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The assassination of Brian Thompson does not call for a “conversation” about health care—it calls for a reckoning with Americans’ moral breakdown.

Charles Murray’s social science is sometimes provocative, usually controversial, and always significant to the national debate.

The great essayist warns us against intellectual pride—but also delights in the variety and contradictoriness of life.

A new generation of defense innovators emerges in El Segundo.

The Ford Foundation has spent decades tearing the country apart, tax-free.

Fascination with a deadly drug ravaged a generation of great American musicians.

Radicals seek the demise of the West through organized criminal mayhem—here’s how to stop them.

Four years of open borders and sanctuary policies have brought criminal drug networks, human trafficking, and an epidemic of sexual assault.

From the courtroom to the ballot box, the trans movement has taken some hits.

Haunted by past humiliations, the nation’s leaders seek to restore what they see as its rightful place in the world.

The art form's heyday came and went, but its ghost has been lively.

The assassination of Brian Thompson does not call for a “conversation” about health care—it calls for a reckoning with Americans’ moral breakdown.

Charles Murray’s social science is sometimes provocative, usually controversial, and always significant to the national debate.

The great essayist warns us against intellectual pride—but also delights in the variety and contradictoriness of life.

A new generation of defense innovators emerges in El Segundo.

The Ford Foundation has spent decades tearing the country apart, tax-free.

Fascination with a deadly drug ravaged a generation of great American musicians.

Radicals seek the demise of the West through organized criminal mayhem—here’s how to stop them.

Four years of open borders and sanctuary policies have brought criminal drug networks, human trafficking, and an epidemic of sexual assault.

From the courtroom to the ballot box, the trans movement has taken some hits.

Haunted by past humiliations, the nation’s leaders seek to restore what they see as its rightful place in the world.

The art form's heyday came and went, but its ghost has been lively.

The assassination of Brian Thompson does not call for a “conversation” about health care—it calls for a reckoning with Americans’ moral breakdown.

Charles Murray’s social science is sometimes provocative, usually controversial, and always significant to the national debate.

The great essayist warns us against intellectual pride—but also delights in the variety and contradictoriness of life.
