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December 18, 2025Examining Democrats’ 2025 Victories in Pennsylvania and What They Could Mean for the Future By Nick Field
KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE— In Pennsylvania, Democrats swept this year’s state Supreme Court retention contests, which could be interpreted as a victory for Gov. Josh Shapiro (D) as he looks ahead to 2026, and perhaps beyond.
— In swing counties like Erie and Northampton, Democratic county executive nominees outperformed Kamala Harris’s 2024 showing, including with Hispanic voters.
— Republicans did continue to narrow Democrats’ statewide voter registration advantage throughout 2025, although Democrats did end the year on a better note.

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                            December 17, 2025Why Johnny Can't Read By Stephen Moore
        Reading and math scores are abysmal across the country, as national testing results keep documenting. Illiteracy rates are rising: The number of 16- to 24-year-olds reading at the lowest literacy levels increased from 16% in 2017 to 25% in 2023, according to data from the National Center for Education Statistics.

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                            December 17, 2025Government Control in the Digital Age By John Stossel
        Politicians push government IDs.

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                            December 16, 2025Trump's Inflation Trap By Daniel McCarthy
   What can Donald Trump do to stop morphing into Joe Biden?
December 11, 2025After Trump Pardons Cuellar, TX-28 Moves to Leans Democratic By J. Miles Coleman
KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE— In what was a surprising bipartisan move last week, President Donald Trump pardoned Rep. Henry Cuellar (D, TX-28), who was indicted on corruption and money laundering charges.
— Though the state’s new GOP-drawn House map faced some legal hurdles, the Supreme Court recently greenlit the mid-decade gerrymander for 2026.
— Republicans will very likely net seats under the new Texas map, though Cuellar may have actually gotten a more favorable district.
— Considering his pardon and the new lines, we are moving Cuellar from Toss-up to Leans Democratic.
— To the delight of national Republicans, Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D, TX-30) made a late entry into the Senate race. We are holding the race at Likely Republican.

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                            December 10, 2025Wikipevil? By John Stossel
        Wikipedia is "Wokepedia," complains Elon Musk. That's because it's become so left-wing.

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                            December 9, 2025Biden's Immigration Debacle Is the Media's, Too By Daniel McCarthy
        The New York Times has invented a new genre of reporting -- covering big stories showing Democrats in a bad light years after the events that matter.

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                            December 9, 2025How Trump Can Help Accelerate Argentina's Economic Comeback By Stephen Moore
        President Donald Trump and Argentine President Javier Milei have a special relationship. Each is engaged in a crusade to make his respective country's economy great again. Trump was all in on helping Milei win his elections earlier this year, and he has also offered the Argentines a $20 billion "lifeline" as they adjust to the bumpy path to needed free-market reforms.

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                            December 5, 2025Closing the Door on Immigration? Not Yet. By Michael Barone
   Can the United States come up with an immigration policy that will prove sustainable? Two writers whom I respect and take delight in reading, despite their widely differing views, Tyler Cowen, who favors more immigration, and Christopher Caldwell, who favors less, have their doubts. Both, incidentally, are writing for The Free Press, Bari Weiss' eclectic startup.

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                            December 3, 2025America Thinks Washington Is Corrupt – Congress Keeps Proving It By Brian C. Joondeph, M.D.
Survey results released last week are as stark as they are unsurprising. According to Rasmussen Reports, 80% of likely U.S. voters say the federal government is corrupt, and 44% declare it “very corrupt.” Only 14% believe corruption in Washington is minimal. How many of the 14% are employed by or benefit from this corruption?                                   

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                            December 3, 2025Disparate Impact By John Stossel
   Google settled a racial bias lawsuit for $50 million.
   Merrill Lynch paid $20 million.

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                            December 2, 2025'Iryna's Law' and the Bad Judges Who Make It Necessary By Daniel McCarthy
   What will it take to get crime under control in our subways and public transit systems?
   On Monday, news broke of another passenger set on fire in New York City's subway -- though this story wasn't all it seemed.

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                            December 2, 2025If Young People Want More Affordability, They Should Get Jobs By Stephen Moore
   Polls show that the age group of Americans most worried about "affordability" are the 20- and 30-somethings. That's young millennials and Gen Z.

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                            November 27, 2025Dick Cheney: Always Unintimidated By Michael Barone
        The word that best describes how former Vice President Dick Cheney, who wielded the responsibilities he undertook in public affairs over a long career, began improbably early in life and extended into years of repudiation by his fellow partisans, is "unintimidated."

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                            November 26, 2025Stop the Trial Lawyer Tax By Stephen Moore
        Trial lawyers have been the bane of U.S. employers for many decades, sucking blood out of the economy like a swarm of mosquitos.

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                            November 26, 2025Thanksgiving Socialism By John Stossel
   People are turning to socialism. Two-thirds of Americans ages 18-29 hold a "favorable view" of it.

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                            November 25, 2025Marjorie Taylor Greene's Exit Is a Warning to Republicans By Daniel McCarthy
   Marjorie Taylor Greene is a singular politician -- a maverick, though not in the John McCain sense.

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                            November 21, 2025Enforcing Immigration Laws Is Not the Moral Equivalent of the Holocaust By Michael Barone
        Whence cometh the conviction, in America and even more in Britain and Europe, that open borders is the only moral immigration policy? Of course, not everyone believes that, and many who do stop short of saying so. But the contrast between the rhetoric and policies of the first two decades of the century and those that have prevailed since President Donald Trump's election is unmistakable.

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                            November 21, 2025A Generation Cornered and Searching for a Way Out By Brian C. Joondeph, M.D.
Young Americans are living in a micro-world of rising costs, precarious jobs, and deferred dreams. At the same time, the political class continues to speak in macro-terms of grand strategy and ideological crusades.

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                            November 19, 2025Trump Hasn't Lost Hispanics (Yet) By Daniel McCarthy
   Is President Donald Trump losing the winning coalition he built just a year ago?