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The question recently asked by a federal judge in Miami -- can the president sue an entity in the executive branch of the federal government and benefit from the resolution of that lawsuit? -- seems to beg the question.

How could anyone sue an entity he controls and derive a benefit from the amicable resolution of such a lawsuit at the ...Read more

America spends an extraordinary amount of time debating the top 1% -- the billionaires, corporate CEOs and hedge fund managers -- and the widening gap between the rich and everyone else. It is an important conversation in a nation that prizes both opportunity and free enterprise.

But there is another 1% we talk about far too little.

Not the ...Read more

Americans will soon choose a set of senators who will take office in January 2027 and serve through early 2033. In the final months of that term, Social Security's retirement trust fund is expected to run dry and trigger benefits cuts of 22% -- not just for the wealthy, not just for new retirees, but for everyone up to and including widows ...Read more

"Every time they make a deal, they break it. They don't want to die. People don't want to die." -- President Donald Trump on July 14, responding to a question asked Fox News' reporter Trey Yingst.

The "they" Yingst asked about are Iranian negotiators, who supposedly represent the remnant regime.

Now go back to the first sentence's "break it,...Read more

Yovani De Jesus Alvarez Murillo, as reported by Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Department of Justice, is a citizen of Honduras who allegedly "illegally entered" the United States from Mexico in 2002.

That was the year he turned 19.

Three years later, in 2005, according to an affidavit filed by an ICE officer this month in the U....Read more

New York City has long been celebrated as a city of immigrant neighborhoods. Little Italy, Chinatown, Harlem, Washington Heights, Brighton Beach -- these communities tell the story of generations of newcomers who helped build America's largest city while gradually becoming part of it.

That history makes one omission from Mayor Zohran Mamdani'...Read more

Societies, like individuals, can become sick.

And, as with individuals, the symptoms point to the pathology.

The shocking acceleration of antisemitism in our country is a sign that something is very wrong.

Antisemitism is a classic symptom of a society that has problems and is looking for someone to blame. Why is life so hard?

It is no ...Read more

The homeless encampment rapidly spreading across 12 blocks along the West Side of Manhattan from the Intrepid Museum to the Javits Center is a red flag to New Yorkers in every part of the city that if you own anything, the city will not protect you, your business or your property.

Owners of the stores and restaurants along that stretch can ...Read more

A few years ago, nuclear power looked doomed.

Plants were shutting down.

Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo won applause bragging about closing a nuclear plant "14 years ahead of schedule."

"Why would they applaud?" asks former nuclear engineer Ray Rothrock. "They shut down New York's finest source of clean energy."

Rothrock has met with ...Read more

The Left has thrown a completely counterfactual fit about how the Paramount takeover of CBS created some kind of "MAGA-coded" news division under Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss. No one who watches network news daily right now can see much of a difference today between CBS and ABC and NBC. But mere internal questioning of whether CBS could attempt to...Read more

The New York Stock Exchange opened its doors over 230 years ago. It has been one of the iconic symbols of America's economic might for more than two centuries.

But for how much longer?

Now the challenge for supremacy isn't coming from London or Tokyo or Hong Kong or Beijing. It's coming from Texas.

The Wall Street Journal reported in recent ...Read more

ALTOONA, Pennsylvania -- In Virginia Lee Burton's classic 1939 children's book "Mike Mulligan and his Steam Shovel," Mulligan often boasted that his steam shovel, Mary Anne, "could dig as much in a day as a hundred men could dig in a week, but he had never been quite sure that this was true."

By the end of the story, Mulligan never gets the ...Read more

An early period of World War II was known as "the phony war."

What we may be witnessing now in the U.S.-Iran war is the end of a "phony peace."

The nearly five-month-long conflict has featured a couple of sham ceasefires, each marked by supposed Iranian pledges to reopen the Strait of Hormuz that came to nothing.

With the Iranians firing on...Read more

President Donald Trump and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani each gave a speech in honor of America's 250th birthday. If you removed the name, it'd have been difficult to guess they were talking about the same country.

Start with this. Trump celebrated America's history. He praised America's military heroes and iconic figures like Davy ...Read more

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says she knows why socialism is on the rise: Blame it on the boomers.

"Millennials and Gen Z combined, now for the first time, are eclipsing the number of baby boomers," she explained recently. "Young people overall feel a tremendous amount of betrayal about the world we've been left."

It's inarguable that younger ...Read more

The Democratic Party has come a long way since Bill Clinton was president -- and not in a good way.

In 1993, the first year of the Clinton presidency, Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) introduced legislation to end automatic birthright citizenship for the children of illegal aliens; today, Democrats routinely call to abolish Immigration and Customs ...Read more