Commentary By Stephen Moore

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                            June 23, 2026Democrats Declare War on School Choice By Stephen Moore
   Why are Democrats and their teachers union masters trying to shoot down parental choice in education even when we now have so many examples of these programs working?

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                            June 16, 2026The Great Escape -- Let Young Workers Out of Social Security By Stephen Moore
   What cruel irony that we learned last week that Social Security is going broke even sooner than we thought. The Social Security trust fund will be exhausted in 2032, according to the latest Trustees Report. How odd that it is even referred to as a "trust fund," because there is no trust, and there is no fund.

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                            June 9, 2026Trump's Critics Dead Wrong (Again) on the Economy By Stephen Moore
        Last week's blockbuster jobs report, with more than 265,000 jobs added when including upward employment revisions, was very welcome news to almost all Americans. The exception would be the economists of the left who throughout Donald Trump's now-five-and-a-half years in the White House keep getting the economy dead wrong.

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                            June 2, 2026Keep Politicians Out of College Sports By Stephen Moore
        Nearly everyone who is a college sports fan, myself included, knows the state of affairs in the NCAA is one fine mess. Especially regarding football and men's basketball, the two major money-making sports, things have changed massively in the last few years -- and mostly not in a good way.

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                            May 26, 2026America Needs More, Not Fewer, Billionaires By Stephen Moore
Billionaires are getting a bad name. "Eat the rich" is the new mantra of the Left's greed and envy lobby.

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                            May 19, 2026Free the Mail By Stephen Moore
   Those of us of a certain age -- born before about 1970 -- have fond memories of the mailman (yes, that's what we called him, not "postal carrier") dropping off a pile of letters and cards into the mailbox down the driveway six days a week.

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                            May 12, 2026Angry About High Prices? Blame Biden and Big Government! By Stephen Moore
The new consumer prices report showing a 3.8% price rise in April confirms what Americans have been complaining about for months: Inflation is continuing to squeeze family budgets.

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                            May 5, 2026Time for Jerome Powell to Go Home By Stephen Moore
        The man just won't leave the stage.

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                            April 29, 2026Hospitals and Insurers Are Getting Rich Off Medical Fraud By Stephen Moore
   Polls show Americans are angry -- and rightly so -- at accelerating medical bills. Meanwhile, the insurers and hospitals keep raking in record profits.

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                            April 21, 2026Lawyers Sue for Higher Prices By Stephen Moore
        You aren't going to believe the latest lawsuit fad in America: suing companies as monopolistic for cutting prices to consumers. In legal mumbo jumbo, this is called "predatory pricing" -- keeping prices lower than charged by competitors. The idea is to keep prices so low that rival firms can't compete. Quick, throw Walmart, Home Depot and McDonald's in jail.

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                            April 14, 2026Prices Controls Will Deny Millions of Americans Credit Cards By Stephen Moore
        There's a famous scene in the movie "The Graduate" in which a young Dustin Hoffman receives this one-word bit of career advice from a businessman: "plastics."

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                            April 8, 2026Show Me the Money -- The Trump Tax Cuts Benefit the Middle Class By Stephen Moore
        Democrats keep attacking President Donald Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill Act of 2025 as a tax cut for the rich. But the data show that the average family gained roughly $2,000 on their lower tax bill for this year. Every Democrat in Congress voted no, even as they complain of a "middle-class affordability crisis." Maybe that's because to rich and famous limousine liberal Democrats, $2,000 is peanuts. But not for the rest of us.

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                            March 31, 2026Let's Kill Cancer By Stephen Moore
        There are few things in life more terrifying than a cancer diagnosis, as any victim of this horrible disease will tell you.

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                            March 24, 2026Republicans Can Win on Health Care Affordability By Stephen Moore
        For most of the last 40 years, pollsters have asked voters: Which party do you trust more on health care? The answer has been pretty much the same over this whole period. Voters trust Democrats more, sometimes by a two-to-one margin.

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                            March 18, 2026Who's Afraid of a Trillionaire? By Stephen Moore
   Early this year, we learned that Elon Musk may become the first trillionaire in world history.

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                            March 10, 2026The Five Things You Must Know About Energy Policy By Stephen Moore
        Given the energy disruptions in the Middle East and the topsy-turvy fluctuation in the price of crude oil in recent weeks, here are a few facts about the energy scene.

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                            March 3, 2026Don't Let Congress Ruin College Sports By Stephen Moore
   Should the revenues made by big-time college athletics be "shared" by all the schools? Do we want "revenue-sharing" socialism to come to college football and basketball? Many in Congress are answering yes to that question.

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                            February 24, 2026Government Subsidies Killed the EV Industry By Stephen Moore
        Here's a depressing but all too predictable headline from The Wall Street Journal last week: "Detroit's EV Pullback Is Costing $50 Billion."

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                            February 18, 2026Was Climate Change the Greatest Financial Scandal in History? By Stephen Moore
        Environmental scholar Bjorn Lomborg recently calculated that across the globe, governments have spent at least $16 trillion feeding the climate change industrial complex.

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                            February 11, 2026Dow 50,000: A Supply-Side Miracle By Stephen Moore
   When I first arrived in Washington in 1982, the Dow Jones hit a low of 800. You may not believe that, so feel free to look it up.