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It was as predictable as a rom-com — just as surely as you knew they’d end up together, we knew how President Trump’s first speech to Congress was going to go.

It was full of Trumpisms — partisan jabs, personal attacks, ...Read more

When the computers arrived at City Hall in January of 2002, they were the talk of the town.

Known as “The Bloomberg,” the system of flat-screen terminals used to crunch real-time market data made famous by their namesake mogul Mike Bloomberg, were sent to populate the new mayor of New York City’s wall-less office, known to his staffers as...Read more

In his 1951 farewell address to Congress and the American public (known as the “old soldiers never die, they just fade away” speech), Army General Douglas MacArthur said something the Trump administration should recall as it seeks to ...Read more

It’s a favorite saying of the American right when advocating for stricter immigration laws: “A nation that cannot control its borders is not a nation.”

It’s usually attributed to Ronald Reagan, the Republican hero who was nearly unimpeachable in his patriotism and his commitment to conservatism. The same Reagan whose legacy is now being...Read more

It’s been only two weeks, but with every passing day of President Trump’s second term, Mike Judge’s 2006 masterpiece, “Idiocracy,” becomes a more and more prescient and embarrassingly accurate prediction of what the American government might one day look like.

In Judge’s scathing prophecy, the near-collapse of Western civilization ...Read more

“[H]ead-banging, football helmet on, non-toilet trained, nonverbal.”

This is how President Trump’s pick to head the Department of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has described the millions of ...Read more

With all the attention deservedly on President Trump and what he intends to do with his defiant return to the White House, there’s a more than good chance we’ll spend the next four years consumed once again by all things Trump.

There’s already been a dizzying amount: a politics/fromtheright/secupp/s-3569166">Read more

Oh, how far we’ve fallen. On Tuesday, the Senate began its confirmation hearings for President-elect Donald Trump’s Cabinet, starting with one of his more controversial picks, “Fox & Friends Weekend” host Pete ...Read more

“He wants to be a builder like the hero of Ayn Rand’s novel, so large that the skyline is his profile.”

That was a New York Times editorial from 1985. Then, President-elect Donald Trump was merely a real estate developer, ...Read more

Political and other prognosticators are busy as usual predicting the future. Never mind calculating how wrong they have been in the past, our desire to know what’s coming sometimes overcomes sound thinking, ignorance of history and an understanding of human nature.

Recall the number of times climate alarmists predicted we would either freeze ...Read more

When Washington politicians speak of a Christmas tree this time of year, they are not referring to an actual tree. It means they’ve loaded up a bill with another kind of “green,” the kind that’s decorated with money.

The “bipartisan” bill passed just before midnight last Friday, minutes before a government “shutdown” ...Read more

In his first week as a federal judge, Murray Gurfein was assigned the biggest case of his life.

He’d just been nominated to the Southern District of New York by President Richard Nixon in April 1971...Read more

This was a long day coming, and frankly one I never thought I’d see.

Thirteen years ago, Syria’s Bashar Assad unleashed a reign of unmitigated terror on his own people, in response to protests of his inhumane Ba’athist government.

Over the course of the civil war, he unabashedly committed the worst atrocities imaginable — politics/fromtheright/secupp/s-3517031">Read more