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Prayogi Haryo/iStock/Getty Images Plus Indonesia's Balikpapan oil refinery The Biden administration is now a “house divided,” as its ostensible environmental ideals clash with the energy realities confronting the nation. The White House promised it would cease funding oil and gas projects abroad and instead prioritize policies to cut down on carbon emissions and thus combat “climate change.” But, as Politico...

To maximize his chances of reelection, Joe Biden must conquer inflation and the Americans’ economic pessimism. For the moment, it’s working. Thirty years on, the watchword of Bill Clinton’s first presidential campaign still sounds: “It’s the economy, stupid!” Despite the avalanche of criminal charges facing his Republican opponent, Joe Biden knows that his reelection depends above all on improving the...

JOE CICAK/iStock/Getty Images Plus On Tuesday, 39 Republican senators called for EPA Administrator Michael Regan to withdraw the proposed “Clean Power Plan 2.0” regulations, which contain strict new emissions standards for power plants going forward. The GOP senators claim that the EPA is overstepping its bounds by essentially transforming the nation’s energy sector without any congressional authority. The new emissions...

Democrats and Republicans have significantly converged when it comes to immigration policy. But they would never admit it. When federal Judge Jon Tigar first struck down a new asylum policy out of Washington, most Americans knew who their hero was and who their villain was in the affair. Then-President Donald Trump had ordered that applications for asylum could only be...

flickr.com Wayne Allen Root We have this never-ending debate in America and especially in Washington, D.C., about what works: Left or Right, liberalism or conservatism, capitalism or socialism. Well, there’s no need to debate anymore. The answer is in. We won! Yes, the debate is over. All the stats are in from a hundred directions. “The Great American Divorce” I’ve...

AP Images Adam Schiff “Stirred to fury and swayed by passion in all their counsels … the government will change its name to the finest sounding of all: free democracy; but will change its nature to the worst thing of all: mob-rule.” — Polybius, Histories, Book VIII Representative Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) has reintroduced the “Protecting Our Democracy Act,” an initiative...

AP Images Dianne Feinstein and Mitch McConnell Twice this week, Americans got an eyeful of just who is running the country: Old folks well past their prime and ready for retirement, who could drop dead any minute. Two days ago, in the middle of a news conference, octogenarian Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky simply stopped talking. Yesterday, nonagenarian...

The Texas governor launches measures aimed at pushing migrants into the most inhospitable places and difficult crossing points. “I believe we have stepped over a line into the in humane ,” said Nicholas Wingate, paramedic and trooper with the Texas Department of Public Safety. On July 3, paramedic and trooper Wingate sent an email to his superiors informing them of...

tylim/iStock/Getty Images Plus A majority of Americans recently surveyed by Pew Research favor restricting “false information” and “violent content” online, an alarming development with respect to one of the nation’s primordial principles — the right to speak one’s mind freely. But worse still, by a large margin, Democrats, not Republicans, favor restrictions on free speech.  Survey respondents also would rather...

His presidency had grave consequences. A second term would be even more radical. “Not even Donald Trump will recover from this. We’re rid of that problem!” Those who examined the state of U.S. politics after the storming of the Capitol in 2021 found a lot of consternation but also relief. The career of the outgoing president seemed to be over....

The left wants all future elections to look just like they did in 2020, and we have the blueprints to prove it. Covid-19 was the excuse Democrats used to radically transform our nation’s election systems in ways that make them less secure, less fair, and more vulnerable to mischief. Virtually all of the “temporary” changes introduced—ever-earlier voting, mass mail-in balloting,...

Republicans will run on an agenda that could well be defined as far right, the most extremist agenda in more than half a century. An increasing number of Americans seem ecstatic about the possibility Donald Trump will be the Republican presidential nominee in 2024. And increasingly more Americans worry about what that might mean; and even more so, what it...

Data about decreased border encounters is being questioned. And a new whistleblower allegation was revealed Friday; did U.S. Customs and Border Protection retaliate against one of their own? The White House is announcing new actions to regulate AI. What are Microsoft, Google, and other AI giants pledging to do, and what could come next in legislation? Florida is considering legal action against...

Twitter filed a request to subpoena communications between Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and Federal Trade Commission (FTC), escalating a legal battle surrounding the social media company’s human resource practices after Elon Musk bought out the company. Twitter’s subpoena request comes as a response to a letter Ms. Warren sent to the SEC...

AP Images Recep Tayyip Erdogan After convening with Sweden and NATO leaders in Vilnius, Lithuania, on July 10, before the two-day NATO summit in Vilnius, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan agreed to back Sweden’s attempt to join the U.S.-led North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), leading to much jubilation among pro-NATO advocates. While not officially acknowledged as such, the fact that...

House Lawmakers voted on July 19 to pass a bill banning public K-12 school facilities from being used to provide shelter for immigrants who entered into the United States illegally. H.R. 3941, also known as the “Schools Not Shelters Act,” was introduced earlier this month by Rep. Marc Molinaro (R-N.Y.) in an attempt to prevent New York Governor Kathy Hochul from...

Republicans will vigorously fight a Democrat-backed bill that would regulate the Supreme Court when the Senate Judiciary Committee votes on the measure on July 20. “Tomorrow will be one hell of a fight,” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said at a late afternoon press conference in the U.S. Capitol on July 19. “The effort by the Left to destroy the Court...

Commentary A favorite talking point from the Biden White House is that guns are the leading cause of death of children. The problem is that it is false. “The number one cause of death of the children in America is gun violence,” Vice President Kamala Harris claimed on June 2. Later the White House tweeted, “Guns are the #1 KILLER of CHILDREN.” President...

*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...

Education Secretary Miguel Cardona said on Monday that the department will continue to extend support for student loan holders and look for ways to provide more relief for existing borrowers, two weeks after the Supreme Court struck down a government attempt to forgive millions of such loans. “The goal is to be able to pay what you can afford. Right...