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I stole the title for this piece from The Economist, since it sums up, in a simple and short phrase, a situation that drags on and is difficult to explain. The chaos in Washington is the chaos in the American political system, a situation that has been brewing for a long while and has now reached the point of complete...

AP Images Kari Lake Kari Lake is back in campaign mode. But this time, she’s taking a different approach to running for statewide office in the Grand Canyon State. Lake, the Trump-aligned firebrand who unsuccessfully ran for governor in 2022 and thereafter has asserted that her loss was the result of electoral fraud, officially launched her campaign for U.S. Senate...

McCarthy’s fall has paralyzed the institution and opened a window into the Republican Party, exposing a crisis deeper than Donald Trump’s populism. Kevin McCarthy will go down in history for setting several dubious records during his time in the House of Representatives. First, for the 15 votes he forced the House to take to get elected speaker during a chaotic...

Politics RFK Jr. Goes It Alone  For all his virtues, personal and political, the freshly launched independent candidate faces an almost prohibitively steep road. Credit: Jessica Kourkounis/Getty Images On Monday, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced he was running as an independent candidate for president before Independence Hall in Philadelphia. The weather was sublime, clear, a first touch of fall in...

AP Images Joe Biden and Alejandro Mayorkas The House Committee on the Judiciary released a staff report on Monday that not only contradicts claims by the Biden administration on the border crisis, but it also reveals with newly obtained data that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has failed to remove more than 99 percent of illegal aliens that were encountered...

The balance sheet of President Biden’s administration is a negative, and his family’s business dealings are dubious. And his party wants to save democracy with means that threaten it. They say that a picture is worth a thousand words. Deliberately relaxed, dressed in a casual sweatshirt and the union’s baseball cap, Joe Biden is standing in front of an automobile...

Vertigo3d/iStock/Getty Images Plus The federal government is now spending more to pay interest on the government’s gross debt of $33 trillion than it does on national defense, according to the U.S. Treasury’s monthly statement.  The reported data totaled government receipts and outlays for fiscal year 2023 through August, noting that over $807 billion has been spent in interest on the nation’s...

A period of uncertainty and predictable chaos begins the absence of a leader to fill the third most powerful political position in the country. Crisis accomplished. With a capital C. An unprecedented and embarrassing event in United States history. The House of Representatives voted to remove its speaker, California Republican Rep. Kevin McCarthy, who faced a vote to vacate his...

John Stossel This week Republicans and Democrats got together to avert a government shutdown. Too bad. There’s so much that ought to be shut down. Useless Cabinet departments, for example, like Housing and Urban Development, Labor and Agriculture. Agriculture employs almost 100,000 people. Why? Independent farmers grow our food. They don’t need a giant department. Let’s get rid of the...

xavierarnau/iStock/Getty Images Plus “Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom; and no such thing as public liberty, without freedom of speech.” — Thomas Gordon, Cato’s Letter No. 15 (1721) In a revealing new poll, it becomes abundantly clear that Americans perceive college campuses as leaning far more favorably toward liberals than conservatives when it comes...

RapidEye/iStock/Getty Images Plus Washington state is preparing to let sex offenders roam wild and free by easing restrictions and sentencing guidelines for the rapists and perverts, a draft report from two state panels says. Indeed, the report’s authors don’t even want parents to know if a sex offender is living next door. And leftist Governor Jay Inslee recently vetoed a...

To political science professor Elisa Chelle, who specializes in the United States, Joe Biden’s advanced age may not be a detriment to the Democratic Party in 2024, particularly because of Donald Trump’s legal woes. “I don’t know about you, but I’m going to go to bed.” With these words, President Joe Biden suddenly ended his press conference in Hanoi, Vietnam,...

By averting a government shutdown, Democrats and more moderate Republicans ensured bigger government, further indebtedness, a greater percentage of the federal budget allocated toward paying interest, and inflation worse than otherwise. Given that the government never really shuts down — only nonessential personnel and programs cease — during a government shutdown, conservatives who believe in smaller government win the larger...

*Editor’s note: On March 4, 2022, Russia enacted a law that criminalizes public opposition to, or independent news reporting about, the war in Ukraine. The law makes it a crime to call the war a “war” rather than a “special military operation” on social media or in a news article or broadcast. The law is understood to penalize any language...

AP Images If you can’t debate them, demonize them. That’s the strategy the Biden team is implementing with increased force, as evidenced by a speech in Tempe, Arizona, Thursday, during which Joe Biden once more lashed out at the pro-Trump MAGA movement — deriding it as a threat to democracy. Speaking at the Tempe Center for the Arts in an...

Nobody doubts that Hunter Biden exploited his father’s name to conduct ethically “reprehensible” business abroad. What’s missing is that no one has found the irrefutable proof, the famous “smoking gun,” connecting Joe Biden and the “corruption” of his “ne’er-do-well” son. Nonetheless, the leaders of the House of Representatives responsible for the impeachment inquiry against President Joe Biden seem convinced of...

AP Images On Tuesday, without the benefit of a trial or a jury, New York Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron unilaterally revoked all New York “business certificates” belonging to former President Donald Trump, his Trump Organization, and his family. In addition, Engoron, a Democrat, found that Trump and his organization committed fraud in New York for years. The ruling was...

AP Images Hunter Biden We now know with 100-percent metaphysical certitude that Joe Biden lied when he called Hunter Biden’s notorious laptop “Russian disinformation.” We know that because Hunter Biden has sued Rudy Giuliani and his attorney, Robert J. Costello, for exposing the laptop’s data by giving it to the New York Post, which in turn revealed the doings of...

akinbostanci/iStock/Getty Images Plus The congresswomen who make up the radical leftist “Squad” are known for railing against capitalism and paying lip service to populism. But the rhetoric stands in contrast to the behind-the-scenes way in which they have indirectly gotten rich through lucrative business deals given to their husbands. A report by the Washington Free Beacon examines the ways in...

*Editor’s note: On March 4, 2022, Russia enacted a law that criminalizes public opposition to, or independent news reporting about, the war in Ukraine. The law makes it a crime to call the war a “war” rather than a “special military operation” on social media or in a news article or broadcast. The law is understood to penalize any language...