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The Education Revolution Is Here and Parents and Children Are Winning

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The Broken Windows in American Higher Education

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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

The Education Revolution Is Here and Parents and Children Are Winning

The Broken Windows in American Higher Education

Spencer Cox Provides the Statesmanship America Needs

Conservatism's Timeless Triad: Puritans, Pioneers, and Robber Barons

Michael Lucchese on Understanding Reagan's Conservatism and Buchanan's Populism

Not-So-Beautiful Losers: How Conservatism Won the Cold War – and Lost the Peace

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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