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"How'm I doin'?" the late New York Mayor Ed Koch used to ask constituents on his travels through the city. President Donald Trump, in the opinion of most Americans, is doin' pretty well.

His job approval, which jutted downward after he announced his "Liberation Day" tariffs on April 2, has recovered and hovers just below 50%. That's just about ...Read more

The deployment of California National Guard troops and active-duty U.S. Marines onto the streets of Los Angeles is an assault on federalism, violates federal law and manifests a dangerous pattern of governmental behavior in defiance of constitutional principles and the rule of law.

None of this was the case until President Donald Trump, against...Read more

California has long prided itself on being a symbol of progressive governance, a supposed beacon of tolerance, opportunity and inclusivity. But behind the glittering curtain of Hollywood dreams and Silicon Valley innovation lies a troubling reality -- a self-inflicted crisis stemming from policies that defy economic logic and common sense. As ...Read more

President Donald Trump and many of his allies in Congress are making grand claims about the economic growth they say will result from the recently proposed "One Big Beautiful Bill." Trump has accused critics of not understanding the budget proposal, "especially the tremendous GROWTH that is coming." A closer examination of the economic ...Read more

"This anarchy will not stand," President Donald Trump told his Fort Bragg, North Carolina, audience of Green Berets, Rangers and 82nd Airborne Division paratroopers -- the disciplined cadre of America's XVIII Airborne Corps sitting in the grandstands.

The anarchy Trump condemned is/was in Los Angeles, on the west side of America's fruited ...Read more

As Los Angeles burst into riots this week over a federal immigration raid, one protester took to his social media channels to explain just what was going on -- why arsonists armed with Palestinian flags stood alongside vandals armed with Palestinian flags, why some masked protesters hurled rocks at police cars while others summoned automated ...Read more

The 6/12/25 Cal Thomas column has been revised to correct the penultimate graf. Use updated version.

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As Senate Republicans turn the One Big Beautiful Bill, passed by one vote in the House, into a major taffy pull, two questions hover in the background.

Where is our country headed? Will Republicans retain their razor-thin margins in the House and Senate in 2026?

Satisfaction regarding the direction of the country has improved markedly since ...Read more

Interviewing for a job or competing for a promotion just got fairer. In a unanimous ruling on Thursday, the U.S. Supreme Court leveled the legal playing field, saying that everyone deserves the same protection from discrimination, including straight white women and men.

In the six decades since Martin Luther King Jr. uttered the aspiration ...Read more

In 2018, some activists, appalled by woke nonsense being published by academic journals, submitted nonsensical research. One paper claimed researchers "closely and respectfully examined the genitals of ... ten thousand dogs" to learn about "rape culture and queer performativity at urban dog parks." Some journals published it! One of the hoaxers,...Read more

A House subcommittee held a hearing on April 16, 2024, that revealed some remarkable problems with federal spending.

"Since fiscal year 2003, federal agencies have reported an estimated $2.7 trillion in total improper payments," Rep. Morgan Griffith (R-Va.), chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee, ...Read more

Nicolle Wallace is one of the original "MSNBC Republicans," a former adviser to George W. Bush and John McCain who quickly swapped sides to become one of the more popular Democrat Party line tap dancers on her show "Deadline White House."

Her reflexive leftist take on the Los Angeles riots was a "uniquely alarming moment" -- not the riots, but ...Read more

In reading "Original Sin," the blockbuster book by journalists Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson, I vividly remembered covering then-candidate Joe Biden when he came to my hometown in April 2019 to begin his run for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination.

As someone who covered Biden for decades because he frequently visited the state in ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- The script for how big media outlets cover left-wing riots never changes.

Progressive protests destroy blue cities. Then cable news anchors inform viewers that protests that have brought chaos and destruction started out peacefully.

Yes, there is a pattern to progressive protests that turn violent. The demonstrations, like ...Read more

The government spent decades trying to make fathers unnecessary. The failure of that experiment put society on the long-term path to collapse.

Father's Day is Sunday. It's much less popular than Mother's Day for a sad reason. Fewer fathers are involved in their children's lives. That's caused by two main factors, the first being children born...Read more

These days it seems that a mysterious group called "the CBO" rules the world, or at least Washington, D.C. Unfortunately, it's not very good at predicting things, and its bad calls can lead to bad policy results.

The Congressional Budget Office and the Joint Committee on Taxation predict what will happen with spending, tax revenues and deficits...Read more