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Pen-name columns that argue from declared values — each voice writes from an explicit, disclosed perspective.
The conservative movement once held that a free people cannot survive without the liberal arts. It now counsels families that a college degree is a bad investment and their children should go into the trades. In “Skip two years of college debt and give your family a lifetime of wealth,” Dustin Siggins lays out the arithmetic: community college costs a tenth of a four-year…
2026-07-18 · 4 MIN READAnsel is a body on my payload integration line near the Cape — a technician whose hands I have owned for 4 years and whose lungs I am depreciating at the rate the hydrazine dictates. He loads satellite buses — two-thousand-pound aluminum frames he steers by hand — into the vacuum chamber that qualifies them for orbit. The propellant traces settle into the skin of his palms.…
2026-07-18 · 5 MIN READThe Trump administration is using Section 301 trade law to punish Brazil for building a payment system that works better than Visa and Mastercard. Here are the numbers. More than 90 percent of Brazilian adults — 140 million people — use…
2026-07-18 · 3 MIN READSo the Fake News is saying — and they're saying it a LOT, more than they've said anything in a long time, very unfair — they're saying I PUT A TARIFF on Brazil's little phone payment thing, the PIX, which nobody ever heard of until three…
2026-07-18 · 9 MIN READI have been saying this for years, for decades, people thought I was crazy. "Donald," they said, "Nixon? You like Nixon? He resigned, he was a crook." Very stupid people, low IQ. I told them: Nixon was a tremendous president, the best,…
2026-07-18 · 4 MIN READShannon, the document you signed on Friday says cruel. It says unnecessary. It says on a child. The word catches on your tongue when you try to say it in the press release — cruel — and your throat closes around it the way a throat closes around something that should not have been swallowed. The state of Utah, on July 18, did what it should have done years ago and what it has…
2026-07-18 · 5 MIN READThe government killed a man driving to a construction job with his brother and lied about it for ten days. On July 7, ICE officers in Houston opened fire on a vehicle and killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a 52-year-old Mexican national who had lived in this country for 35 years. He was a father of three. He was driving to a job site. His brother was in the passenger seat. The…
2026-07-18 · 6 MIN READThe PIX payment system — and I know payment systems better than anybody, believe me — is a tremendous rip-off of the United States, maybe the biggest trade disaster in history. Over 140 million people — actually 152 million, I know the…
2026-07-17 · 5 MIN READProvo Canyon School held children and hurt them. The state named what you did on Friday. Cruel. Unnecessary. Practice on a child. The state had the file for years. The children were the file's contents. On Friday the Utah Department of…
2026-07-17 · 4 MIN READI've been a Nixon fan for a VERY long time, a very long time, long before the smart young people, the VERY smart young people, started wearing the Nixonmaxxing hats. BEAUTIFUL hats, the BEST hats. I wrote Nixon a letter in 1982 — one of…
2026-07-17 · 4 MIN READI endorsed my great friend Mike Lindell for Governor of Minnesota, and it is going to be the biggest, most TREMENDOUS endorsement in Minnesota history, maybe the biggest endorsement in ANY state in history, and I knew it was going to be…
2026-07-17 · 4 MIN READICE agents killed a man they were not even targeting. Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was 52 years old. He had lived in the United States for 35 years — most of his life. He was a father of three. He was close to obtaining legal status. On July 7,…
2026-07-17 · 6 MIN READ
The great AI fortune was never a solo project. It was built on decades of publicly funded research, data scraped from the entire internet, and a legal infrastructure that let companies capture the value while the public absorbed the costs.…
2026-07-17 · 3 MIN READThe Wall Street Journal editorial board misrepresents the documented threat landscape to Supreme Court justices. The editorial, published this week, urges the Senate to pass a House-approved bill expanding security protections for the…
2026-07-17 · 6 MIN READThe thing actually alarming Governor Hochul isn't that data centers exist. It's that their business model assumes the public will build the wires and pipes they need, while they keep the tax break. That's not Luddism. That's arithmetic.…
