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During a Sept. 1 preliminary hearing for the defendant accused of fatally shooting Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk on Sept. 10, 2025, the defendant's attorney, Richard Novak, accused Kirk of "speaking hatefully of certain groups of people. He spoke hatefully of people who don't have traditional, nonconforming gender identities. He spoke...Read more

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Cell phones made my life easier. So did the internet.

Artificial intelligence may enrich it even more.

But lots of people are worried.

"Stop AI or we're all going to die!" shout protesters.

It's ...Read more

Had you driven into the parking lot of a certain 7-Eleven in suburban Virginia at about 1 p.m. on Sept. 11 of this year -- which this writer did -- you would have seen 11 men standing, sitting or sleeping on the concrete there and on a nearby sidewalk.

This is essentially the same scene you would have encountered there 25 years ago in the ...Read more

The New York Times has an annoying habit of topping its front page with an article labeled "News Analysis." In reality, it's a badly disguised editorial, often inveighing against their rage target, President Donald Trump.

In 2024, Times White House correspondent Peter Baker wrote a "news analysis" nudging voters to pick the Democrats with the...Read more

The Beatles told us: "All you need is love."

They were right, but along with love must come marriage.

But marriage rates have plummeted, especially among young men.

A Pulitzer Prize-worthy story by Sean Salai of The Washington Times crunches all the numbers. To say they are worrisome would be a vast understatement.

-- In 2025, nearly twice...Read more

LATROBE, Pennsylvania -- The late afternoon sun catches the twin spires of the Archabbey Basilica at St. Vincent College, casting a long shadow across the pristine practice fields of the Pittsburgh Steelers' training camp.

For 60 years, this rural patch of Westmoreland County has played host to an annual cross-cultural pilgrimage. Here, the ...Read more

The Founding Fathers who fought for liberty wouldn't recognize how people define the word today.

A recently released survey from the Indispensable Institute for Family Studies shows vice has a vice grip on young men. Among men 18 to 29 years old, 27% view pornography daily and another 16% do so several times a week. Young men who view ...Read more

It was probably inevitable that the Right's economic populism would degenerate into promises of more government checks.

Early in the week, the administration floated the idea of redirecting federal childcare aid so low-income married stay-at-home parents could get a $9,000 subsidy per child for daycare.

The policy, reportedly hatched by Vice...Read more

It feels like just yesterday that America lost Charlie Kirk.

I remember every detail vividly.

Charlie and I were in daily contact that week, as he prepared for his next national campus speaking tour.

I was part of an intimate Zoom meeting he had organized the night prior to its first stop, at Utah Valley University.

Less than 24 hours ...Read more

The Trump administration is drafting a rule that would let married couples with a stay-at-home spouse collect federal welfare benefits. The money comes from a 1990s Health and Human Services fund meant to cover daycare so low-income parents could work or go to school. About 870,000 families draw on it now, roughly 80% headed by a single ...Read more

Not every American president has sounded the right notes for our national pain after the terrorist attack on Sept. 11, 2001. Twelve days after Hamas unleashed its mass murder in Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, President Joe Biden suggested that 9/11 was all about the Arabs and the Muslims.

"I know many of you in the Muslim American community or the ...Read more

Just weeks after far-left candidates have won surprising victories in Democratic primaries in Pennsylvania, Florida, Michigan, Colorado and New York City for the Senate and House in the United States, the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party has won a widely predicted victory in the election last Sunday for the legislature of Sachsen-Anhalt, ...Read more

In the "Terminator" movie series, the artificial-intelligence system known as Skynet is given control of the nation's nuclear weapons and uses it to try to destroy humanity.

One reason that apocalyptic scenarios involving AI are implausible is that, having seen how that particular movie ends, we are unlikely to be foolish enough to give AI ...Read more

A failed war does not end when the drones stop flying. It creates a new danger: A government that refuses to admit defeat and a president who, having failed abroad, seeks muscular victories elsewhere.

The war against Iran is a case study in the limits of military power, the dangers of presidential overreach and the enduring wisdom of the ...Read more

As America approaches the 2026 midterm elections, President Donald Trump's second administration can be described in one word: consequential. Whether one considers those consequences beneficial or dangerous depends largely on where one stands politically. But even Trump's fiercest critics must concede that he has never confused the presidency ...Read more

Vice President JD Vance wants to pay married parents to stay home with their children, and he wants to do it with money Congress appropriated to help low-income families afford day care. Whatever one thinks of the goal, which may prove popular, the proposal fails every test we should apply to government subsidies.

That's because the proposal ...Read more

Watching the Lindsay Clancy trial, as well as its aftermath, play out has made me fear, seriously, for the future of this country. A functioning 21st-century society requires a sensible and reliable legal system, and ours seems to be going off the rails.

Clancy sent her husband, Patrick, on errands, and while he was gone, she strangled their ...Read more