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What we've featured on the front page — analysis, opinion, and Alexander's columns — day by day.

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Is Time Running Out for Sanctuary Cities?

It could be that the real momentum after Minneapolis is against sanctuary jurisdictions.

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Spanberger's Dour SOTU Rebuttal

In contrast to President Trump's upbeat and illustrative address, the Virginia governor tried to rain on the parade.

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At America's 250th Birthday, Democrats Want a Different Country

We now have one party who no longer wants the nation founded July 4, 1776.

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Gavin Newsom Plays Dumb

Almost beyond parody, the California governor panders to black and working-class voters by claiming that he's as dumb as they are.

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Genital Mutilation of Somali Women in Minnesota

The Somali population unquestionably performs FGM in a state where it is illegal, yet the cases aren't being prosecuted by Democrats.

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Supremes Get the Right Answer to the Wrong Question

The question should have been, "Can the president impose tariffs as a basic instrument of foreign power and policy against other nations?"

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Not in Kansas Anymore

When feelings replace biology and dissent becomes harm, freedom quietly gives way to compulsion.

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America 250: European Thought Influences Colonies

Current citizens often falsely assume that the revolutionary generation in the colonies was unlearned and uninformed. Neither is true.

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President Trump Can Tout Big Wins

In just one year, President Trump has brought down prices, added jobs, made America safer, secured the border, and brought peace around the world.

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Congress Confused by State of Union From President Who Can Talk

"It just caught me off guard," said Sen. Tim Scott. "I haven't heard a State of the Union with intelligible language in many moons."

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Government Subsidies Killed the EV Industry

The power to tax and the power to subsidize is the power to destroy.

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Was Mar-a-Lago Intruder Motivated by Epstein Obsession?

The young man who was shot and killed by Secret Service after raising a shotgun to firing position on Trump's estate was fixated on the "evil."

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Trump Hosts Angel Families

The Democrats no doubt wish that these devastated families would just go away, but Donald Trump is committed to making sure we never forget.

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Judicial Tyranny Is a Threat to the Rule of Law

Liberal judges can't undo the 2024 election results, but they want to strip Trump of his constitutional authority.

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How a Party Offends Its Voters

Will the 2028 election come down to which party offends its own voters more? The Democrats are off to an impressive start.

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Taking the Offensive Against Cartels

The drug kingpin known as "El Mencho" was killed by Mexican authorities, opening a new chapter in the war on cartels.

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The Inspirational Ben Sasse and Nearing Glory

We are all going to die one day. The question is, how are we going to live?

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The Peanut Gallery Pipes Up

Their message every week: everything President Donald Trump does is awful, and democracy will be gone by next Tuesday.

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America at 250

America's uniqueness lies in its foundation on republicanism: the rule of a people through law and representation, rather than the rule of a ruler, a caste, or a permanent managerial class.

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Gavin Newsom Wows Black Audience by Putting Some Hot Sauce in His Purple Drank

"I am not just trying to score points here," he insisted. "We're alike in so many ways."