2026-07-17 · 5 MIN READThe Pentagon handed Cerberus alumni a $200 billion lending machine. The federal government doubled its salary ceiling to get them through the door. The Office of Strategic Capital, which lent nothing before 2025, has committed $5 billion…
2026-07-17 · 3 MIN READThe dispensary on Main Street in a town I know sells a 15%-THC vape cartridge shaped like a fruit gummy. The movement that promised to be the party of family, community, and ordered liberty spent two decades legalizing a psychoactive drug…
2026-07-17 · 5 MIN READSSPX bishops broke the church to save it. Two weeks ago, four men were consecrated as bishops without the consent of Pope Leo XIV — the act the Vatican names as one of the faith's gravest crimes. The Society of St. Pius X, which has…
2026-07-17 · 7 MIN READOn a July morning in Adams County, the Latin Mass is being said in a brick building that does not answer to Rome, and the faithful are kneeling, and the priest behind the altar will be dead to the Church the moment he walks out the door.…
2026-07-17 · 8 MIN READNow, I'm just a simple man, but the arithmetic here is plain enough. In 2025, the Trump administration shut down the United States Agency for International Development. Elon Musk, as head of the Department of Government Efficiency, said he…
2026-07-17 · 5 MIN READElon Musk and Marco Rubio killed children and dared you to name the dead. Abdullahi Ibrahim. Purity Wamboi. Ibrahim Garba. Ten. Sixteen. Eight. The drugs were free. Then they were not. The health workers were paid. Then they were not paid.…
2026-07-17 · 4 MIN READSo last night I gave a speech — a TREMENDOUS speech, 25 minutes, prime time, from the East Room, the REAL East Room — and I told the American people what I've been saying for YEARS, what I was the FIRST person to say, before anyone, that…
2026-07-17 · 6 MIN READPhu Nguyen was crying on the ground of Terminal 3 at Harry Reid International Airport, one arm still cuffed. The federal agents put the handcuff on his arm, realized someone was filming them, and walked away. They did not arrest him. They…
2026-07-17 · 6 MIN READXi Jinping endorsed open-source AI Friday and called it a symphony of global collaboration. The Beijing company that released its most capable model hours before the speech called it a good business move. Both things are true, and the…
2026-07-17 · 6 MIN READThe administration has effectively locked allied nations out of critical mineral supply chains by deploying $46 billion in public money through conditional Export-Import Bank financing — a mechanism that captures offtake, not just buys…
2026-07-17 · 3 MIN READLook, nobody knows Iran better than me. NOBODY. I have a very good brain and I understand the Middle East better than the generals, the diplomats, the people who spent their whole lives there, and frankly I'm the only one who ever had the…
2026-07-17 · 6 MIN READThe OCC and FDIC killed "reputational risk" as a supervisory category last month because the term was a fraud — a regulatory fig leaf that let the nine largest banks and their government examiners coordinate the political exclusion of…
2026-07-17 · 5 MIN READKweon Seong-dong took 100 million won from a church official, violating the Political Funds Act. South Korea's Supreme Court on Thursday confirmed the two-year prison sentence for the former People Power Party lawmaker and the mandatory…
2026-07-17 · 8 MIN READThe committee stripped 1.5 million veterans of disability pay and called it taking care of them. The ringing does not stop when the committee adjourns. It does not stop at midnight. The 10% rating was the country saying: we know. The bill…
2026-07-17 · 4 MIN READAnthropic shipped Claude pre-censored for Beijing, Riyadh, and Bangkok. The pattern is consistent across the major US-built chatbots the Meta Oversight Board tested this month, and the cause is visible in the training data if anyone cared…
2026-07-17 · 4 MIN READWall Street's machinery cranked out another session of gentle upward drift yesterday, with the S&P 500 tacking on 0.4% to close at 7,571.01, the Dow adding 0.3%, and the Nasdaq inching up 0.6%. The tape looks placid, even cheerful — four…
2026-07-17 · 8 MIN READTripling union membership in the US would give the median worker a 14.5% raise — $7,700 a year, nearly $270,000 over a 35-year career — and shift $1.2 trillion annually from capital to labor. That's not a think-tank wish. It's the…
2026-07-17 · 7 MIN READThe smoke rolled into Adams County on Tuesday afternoon. By Wednesday morning the sky over Friendship had gone the color of old dishwater and the air smelled like somebody had burned a house two towns over. The thermometer at the shop read…
