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If Trump is elected president this fall, it will not be the first time that American voters have rewarded a convicted crook with electoral power.
There’s an easy way to fix the problem Beacon Hill has caused.
Some regulators want to ban election betting markets. Here’s why they’re wrong.
Steeped in racism and eugenics, the 1924 Immigration Act made it impossible for most would-be Americans to enter the United States legally.
When it comes to wealth and work, Zoomers are in good shape.
The Jewish state has repeatedly earned US respect by not being a pushover.
Of all the people to single out for honor on “Black April,” none was more certain to provoke outrage in Vietnamese American circles than Jane...
The new president is turning his country’s economy around by shrinking the state and championing free markets.
‘Trim your principles,’ the paper editorializes, ‘and pander away.’
No matter how much is spent on public transportation, we are constantly hectored that more is needed.
The grassroots campaign that kept away the Summer Games deserves a gold medal in civic activism.
Why would the Libertarian Party, which will be nominating a presidential candidate at its national convention in Washington this month, invite...
She fabricated an anecdote about meeting North Korea’s Kim Jong Un. Then she made things worse.
The Commonwealth’s admirable commitment to children with disabilities is undermined by a regulation rooted in bigotry.
A PBS documentary about William F. Buckley Jr. conveys both his intellectual force and his joyful charisma.
How tax withholding turned us into geese who can be plucked without squealing.
It is hard to overstate how radical it is for a president to behave in this way.
Obama failed to act when Syria deployed poison gas. Biden must not make the same error.
Instead of diversity, DEI policies promote a rigid ideological uniformity.
The federal government is making an arbitrary, nonsensical, and divisive system even more so.
The four-term senator from Connecticut and VP nominee understood that there are times when party loyalty asks too much.
In the Boston area, where I live, about 95 percent of the sun will be blocked by the moon during the solar eclipse that will cross North America next...
Most immigrants, authorized and unauthorized alike, are more law-abiding than native-born Americans.
On the cover of the current issue of The Economist is an Israeli flag, covered in grime, being whipped by a sandstorm in a deserted land. Above it, in...
Norman Borlaug, who was born on a farm in Iowa 110 years ago this week, is reckoned to have saved more lives than any man in human history —...
Ripping words out of context, prominent voices on the left and right alike keep pouring fuel on our incendiary civic discourse.
The Vermont senator looks at America’s global record and sees mostly failure and disgrace.
A member of Palestine Action destroyed a portrait of Arthur James Balfour at Trinity College in the U.K. — an act the anti-Israel group defended on...
The flap over Wendy's plan to test ‘dynamic pricing’ was a nothingburger.
After a century of failed foreign interventions, Haitians must be told that no one is coming to rescue them.
I have followed John Kerry’s career for 40 years, but I still cringe at things that come out of his mouth.
Suicide is a tragedy, whatever the reason, yet leftists praised Bushnell as a great moral exemplar.
Like all brave dissidents, his courage imbues others with the courage to speak truth to power.
Cuba’s indomitable heroine is a recipient of this year's International Women of Courage Award.
No one as old as William Henry Harrison had ever run for president. Even his supporters knew that was a problem.
Ozawa’s passion for American baseball was a subset of his affection for the United States.
Liam Morrison’s school said he couldn’t wear a "two-genders" T-shirt. The Constitution says he can.
How much disillusionment can our political system tolerate before it cracks up?
It is only one of the many contrasts presented by the Republican presidential contest, but it is particularly acute. Haley tells the world she would...
The only student group rejected this year was one organized to oppose anti-Jewish bigotry.
To the bureaucratic blob in Washington, allowing a measure of fun to intrude on highway driving would be anathema.
It is strictly illegal for public employees to strike. Why isn’t the law being enforced?
Communism rarely evokes the instinctive loathing that Nazism does. Why?
The real "1 percent" aren’t the superrich but those with influence, access, and a graduate degree.
There is nothing "inclusive" about penalizing or rewarding people on the basis of their race and gender.
A key figure in the government’s COVID-19 response admits that he was willfully blind.
Airline travel isn't nearly as comfortable, pleasant, roomy, and civilized as it once was. But it is a lot safer.
The chief threat to stability in Asia today is not Taiwanese independence but Chinese belligerence. The president should have said so.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations has been linked to Islamist extremists.
In a new poll commissioned by the Deseret News, an astonishing 64 percent of Republicans surveyed said that Trump is a “person of faith.”