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                            January 24, 2025Is Donald Trump the Second Coming of Andrew Jackson? By Michael Barone
The portrait of Andrew Jackson has returned to the wall of the Oval Office, put up in time to greet President Donald Trump as he entered for the first time as the 47th president.
January 23, 2025How Donald Trump Changed Pennsylvania’s Electorate: Tracking Voter Registration Trends Over the Past Decade By Nick Field
KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE— Pennsylvania changed in the Trump era from being a somewhat Democratic-leaning state to a top presidential battleground, voting for the winning candidate in all 3 of Donald Trump’s elections.
— One indicator of the GOP’s growth in the state is changing voter registration patterns, as Republicans have drastically reduced the Democrats’ voter registration edge in the state in the Trump era.
— All but 3 of the state’s 67 counties have seen the Republicans net registered voters since 2015.

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                            January 22, 2025The End of ESG By John Stossel
"Sustainability" investments became popular a few years back.
So-called experts said companies shouldn't just focus on profit. They should put more effort into being "nice."
Funds pushing ESG (environmental, social and governance) were all the rage.
January 21, 2025Trump Inaugurates a New Era By Daniel McCarthy
Breathtaking: There's no other word for the sheer ambition and scope of Donald Trump's second inaugural address.

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                            January 17, 2025For Now, Trump Is Succeeding While His Opponents Fail By Michael Barone
"It is not enough in life that one succeed," the droll economist John Kenneth Galbraith is supposed to have said. "Others must fail."
January 16, 2025The 2024 Crossover House Seats: Overall Number Remains Low with Few Harris-District Republicans By Kyle Kondik
KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE— Just 16 districts voted for one party for president and the other for House, which is the same historically-low total as 2020.
— But there are 13 Democrats in Donald Trump-won districts compared to just 3 Republicans in Kamala Harris-won districts.

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                            January 15, 2025Anarchists Versus Libertarians By John Stossel
        "Donald Trump will be a tyrant!"

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                            January 14, 2025Europe Takes a Bite Out of America's Apple By Stephen Moore
Envy is an ugly thing -- one of the seven deadly sins.

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                            January 14, 2025Democrats Aren't Democracy's Party By Daniel McCarthy
When Donald Trump is sworn in next week, America will have a president for the first time in four years.

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                            January 10, 2025Facebook Embraces Free Speech: The Masses Win, the Experts Lose By Michael Barone
        The times, they are a-changing. The balance of power in the perhaps
January 9, 2025How the Other Half Votes: The Big Counties Versus the Rest of the Country in 2024 By Kyle Kondik
KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE— While the nation has more than 3,100 counties, just about 150 of them cast roughly half of all presidential votes.
— In the Trump era, the gap between the biggest counties and the rest of the country is larger than it was previously, although the overall difference contracted slightly in both 2020 and then 2024 after an initial large widening in 2016.
— In improving his margin in the national popular vote by about 6 points from 2020, Donald Trump ran further ahead of his 2020 margin in the nation’s most vote-rich counties than he did in the rest of the country.

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                            January 8, 2025Victimhood U By John Stossel
Colleges went mad.

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                            January 7, 2025Another Independence Day Approaches By Brian C. Joondeph
Independence Day, celebrated on July 4 of every year, is a national holiday commemorating the ratification of the Declaration of Independence, which established the United States of America, gaining freedom from British subjugation and tyranny.

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                            January 7, 2025Donald Trump's Worldwide Election By Daniel McCarthy
        Winning the 2024 election was only the beginning -- the Trump effect is
now sweeping the globe.

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                            January 7, 2025Why America Is in So Much Trouble By Stephen Moore
        Shortly before Milton Friedman's death in 2006, I had the privilege of

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                            January 3, 2025Toward a Political History of the Last 75 Years By Michael Barone
New Year's Day is a good time to take a long look backward with a cautious eye toward possible futures. My guide here is RealClearPolitics analyst Sean Trende's 2012 book "The Lost Majority," whose bold thesis was unduly neglected by political scientists spinning tales of a permanent New Deal Democratic majority.

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                            December 31, 2024Make a Resolution to Fix Social Security By Daniel McCarthy
In the dreamlike days between Christmas and the regular work week's return in the new year, it's easy to believe all things are possible.

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                            December 31, 2024Trump and Musk Are Right: Legal Immigrants a Boon to US Economy A Commentary By Stephen Moore
The media have been playing up the "civil war" inside the GOP between what Politico calls the "MAGA Republicans and Big Tech." The restrictionists in the party want fewer visas, and the pro-growth wing wants more.

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                            December 26, 2024Time for Trump to Drop Lawsuits and for the Press to Apologize By Michael Barone
Maybe the lesson this Christmas season is that even if turnabout is fair play, at some point, enough is enough.

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                            December 26, 2024Give or Take? By John Stossel
'Tis the season for giving.