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Trump's Tough Immigration Talk Comes With a High Price Tag
With the endorsement of a prominent Republican U.S. senator who was formerly critical of Donald Trump's immigration hawkishness, the Republican party seems wedded this year to a scheme for mass...
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Ending Section 230 Would Kill the Internet as We Know It
Described as "the 26 words that created the internet," Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act catches a lot of flak for a piece of legislation that is largely responsible for online platforms'...
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Australians Abandon Physical Cash and the Freedom It Protects
The end of cash has been heralded for years—mostly by government officials eager to end the expense of minting coins and printing banknotes while pushing transactions to digital forms that can be...
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Does Donald Trump's Conviction in New York Make Us Banana Republicans?
The United States doesn't fully meet the definition of a banana republic—we don't have an economy dependent on resources, like bananas. But in terms of unstable politics in which government officials...
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Report: E.U. Censorship Laws Mostly Suppress Legal Speech
Among those who think the United States is an unseemly cesspool of unrestrained opinions voiced by those people, Europe is often touted as an alternative for speech regulation. European Union law,...
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Australian Censors Back Down, Highlighting the U.S. as a Free Speech Haven
In a welcome development for people who care about liberty, Australia's government suspended its efforts to censor the planet. The country's officials suffered pushback from X (formerly Twitter) and...
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No Charges in ATF Killing Over Paperwork Firearms Violation
Agents of the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) suspected that Bryan Malinowski, executive director of the airport in Little Rock, Arkansas, and an avid firearms...
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Democrats' Political Views Are Shifting Faster Than Republicans'
For those seeking balance in this polarized moment in American politics, Gallup offers news that initially seems good. The polling firm finds Americans are becoming increasingly socially liberal while...
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'Vast Majority' of Pandemic Employee Retention Credit Claims Are Likely...
You can add the Internal Revenue Service to the ranks of federal agencies conceding that raining taxpayer money on all and sundry to offset the negative effects of pandemic-era closures didn't go as...
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Presidential Debate Debacle Was a Great Argument for Smaller Government
Most coverage of last week's geriatric cage match of a debate focuses on the impact of Joe Biden's obvious cognitive and physical decline on his prospects as the Democratic presidential candidate....
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France's Messy Elections Make American Politics Look Orderly
The writer Tom Wolfe once quipped, "the dark night of fascism is always descending in the United States and yet lands only in Europe." After a series of elections culminating in the first round of a...
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Federal Intervention in Campus Protests Is Going Too Far
Campus protests that started out as anti-Israel and too often slid over into flat-out antisemitism and pro-terrorist advocacy shocked much of the nation in recent months. It's enough to make anybody...
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If You Don't Trust Media Now, Wait Until It's Government-Funded
In May, the New York State government agreed to subsidize news media. With audiences declining for news reports, many Very Concerned People have called on governments to Do Something to prop up...
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Joe Biden and Donald Trump Make Each Other's Candidacies Possible
Wildly unpopular with much of the American public and blatantly unsuited to the office of the presidency to which both men hope to be reelected, Donald Trump and Joe Biden both seem ripe to be...
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Supreme Court Left the Door Open for a Wealth Tax. But It's Still a Terrible...
Progressives have long imagined that vast riches could be infused into government coffers if only they could tax Americans not just on their income, but on estimates of their total wealth. Treat...
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Trump's Defiance of an Assassin's Bullet Reaffirmed Populist Appeal
Famously molding the Republican Party in his populist image, Donald Trump's defining reach-the-people moment undoubtedly came with his response to the attempted assassination at a campaign rally in...
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Federalism Could Heal a Divided Nation
Anybody expecting politicians' empty promises that they'll savage one another more politely in the future to settle the country's tensions is dreaming. Vicious rhetoric by candidates may fan the...
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Libertarians Are More Politically Homeless Than Ever
For libertarians, modern American politics makes for a lonely place. Lonelier than usual, that is. Democrats are doubling down on their longtime taste for government control of the economy while...
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Firearms Policy Coalition Takes No Prisoners in Sharp Response to...
Talk about your thin-skinned politicians! Apparently, it doesn't take much more than an insult from critics these days to get the governor of Maine to scream for the police. Since When Is Criticism a...
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Even After the Harris-Biden Substitution, the Presidential Race Still Sucks
An old joke frames Washington, D.C. as Hollywood for ugly people. But it's more accurate to say it's Hollywood for horrible people who make you want to back away slowly in search of an exit. To notice...
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