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At the birth of the internet age in the early 1990s, the U.S. and Europe took opposite approaches to advancing this new economy-changing technology.

Europe tried the approach of industrial policy: They allowed government to regulate, subsidize and then tax the swarm of new tech companies that emerged.

Here in the U.S., Congress and the Clinton...Read more

If you're concerned about income inequality, you should be a fan of President Donald Trump's immigration policies.

Trump has been racking up wins on immigration. In May 2024, the Biden administration released more than 62,000 illegal immigrants into the country. Last month, the Trump administration released none. Would-be illegal immigrants ...Read more

LATROBE, Pennsylvania -- Weeks before the election last year, Jason Zugai, the vice president of United Steelworkers Local 2227, pulled then-U.S. Senate candidate Dave McCormick aside at a Donald Trump rally here in Westmoreland County and asked him to meet with him and the local union regarding the then-proposed deal between U.S. Steel and ...Read more

The word "badass" was bandied about a lot after the first assassination attempt on Donald Trump last year.

Famously, the bloodied Republican candidate raised his fist in defiance.

In a different context, the same pungent word applies to his 2 a.m. strike on Iranian nuclear facilities.

Trump the TV star has a knack for the theatrical and ...Read more

Say it out loud. Say it with pride. Repeat after me ...

The 2020 election was stolen.

I've known this for five years. You've known this for five years. I've said all along -- the key to President Donald Trump's second term is PROVING it. That is what just happened. The evidence has been found. What happens next will change everything.

FBI ...Read more

For 20 years, President Donald Trump has maintained that Iran cannot get a nuclear weapon. Much of the Western world, from European powers to American presidents, has given lip service to that idea, but has done little to restrict Tehran's theocratic leaders from building a bomb.

Though Iran claims its nuclear program is only for civilian ...Read more

MAGA celebrity Charlie Kirk, attempting to balance support for the administration and appeal to online isolationists, maintains that the "regime change war machine in D.C." is pushing President Donald Trump into "an all out blitz on Iran." He's not alone.

The question is, what does "regime change war" mean in simple language? Does it mean, as "...Read more

The "No Kings" rally against President Donald Trump on June 14 featured several angry speeches from Democrats. Mediaite had this story: "Eric Swalwell 'Trump Is America's Hitler' Remark at Rally Sparks Viral Outrage." That gaseous D.C. speech was easily ignored by PolitiFact and those "independent fact-checkers."

Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) ...Read more

Events are moving fast. Seven days ago, as I write, Israel had not yet launched its first attacks on targets in Iran. Seven days from now, things may well have changed -- significantly.

In such times, a historian's perspective may be helpful. Fortunately, the two most eminent English-language historians ( pace, Tucker Carlson) have ...Read more

We're used to thinking of Republican moderates as nice people from Blue states or swing districts, who speak in dulcet tones and oppose going "too far" on anything.

These politicians still exist, but the image of the Republican moderate is out of date. Think less of Susan Collins, the cautious Republican senator from Maine, and more of ...Read more

Has the United States become what President Donald Trump recently condemned? Can the president fight any war he wishes? Can Congress fund any war it chooses? Are there constitutional and legal requirements that must first be met before war is waged?

These questions should be central to a debate over the U.S. involvement in Ukraine, Gaza and ...Read more

Political assassinations are in vogue.

Over the weekend, Minnesota state Rep. and Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman and her husband were shot and killed in their home after a masked man disguised as a police officer convinced the couple to open their door. The arrested suspect, 57-year-old Vance Luther Boelter, was a homegrown American. ...Read more

If you think federal regulators care about data-driven, evidence-based policymaking, a case currently before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit will leave you scratching your head.

The case involves a terrible Biden administration regulation driven by Big Labor. In defending this regulation, which mandates that crews on freight ...Read more

Women's basketball should dispel the tired platitude that the world would be a much kinder place if women ran it.

I just watched yet another video of WNBA player Caitlin Clark on the receiving end of inappropriately violent behavior during a game. This time, Clark's team, the Indiana Fever, was playing the Connecticut Sun. The Fever were up ...Read more

The Israel-Iran War Over Nuclear Weapons could end with a nuclear blast. Why have a reluctant Washington send two American B-2 stealth bombers each dropping a 30,000-pound (15-ton) Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP) conventional bomb destroy Iran's buried Fordow uranium enrichment facility?

Israel has nuclear weapons, everyone knows that. One ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump sees what needs to happen in the Middle East as Israel and Iran take their decades-long war out of the shadows. Push for a ceasefire? Not really. "An end, a real end, not a ceasefire," Trump told reporters during an early return to Washington from the G7 meeting in Calgary.

Trump added, "a complete give-up...Read more