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On Sept. 30, 2024, prominent progressive thinker and author Ta-Nehisi Coates appeared on "CBS Mornings" to promote his new book focusing on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, "The Message." Coates' argument echoed many standard left-wing tropes about the intractable conflict, framing it as an intersectional battle between an illegitimate ...Read more

The Democratic Socialists of America has a class problem that its own rhetoric is designed to obscure. Its rising stars -- Zohran Mamdani, son of a Columbia professor and an acclaimed filmmaker; the Ivy-credentialed activists staffing progressive nonprofits; the heirs animating the movement's core -- reveal a pattern the movement cannot ...Read more

Journalists love to proclaim that they bring transparency to democracy, but it's far too often the exact opposite. They try to run our democracy by exploiting anonymous sources.

So when Trump is president, "senior administration officials" say "he's coming seriously unglued." When Biden was president, "senior administration officials" say "he's...Read more

Tuesday saw the usual first-week-of-June gaggle of state primary elections. It's a feature of the American federal system that states choose when to hold primary and local elections.

Back in the 1850s, as historian Roy Franklin Nichols notes, there was an election in all but one or two of the 24 months in the two-year congressional election ...Read more

In 2016, the conservative writer Mike Anton made a galvanizing case for Donald Trump in his famous "Flight 93" essay, arguing that the stakes in the contest between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton were existential.

His contention that a Clinton win would cement Democratic electoral dominance forever, such that Republicans needed to charge ...Read more

In the leadup to the country's 250th birthday celebration, America has been riveted by two elections in the state of California: the race for governor and for the mayor of Los Angeles. Ever since Democrat and former congressman Eric Swalwell was forced to withdraw because of sex scandals, Republican Steve Hilton has been a surprise favorite to...Read more

America's longest current criminal prosecution is in its 15th year, on its fifth judge, and still has no trial date.

The defendants are Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and four alleged mass murder co-conspirators. Mohammed is the second person that the government has characterized as the ringleader of the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. Originally, the feds ...Read more

Billionaire progressive activist and California gubernatorial candidate Tom Steyer recently remarked: "Health care companies only care about one thing: profits. Single-payer now." This is the same Tom Steyer who opposed single-payer when he ran for president in 2020. "Bernie Sanders was right," he says. "Boy, was I wrong."

He still cannot ...Read more

The remnant Ayatollah regime continues to receive hard doses of Trump Administration 2's "No Nukes" coercive diplomacy.

Here's a sketch of the process: multidimensional economic strangulation; diplomatic sparring; diplomatic engagement, disengagement, re-engagement; the threat and intermittently the deadly reality of American military power ...Read more

Far-left politicians want to annihilate property rights. A large share of young voters are buying into it -- a red flag that our school systems have become socialist indoctrination factories.

On Monday, one of the far left's agenda setters, Sen. Bernie Sanders, called on the federal government to confiscate half the value of each of the ...Read more

The Democratic Party's approach to Maine's Senate race has sparked a debate that extends well beyond the state's borders. At the center of the controversy is Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner, whose campaign has been dogged by a series of damaging allegations and personal scandals.

Reports have highlighted Platner's past online ...Read more

Polls are not like a weather forecast.

We can't do anything about the weather. If the prediction is rain, the only thing to do is get ready for it.

Polls measure public sentiment. But that sentiment can be influenced.

Current polling seems to justify handwringing on the part of Republicans regarding the outlook for November.

RealClear ...Read more

Is your business "needed"?

Bizarrely, in many states, if you want to start a business, you first must convince bureaucrats that your business is "needed."

Four years ago, Louisiana blocked social worker Ursula Newell-Davis from helping kids with special needs.

Bureaucrats said she hadn't proved her business was needed.

"Why does the state ...Read more

When Ronald Reagan was sworn in as governor of California in 1967, the state had a population of 19,176,000, according to the Census Bureau. Eight years later, when he left that office in 1975, the state's population had grown to 21,537,849 -- an increase of 2,361,849.

That was not an unusual pattern for governors of the Golden State. Under ...Read more

One way you can appreciate that America is a free country is that the Left feels free to dump on the 250th anniversary of America's founding. The New Yorker can ask "How Problematic Is Patriotism?" Their answer is "very problematic."

MS NOW host Ali Velshi channeled this spirit on May 31. He fussed that "America has never actually fully ...Read more

PITTSBURGH -- On April 19, 1926, an above-the-fold story in the Pittsburgh Gazette Times detailed the Pittsburgh Catholic Diocese's Bishop Hugh Boyle officiating at the dedication of a new church and school in the city's upper-north-side neighborhood off Perrysville Avenue.

"The services, which began shortly after 10:30 a.m. consisted of a ...Read more

Nearly everyone who is a college sports fan, myself included, knows the state of affairs in the NCAA is one fine mess. Especially regarding football and men's basketball, the two major money-making sports, things have changed massively in the last few years -- and mostly not in a good way.

Elite and even above-average athletes have effectively ...Read more