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The freedom of speech and of the press is not a gift bestowed by a president, Congress or a federal agency. It is a natural right of all persons. The First Amendment does not create that right; it prohibits the government from infringing upon it. The ability to think, speak, write, criticize, ridicule, persuade, offend, dissent and challenge ...Read more

Five seemingly unrelated developments -- the Supreme Court's intervention in mail-in ballot rules, a federal judge's decision affecting foreign students and journalists, the blockade threatening Saudi Arabia, an unusual alliance in Michigan politics, and the accelerating power of artificial intelligence -- are testing whether American ...Read more

Inflation hasn't gone away -- it's going up. With the midterm elections seven weeks off, that's a problem for the president and Congress. Voters hate inflation. They don't much like the cure either, and the cure has two parts. The Federal Reserve raising interest rates, like it just did, is one. The second part is overlooked and in the hands ...Read more

One of the primary tenets of the American legal system is the importance of precedent; the common law doctrine of "stare decisis" means "to stand by things decided." The purpose of law in such a system is to provide stability and predictability, so that people can conform their conduct to the law's requirements.

Another way of describing this...Read more

As I began a column examining the violent antics of ayatollah Iran's Houthi proxy army, news media were reporting that Saudi Arabia has asked Egypt to join its coalition to destroy the Houthis' military and gangster threat to the Arabian Peninsula, the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea.

Sketching the map helps explain the strategic security and ...Read more

During a Sept. 1 preliminary hearing for the defendant accused of fatally shooting Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk on Sept. 10, 2025, the defendant's attorney, Richard Novak, accused Kirk of "speaking hatefully of certain groups of people. He spoke hatefully of people who don't have traditional, nonconforming gender identities. He spoke...Read more

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Free AI

Cell phones made my life easier. So did the internet.

Artificial intelligence may enrich it even more.

But lots of people are worried.

"Stop AI or we're all going to die!" shout protesters.

It's ...Read more

Had you driven into the parking lot of a certain 7-Eleven in suburban Virginia at about 1 p.m. on Sept. 11 of this year -- which this writer did -- you would have seen 11 men standing, sitting or sleeping on the concrete there and on a nearby sidewalk.

This is essentially the same scene you would have encountered there 25 years ago in the ...Read more

The New York Times has an annoying habit of topping its front page with an article labeled "News Analysis." In reality, it's a badly disguised editorial, often inveighing against their rage target, President Donald Trump.

In 2024, Times White House correspondent Peter Baker wrote a "news analysis" nudging voters to pick the Democrats with the...Read more

The Beatles told us: "All you need is love."

They were right, but along with love must come marriage.

But marriage rates have plummeted, especially among young men.

A Pulitzer Prize-worthy story by Sean Salai of The Washington Times crunches all the numbers. To say they are worrisome would be a vast understatement.

-- In 2025, nearly twice...Read more

LATROBE, Pennsylvania -- The late afternoon sun catches the twin spires of the Archabbey Basilica at St. Vincent College, casting a long shadow across the pristine practice fields of the Pittsburgh Steelers' training camp.

For 60 years, this rural patch of Westmoreland County has played host to an annual cross-cultural pilgrimage. Here, the ...Read more

The Founding Fathers who fought for liberty wouldn't recognize how people define the word today.

A recently released survey from the Indispensable Institute for Family Studies shows vice has a vice grip on young men. Among men 18 to 29 years old, 27% view pornography daily and another 16% do so several times a week. Young men who view ...Read more

It was probably inevitable that the Right's economic populism would degenerate into promises of more government checks.

Early in the week, the administration floated the idea of redirecting federal childcare aid so low-income married stay-at-home parents could get a $9,000 subsidy per child for daycare.

The policy, reportedly hatched by Vice...Read more

It feels like just yesterday that America lost Charlie Kirk.

I remember every detail vividly.

Charlie and I were in daily contact that week, as he prepared for his next national campus speaking tour.

I was part of an intimate Zoom meeting he had organized the night prior to its first stop, at Utah Valley University.

Less than 24 hours ...Read more

The Trump administration is drafting a rule that would let married couples with a stay-at-home spouse collect federal welfare benefits. The money comes from a 1990s Health and Human Services fund meant to cover daycare so low-income parents could work or go to school. About 870,000 families draw on it now, roughly 80% headed by a single ...Read more

Not every American president has sounded the right notes for our national pain after the terrorist attack on Sept. 11, 2001. Twelve days after Hamas unleashed its mass murder in Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, President Joe Biden suggested that 9/11 was all about the Arabs and the Muslims.

"I know many of you in the Muslim American community or the ...Read more