A flood of joy flowed through families of Israeli hostages Thursday after news emerged from President Donald Trump that a deal has been reached to bring home those hostages left […]

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Rosie O'Donnell, Cynthia Nixon, and Elliot Page will be hosting a virtual screening of "Gaza: Journalists Under Fire" – a documentary alleging that Israel intentionally targeted journalists covering the Gaza conflict.

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Democrats and their left-wing media lapdogs beclowned themselves after their manufactured outrage claiming “climate change” had caused the Pacific Palisades fire earlier this year turned out to be a big, […]

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A basic truth is that nothing stays the same. This is true for any individual or any nation.

Each day, you are not the same person you were yesterday. Either you are moving forward or backward. Either you are improving or deteriorating.

I often quote historian Arnold Toynbee that “an autopsy of history would show that all great nations commit suicide.” I bring this up because it is an important reminder. Think of the Greeks, the Romans, or the British Empire on which the sun never set.

Regardless of what you may think about MAGA, President Donald Trump is a political figure of historic proportions—someone who never ran for or held political office, twice being elected to nonconsecutive terms as president.

Why? Because the sentiment of MAGA touches what Americans know is true. Something is wrong. Crucial factors that drove American greatness are getting lost.

Americans feel it. Polls tell us. Ongoing dismal numbers regarding satisfaction with the state of the nation, national pride, confidence in every major institution of the country.

Now the point: the current government shutdown.

What is happening?

The Democratic Party is up against the wall. It stands for everything that is destroying the country. If MAGA means we’re in trouble and we need to fix what is broken, the message of Democrats is nothing is broken and we must continue on the same path.

What is the same path? That every problem the country faces, every challenge each American citizen faces, can be dispensed with by more government, more programs, more spending.

But if more government and more spending is the problem, not the solution, Democrats are in great political trouble. And this is what is happening.

The sign of economic health is economic growth. Growth is what creates new jobs, new opportunities, drives down costs, and drives up income and wealth.

As I often quote, the average real growth of the U.S. economy was 3.64% annually for the half century from 1950 to 2000. The average from 2000 to 2025 is one-third less at 2.2%.

Why? Government is sucking up more and more of our economy. In 1950, the federal government consumed 14.2% of gross domestic product; in 2000, 17.5%; in 2024, 23%.

Government produces nothing. The more government takes, the more our resources are diverted from productive uses to nonproductive uses.

Worse, this inexorable growth of government has been on the sly. Rather than going directly to the American people and raising taxes to finance all government spending honestly, this was not done because it is political suicide. Ongoing multitrillion-dollar deficits are financed with debt—shifting the tax burden to future generations.

So, federal government debt has now reached $37 trillion, more than 20% greater than projections for our 2025 GDP—$30.5 trillion.

Is it any wonder that our youth are confused and disillusioned?

Democratic leadership knows they are between a rock and a hard place. So, they huddled to come up with some clever way to scare the American people to push for more government. The hot button they chose was health care.

We’re all concerned about making health care delivery more efficient. But Democrats want to continue the distortions. As Veronique de Rugy of the Mercatus Center notes, quoting the Paragon Institute, “In 2014, taxpayers covered 68% of Obamacare premiums. By 2020, that figure had risen to 80%” and “taxpayers now cover 93% of [Obamacare] premiums.”

Donna Brazile, former Democratic National Committee chair and veteran of numerous Democratic presidential campaigns, proposes in a recent article in The Hill more cute word games that Democrats should employ to hide the truth. Democrats, she advises, should say they stand for “affordability.” But what Democrats mean by “affordability” is use of government subsidies to disguise true costs.

Our country needs reality and truth. We’re going broke and need to restore freedom, markets, and efficiencies. This is what made America great.

And this is how to Make America Great Again.

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The Sunrise Movement just announced a strategic pivot. No longer content to focus primarily on climate change, its leaders now declare their mission is to “stop authoritarianism.” In practice, this means fewer conversations about the environment and more mobilizations against President Donald Trump.

Notorious for their full-throated endorsement of the Green New Deal, Sunrise activists regularly protested in prominent congressional offices, most infamously confronting former Sen. Joe Manchin and former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi. Although the group’s tactics have garnered significant attention, its policy goals have hit a brick wall.

