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By Thomas Kolbe

The demand for free trade sounds rather hollow when one side cheats with export subsidies, artificially devalues its own currency, and in this way gains advantages at the expense of its trading partners. 

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By Vince Coyner

He was indoctrinated by a culture that no longer even pretends to conform to the norms that made America so successful.

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By Lars Møller

How conservative infighting has squandered power before—and why the midterms call for unity, discipline, and a battle of ideas.

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By Christopher Chantrill

Marco Rubio just gave the most important speech given by a U.S. politician, or anyone, in our lifetimes.

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By Robert Weissberg

There is a solution to the “affordability crisis” that does not require costly, odious government intervention. It’s called “free enterprise.”

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By Steve McCann

Had Donald Trump and the Republicans not won the presidency and control of Congress in 2024, the transformation of the United States from a constitutional republic to a one-party socialist oligarchy would have accelerated exponentially.

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By David DeMay

Neither prediction nor authority can substitute for demonstrated understanding.

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By Whitson G. Waldo, III

Are women responsible for their thoughts and actions even when they place themselves in risky situations?

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By Kevin Finn

The combination of fabrication and amplification by biased actors, and widespread public credulity, has produced a feedback loop that has damaged our shared reality.

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By David DeMay

The United States has an opportunity to build stronger relationships with the nations of its own hemisphere.

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By Luis Gonzalez

However dissatisfied Republican voters might be with their elected officials, they need to vote for them anyway.

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By J.B. Shurk

Borderless nations are easily conquered.

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By Brian C. Joondeph

The Cornell Seven case is about more than sex, drugs, and accusations. It is about what happens when responsibility and due process disappear together  

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By Arthur Schaper

Opera, as a great art form, is struggling for many reasons, but it would certainly help if opera lovers let go of their obsession with DEI.

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By Clarice Feldman

This week in Athens, standing in front of the Parthenon, Secretary of State Marco Rubio gave a remarkable speech.

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UW News

By Mark St. Cyr

It’s not because they’re over-excited about new technology. Follow the money.

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By J. Kevin Jenkins

A lot of parents are getting bamboozled by surprise leftist institutions ruining their kids. Don’t let yourself be one of them.

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By Jim Harden

There was a time when a headline was supposed to describe the story. Today’s liberal media has decided it should replace the story.

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By Lars Møller

Macron and the elite’s “belle indifférence” in France.

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By Allan J. Feifer

Can it be fixed?