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WASHINGTON -- What did former President Joe Biden not know and when did his staff know it?

That is the question that will haunt the former president and his inner circle for years to come as tell-all books and reports from Hill Republicans tell the story of Biden's mental decline, which a tight-knit group of top Biden aides tried to hide from...Read more

In just a few days, a Karl Marx-quoting communist who has struggled to disavow Hamas is likely to be elected the next mayor of the nation's financial and cultural epicenter. Thirty-three-year-old New York state Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani has surged to the front of the race. He leads by double digits in virtually every public poll, he is an ...Read more

Last month, Kamala Harris made the rounds of supportive liberal networks to promote her campaign book "107 Days." The title implied it was impossible for her to beat that allegedly despised dictator Donald Trump with so little time.

No one expected much of the interviewers, starting with ABC's "The View," which could have titled the interview "...Read more

Who said this? "If you don't have any borders, you don't have a nation." The speaker went on, "Trump did a better job. I don't like Trump, but we should have a secure border. It ain't that hard to do. Biden didn't do it."

It was Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) in characteristic candor. If, as Milton Friedman argued, you can't have open borders and ...Read more

Donald Trump has trampled on another taboo, and it's a good thing.

The president said in a Truth Social post that the United States will begin "immediately" testing our "Nuclear Weapons" on "an equal basis" with Russia and China. It's not clear what this means exactly. Trump could be referring to the delivery systems that carry nuclear ...Read more

In the aftermath of the murder of Charlie Kirk, many folks who dared to express views of him and his work outside the mainstream lost their jobs, professional standing and State Department visas as they were fired or otherwise disciplined by employers or bureaucrats who concluded that anti-Kirk views could harm the employers' businesses or were ...Read more

It's fashionable to call the current federal government shutdown a "crisis," to focus on the missed paychecks, delayed services and bureaucratic disarray. But what if this standoff -- this uncomfortable pause in government business -- is exactly what the country needs right now? What if the dysfunction is finally forcing Washington, and all of ...Read more

In 1980, America's publicly held debt reached more than $712 billion (about $2.8 trillion in 2025 dollars), or roughly 25% of annual U.S. GDP. Today, that figure is a little over $30 trillion, or around 100% of GDP. And as the federal debt grew 42 times larger over that span, the economy grew only tenfold. You can't expand the numerator four ...Read more

For the past 20 years, the University of Notre Dame has sponsored a yearlong dialogue on a given theme, with featured speakers, panels and other public events at which the year's theme is discussed and debated.

This year's theme is "Cultivating Hope." Two weeks ago, Cardinal Robert McElroy, archbishop of the Archdiocese of Washington, D.C., ...Read more

The human "degrees of separation" theory contends any two people link through a chain of social connections, and most of us are no more than six individual links apart.

Twenty-first-century hybrid warfare is a vile and corrupted version of this theory of human relationship networks.

The sneaky war-waging state uses one or more degrees of ...Read more

Big news from Argentina is the electoral victory of the Advancing Liberty party of President Javier Milei.

Milei initially won the presidency in 2023 brandishing a chainsaw as a message of how he was going to cut the runaway government that has been destroying the lives of Argentinians.

Big government power has been a tradition in Argentina....Read more

"But people will die!" That's what some shout whenever anyone proposes cutting government spending. An audience member at a town hall shouted it when Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst said Medicaid shouldn't cover illegal immigrants. Ernst responded with an obvious truth: "We all are going to die." The audience groaned and booed. The Nation magazine ...Read more

When President Barack Obama ordered military action against Muammar Qaddafi's Libya in 2011, both Republicans and Democrats in Congress challenged his constitutional authority to do so.

On June 3 of that year, the House of Representatives voted on two resolutions challenging Obama's unilateral action. One was sponsored by Rep. Dennis Kucinich...Read more

How does a 33-year-old lifelong do-nothing -- a person who has never held a real job, never suffered a true challenge, been handed everything on a silver platter -- turn into a mayoral frontrunner in New York City? How does a self-described socialist who despises capitalism become the leading candidate for the mayoralty of the world's ...Read more

The silliest Trump scandal imaginable is the forthcoming White House ballroom, funded entirely by private donations. If everything is a scandal, is nothing a scandal? Anything that feeds President Donald Trump's ego must be denounced no matter how much it serves a larger public purpose.

Washington Post art critic Philip Kennicott uncorked a ...Read more

Undermining the principles that made America wealthy is no way to fix poverty.

Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently participated in a CNN Town Hall. Sanders appears to be passing the socialist leadership torch to AOC. Don't expect her to support collective ownership of that prize.

You shouldn't discount her ability ...Read more

DONEGAL, Pennsylvania -- It is 6:14 p.m. on a Thursday. You're hiking along the Forbes Trail, nestled deep in the Appalachian Mountains somewhere along the Westmoreland-Somerset County lines. It is 19 minutes until sunset, and you have just over a mile to go, mostly uphill, before you are out of the deep forest and in the clearing.

The ...Read more