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Since its inception, the government of the United States has inexorably exceeded its powers under the Constitution. All three branches have been complicit in a consistent pattern of constitutional indifference.

Congress has regulated in areas of governance nowhere articulated in the Constitution. Its general regulatory powers were granted to ...Read more

One of the dangers of war is that political rhetoric often collides with strategic reality.

President Donald Trump spent years vehemently criticizing former President Barack Obama's Iran nuclear deal, arguing that it failed to permanently halt Iran's nuclear ambitions while providing the regime with economic relief and resources that ...Read more

Last week, nearly every elite men's tennis player skipped one of London's marquee tournaments. Only one of the world's top 10 showed up at Queen's Club, the traditional Wimbledon warmup; stars including Alexander Zverev, Daniil Medvedev, Taylor Fritz and Ben Shelton were playing 300 miles away in Halle, Germany. A culprit was likely Britain's ...Read more

Several things have taken place over the past week that shore up the importance of understanding what has truly made the United States of America the most prosperous country in human history.

First, we have the foreigners visiting the U.S. to cheer on their teams in this year's World Cup soccer championship. As I wrote last week, it's been ...Read more

Dictators despise hard facts that threaten their grip on political power. So they -- and their loyalists, who wish to stay alive -- concoct and repeat lies that conceal the dictatorship's flaws and, especially when the regime is threatened, disguise its weaknesses and failures.

I think the remnant ayatollah regime is betting very bold lies, ...Read more

Kudos to the Trump administration and Sen. Rand Paul for persevering in holding Dr. Anthony Fauci's feet to the fire. Fauci allegedly covered up the origins of COVID-19 as 1.1 million Americans died from the virus.

But what about the biggest culprit, China?

For seven weeks or more, starting in the winter of 2019, Chinese officials violated ...Read more

Tucker Carlson says he can no longer support the Republican Party.

In that regard, he finds himself in familiar company. A growing faction on the populist Right -- including figures such as Candace Owens, Marjorie Taylor Greene and Nick Fuentes -- has increasingly positioned itself in opposition to core Republican foreign policy principles. ...Read more

Not long ago, new kinds of jobs appeared.

app-based gig work.

They include jobs like dog walking on Rover.

Taskrabbit work.

DoorDash food delivery.

Uber and Lyft driving.

Some percentage of people like gig work.

It's flexible.

You work when you want to work.

If there's work.

But "workers' rights" activists and governing socialists ...Read more

When the One Big Beautiful Bill Act came up for a vote on the Senate floor on July 1 of last year, 50 senators voted for it, and 50 senators voted against it. Vice President JD Vance had to cast the tie-breaking vote in that chamber -- so the bill could go back to the House for a final vote.

In the House, it narrowly passed 218-214.

Not one ...Read more

LUZERNE COUNTY, Pennsylvania -- Over the Flag Day weekend in Pennsylvania, crowds gathered, and communities were formed in the most unlikely of places, under viaducts, along gravel-filled tracks and at the base of some impressive Appalachian mountains, all just to watch as Union Pacific's Big Boy No. 4014 rolled through northeastern ...Read more

Why are Democrats and their teachers union masters trying to shoot down parental choice in education even when we now have so many examples of these programs working?

Choice and competition are two of the hallmarks of the American economy. When stores compete, customers win. Turns out this is also true for schools. That's an inviolable law of ...Read more

President Trump has been musing about whether he's the most powerful man in world history, and judging by the results lately, the answer is definitely "no."

It's certainly true that Trump has technical tools at his disposal that would have astounded famous pre-20th century contenders for the title of most powerful man, whether Caesar, ...Read more

Success often sows the seeds of future failure. That's the danger America faces now.

America is a great and powerful country. But this shouldn't blind us to an obvious historical reality. Great empires rise -- and fall. Just look at the history of the Roman Empire. Or the Babylonian Empire. Or the Mongol Empire.

Success often comes with a ...Read more

Donald Trump has been the greatest, most clear-eyed and most transformative foreign policy president of my lifetime. But Trump is also the famed businessman who wrote "The Art of the Deal" four decades ago. There has therefore always been the risk that the president's novel and often unorthodox approach to foreign policy could be subsumed by a...Read more

President Donald Trump started a war with Iran, and now he is ending it on terms worse than the status quo he inherited. That is the plain shape of what happened, however the White House dresses it up.

The war came at a price -- lost lives, oil markets convulsing, allies rattled and an economic shock that rippled from Tehran to global ...Read more

Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) is constantly introduced in effusive tones as senior pastor at Martin Luther King's Ebenezer Baptist Church. The Democrats and their media allies love to trot him out to suggest their party is more Christian than the Republicans.

On National "Public" Radio on June 16, "All Things Considered" anchor Michel Martin ...Read more

A president orders the onset of hostilities -- war -- without authorization of Congress and without much in the way of making a case with the public. His troops win important victories and decapitate large parts of the government of the enemy. But in the enemy capital, no one surrenders or will even negotiate seriously.

That leaves the ...Read more