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                            December 17, 2024Fighting Communism After the Cold War By Daniel McCarthy
Communism didn't win the Cold War, but it's doing surprisingly well in the 21st century, including in America.

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                            December 13, 2024Free Speech: Why a Tech Titan Backed Trump By Michael Barone
Why did Marc Andreessen -- inventor of the first internet web browser, and perhaps the prime venture capitalist in Silicon Valley today -- switch from his longstanding support of the Democratic Party and back President-elect Donald Trump this year?
December 12, 2024Wisconsin 2024: Not Critical But Still Crucial By J. Miles Coleman
KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE— Though she still lost it by less than a percentage point, Wisconsin was Kamala Harris’s best state out of the 7 that we rated as Toss-ups during the election.
— In the traditionally red WOW counties around Milwaukee, Harris gained votes, but fewer than she would have liked.
— Though it is still a Democratic bastion, Donald Trump saw some of his biggest vote gains in Milwaukee County.
— Much of Trump’s margin in the state came from doing just a little bit better across the board in 2024 than he did in 2020.
— In the northeastern part of the state, Harris held up relatively well in the BOW counties, and several cities in that region will be worth watching going forward.

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                            December 11, 2024Your Tax Dollars Not at Work By John Stossel
Government excels at NOT getting things done.
But politicians promise more things anyway.
Kamala Harris declared that our government would "build thousands of miles of fiber-optic cable!" This "Broadband Connectivity Agenda" was supported by "every House Republican on Energy and Commerce," write Republican representatives.
Three years later, not a single person has been connected.

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                            December 10, 2024Trumpism Is Going Global By Stephen Moore
Buckle your seatbelts because President-elect Donald Trump has ignited a worldwide revolt against the arrogance of global elites.

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                            December 10, 2024Birthright Citizenship Is a Breach in the Border By Daniel McCarthy
"Birthright citizenship" may sound benign, but thanks to an overreaching Supreme Court decision 126 years ago, it's the biggest legal hole in our border.

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                            December 6, 2024Politics of Economic Redistribution, RIP By Michael Barone
Whatever happened to the Democrats' reputation as the party favoring the working man? Put another way, what happened to the Democrats as the party promising economic redistribution from the rich to the average man?
December 5, 2024The End of the Line for Red State Senate Democrats By Kyle Kondik
KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE— As part of capturing the Senate this year, Republicans knocked out the final remaining Democratic senators from a group of 20 states that have consistently voted Republican for president since at least the 2000 election.
— A quarter-century ago, Democrats held nearly a third of the Senate seats from these 20 states. But that tally was down to just 2 leading into this election, and Republican victories in Montana and West Virginia reduced it to 0.
— Additionally, 5 other states backed a Democratic presidential candidate at least once this century but voted for Donald Trump in all 3 of his elections. Republicans now hold all of the Senate seats in these states as well.
— In total, these 25 states hold half the Senate seats. Realistically, Democrats can’t win future Senate majorities without making at least some inroads back into this now fully Republican bloc of states.

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                            December 4, 2024Stone Age Ports By John Stossel
Some union leaders are self-destructive idiots.

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                            December 3, 2024What’s the Mood of America Post-Election? By Brian C. Joondeph
Election 2024 is almost a month behind us. President-elect Donald Trump has selected his Cabinet, while some states are still finishing counting their ballots.

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                            December 3, 2024Identity Politics, Not Biden, Cost Democrats the Election By Daniel McCarthy
With his presidency ending in a few weeks, Joe Biden's legacy is only getting messier.

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                            December 3, 2024Trump Should Call for a New American Patriotism By Stephen Moore
        Hard to believe it was just four years ago that Joe Biden was elected with a promise to unite the country. After the misery of COVID-19 deaths and lockdowns and the riots in the streets of major cities, Americans WANTED to be united by a unifying national purpose.

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                            November 29, 2024The Groups and Barista Proletariat of the Democratic Party By Michael Barone
Postmortems of the Democratic Party's loss, running well beyond the defeat of Vice President Kamala Harris and Gov. Tim Walz (D-Minn.), are starting to come in from some of the party's most perceptive thinkers.

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                            November 27, 2024Thank You, Property Rights! By John Stossel
As we gather this Thanksgiving, it's easy to take abundance for granted.

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                            November 27, 2024Yes Nukes! By Stephen Moore
One thing Hollywood is very good at is scaring the bejesus out of Americans -- even when they're merely spreading false fears.

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                            November 26, 2024Trump Draws the Map to 2028 By Daniel McCarthy
As they carve their turkeys this year, Republicans can be grateful for Donald Trump, mapmaker.

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                            November 22, 2024Trump Gains Among Nonwhite People: Historical Precedent and Possible Harbinger By Michael Barone
Did anyone expect, when they heard the candidate's announcement at the base of the Trump Tower escalator in June 2015, that nine years later, he would be elected to a second term with sharp increases in Republican percentages from nonwhite people -- Latinos especially, but also Black and Asian people?
November 22, 2024How Virginia Illustrates the 2024 Election By J. Miles Coleman
KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE— Kamala Harris carried Virginia by close to 6 points this month. This was worse than Joe Biden’s 10-point showing in the state, although it was slightly better than Hillary Clinton’s performance, even as the latter had a Virginian (Sen. Tim Kaine) on her ticket.
— Much of the state’s movement to Donald Trump can be attributed to a pronounced rightward shift in heavily Democratic Northern Virginia.
— Though she lost ground overall, Harris held on to some of Joe Biden’s 2020 gains in many of the state’s more marginal localities.
— Though it was not a Toss-up state, in some ways, such as its internal swing and voting rhythms, Virginia was in sync with the nation as a whole.
November 21, 2024The 2024 Senate Undervote: Not High By Historical Standards By Kyle Kondik
KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE— After the election, many took note of some seemingly unusual patterns in the presidential and Senate voting. Some winning Democrats in states that voted for Donald Trump, for instance, received fewer total votes than Kamala Harris, but still won while Harris lost.
— Some voters likely cast votes just in the presidential race, meaning that there were fewer votes cast in a state’s Senate contest compared to its presidential contest.
— However, there is nothing unusual about this compared to recent history. Senate races almost always have fewer votes cast than presidential races in presidential years.
— In fact, the average size of the Senate “undervote” this year was smaller than many other recent cycles.
— The third party vote was generally larger in key Senate races than in the presidential race, which likely also contributed to the outcomes in certain states. But a higher third-party vote for Senate is also not unusual—it was a feature of some of 2020’s closest Senate races, too.

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                            November 20, 2024Destructive Environmentalists By John Stossel
People eagerly give money to rich environmental groups. The Natural Resources Defense Council has $463 million in assets.