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Florida, you might have heard, is no longer a swing state. Since Ron DeSantis became governor, Republicans have gained nearly 2 million registered voters on Democrats in the Sunshine State. It is an astonishing change in partisanship for the state that famously decided the 2000 presidential election by 537 votes.

The outcome of the statewide ...Read more

Two things can be true at once. Foreign entities have seeded the opposition to data center growth in the United States. China, in particular, through its control of TikTok and other influence outlets, has relentlessly worked to stop the American AI advantage against China. Also, at this point, much of the opposition is organic, bipartisan and ...Read more

On Aug. 10, Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey signed a bill allowing abortion at any point in pregnancy. Abortion advocates call it "closing the gaps" in "abortion rights protections." Abortion foes call it "abortion until birth," making it legal to dismember fully formed babies, limb from limb.

The "mainstream" media called it nothing. You ...Read more

The most surprising result in the batch of primaries held this week over the vast stretch of America from Florida through Wyoming to Alaska was the defeat of famed anti-Trump whistleblower Alexander Vindman by state Rep. Angie Nixon in the contest for the Democratic nomination against appointed Republican U.S. Sen. Ashley Moody in Florida.

Of...Read more

The United States of America may be the greatest place for functionally illiterate people to live in all of human history.

An eye-popping column in the Financial Times the other day noted how people in the U.S. with very low literacy make about as much per hour as the average worker in the U.K.

Is this the result of brilliant public policy, ...Read more

When a government agency comes to an internet service provider demanding information about Americans because of what they have said on social media, the provider should discard the demand, close the door or hang up the phone.

The government is not entitled to rummage through the political opinions, associations, criticisms and angry rhetoric ...Read more

Every generation searches for answers. Young people have always challenged the status quo, questioned authority and sought a better future than the one they inherited. That impulse is not only understandable, it is often essential to a healthy democracy. It is how societies reform, innovate and correct injustice.

Yet one question has ...Read more

There's an old saying: Those who can, do; those who can't, teach. A similar idea underscores the debate over wealth taxes in California and elsewhere: Those who can, build companies. Those who can't, devise ways for the government to take shares in what others have built.

This new version might sound unfair until you listen to Rep. Ro Khanna'...Read more

The United States of America may be the greatest place for functionally illiterate people to live in all of human history.

An eye-popping column in the Financial Times the other day noted how people in the U.S. with very low literacy make about as much per hour as the average worker in the U.K.

Is this the result of brilliant public policy, ...Read more

The end of August 2026 marks the fifth anniversary of this century's biggest American foreign policy disaster: The Biden Afghanistan Bugout of 2021.

Via satellite video, a global audience watched in real time the unfolding catastrophe at Kabul's Karzai International Airport.

What should have been an orderly withdrawal conducted by the U.S. ...Read more

S.E. Cupp will file tomorrow, Aug. 20.

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A contentious primary in Florida's 20th congressional district has shined a spotlight on the massive split in today's Democratic Party and has put Black voters there in a dilemma. After Florida recently changed its congressional maps, long-time Democratic operative Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz decided to run for reelection in newly drawn ...Read more

Betting markets show Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as the frontrunner to snag the 2028 Democratic nomination for president of the United States.

But AOC refuses to pay back her student loans, despite earning $173,000 a year as a member of Congress. That's a red flag that she's fiscally irresponsible and holds taxpayers in utter disdain.

Her ...Read more

Did you know that the SAT is racist?

During Woke I, as Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez now calls it, "antiracists" said the SAT's creators "were avowed eugenicists."

No wonder Black people get lower scores.

Even if the test isn't racist today, it still gives unfair advantages to white kids because their parents are more likely to afford SAT ...Read more

When Congress was considering the One Big Beautiful Bill Act in June of last year, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D.-N.Y.) pretended he was dedicated to fiscal restraint.

"The CBO just handed America the receipt for Trump's 'Big, Ugly Bill' -- and it's devastating," said Schumer. "Senate Republicans' bill would blow a $3.3 trillion ...Read more

The folks at Disney and ABC News are parading around, suing the Federal Communications Commission and boasting about how they are the paragons of freedom of speech and courageous reporting that President Donald Trump can't stand. What they're really celebrating is putting out a product that resides solidly inside a liberal bubble. They are the...Read more

The United States of America may be the greatest place for functionally illiterate people to live in all of human history.

An eye-popping column in the Financial Times the other day noted how people in the U.S. with very low literacy make about as much per hour as the average worker in the U.K.

Is this the result of brilliant public policy, ...Read more