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                            May 26, 2026Pope Leo Needs Trump to Tame AI By Daniel McCarthy
        Pope Leo is right about the need to make artificial intelligence answer to the human good. AI has to be subject to human moral responsibility.

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                            May 26, 2026America Needs More, Not Fewer, Billionaires By Stephen Moore
Billionaires are getting a bad name. "Eat the rich" is the new mantra of the Left's greed and envy lobby.

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                            May 22, 2026Can Trump Handle the World He Has Changed? By Michael Barone
Ten years ago this month, Donald Trump clinched the Republican nomination for president, with a platform that was vastly different on trade and foreign policy from other recent presidents, Republican and Democratic alike.

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                            May 20, 2026The Steyer Smear By John Stossel
        Billionaire Tom Steyer used his money to attack a lone climate researcher.

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                            May 19, 2026Free the Mail By Stephen Moore
   Those of us of a certain age -- born before about 1970 -- have fond memories of the mailman (yes, that's what we called him, not "postal carrier") dropping off a pile of letters and cards into the mailbox down the driveway six days a week.

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                            May 19, 2026Democrats Face Midterm Disappointment By Daniel McCarthy
   As they look to the midterm elections, Republicans have reason to worry -- but not despair.

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                            May 15, 2026Who Wins the Re-Redistricted House? By Michael Barone
        As President Donald Trump's job approval sinks to or below 40% (depending on which poll you're looking at), betting markets and political conventional wisdom are that his Republican Party is not necessarily doomed to lose its narrow House majority, nor is it at serious risk of losing its Senate majority.

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                            May 13, 2026The Thing That Works By John Stossel
        Young people now blame capitalism for poverty, racism, high prices, even climate change. 

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                            May 13, 2026The Senate’s Silent Veto: Election Integrity Blocked by Filibuster By Brian C. Joondeph, M.D.
Power unused is power surrendered. That’s the reality Senate Republicans now face.

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                            May 12, 2026Angry About High Prices? Blame Biden and Big Government! By Stephen Moore
The new consumer prices report showing a 3.8% price rise in April confirms what Americans have been complaining about for months: Inflation is continuing to squeeze family budgets.

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                            May 12, 2026Virginia Democrats Reveal a Radical Design By Daniel McCarthy
        Virginia Democrats are doing an unwitting service to the whole country -- by revealing just how hostile their party is to the most essential checks and balances.

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                            May 8, 2026Trump's Churchillian Foreign Policy By Michael Barone
   Knowingly or not, President Donald Trump, in his decision to attack Iran, has embarked on a foreign policy that has been, on and off, both persistent and controversial in the great English-speaking nations. You can trace it back at least to the Glorious Revolution of 1688-89: the ouster of King James II of England and his replacement by his son-in-law and nephew William, Prince of Orange, and his daughter Mary, as William III and Mary II.
May 7, 2026House Rating Changes: 17 Shifts in Florida, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, and Elsewhere By Kyle Kondik
KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE— In addition to formalizing nine ratings changes in Florida following the state adopting a new Republican gerrymander, we also are making eight other changes.
— These come in some states that were at the center of Tuesday night’s electoral action: Ohio, Michigan, and Indiana, with others coming in Minnesota, North Carolina, and Texas.
— The Florida changes, on balance, help the GOP bottom line in the House, while the other changes benefit Democrats.
— Our overall House ratings show 213 districts rated as Safe, Likely, or Leans Democratic, 207 rated Safe, Likely, or Leans Republican, and 15 rated as Toss-ups.

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                            May 6, 2026Data Center Freak-Out By John Stossel
   Data centers are big buildings full of machines that process what we do on our phones and computers.

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                            May 5, 2026The Silenced Generation By Daniel McCarthy
        Are America's college students doing to themselves what the Chinese Communist state does to its citizens?

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                            May 5, 2026Time for Jerome Powell to Go Home By Stephen Moore
        The man just won't leave the stage.

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                            May 1, 2026The Young, Violent Political Left By Michael Barone
        You have to be awfully smart to believe something this stupid. In a Manhattan Institute survey of Democratic voters, 46% said they believed it was definitely or probably true that "the assassination attempt against Donald Trump in July 2024 was orchestrated by his supporters to increase sympathy for him."

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                            April 29, 2026Zyn Isn't Sin By John Stossel
   Zyns are super popular.

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                            April 29, 2026Hospitals and Insurers Are Getting Rich Off Medical Fraud By Stephen Moore
   Polls show Americans are angry -- and rightly so -- at accelerating medical bills. Meanwhile, the insurers and hospitals keep raking in record profits.

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                            April 28, 2026Colleges Are Making Political Violence Worse By Daniel McCarthy
   The ranks of would-be presidential assassins are a cavalcade of losers, yet the latest shooter who set out to murder Donald Trump -- the man who opened fire at the White House Correspondents' Dinner on Sunday -- turns out to have an elite educational background.