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The would-be dictator would get a much better class of censor if his regime didn’t hoist the biggest morons in the country into leadership positions.

President Trump is on a roll. In the past couple of weeks, he’s named the Kennedy Center, the U.S. Institute of Peace, and a new class of battleships after himself.

Assuming anything like free and fair elections next November, the Democratic wave would be sufficient to overcome Republican attempts at voter suppression, as was the case in 2018. But this time, the ...

How FBI Director Kash Patel undermines the FBI’s performance and credibility.

Contra again?

This would seem to be an opportunity for Democrats. Polling released at the start of August by End Citizens United found that ...

Add Republican objections to Trump’s China capitulations to the growing realm of defections from leaders of his own party.

Americans are getting wise to the threats posed by the lightly regulated facilities competing with humans for resources.

With Trump, Musk, Bezos et al. running amok, progressive economic populism is on the rise. Polling shows a broad public turn toward policy that seeks to reverse the upward redistribution of income and ...

On the surface, Donald Trump is disinterested in the nation’s abiding cost-of-living concerns. Everything is fine, the president insists, loudly if he has to. His shrinking economic approval ratings ...