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Family Policy Enthusiasts Get the Ecology Wrong

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Family First, Texas Strong

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Politics

Confronting the New Antisemitism

Our Ability to Fight Foreign Terrorism Just Got Weaker

America Can’t Build for War Anymore

Policymakers Need to Get Tax Treatment of Litigation Funding Right

Left-Wing Civil War Threatens LA’s Future

The Myth of Europe’s ‘Fascist’ Revival

“Democratic” Socialism Is Undemocratic

Our Ability to Fight Foreign Terrorism Just Got Weaker

America Can’t Build for War Anymore

Policymakers Need to Get Tax Treatment of Litigation Funding Right

Left-Wing Civil War Threatens LA’s Future

The Myth of Europe’s ‘Fascist’ Revival

Sneaky Leftist Lawsuits Are Taking Aim at US Energy Dominance

I’d like to Believe California Can Be Saved from the Left. It May Be Too Late.

The Rise of the UnJews

Steve Hilton’s Rise Won’t Kill California Progressivism

AI Cyber Risks Are Testing the Office Built to Coordinate Them

Family Policy Enthusiasts Get the Ecology Wrong

Family First, Texas Strong

Obamacare for American Orbanists: How Not to Do Family Policy

Beyond the Border: How Extraterritorial State Laws Risk America’s AI Ambitions

The Trump National Security Strategy Is Good, Bad, and Ugly All at Once

“Brazenly Partisan” Judges Scrutinize Trump’s Mind, But Refuse To Explain Themselves

How Gavin Newsom Ran California Into The Ground

WHCD Shooting Suspect Allegedly Targeted Trump Administration Officials

All federal law enforcement agencies must answer to the president: Former deputy assistant AG

‘NO RIGHT to block passage’: John Yoo on Strait of Hormuz Dispute

John Yoo on DOJ fraud division and political weaponization

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