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                            April 11, 2023The Left Has Killed Our Great Cities By Stephen Moore
Mark down Tuesday, April 4, as the night Chicago died.

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                            April 4, 2023Hey, Uncle Sam: Stop Paying People for Not Working By Stephen Moore
A policy question these days that has befuddled federal lawmakers is why so many millions of people have not returned to the workplace in the post-COVID-19 era.

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                            March 28, 2023Honey, Joe Biden Just Shrunk Our Pension By Stephen Moore
President Joe Biden recently issued his first veto since taking office on Jan. 20, 2021.

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                            March 21, 2023Michigan Is Headed Back to Rust Belt Poverty By Stephen Moore
Since the early days of Henry Ford, Michigan was the proud symbol of America's industrial might.

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                            March 14, 2023Death Taxes Are Immoral. Even Worse, They Don't Work. By Stephen Moore
       "I have no respect for the passion of equality," Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., one of America's great jurists, once declared, "which seems to me merely idealizing envy."

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                            March 7, 2023America's $100 Billion Climate Change Flop By Stephen Moore
For at least the last 20 years, politicians in Washington, at the behest of green energy groups, have spent some $100 billion of taxpayer money to fight climate change and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. How is that going for us so far?
February 28, 2023Scholars Rank Biggest Spending Presidents as the Greatest By Stephen Moore
Before President Joe Biden entered the White House, he consulted with several prominent historians about how to be a great commander in chief. Their answer: Grow government. Spend, spend, spend. Don't worry about blowing up the debt.
February 21, 2023It's Now or Never for School Choice Everywhere By Stephen Moore
This story could bring tears to your eyes. In Baltimore, Maryland, there are 23 schools in which not one single student tested "proficient in math."
February 14, 2023What if Federal Workers Never Showed Up for Work and No One Missed Them? By Stephen Moore
This is one of the greatest federal government scandals of all time.
January 31, 2023Proposed Airline Merger Would Bring More Competition and Lower Fares By Stephen Moore
 If you want to see a classic case of how President Joe Biden's regulatory tendencies are strangling the U.S. economy and raising prices, look no further than the latest Justice Department efforts to kill an airline merger that is pro-consumer.
January 24, 2023It's Official: Trump's Tax Cuts Paid for Themselves By Stephen Moore
 How many times have you heard President Joe Biden or Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Bernie Sanders (I-VT) berate the Trump tax cuts as "a giveaway to the rich"?
January 17, 2023Biden's ESG Investment Rules Threaten Your Retirement Savings By Stephen Moore
President Joe Biden's Labor Department recently announced a new rule that will permit money managers to play politics with trillions of dollars of people's retirement savings.
January 10, 2023US Big Three Auto Companies Commit to Making Cars That People Don't Want By Stephen Moore
   I grew up in a household with parents who were of the Greatest Generation. They lived and shouldered through the Great Depression, and then their lives and families were thrown into turmoil on Dec. 7, 1941. My grandfather worked for the War Department in Washington, D.C., and during World War II, my father served in the Pacific Theater.
December 27, 2022Republicans Should Just Say No to Any Budget That Funds 87,000 New IRS Agents By Stephen Moore
One of the biggest promises by Republicans in the 2022 election season was that if they won a majority in the House, they would defund the $80 billion that Biden wants to hire 87,000 new IRS agents.
December 20, 2022Even Republicans Are All in on Washington's End-of-Year Spending Spree By Stephen Moore
The federal government is running annual $1 trillion to $2 trillion budget deficits, which is more than the entire gross domestic product of most nations. 
December 13, 2022The Night the Lights Went Out in Europe By Stephen Moore
Politico Europe, a publication marinated in green politics, has named Russian President Vladimir Putin as one of its "power players of the year" -- for, in the publication's words, "advancing Europe's green agenda."
December 6, 2022No, America Does Not Owe the World Climate 'Reparations' By Stephen Moore
I've made the case in previous columns that the climate change movement is mostly a climate change hustle.
November 29, 2022The GOP's Hunter Biden Probe Is Legit By Stephen Moore
 As a tactical concern, the House GOP's decision to open an investigation into Biden family corruption is questionable.
November 22, 2022Can Republicans Make Congress Great Again? By Stephen Moore
There's no sugarcoating the disappointing results of the midterm elections.
November 15, 2022America Was Built on Coal. Now Biden Wants to Abolish It By Stephen Moore
The one promise that President Joe Biden has faithfully kept is his pledge to "close down" fossil fuels. We get two-thirds of our energy in America from fossil fuels, and almost one-third of our power comes from coal. That's quadruple the amount of energy we get from wind and solar, which are niche forms of energy.