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OpinionJun 10, 2026Read →

Higher for Longer: Why Oil Prices Are Headed Higher Despite Current Headlines

Oil markets are funny things. Headlines scream one direction, but the fundamentals—those stubborn realities of supply, demand, and inventories—have a way of reasserting themselves. That’s exactly what Enverus…

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OpinionJun 9, 2026Read →

Is Your Favorite Sports Team Trying To Take Away Your Gun Rights?

Sports fans can face enough heartbreak on the field with their favorite team, but some franchises have added to it by getting mixed-up in off-field stuff that takes aim at their fans. While many have focused on which…

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OpinionJun 8, 2026Read →

Climate Alarmism’s Reset And The Policy Reckoning It Demands

A quiet technical decision in climate science should trigger one of the most consequential policy corrections of this decade. Deep within the bureaucratic machinery of global climate research sits an obscure modeling…

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OpinionJun 8, 2026Read →

NICK TOMBOULIDES: Washington’s Broken. It’s Time For Term Limits

Editor’s note: Big Tent Ideas always aims to provide balanced perspectives on the hottest issues of the day. Below you’ll find a column from U.S. Term Limits CEO Nick Tomboulides, which calls for congressional term…

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OpinionJun 8, 2026Read →

JD FOSTER: Term Limits Would Be The Swamp’s New BFF

Editor’s note: Big Tent Ideas always aims to provide balanced perspectives on the hottest issues of the day. Below you’ll find a column from former Chamber of Commerce Senior Vice President J.D. Foster, which argues…

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OpinionJun 7, 2026Read →

Will New Mexico’s Next Governor Kill The State’s Golden Goose?

A fairly amazing story rose to my attention this week when the American Petroleum Institute (API ) noted in an X post that two counties in southeastern New Mexico—Lea and Eddy—now account for 78 percent of oil produced…

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OpinionJun 7, 2026Read →

The Harsh Truth About China’s Critical Mineral Stranglehold

Washington has a habit of turning strategic problems into procurement problems. If only the permitting moved faster. If only more capital flowed in. Get those right, the thinking went, and the market would handle the…

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OpinionJun 5, 2026Read →

May Jobs Report Shows The Summer Hiring Season Started With A Bang

Friday’s jobs numbers confirm what small businesses already know: The underlying economy is far stronger than the mainstream media and financial commentators suggest. Employers added 172,000 jobs last month…

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OpinionJun 5, 2026Read →

Energy Giants Warn Another Oil Price Spike Coming Soon

Leading executives at ExxonMobil and Chevron sounded an alarm during a recent Bernstein conference: Global oil inventories are plunging to dangerously low levels, setting the stage for a potential price explosion that…

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OpinionJun 4, 2026Read →

The Next Justice Must Defend The Constitution — Not Redefine It

A Supreme Court justice could retire this summer. Mollie Hemingway thinks Chief Justice Roberts may . Fox News reports that Alito is unlikely to retire . Our own inside sources in the Senate believe a vacancy is more…

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OpinionJun 3, 2026Read →

It’s Time For Washington To Put American Fisheries First

In Washington, both parties increasingly talk about restoring American industry, protecting working communities and pushing back against corporate greed that leaves ordinary Americans paying the price. One place where…

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OpinionJun 3, 2026Read →

The Dubious Legal Theory That Could Make Life Even More Expensive For Americans

Nearly everyone is concerned about the rising cost of everything from groceries to health care to housing. But now there’s a crazy new antitrust legal theory that could make every day purchases MORE expensive. Under…

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OpinionJun 2, 2026Read →

It’s Time To Act Against China’s Maritime Tsunami And Rebuild America’s Shipyards

The numbers do not lie and they are a national security emergency. The latest data available from BRS Shipbrokers ( BRS ), China’s share of global commercial shipbuilding has exploded from 51 percent in 2022 (2,107…

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OpinionJun 1, 2026Read →

ROWAN SAYDLOWSKI: Our Courts Are Awash With Outside-Funded Lawsuits. Republicans Have A Way To Fix It

Editor’s note: Big Tent Ideas always aims to provide balancing perspectives on the hottest issues of the day. Below is a column from Americans for Tax Reform federal affairs manager Rowan Saydlowski, where he argues…

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OpinionJun 1, 2026Read →

TRENT ENGLAND: GOP’s Outside-Funded Lawsuit Crackdown Is Trojan Horse For Woke Corporations

Editor’s note: Big Tent Ideas always aims to provide balancing perspectives on the hottest issues of the day. Below is a column from Save our States Founder Trent England, where he argues against Republicans’ latest…

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OpinionJun 1, 2026Read →

Clinging To Gender Ideology Mandates Is A Losing Strategy

Washington state just blinked. In a May 20 settlement that should send shockwaves through every child welfare agency still clinging to gender ideology mandates , the state’s Department of Children, Youth, and Families…

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OpinionMay 30, 2026Read →

The US Ally That Figured Out China’s Gameplan Long Before Washington

Washington has spent decades talking about the U.S.-Japan alliance in military terms. Carrier groups. Missile defense. Deterrence. Those things matter enormously. But the alliance runs far deeper than defense planning…

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OpinionMay 30, 2026Read →

Texas Leads a New Natural Gas Pipeline Boom

Texas is once again proving why it stands as America’s unrivaled energy powerhouse. According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), more than 66% of planned U.S. natural gas pipeline capacity additions…

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OpinionMay 29, 2026Read →

James Talarico Has A Lot Of Explaining To Do

The Bible’s teachings are often open to interpretation, to put it mildly. Many fundamentalists bridle at that idea, but consider how much disagreement there is among those who claim to take the Bible literally. Now zoom…

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OpinionMay 27, 2026Read →

The Case For A Smaller, Humbler Federal Reserve

For two decades, the Federal Reserve has behaved less like a central bank and more like the nation’s emergency room physician, trauma counselor and part-time life coach. Markets sneeze, the Fed reaches for liquidity…

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