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Letter to the editor: It has been several weeks since the package was sent to the Federal Bureau of Investigation lab. We deserve to know what was in the Chinese balloon.
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Those of us who celebrate Easter, the day of the physical resurrection of the son of God, must say no to all attempts to subordinate the body to a supposedly “higher” self, writes Robert Barron
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Brandon Johnson’s victory means Chicago’s decline as a laboratory for progressive governance will continue, and more companies will consider following the recent exits of Caterpillar, Boeing and Citadel.
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Letter to the editor: By giving priority to their favorite social causes over academic achievement, admissions officers have made clear to the students they accept that political activism is valued over scholarship.
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The damage from Alvin Bragg’s pursuit of Trump is done. The fundamental question is how we bring America back from the brink and restore the country to its values, write and Andrew Stein
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The GOP might want to acknowledge its glaring abortion problem–and do something about it, writes
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It turns out the Chinese balloon that traversed the continental U.S. earlier this year was gathering useful intelligence. Congress has an obligation to figure out what American assets may have been compromised by the flyover.
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Arresting a journalist who speaks Russian and has family ties to the country is designed to send an intimidating signal to others, writes Nicholas Daniloff
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“Yes, I have been jailed; yes, my family properties were taken and ransacked; but no, I have not been charged with anything. Six years on, politically inspired prosecutors—sound familiar?” writes in a letter to the editor.
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Can Trump build a successful campaign based on victimhood and the lie that the 2020 election was stolen? asks
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Centner Academy moved quickly to return to normal during the pandemic, and its unorthodox approach drew indignation from local news organizations. The ultimate result was a more harmonious school, writes
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Paul Singer’s pessimism about the soundness of the dollar isn’t new. He’s watched and worried for years as the Fed and other central banks settled into a more or less permanent emergency footing, writes
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The House Speaker’s visit with Taiwan’s President, attended by House Members of both parties, underlines a rare bipartisan consensus in American foreign policy.
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Letter to the editor: Alvin Bragg claims the payment was an in-kind contribution to help Trump’s 2016 campaign, a legal theory the Justice Department declined to prosecute for good reason, and over which Bragg has no jurisdiction.
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On the most recent episode of the Potomac Watch podcast, explains how reigning in the Covid eligibility rules has affected the labor market.
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Our nation needs the ability to combat foreign-adversary technology threats. That process isn’t in place, and codifying Trump’s executive order is a great place to start, write and
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The routine violation of political norms worsened under the Trump and Biden administrations but began under President Obama, write Mark Penn and Andrew Stein
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The rationale for Medicare price controls is to save taxpayers and seniors money. But the savings on existing drugs are minuscule in comparison to the loss in health resulting from a decrease in drug innovation, writes Tomas J. Philipson
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The Bragg indictment is a flawed interpretation of campaign-finance law, it’s historically unprecedented, and it smacks of political persecution. Democrats don’t care, writes
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We shouldn’t wait until there are 150 million users of a Chinese spy app before we take action, write and
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My dad kept two books—one in pencil, the other in ink. The books in pencil were the real numbers, and the books in ink showed a lesser profit, for the Internal Revenue Service, writes Bert Stratton
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The past few years have highlighted the need for transparent and consistent election rules that produce prompt and credible results. Ranked-choice voting produces the opposite.
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Many Republican leaders have condemned the prosecution as political persecution. But they aren’t happy the controversy is drowning out the rest of the Republican messaging, writes
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Chicago’s election shows how much public unions now control America’s biggest cities, and their priority is serving their own interests.
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New York Gov. Kathy Hochul caves to green activists by dropping a proposal that would have modestly eased energy costs that are set to soar under the state’s new climate law.
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Chicago Mayor-elect Brandon Johnson is already fulfilling every expectation that he’ll drive even more people and businesses out of the Windy City.
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Iranian proxies Hezbollah and Hamas ramp up their attacks on the Jewish state. It isn’t yet clear if Israel has developed a coherent strategy to counter this effort, writes Jonathan Spyer
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Letter to the editor: Universities spend nonstop on new buildings funded by their multibillion-dollar endowments, all while avoiding property taxes due to their nonprofit status.
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Democrats are making secular saints out of two Tennessee lawmakers expelled by the state House for disrupting the legislative work of their colleagues.
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When government collects and classifies individual data by personal racial and ethnic characteristics, it lays a foundation for discrimination, even oppression, writes John F. Early
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Unless concocted in a lab, there seems to be no good reason nature would choose to afflict us with a disease that spreads as easily as the flu or Covid and is significantly more deadly, writes Holman Jenkins
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Letter to the editor: It’s ironic that liberals hate book bans but are happy to ban speakers.
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The left is furious it lost control of the Supreme Court, and it wants it back by whatever means possible. The latest effort is a smear on Justice Thomas.
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North Carolina Rep. Tricia Cotham leaves the Democratic Party for the GOP, giving state lawmakers a shot at school choice.
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The Trump faction and the Democratic left have become engaged in a relentless cycle of attack and counterattack, writes
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The U.S. and Taiwan both need to do more, and urgently, to shore up the island’s defenses against a possible Chinese attack.
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Letter to the editor: As a technologist, I believe that the public use of AI tools should be stopped. As a research tool, the technology is fine, but allowing the public to use it is dangerous.
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“No one is above the law.” True enough, but this has become a clichéd refuge of political scoundrels, writes
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Russia’s arrest of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich escalates the Kremlin’s habit of taking Americans hostage, and it’s more evidence that Russia is divorcing itself from the community of civilized nations. #IStandWithEvan
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