For those of us who’ve been watching, this redirection comes as no surprise. Sunrise was never truly about the environment—it was about politics. The Green New Deal was less a conservation plan than a vehicle for reshaping the economy along progressive lines, even including provisions guaranteeing universal health care. While it admitted as much then, it is declaring it now: shifting resources from climate to partisan fights under the banner of “saving democracy.”

This should be a wake-up call for anyone who still believes that America’s environmental future can be entrusted to the professional activist class. For too long, conservatives have been told that the only way to care about clean air, water, and lands is to accept the Left’s package deal of mandates, subsidies, and ideological litmus tests. Sunrise has now ripped the mask off: The environment was never its end goal.

But the environment is our goal. That’s why conservative environmentalists have consistently pushed back against Sunrise’s agenda. We are unapologetically conservative and unapologetically committed to stewardship. We believe that protecting the natural world is an American cause, rooted in the values of responsibility, freedom, and legacy.

Our vision doesn’t require sacrificing economic strength or personal liberty. Instead, it embraces solutions that keep our air and water clean, reduce waste and emissions, and preserve what makes America strong.

When environmental groups abandon conservation to chase political clout, they leave a vacuum. If conservatives don’t fill that vacuum, no one will. We cannot allow the Left to define what caring for the environment means. Nor can we allow groups like Sunrise to rewrite the script so that climate is merely a pawn in their larger war against the right.

The conservative movement has a choice: We can either cede the ground, or we can reclaim leadership on one of the most fundamental responsibilities any society has—the responsibility to leave our nation stronger, healthier, and more secure for the next generation.

We’ve made our choice. We are building a movement that doesn’t silo conservation but integrates it into the broader fabric of conservative priorities: energy independence, strong communities, resilient agriculture, and a healthy future for American families. We don’t claim to be ideologically neutral—but we are committed to results. We don’t hide our perspective. We come to the table as conservatives because that’s what makes our environmental work durable and impactful.

Because if conservatives don’t lead on the environment, we already know what fills the gap. Sunrise may have abandoned its mission. We won’t.

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On this week’s edition of Liberty Nation Radio we examine what happened with Jimmy Kimmel’s on-again-off-again suspension, how congressional Democrats are reacting, and what news for Israel as allies start to back the other team. For more episodes, click here.

Chicago Alderman Raymond Lopez, a Democrat, says rhetoric from the Illinois governor and the Chicago mayor are pushing the city and country to a dangerous place. He added that the anti-ICE radicals are showing why the deployment of National Guard Soldiers is necessary.

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Pope Leo XIV is being lobbied by Catholic bishops and nuns to endorse more migration flows, regardless of the vast civic and economic damage inflicted on citizens, Western societies, and the migrants' home countries.

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Wednesday, during an interview with Fox News Channel's "Hannity," President Donald Trump credited his tariff policy for playing a role in his Middle East peace deal.

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A woman died after being stricken by a medical episode at Disneyland while riding the Haunted Mansion attraction Monday, a spokesperson for the city of Anaheim, California, said.

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With the government shutdown, Louisiana Republican Sen. John Kennedy is exposing all the strange, nonsensical initiatives Democrats want funded before it reopens. For as much as Democrats, like New York […]

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The American Mind’s ‘Editorial Roundtable’ podcast is a weekly conversation with Ryan Williams, Spencer Klavan, and Mike Sabo devoted to uncovering the ideas and principles that drive American political life. Stream here or download from your favorite podcast host.

Nobelesse Oblige | The Roundtable Ep. 288

Trump has a twenty-point plan to end the war in Gaza, emphasizing demilitarization and the release of hostages. On the two-year anniversary of the October 7 attack, the guys contemplate the plan’s prospects for success, Netanyahu’s political future, and domestic reactions. Meanwhile back home, leaked texts from Virginia Democrat Jay Jones express hair-raisingly violent fantasies about “fascist” conservative opponents and their families, epitomizing the Left’s bloodlust problem. Plus: Gen Z’s devolution of marriage structures, and more cultural recommendations!

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