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                            April 14, 2026Prices Controls Will Deny Millions of Americans Credit Cards By Stephen Moore
        There's a famous scene in the movie "The Graduate" in which a young Dustin Hoffman receives this one-word bit of career advice from a businessman: "plastics."

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                            April 8, 2026Show Me the Money -- The Trump Tax Cuts Benefit the Middle Class By Stephen Moore
        Democrats keep attacking President Donald Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill Act of 2025 as a tax cut for the rich. But the data show that the average family gained roughly $2,000 on their lower tax bill for this year. Every Democrat in Congress voted no, even as they complain of a "middle-class affordability crisis." Maybe that's because to rich and famous limousine liberal Democrats, $2,000 is peanuts. But not for the rest of us.

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                            March 31, 2026Let's Kill Cancer By Stephen Moore
        There are few things in life more terrifying than a cancer diagnosis, as any victim of this horrible disease will tell you.

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                            March 24, 2026Republicans Can Win on Health Care Affordability By Stephen Moore
        For most of the last 40 years, pollsters have asked voters: Which party do you trust more on health care? The answer has been pretty much the same over this whole period. Voters trust Democrats more, sometimes by a two-to-one margin.

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                            March 18, 2026Who's Afraid of a Trillionaire? By Stephen Moore
   Early this year, we learned that Elon Musk may become the first trillionaire in world history.

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                            March 10, 2026The Five Things You Must Know About Energy Policy By Stephen Moore
        Given the energy disruptions in the Middle East and the topsy-turvy fluctuation in the price of crude oil in recent weeks, here are a few facts about the energy scene.

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                            March 3, 2026Don't Let Congress Ruin College Sports By Stephen Moore
   Should the revenues made by big-time college athletics be "shared" by all the schools? Do we want "revenue-sharing" socialism to come to college football and basketball? Many in Congress are answering yes to that question.

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                            February 24, 2026Government Subsidies Killed the EV Industry By Stephen Moore
        Here's a depressing but all too predictable headline from The Wall Street Journal last week: "Detroit's EV Pullback Is Costing $50 Billion."

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                            February 18, 2026Was Climate Change the Greatest Financial Scandal in History? By Stephen Moore
        Environmental scholar Bjorn Lomborg recently calculated that across the globe, governments have spent at least $16 trillion feeding the climate change industrial complex.

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                            February 11, 2026Dow 50,000: A Supply-Side Miracle By Stephen Moore
   When I first arrived in Washington in 1982, the Dow Jones hit a low of 800. You may not believe that, so feel free to look it up.

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                            February 4, 2026I Guess That's Why They Call It the Blues By Stephen Moore
        The Democrats circa 2026 have almost become tax-and-spend parodies of themselves.

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                            January 28, 2026Mr. President, Please Free Caleb Bailey By Stephen Moore
   "How can the life of such a man / Be in the palm of some fool's hand?" -- Bob Dylan, "Hurricane"

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                            January 20, 2026This Is No Way to Gimme Shelter By Stephen Moore
        Americans today are justifiably angry about the price of rents and mortgages. Home prices have roughly tripled over the last 25 years, and the median home price is now $415,000.

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                            January 13, 2026Stop Pretending That Colleges Are Nonprofit Institutions By Stephen Moore
   Here's a recent story from the Chicago Tribune that jumped off the page when I read it. Northwestern University is finishing up the construction of a new $800 million football stadium. This is supposedly a nonprofit "educational" entity.

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                            January 6, 2026Why Hasn't Trump Repealed Biden's $50 Billion Backdoor Business Tax Increase? By Stephen Moore
   The Trump administration took a well-deserved victory lap last week for repealing more than 100 Biden-era rules for every new regulation. This will save U.S. businesses potentially hundreds of billions of dollars of unnecessary costs. Gone are discriminatory racial preferences, Green New Deal mandates and electric vehicle mandates -- to name a few.

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                            December 30, 2025The Economists Got 2025 All Wrong By Stephen Moore
   Well, Donald Trump has done it again!

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                            December 23, 2025It's a Wonderful President By Stephen Moore
   I've been shocked that Americans are in such a grumpy mood as reflected in all the public opinion polls.

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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 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 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.