to demonize… Read More
The incoming Trump White House, including press secretary Karoline Leavitt, is signaling that it wants to revamp the press briefing room. This is an outstanding… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
What do Charlie Baker, president of the National Collegiate Athletic Association, and Washington Post sports columnist Sally Jenkins have in common? They’re both in deep… Read More
Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy, and the new Department of Government Efficiency should help President reelect Donald J. Trump implement a straightforward reform: Return federal spending to… Read More
Health CareCommentary
The prospect that American taxpayers, who morally object to abortion, may no longer be forced to fund Planned Parenthood when President-elect Donald Trump returns to… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
Joe Biden may still hold the office of president of the United States, but the media are treating him like he’s anything but a newsmaker…. Read More
EconomyCommentary
Apparently believing that the more you repeat a lie the truer it becomes, President Joe Biden recently quoted a Time magazine article claiming that “President [Donald] Trump… Read More
Maybe the lesson this Christmas season is that even if turnabout is fair play, at some point, enough is enough. Start with the specious lawsuits… Read More
PoliticsNews
China and the U.S. signed a science cooperation agreement this month, an agreement that has been renewed every five years since 1979—yet one expert urges… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
Here’s my wish list for the incoming Trump administration to make America healthy and prosperous and great again in 2025. 1. Slash Job-Killing Regulations The… Read More
PoliticsNews
Sen. Rand Paul released a report on Monday outlining more than $1 trillion in government waste from the past year. The 2024 “Festivus” report highlighted various instances… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
Don’t call PolitiFact an “independent fact-checker.” When they assemble to select their “Lie of the Year,” they’ve singled out Donald Trump in 2015, 2016, 2017,… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
In the weeks before his 2016 Electoral College victory, Donald Trump was polling between 35% and 40%. He would average only about 41% approval over… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
A sweeping election victory on Nov. 5 means Republicans will have control of the House, Senate, and the White House come January. Capturing this trifecta,… Read More
Health CareCommentary
In the Harry Potter series, the villain, Lord Voldemort, is known as “He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named.” There’s a similar sentiment whenever someone expresses a heterodox opinion on vaccines…. Read More
PoliticsNews
In one day, 117 of the people Iris Weinstein Haggai grew up with, including her parents, “vanished.” Among the 400 residents living in Kibbutz Nir… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
In Ronald Reagan’s stirring 1964 “A Time for Choosing” speech, he said: “No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. So governments’ programs, once launched,… Read More
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of the accompanying video from professor Peter St. Onge. Can Donald Trump reduce house prices? A recent… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
President-elect Donald Trump said so many things on the campaign trail that critics warned would hurt him in November. Yet he won the popular vote…. Read More
EconomyCommentary
As he leaves the White House, President Joe Biden isn’t forgetting Christmas gifts to China. This week he announced new Paris Agreement targets to reduce… Read More
EconomyCommentary
Sunday is the seven-year anniversary of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, a landmark piece of legislation that contributed to historic economic prosperity under the… Read More
