Imagine a rule under which your private financial data — from paycheck deposits to credit card transactions — can be extracted, shared, or sold without your clear consent, all under the guise of “consumer protection.” That’s exactly what the Biden administration’s Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has done — and President Trump must stop it […]
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Increasing Energy Costs Isn’t the Answer
A new pragmatism is infusing the climate debate in the West, driven by voters weary of soaring energy bills and annoyed by increasingly hysterical and patronizing climate rhetoric. From Washington to Westminster, Berlin to Canberra, the political class is confronting a simple truth: aggressive net-zero mandates are delivering present economic pain for unmeasurable and far-off […]
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Heavier Trucks Could Undercut Billions in Infrastructure Spending, Critics Warn
A coalition of 20 national organizations is asking Congress to oppose measures that would allow larger tractor-trailers on the nation’s roads, citing potential damage to local infrastructure, as lawmakers prepare legislation setting transportation priorities for the next several years. In a Jan. 28, 2026, letter, the groups argue that proposals to raise the current 80,000-pound […]
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The National Defense Strategy and the New Great Wall of China Policy
Major shifts in great-power strategy are often signaled not by dramatic announcements but by measured changes in official documents. The 2026 National Defense Strategy, released by the Pentagon under the title Restoring Peace Through Strength, represents one such recalibration. For those accustomed to the moralizing binaries of the past decade, this 34-page document offers a cold, transactional […]
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Criminalizing Pharmacists Won’t Stop the Opioid Crisis
We are all tragically too familiar with the opioid crisis that continues to grip the nation. What started largely as a problem of over-prescribing and abuse of legitimate opioid-based pain medication has evolved into a complex international criminal enterprise involving the manufacture and trafficking of illicit fentanyl and its various deadly forms. It has destroyed […]
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Affordability Tops the List of State Priorities for 2026
A full agenda is underway in the 35 states that have just convened their legislative sessions. Affordability is the buzzword heard far and wide, as millions of Americans continue to struggle with the high cost of living. Economic concerns are likely to dominate statehouses in 2026, especially in an election year, with 36 states holding […]
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Mayor Zohran Mamdani, a Capitalist?
In the glittering chaos of New York City, where ambition clashes with reality on every street corner, Zohran Mamdani’s recent election as mayor could be a golden opportunity for American capitalism. The democratic-socialist firebrand promises to reshape the Big Apple into a bastion of equity through government-heavy interventions. Rent caps, expanded public housing, aggressive wealth […]
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Medicare’s Drug Price Negotiation Choices Risk Increasing, Not Decreasing, Spending
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services just announced the next 15 brand-name medicines selected for Medicare’s drug price negotiation program, which mandates price reductions of at least 25 percent. Most Americans naturally assume that medicines will become more affordable as a result. Because two of the chronic-disease medicines selected — Orencia and Xolair — […]
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The Experiment Continues: War for Independence Was ‘the People’s War’
Thomas Paine’s “Common Sense” may have persuaded the American colonists of the need for independence, but it is one thing to favor independence and quite another to pick up arms to obtain it. We tend to think of war as being won by large armies on vast fields commanded by generals. But small victories can have […]