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This week, President Donald Trump announced that he plans to give away tax dollars without congressional or judicial authorization to his friends and allies whom he believes were mistreated by the Biden administration. Can he legally do that?

Here is the backstory.

During the last year of his first term in office, Trump's tax returns were ...Read more

What is unfolding across parts of Europe, particularly in the United Kingdom under Keir Starmer, should serve as a warning to every Western democracy wrestling with questions of immigration, national identity, social cohesion and the limits of political tolerance.

A nation can be compassionate without becoming careless. It can welcome ...Read more

Donald Trump is now an unpopular president. Some of this dissatisfaction is due to the war in Iran. Some of it springs from the unanticipated speed, chaos and perceived brutality of several of his administration's actions over the past year and a half. But a significant part of his political problem has a straightforward economic explanation: ...Read more

One of the most frustrating aspects of contemporary conversations about politics and public policy is how often the deleterious effects of terrible programs -- local, state and federal -- are brushed aside with distracting (and even deceitful) claims that the intentions behind the policies were "compassionate." This is an utterly wrongheaded ...Read more

A society that begins to excuse political violence should not be surprised when political violence multiplies.

Once you create a moral framework in which violence is not merely understandable but righteous -- once you argue that certain institutions are so corrupt, so "murderous," that the people who participate in them deserve to be killed -...Read more

Per USA Today columnist Chris Brennan, the Rededicate 250 event, held on the National Mall to rededicate our country as One Nation Under God, violated both our national spirit and our Constitution.

Per Brennan, the Christian character of the event, and the Protestant content, flies in the face of the national value of religious diversity.

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We know the White House can be targeted and destroyed. In August 1814, a British force attacked Washington and burned many public buildings, including the White House.

At a White House dinner during his recent state visit, King Charles III, observing the Trump administration's extensive White House construction projects, wryly mentioned the ...Read more

Billionaire Tom Steyer used his money to attack a lone climate researcher.

Roger Pielke Jr.'s research on climate and disaster policy wins awards and is cited by the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

"My views are entirely mainstream," says Pielke. "My work is cited by all three working groups of the IPCC. There's ...Read more

Three days after President Donald Trump was elected to his second term, then-President Joe Biden's Justice Department published a press release that included a statement by then-Attorney General Merrick Garland -- and cited murderous acts Iran was allegedly planning to perpetrate inside the United States.

"There are few actors in the world ...Read more

Anderson Cooper decided to quit his moonlighting job at "60 Minutes," but not without a few words interpreted as "a dig" at CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss.

In an "Overtime" video reviewing his CBS career, Cooper proclaimed: "There's very few things that have been around for as long as '60 Minutes' has and maintain the quality that it has,"...Read more

BEDFORD, Pennsylvania -- For the briefest of moments, a line of vintage Rolls-Royce automobiles chugged along the curving Cumberland Road. They passed over the Cumberland Run a handful of times and wound themselves down the mountains, away from Pennsylvania and toward the city of steeples, Cumberland. The sight gives the bystander a moment to ...Read more

Those of us of a certain age -- born before about 1970 -- have fond memories of the mailman (yes, that's what we called him, not "postal carrier") dropping off a pile of letters and cards into the mailbox down the driveway six days a week.

But those days are long past. Now if we have something important to say -- "I love you," "I hate you," "...Read more

Many of today's graduates are about to make the same mistake Matthew Emmons made during the 2004 Olympics.

It's commencement season for high school and college seniors. The future may be unknown, but graduates know what they want in their future -- money.

A 2025 poll by Harvard Political Review asked young Americans to identify their ...Read more

The story plays out the same way virtually every time.

Democrats, egged on by the increasingly powerful progressive base, push some obviously unconstitutional scheme that they contend is needed to preserve "democracy."

The courts inevitably knock down the ploy.

Frustrated, Democrats ratchet up the anger, promising to "reform" the judiciary ...Read more

We've been having a debate about "book bans" in recent years, but given the steep decline in student literacy, the deeper question is how anyone would notice whether a book is available in a school library or not.

The New York Times published an eye-opening report on a study by the Educational Opportunity Project at Stanford documenting steep ...Read more

Next Thursday evening, Jews will celebrate the holiday of Shavuot. This holiday, which occurs seven weeks and one day after Passover (hence the name Shavuot, which literally means "weeks"), commemorates perhaps the most transformative event in all of human history: the revelation of the Word of God to the ancient Israelite nation. It was at ...Read more