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One of the defining failures of modern American government has been the steady erosion of Congress's constitutional authority over war. The Constitution grants Congress -- not the president -- the power to declare war. Congress decides to go to war. The president wages it.

Over the past several decades, presidents of both major parties have ...Read more

Every time questions arise about the advanced age of America's elected leaders, Washington responds with the same familiar refrain: Experience matters.

Republicans say it. Democrats say it. Editorial writers repeat it. Longevity in office, we're told, produces wisdom, steadier judgment and better public policy.

It's an appealing argument. It ...Read more

Somewhere in Los Angeles this year, someone will get home who otherwise wouldn't have. You'll never learn her name. There will be no headline, no celebration, no council resolution -- only an unremarkable Tuesday that ends the way Tuesdays are supposed to end. The same nonstory will eventually play out in more than a dozen other metro areas ...Read more

The ideological excesses of the American Left are becoming increasingly difficult to ignore.

Political commentator Hasan Piker recently appeared in a Mao jacket -- a conspicuous tribute to the Chinese dictator whose regime was responsible for the deaths of tens of millions of people -- before addressing college students. Around the same time,...Read more

Amid celebrations of our nation's 250th birthday, Gallup serves up a sobering portrait of general dissatisfaction with our nation's core institutions.

"Confidence in U.S. institutions Remains Near All-Time Low," reports Gallup.

Of 14 core institutions -- banks, big business, labor, the presidency, Congress, schools, health care, etc. -- only...Read more

On Feb. 17 of this year, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) temporarily closed the Strait of Hormuz -- or at least claimed that it had denied non-Iranian ships the right to pass through the Strait.

That day, I wrote a column arguing the size and composition of the forces the U.S. had deployed in the Middle East and "the Pentagon's ...Read more

Four New Yorkers have been killed by Legionella bacteria in the last week, tragedies that were preventable if the city had performed its core, lifesaving duty to monitor and inspect air conditioning cooling towers.

But New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is focused on creating a socialist utopia instead of keeping the city running.

The ...Read more

"We are doomed and our leaders are insane."

So wrote journalist Matt Taibbi recently.

Taibbi didn't respond to our request for an interview, but he raises issues that deserve debate. So this is based on his column.

"Not one of our presidents ..." Taibbi writes, "can resist starting wars."

When the Soviet Union fell, President Bill Clinton ...Read more

Seven members of the Little Sisters of the Poor left their order's motherhouse in La Tour Saint-Joseph, France, on Aug. 28, 1868, and headed for the coast. Three days later, they boarded the Napoleon III steamship and began a trip across the Atlantic.

Two weeks later, they arrived in New York.

Then, a few days after that, they established ...Read more

Sexual abuse of minors is a serious crime. But when it comes to the national media, the crime is only serious if it can make Republicans look bad. Recently, Curtis Houck of the Media Research Center found that ABC, CBS and NBC devoted 1,627 minutes of airtime on their morning, evening and Sunday shows over the last year to the Jeffrey Epstein ...Read more

CARLISLE, Pennsylvania -- Jamie Dimon sat on the stage with President Donald Trump, Sen. David McCormick (R-Pa.), Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, Secretary of the Army Dan Driscoll and investors. The CEO of JPMorgan Chase looked out at an auditorium filled with more than 1,500 people attending the inaugural Defense and Innovation Summit.

"God ...Read more

Last week I took a daylong field trip touring a giant data center near Dulles International Airport in Loudon County, Virginia. The facility is owned and operated by CloudHQ.

A "cloud," by the way, is the hardware that stores trillions of data files, research, love letters, the entirety of the Library of Congress and virtually everything else...Read more

The World Cup showed why you shouldn't be ashamed of America's heroes and heritage.

While only Argentina and Spain made Sunday's World Cup final, citizens of many countries enthusiastically cheered on their teams. Norwegian fans became an internet phenomenon for their "Viking Row" cheer. Sitting like they were in a longboat, fans moved their ...Read more

When New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signed a one-year moratorium on new large-scale data centers via executive order, it became the nation's first statewide ban.

It will likely be popular. Polls find widespread opposition to data centers, and the objections seem to be growing. Around 70% oppose the construction of a new artificial intelligence data...Read more

It's easy to forget, but from 2022 through 2024, Democrats engaged in some of the most reckless, republic-destabilizing actions since their partisan forebears fired on Fort Sumter in 1861. In colluding to prosecute then-former (and future) President Donald Trump on sham legal grounds across four different jurisdictions and three separate ...Read more

New York just became the first state in the country to sign a moratorium on data centers. There are two paths forward on this issue. One path builds the infrastructure that runs the next 50 years of the American economy. The other bans the future, then acts surprised when the jobs show up somewhere else. I'm here to defend the data centers ...Read more