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Coincident with the celebration of the 250th anniversary of the signing of the American Declaration of Independence is the 250th anniversary of the publication of "The TheNations."

The full title of Scotsman Adam Smith's book, published in 1776, is "An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations."

One might say that in that ...Read more

When the accusation is sexual assault or rape, the rights of the accused go out the window. Prosecutors and plaintiffs' lawyers in civil cases drag in character assassins who know nothing about the alleged assault but instead make their own claims -- without proof -- that they too were victims of the accused, often decades earlier.

That's ...Read more

This summer, the United States celebrates its 250th birthday.

In 1776, few people believed this new version of self-government would last.

After the Constitutional Convention, Benjamin Franklin was asked what kind of government the Founding Fathers had created.

"A republic," he replied, "if you can keep it."

If ...

It's rare that a...Read more

If you lived in America in 1843 and wanted to communicate with someone in a distant state, you would have to send that person a written message delivered by land.

But that year, as noted on the official website of the House of Representatives, Congress approved $30,000 in spending "to test the feasibility of creating a telegraph system."

In ...Read more

ATTENTION TIM GRAHAM EDITORS: THERE IS LANGUAGE IN THE THIRD, FOURTH, FIFTH AND SEVENTH GRAFS THAT READERS MAY FIND OFFENSIVE. THANK YOU. -- CREATORS

Graham Platner's Comedic Potential Lost in Joke Drought

Bonchie of RedState.com asked an interesting question on X: Has a single late-night comic told a single joke about Graham Platner? That ...Read more

MONONGAHELA, Pennsylvania -- Downballot primary results for seats in the Pennsylvania legislature and Congress had both parties heading into very different directions for November's midterm election cycle. The Democrats are marching far left, and Republicans are beating back challengers from their far-right flanks.

In Washington County, in a ...Read more

Billionaires are getting a bad name. "Eat the rich" is the new mantra of the Left's greed and envy lobby.

Once upon a time, we saluted and celebrated America's empire builders who got rich but created great industries that built the richest nation on earth. Now the Left in America demonizes them.

We see the assault on wealth every day: ...Read more

President Donald Trump isn't manipulating Republican voters. He's empowering them to do something they've long wanted -- elect strong conservatives, not fake ones.

On Tuesday, Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., lost his primary to a Trump-endorsed candidate, Ed Gallrein. In recent years, Massie morphed from a principled, limited-government advocate ...Read more

Socialism will always find an audience because it appeals to base envy and resentment. Ginning up a mob to be mad at "oligarchs," "Wall Street barons," "kulaks" or "billionaires" is cheap and easy.

So, it was refreshing to hear Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, the fourth richest man on the planet, offer unadulterated praise of the moral and ...Read more

Donald Trump is the undisputed king of the Republican Party. Earlier this month, Trump exacted revenge on Indiana state senators who had opposed his call to redistrict the Hoosier State; his endorsees won a majority of races against incumbents. Last weekend, Trump successfully nuked Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) from political life, relegating the...Read more

Much of our rising energy costs comes from a decades-long campaign of progressive environmentalists and Democrat backed regulators to tear down coal-fired power plants, block nuclear and natural gas expansion and make America reliant on wind and solar -- the two power sources most popular during the dark ages. Data centers get blamed for ...Read more

On Monday, two teenagers killed three men at the San Diego Islamic Center, then killed themselves. What a pointless spasm of violence it was. It took a few days for The New York Times to flex their rhetorical muscles and blame conservatives.

On the top left of Thursday's front page, the headline read: "Islamophobia Spreads Fast, As Does Fear:...Read more

Ten years ago this month, Donald Trump clinched the Republican nomination for president, with a platform that was vastly different on trade and foreign policy from other recent presidents, Republican and Democratic alike.

How fares America -- and the world -- 10 years later?

In some important ways, things have moved in Trump's direction. In ...Read more

The Democrats couldn't complete their term paper, but handed it in anyway because too many people were wondering what had become of it.

Under pressure, the DNC finally released its autopsy of the 2024 election, after rampant speculation about what it contained and why it hadn't yet been made public. Did it include references to Gaza or didn't...Read more

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