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The greatest moral hazard in American life is politics.

Many of you probably remember 2012 GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney being secretly recorded by a Democratic operative telling donors that "47% of the people who will vote for the president no matter what" because they are "dependent upon government ... believe that they are victims ......Read more

With only about 25 days until this damnably necessary act of democracy descends into recriminations and conversations about 2028, Donald Trump is barnstorming across the nation while Kamala Harris sits for interviews designed to generate turnout from her base.

Where are Barack and Michelle Obama? Does democracy not matter? Where is Hillary ...Read more

It never ends. The press still does not know how to handle the avalanche of lies that is MAGA's chief contribution to our national life. I understand, sort of. It's dull and time-consuming to bird-dog every false accusation, wild assertion or factual misstatement that comes out of Trumpland. "They're controlling the weather" is just the latest ...Read more

Bob Woodward is the most overpraised journalist in modern American history. He's an "icon" because he took out Richard Nixon. Every book should be titled "Democrats Pounce" because that's how these books succeed.

Back in October 2006, when Woodward's Bush-bashing book "State of Denial" came out, NBC's Tim Russert proclaimed: "Mr. Woodward will ...Read more

Jonathan Draeger, reporter for RealClearPolitics, wrote Tuesday that "the 2024 presidential contest couldn't be tighter." Unless, of course, it turns out not to be nearly as close as this season's run of polls suggests it is.

One indication that it might not be was a New York Times-Siena poll released this week showing Donald Trump leading ...Read more

SAN DIEGO -- I'm Team Tony Dokoupil. And anyone in my profession who cannot say the same thing has forfeited the right to call themselves "journalists."

In 35 years on the job -- working at newspapers, but also on television and radio -- you pick up a few things.

Like the fact that it's the duty of those of us in the Fourth Estate to get in ...Read more

When Congress enacted the Stored Communications Act of 1986 (SCA), it claimed the statute would guarantee the privacy of digital data that service providers were retaining in storage. The act prohibited the providers from sharing the stored data, and it prohibited unauthorized access to the data, commonly called computer hacking -- except, of ...Read more

It has been a full year, one full year, since the tragic events of Oct. 7, 2023, took place in Israel. On that fateful day, over a thousand Israelis, as well as people from countries like the Philippines, United States and Canada, were killed or taken hostage. Since then, a bloody struggle has consumed the region, with Israel firing missile ...Read more

No matter the result of next month's election, President Joe Biden will soon leave the White House. That makes it a good time for a nearly final assessment of his and Vice President Kamala Harris' first-term legacy on federal spending and debt -- a tragedy of epic proportion. Unfortunately, neither Harris nor her rival on the campaign trail ...Read more

One of the most frequent complaints about contemporary American politics is how contentious and divisive our political discourse has become. For years, we've read articles about how disagreements over politics are dividing colleagues at work, poisoning friendships, weakening familial ties, spoiling holidays and even ending marriages.

A 2021 ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Asking Kamala Harris about the historic surge at the southern border during most of President Joe Biden's tenure, "60 Minutes" anchor Bill Whitaker wondered if it was "a mistake to loosen the immigration policies as you did."

Harris has this way of talking when she knows she can't say what she really thinks. So when Whitaker ...Read more

On Monday, Oct. 7, my organization, CURE, Center for Urban Renewal and Education, co-hosted with Michigan Lighthouse Ministries a press conference with more than 50 pastors from across the State of Michigan, noting the atrocities committed last year by Hamas terrorists against Israeli citizens and expressing solidarity with the State of Israel...Read more

The destruction wrought by Hurricane Helene floods in Georgia, the Carolinas and eastern Tennessee is appalling.

So are the documented complaints and shortcomings (they are more than anecdotal) that federal disaster relief responses have been slow, uncoordinated and ill-planned.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency is supposed to "manage"...Read more

The most consequential issue on the ballot this November is the fate of free speech: your ability to speak your mind.

At former President Donald Trump's campaign rally Saturday, Tesla CEO Elon Musk leaped on the stage and urged the nation to support Trump as the free speech candidate. It's "the bedrock of democracy," Musk said, warning that "...Read more

Some politicians and activists are eager to give you "free" money. They call it universal basic income (UBI) -- cash for everyone, no strings attached. Comedian Dave Chappelle thinks UBI would "save my community almost instantly."

UBI activist Conrad Shaw agrees, "You would effectively get rid of extreme poverty immediately." He says a UBI will...Read more

The state of Florida had a population of 22,610,726 as of July 2023, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. That ranked third among all states -- exceeded only by Texas, which had a population of 30,503,301; and California, which had a population of 38,965,193.

As of this September, federal, state and local governments in this country employed ...Read more

In the West, we are on vacation from history.

That's because we are living on the interest earned by our parents and grandparents. The European continent, until the war in Ukraine, had never experienced a more peaceful respite from history than since the end of the Cold War; America has enjoyed its own peace dividend, with spending ballooning...Read more

For more than two months, Republicans have mocked Kamala Harris for hiding in the basement and not granting interviews and press conferences, which could give people an idea of how she might handle the presidency. So after she and Tim Walz have engaged in debates, Team Harris decided to book her on a series of softball interviews.

Start with ...Read more