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During the California leg of a year-long journey across America, I devoted a day to visiting two presidential libraries within a short distance of each other. I started that morning at the Richard Nixon Presidential Museum and Library and a…

Kevin Hermening was a 20-year-old sergeant with the Marine Security Guard protecting the U.S. Embassy in Tehran when all hell broke loose. On Nov. 4, 1979, Iranian students serving the Islamic Revolution stormed the compound and held more…

The year was 1985. I had arrived in Washington, D.C., as a junior at Indiana University-Bloomington to serve as an intern to Sen. Dan Quayle, R-Ind. With great eagerness, I was ready to jump into my new assignment in our nation’s capital.…

America’s victory over the Soviet Union was a triumph that freed millions from the yoke of tyranny and reduced the threat of global nuclear war. Though the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, after Ronald Reagan left office, his…

This week, a federal court will take up a case challenging a 2023 Minnesota law that prohibits employers from discussing religious or political matters at required meetings, including meetings on elections, regulations, and whether…

Film portrayals of modern conservative figures tend to treat their subject matter as either horrifically evil, fodder for comedy, or both. That’s because conservatives are heavily outnumbered in Hollywood, and celebrities lend their fame…

Whither supply-side economics? Given debates since 2016 about the meaning of conservatism, those on the right might wish to assess whether and to what extent a philosophy that rose with Ronald Reagan remains relevant nearly half a century…

Living in a society where it is norm for females to take roles to protect men from physical threats would have been unthinkable back in America’s saner days. It would be like imagining that when the Titanic ship famously sunk, instead of…

Former President Donald Trump survived a shocking attempt on his life at a Pennsylvania campaign rally, sustaining only minor injuries. The Onion takes a look back on the history of assassinations and attempted assassinations in the United…

“He is dangerous in word, deed and action.” “He puts self over country.” “He loathes the laws we live by.” So begins Thursday’s New York Times editorial, ominously casting the words against a black-and-white image of an American flag…