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OpinionJun 27, 2026Read →

America’s AI Debate Keeps Returning To The Same Key Question

America’s AI debate keeps returning to the same question: how do we keep China from catching us at the frontier? It is the right question, but the answer that many consider is too narrow. Several policymakers point to…

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OpinionJun 27, 2026Read →

Europeans Discover Simple Luxury As They Descend On US For World Cup

European soccer fans have descended on the United States for the World Cup in recent weeks, and many are discovering a simple American luxury that remains frustratingly elusive back home: reliable air conditioning. In…

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OpinionJun 26, 2026Read →

JB Pritzker Will Soon Learn He Can’t Have It All

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker is all but running for president in 2028, and like many Democratic hopefuls in a crowded field, he’s refusing to pick a side. To his Left are candidates pledging to stop all aid to Israel and…

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OpinionJun 26, 2026Read →

Parents Can’t Solve America’s Social Media Crisis Alone

Social media is an odd thing. The vast majority of Americans use it , but most think it has a negative effect on our society. As a Reagan conservative, my initial reaction to this issue was that protecting kids online…

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OpinionJun 25, 2026Read →

Big Pesticide Won At The Supreme Court. It Still Does Not Speak For Farmers.

The Supreme Court’s decision this week in Monsanto v. Durnell was a victory for Bayer , not for America’s farmers. For years, Bayer has convinced policymakers that protecting Bayer is the same thing as protecting…

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OpinionJun 25, 2026Read →

Republican Senator Needs New Socks After Aligning With Elizabeth Warren

Americans are about to get a crash course in the financial disaster that is Social Security . It’s not going to be an easy A. Part of the course will be reading fiction from Social Security’s long-time defenders like…

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OpinionJun 25, 2026Read →

Red Tape Is Keeping Disaster Survivors In Limbo. Here’s How Trump Can Fix It

Nearly two years after Hurricane Helene tore through western North Carolina, and a year and a half after wildfires razed whole Los Angeles neighborhoods, survivors are still waiting for permission to rebuild. The…

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OpinionJun 24, 2026Read →

What’s Really Going On With The Left?

Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders of Arkansas famously criticized the modern Democratic Party as “chock-full of woke fantasies” and “crazy” during her rebuttal to Joe Biden’s initial State of the Union address. The critique…

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OpinionJun 24, 2026Read →

Hospitals Go To The Mattresses To Avoid Transparency

Washington just got an important lesson in the uncharitable nature of what were once called charity hospitals. When House Ways and Means Chairman Jason Smith floated a proposal to require nonprofit hospitals to explain…

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OpinionJun 24, 2026Read →

Giorgia Meloni Desperately Picks Fight With Trump To Mask Her Endless Failures

Giorgia Meloni swept into office promising a populist revolution . She was going to secure the borders, crush the globalist bureaucracy and put Italy first. Sound familiar? It should. She explicitly modelled her brand…

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OpinionJun 23, 2026Read →

Chevron And Microsoft Chart A New Path To Power In Landmark Data Center Deal

In a move that could send the net-zero zealots scrambling for the smelling salts, Chevron announced this week that it has inked a massive 20-year power purchase agreement with Microsoft. The deal centers on Project…

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OpinionJun 23, 2026Read →

Can Uncle Sam Finally Take The AI Chip Crown?

Taiwan has the goose that lays the silicon eggs, but now America is learning to breed our own. The fastest AI chip on earth was designed in California, funded by American investors and celebrated in Washington as a…

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OpinionJun 22, 2026Read →

How An Immigrants-Only Program Could Bankrupt Your Hometown

Somewhere in Charleroi, Pennsylvania, a small steel-town school district of about 1,400 kids, a school board member is looking at a budget line that didn’t exist a decade ago. In 2014, the district had approximately…

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OpinionJun 22, 2026Read →

Uncle Sam’s Reindustrialization Needs A Spark From Transcontinental Railroad

The U.S. may finally have a coast-to-coast railroad owned by one company. What does it mean for competition and pricing power at a time when American businesses and consumers both could use some deflation, not more…

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OpinionJun 21, 2026Read →

Solar Doesn’t Use Much Farmland — Until You Define What ‘Much’ Really Means

I have to admit that I laughed out loud – almost spewing coffee on my keyboard – Friday morning when I read this headline from a competing platform’s energy-related newsletter: “SOLAR DOESN’T USE MUCH FARMLAND: Solar…

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OpinionJun 21, 2026Read →

Kevin Warsh Has Defined Success. Now He Needs To Deliver It

The Federal Reserve held rates steady at its June meeting. That wasn’t the story. What mattered: Kevin Warsh sees a credibility crisis. The fix is to deliver on past promises, not signal the future. I’ve known Warsh…

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OpinionJun 20, 2026Read →

The Race America Can’t Afford To Lose

As G7 leaders met to discuss critical minerals , the negotiations exposed a difficult but unavoidable reality. Rebuilding supply chains outside of China will require significant investment, coordination, leadership and…

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OpinionJun 20, 2026Read →

Why Is Medicaid Paying So Much For The Same Ambulance Ride?

In California, a private ambulance transporting a Medi-Cal patient receives $339 per emergency transport . A public ambulance making the same trip, serving the same patient, received $1,168 in 2024 — more than triple…

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OpinionJun 19, 2026Read →

UN Climate Bureaucrats Hold Another Useless Meeting

What a grandiose mouthful of verbiage. The Subsidiary Body for Implementation of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (SBI-UNFCCC) just wrapped up its latest session in Bonn, Germany. Abbreviated…

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OpinionJun 18, 2026Read →

The Swamp’s Got Another Bright Idea, And It Could End Up Hosing Every American Who Drives

Americans already pay plenty to own a car. They pay sales taxes when they buy one. They pay gas taxes every time they fill up. They pay tolls, insurance premiums, registration fees, inspection fees, and in many states …

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