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On May 9, 2025, President Donald Trump signed an executive order titled “Fighting Overcriminalization in Federal Regulations,” addressing one of the most insidious threats to American liberty: the unchecked expansion of criminal penalties…

As luck would have it, I found myself in Amsterdam last November the night a pogrom broke out. My six-hour layover coincided with a soccer match between Maccabi Tel Aviv and Ajax Amsterdam, after which North African immigrants hunted down…

Five years after the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, there is no shortage of analysis personifying the virus as the villain. In a sense, it’s understandable: SARS-CoV-2 was the catalyst and the killer that drove much of the pandemic…

The good is up for grabs. American liberals had their shot — and failed. As Ross Douthat put it, recent years have provided “a case study in how a seemingly hegemonic worldview can pass very rapidly from consolidating power to squandering…

Someone committed murder. At least, according to George Strait and Alan Jackson when they sang “Murder on Music Row” in 1999. “The almighty dollar and the lust for worldwide fame/Slowly killed tradition, and for that someone…

A Beautiful China – Fourteen – Freedom, Justice, Love Xu Zhiyong, translated by Leo Timm, September 29, 2024 Note From the Editor Born in 1973, Dr. Xu Zhiyong (许志永) is a legal scholar, pioneer of China’s rights defense movement, and a…

Hardworking Americans were once again betrayed by big business this week when Southwest Airlines (SWA) announced it will soon relegate its famous open seating policy to the graveyard of good airline travel policies. First came the “fatties…

Despite America being currently shaken to its foundation, we are a blessed nation, with holidays such as Independence Day — commonly known as the Fourth of July — to reminisce on that fact. If more Americans understood that they are the…

President Joe Biden is wrong on just about everything consequential. It’s actually quite remarkable. Biden doesn’t seem to be able to land on the correct position on any important topic even by sheer happenstance. That’s my view. It’s also…

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