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Musk will presumably again allow a thousand flowers to bloom. And the oligopoly can't handle that.
Americans must have confidence enough to say, "It's worked before, and it works still. I will not surrender it simply because you demand that I do so."

Americans don't hate each other, but they're being polarized by a media determined to divide them from one another.

This administration is far more tied to its ideological predilections than to reality.
In the end, it may be that the least-bad scenario is about simply preventing the worst-case scenario.
Frivolity is no longer the order of the day. Which means that Giorgia Meloni and those who agree with her are only the beginning.

Whatever lessons Americans learned on 9/11 have largely been forgotten one generation later.
Faced with the prospect of ethnic tensions, economic volatility and the internal instability of China, the West is opting for weakness.

Fascism is a gradual process. And that process starts with executive branch actors accreting authority they were never given.

The Constitution is a charter of limited powers, delegated by the people to the federal government
Radicalism will be tolerated by a Democratic White House so long as those regimes promise a revised balance of power in line with longtime Democratic shibboleths.

If the basis for the raid is anything less than bedrock-solid, the most serious questions of political legitimacy will be on the table.
Pelosi's Taiwan trip represents the latest in a long line of American foreign policy moves that seem like bluster rather than strength.

The United States must stop acting as though China will change its tack any time soon.

Our higher education system is designed to benefit claims of victimhood rooted in intersectional identity politics.
If we are supposed to celebrate what we share, and if we share nearly nothing, what precisely do we celebrate?
The Democrats' vision of human happiness and the measures necessary to achieve it are not in line with that of most Americans.
That center has sought to enshrine its own power by taking from both the Left and the Right.

Firehosing money into an already-hot economy was a recipe for inflation.
The ostrich strategy of the Democratic Party and its media apparatchiks is likely to bear devastating electoral fruit.