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President Trump announced a ceasefire with Iran­ — the world’s leading exporter of terrorism — to the praise of world leaders. Time will tell if Iran continues to cooperate or ...

As Americans grapple with painful prices at the pump amidst a global oil crisis, some Alaskan lawmakers seem intent on making that pain even worse. The 49th state is debating ...

Ever heard someone once accused of being homophobic reply by saying, “why, some of my best friends are gay?”

Americans know fraud is bleeding their budgets dry, and a new national poll proves they’re paying close attention.

National Library Week (April 19–25) arrives each year with cheerful slogans about literacy, community and the joy of reading. But behind the celebration stands the American Library Association (ALA), an ...

President Donald Trump has not been shy about wielding his executive power to boost domestic energy production and infrastructure throughout his second presidency. It’s all a piece of the “Build, ...

Earth Day, April 22, 2026, has arrived! Who is the 2026 recipient of the Environmental Hero Award for Earth Day?! The past year has seen one clear winner.

Editor’s note: Big Tent Ideas always aims to provide balancing perspectives on the hottest issues of the day. Below is a column from Paul Cella, where he argues that the ...

“Ambition must be made to counteract ambition,” counseled the author of the Federalist No. 51, arguing that competing centers of power were essential to checking the growth of tyranny. However, ...

As President Donald Trump prepares to meet with President Xi, much of the conversation will center on tariffs, trade deficits, and global competition. But there is another issue, one far ...

When unelected judges attempt to substitute their judgment for that of a duly elected president on matters of national security, the Constitution demands correction. It got one.

Watching the Orion spacecraft of the Artemis II moonshot deploy its parachutes and glide down to land in the Pacific Ocean gave me the most wonderful feeling of déjà vu. ...

As Congress debates antisemitism legislation and the Religious Liberty Commission holds hearings on rising hate, a case pending before the Supreme Court reveals a more mundane threat: city officials who ...

I saw it with my own eyes from inside the White House. Alongside prosecutors and investigative journalists, we spent months uncovering the welfare system that Minnesota, President Joe Biden, Gov. ...

By any honest measure, rural America is under siege – not from foreign adversaries, but from within. For decades, unelected bureaucrats, entrenched regulators, and a bloated federal apparatus have waged ...

The long-running saga of the Louisiana coastal erosion lawsuits targeting an array of big oil companies took a new turn recently when a New Orleans public radio station filed a ...

A small group of Catholic nuns is taking on one of the most powerful governors in the country. The Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne are in a striking David-and-Goliath clash with ...

The Trump administration’s new Dietary Guidelines finally got alcohol right, treating grown adults like grown adults with a science-based, common-sense approach to responsible drinking, and I thought about that for ...

Donald Trump’s critics have a new line of attack (do these people ever take a day off?). Their latest complaint is that he’s burning through his top staffers too quickly.

Spring in Washington usually brings cherry blossoms, warmer weather, and a familiar reminder that Congress has a habit of taking on more than it can neatly resolve. This year is ...