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'We're going to need a bigger boat' — our budget process is causing our fiscal problems
There is no longer any pretense of a connection between reconciliation and deficit reduction or spending restraint....
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A taxing approach to high energy costs will backfire
While these ideas might have some visceral appeal, taxing producers is the opposite of a solution to a supply crisis....
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Congress could have shielded Roe; now it must act to protect free speech
Whatever threats defamation cases might have posed to the First Amendment in the 18th century, the landscape is now completely different....
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The South is democracy's front line, and the left must send reinforcements
Sustaining this work takes an investment the South has never been given....
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Mamdani's preening arrogance will ultimately prove his downfall
The democratic socialist balloon deflated this week....
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Union transparency rules are only as strong as their enforcement
A right that depends on union officials voluntarily respecting it, or on government officials deciding enforcing it, is not much of a right at all....
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Game-changing events could reset the 2028 Republican 'The Apprentice' nomination
The 2028 Republican presidential nomination race is already feeling stale and boring with only two choices, JD Vance and Marco Rubio, and Trump is exp...
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Mitch McConnell owes public transparency amid prolonged hospital stay
Elected officials don't get to disappear without explanation. Not because we're owed their secrets. Because we're owed their honesty....
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Graham Platner drops out; left still victim-blaming
The credible allegations of sexual assault leveled against him by his former girlfriend, Jenny Racicot, are a dealbreaker, and rightfully so....
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A Supreme Court climate case meets a changing scientific consensus
The Supreme Court is about to weigh in on a climate litigation case, Suncor Energy v. Boulder County, which seeks to hold energy producers financially...
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Taking MAHA behind the wall: Healthy food is the right recipe for prison safety
The Healthy Prisons, Healthy Communities initiative is promoting the use of nutritious food to reduce violence, protect officers, and rehabilitate inm...
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Cancel culture for cancer research: Proposed rule politicizes federal grantmaking
The proposed federal regulation would shift the process of awarding federal grants from a merit-based, apolitical, expert-driven system to a partisan ...