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                            December 9, 2025Biden's Immigration Debacle Is the Media's, Too By Daniel McCarthy
        The New York Times has invented a new genre of reporting -- covering big stories showing Democrats in a bad light years after the events that matter.

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                            December 9, 2025How Trump Can Help Accelerate Argentina's Economic Comeback By Stephen Moore
        President Donald Trump and Argentine President Javier Milei have a special relationship. Each is engaged in a crusade to make his respective country's economy great again. Trump was all in on helping Milei win his elections earlier this year, and he has also offered the Argentines a $20 billion "lifeline" as they adjust to the bumpy path to needed free-market reforms.

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                            December 5, 2025Closing the Door on Immigration? Not Yet. By Michael Barone
   Can the United States come up with an immigration policy that will prove sustainable? Two writers whom I respect and take delight in reading, despite their widely differing views, Tyler Cowen, who favors more immigration, and Christopher Caldwell, who favors less, have their doubts. Both, incidentally, are writing for The Free Press, Bari Weiss' eclectic startup.

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                            December 3, 2025America Thinks Washington Is Corrupt – Congress Keeps Proving It By Brian C. Joondeph, M.D.
Survey results released last week are as stark as they are unsurprising. According to Rasmussen Reports, 80% of likely U.S. voters say the federal government is corrupt, and 44% declare it “very corrupt.” Only 14% believe corruption in Washington is minimal. How many of the 14% are employed by or benefit from this corruption?                                   

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                            December 3, 2025Disparate Impact By John Stossel
   Google settled a racial bias lawsuit for $50 million.
   Merrill Lynch paid $20 million.

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                            December 2, 2025'Iryna's Law' and the Bad Judges Who Make It Necessary By Daniel McCarthy
   What will it take to get crime under control in our subways and public transit systems?
   On Monday, news broke of another passenger set on fire in New York City's subway -- though this story wasn't all it seemed.

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                            December 2, 2025If Young People Want More Affordability, They Should Get Jobs By Stephen Moore
   Polls show that the age group of Americans most worried about "affordability" are the 20- and 30-somethings. That's young millennials and Gen Z.

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                            November 27, 2025Dick Cheney: Always Unintimidated By Michael Barone
        The word that best describes how former Vice President Dick Cheney, who wielded the responsibilities he undertook in public affairs over a long career, began improbably early in life and extended into years of repudiation by his fellow partisans, is "unintimidated."

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                            November 26, 2025Stop the Trial Lawyer Tax By Stephen Moore
        Trial lawyers have been the bane of U.S. employers for many decades, sucking blood out of the economy like a swarm of mosquitos.

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                            November 26, 2025Thanksgiving Socialism By John Stossel
   People are turning to socialism. Two-thirds of Americans ages 18-29 hold a "favorable view" of it.

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                            November 25, 2025Marjorie Taylor Greene's Exit Is a Warning to Republicans By Daniel McCarthy
   Marjorie Taylor Greene is a singular politician -- a maverick, though not in the John McCain sense.

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                            November 21, 2025Enforcing Immigration Laws Is Not the Moral Equivalent of the Holocaust By Michael Barone
        Whence cometh the conviction, in America and even more in Britain and Europe, that open borders is the only moral immigration policy? Of course, not everyone believes that, and many who do stop short of saying so. But the contrast between the rhetoric and policies of the first two decades of the century and those that have prevailed since President Donald Trump's election is unmistakable.

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                            November 21, 2025A Generation Cornered and Searching for a Way Out By Brian C. Joondeph, M.D.
Young Americans are living in a micro-world of rising costs, precarious jobs, and deferred dreams. At the same time, the political class continues to speak in macro-terms of grand strategy and ideological crusades.

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                            November 19, 2025Trump Hasn't Lost Hispanics (Yet) By Daniel McCarthy
   Is President Donald Trump losing the winning coalition he built just a year ago?

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                            November 19, 2025Our Golden Age By John Stossel
   We media types obsess about America's problems.
   But we should acknowledge that today, life in America is better than life has been anywhere, ever.
   For most of history, the norm was hunger, disease, illiteracy, slavery and war.

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                            November 18, 2025Want Lower Prices? More 'Affordability'? Move to a Red State. By Stephen Moore
   The buzzword of the month is "affordability," and based on the election results from New York, New Jersey and Virginia, voters think that's declining. Democrats think they've found a winning issue here to win back the hearts and minds of voters after the Trump sweep last year.

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                            November 14, 2025The Threat of an Overproduced Elite By Michael Barone
   Success breeds failure. Policies and practices well suited to society at one juncture in history are often poorly suited to the world they have beneficially transformed. If you carry a good thing too far, it can turn out not to be a good thing anymore.

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                            November 12, 2025Trump the Socialist By John Stossel
        "America will never be a socialist country!" says President Donald Trump.

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                            November 11, 2025Trump Can Do Better Than Tariff 'Dividends' and 50-Year Mortgages By Daniel McCarthy
   Time is short for the Trump administration.

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                            November 7, 2025Bad News for Republicans, Warnings for Both Parties By Michael Barone
        Virginia and New Jersey, the two states that voted for governor in 2025, both voted for then-Vice President Kamala Harris over then-candidate Donald Trump by 52%-46% margins in 2024. Democrats ran significantly better in both states on Tuesday. One reason is that Trump Republicans, as an increasingly downscale party, see their turnout sag in off years than when the presidency is up. But that wasn't their only problem this time.