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To repeat what Americans have heard a lot recently, our Social Security system is in very bad shape.

Per the most recent report, in 2025, of the Social Security and Medicare board of trustees, Social Security is capable of paying out the entirety of promised benefits through 2033. After that, there is only capability of paying out 77% of ...Read more

This week the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a case that hinges on the meaning of Election Day -- and it's got Democrats sweating.

The case, Watson v. Republican National Committee, challenges a Mississippi law that allows mail-in ballots received long after Election Day to be counted.

It's one of 14 states, including populous ...Read more

Books like "The Fatal Conceit", "The Road to Serfdom" and "Human Action," are well worth reading today.

Although I couldn't get through all of it.

Politicians say they can "make the economy work better."

I once believed they could.

But years of reporting taught me that politicians' attempts to "fix" the economy usually make things worse.

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He used electronic benefit transfer cards to buy massive amounts of Pepsi.

In a document filed last September in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, the office of the U.S. attorney for that district described a shopping trip that David Quinones made to a store referred to as "Retailer A" -- where local law ...Read more

Our elitist media are so devoted to the Democratic Party that the only time you can be confident that a few questions might get tough is when there's a primary election. Once a candidate wins the primary, then all controversies are categorized as desperate Republican distractions and dismissed.

The networks haven't been paying much attention to...Read more

Without standards, college degrees aren't worth much. Americans have started to notice.

A recent I&I/TIPP poll found that just 24% of Americans believe college degrees are worth the cost. Even among the college-educated, nearly half, 49%, said it wasn't worth the expense. Another 14% were unsure.

This isn't an outlier. Over the last year, ...Read more

PITTSBURGH -- Pittsburgh Public Schools announced this week that students will be learning from home the day before and during the NFL draft, scheduled in the city for April 23-25. The announcement has parents, caregivers and students questioning the decision that affects all of their lives.

In an email to district staff, Superintendent Wayne...Read more

For most of the last 40 years, pollsters have asked voters: Which party do you trust more on health care? The answer has been pretty much the same over this whole period. Voters trust Democrats more, sometimes by a two-to-one margin.

When I've asked my Republican politicos why that is, the answer I typically receive is: Our party doesn't do ...Read more

Perhaps the biggest myth in American political life is that the wealthy don't pay their "fair share." And yet, class warfare isn't merely at the center of the Democrats' economic messaging and policy -- it's become the entire game.

Democrats have two new tax plans out, playing on the notion that the middle and working classes are unduly ...Read more

The joint American-Israeli military operation against the Iranian regime is now three weeks old, but there is another war -- a more silent one -- raging here on the home front. President Donald Trump's second administration is facing a highly coordinated shadow war -- one waged both by some influential outside voices on the Right and, more ...Read more

Three weeks into a military engagement in Iran, a war Republicans will not call a war, the American and Israeli militaries have all but wiped out Iran's capacity to make war. We have killed their leadership, the replacement leaders and militia members on the ground. We have destroyed their missile launchers and the factories in which they made...Read more

CNN's Brian Stelter exemplifies the media pattern of constantly claiming Donald Trump is an existential threat to democracy that must be curbed. The comedy never ends. Trump was supposedly going to end democracy throughout his first term, and the fact that democracy never ended never slows Stelter & Co. down.

On March 18, Stelter played up a ...Read more

Four years and 25 days. Twenty days. There's a huge difference between those two numbers. The first number -- 1,486 days altogether -- is the length of time since Russian troops crossed the Ukraine border on Feb. 22, 2022, and headed for Kyiv. The second number -- just 20 days -- is the number of days since U.S. and Israeli forces on Feb. 28 ...Read more

We've long known that Donald Trump drives his critics crazy, and he's now doing it to some critics who used to be friends.

The isolationist right is convinced that President Trump is waging the Iran War in behalf of Israel, which would make him the handmaiden of a foreign power.

That should be a familiar-sounding charge since Democrats and ...Read more

Last week, the chair of the Federal Communications Commission threatened to rescind the broadcast licenses of media entities that do not relate events in Iran or Ukraine as the Trump administration would like them to be related. He also attacked The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times for the same reasons. This followed by one day a ...Read more

In times of war, leaders often project the outcome they hope to achieve. Confidence can rally a nation, strengthen morale, and signal resolve to adversaries. Yet history reminds us that war rarely unfolds according to the plans or predictions of any single leader. The gap between projected outcomes and the complex, often obscured reality on ...Read more

I try to be fair to people I disagree with. Emmanuel Saez -- the famous UC Berkeley economist who's considered an architect of California's proposed billionaire wealth tax -- is someone I read carefully, even when I find his income-inequality work unconvincing. So, when I say that his arguments for the wealth tax are not just biased or ...Read more

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani claims that the city budget has a $5.4 billion shortfall, and one of the ways he proposes to close that gap is by changing the state's estate tax laws.

At present, New York imposes a death tax of 16% on estates worth more than $7 million. Mamdani wants to lower that threshold to estates worth only $750,000, ...Read more