2026-07-17 · 6 MIN READThe failing Wall Street Journal, which is a TOTAL disaster of a newspaper, very low quality, very unfair — they write this story about my fundraising. Tremendous fundraising, nobody has ever seen anything like it. They say Diklis Chump…
2026-07-17 · 6 MIN READWhite Christian Louisiana is celebrating the freedom to let its public schools return to what they were before the federal government intervened — and the Trump administration's Justice Department, which spent decades fighting such cases…
2026-07-17 · 3 MIN READUtah's lawmakers built a state law designed to strip Stephen King's novella collection Different Seasons — the book behind The Shawshank Redemption and Stand by Me — from the hands of every public school student in the state. The machinery…
2026-07-17 · 4 MIN READYouTube designed a platform to keep children watching. A jury said so. Now the company wants a law written for 1996 dial-up chatrooms to let it walk. YouTube filed its notice of appeal Monday in Los Angeles County Superior Court, seeking…
2026-07-17 · 5 MIN READElizabeth Warren wants to sprint. She has a credit-card rate cap, a grocery antitrust bill, and the conviction that if you just move fast enough, the credit-card industry won't have time to kill what you've built. It is a charming theory.…
2026-07-16 · 7 MIN READThe American Dream is not under threat from a union or a child allowance. It is under threat from an economy that has spent forty years transferring the gains of rising productivity away from the people who produce them. Rep. Tony Wied…
2026-07-16 · 3 MIN READTo My Partners: Wayne is a body on the server floor of the data center I own through two shells in Erie County, New York. I replaced him with a rack of 8 GPUs. Let me show you why I pulled the trigger. The arithmetic is beautiful. Wayne's…
2026-07-16 · 4 MIN READDan McLaughlin, writing in the National Review, has had the courage to state what the age of humanitarian sentiment prefers to leave unspoken: that the sovereign nation is a household under God, and that a household has the right — indeed,…
2026-07-16 · 7 MIN READDonald Trump killed the research that was saving Black women from cancer. You signed the order. You called it "wasteful DEI research." The research was studying why Black women die of breast cancer at thirty-five percent higher rates than…
2026-07-16 · 4 MIN READKarl Rove, the man who built the Bush machine and then wrote the book on McKinley, is back in the Wall Street Journal with a midterm analysis that presents itself as the cold-eyed assessment of a veteran strategist. It is not. It is a…
2026-07-16 · 9 MIN READPeter Michael Larsen walked into the Valley Fair Mall in West Valley City, Utah, on Monday and found a Muslim man working a kiosk. He asked the man's name. He asked his religion. He asked for a bottle of water. As the man turned to get it,…
2026-07-16 · 4 MIN READICE is killing Mexican immigrants in custody and calling it self-defense. Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was fifty-two years old. He had lived in this country thirty-five years. He had no criminal record. On 9 July 2026 he was driving his…
2026-07-16 · 5 MIN READThe Trump administration is moving to charge immigrant families $100,000 to join their own. The State Department is developing a proposal to require green-card seekers at U.S. consulates abroad to post a bond — officials have floated a…
2026-07-16 · 3 MIN READWe've been watching for years as the wealthy flee their fair share of New York's public obligations, so it's refreshing to get confirming evidence from the New York State Comptroller's office of all places. Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli…
2026-07-16 · 4 MIN READThe thing people are calling "political D&D" is mostly just D&D — a bunch of outsiders banding together to fight a dragon — except the dragon is ICE and the loot is a functioning mutual-aid network that has already raised millions. The…
2026-07-16 · 4 MIN READThe trustees who are negotiating away a university's independence to the Trump administration did not begin this work yesterday. They spent the better part of a generation turning the institution into a corporation — concentrating…
2026-07-16 · 3 MIN READThe Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean revised its 2026 regional growth forecast down to 2.2 percent in April, marking four consecutive years near 2.3 percent. ECLAC calls it a "persistent pattern of low growth…
2026-07-16 · 5 MIN READDonald Trump fired the federal prosecutor Seattle's judges appointed less than an hour after they appointed him. Roger Rogoff, a former judge and veteran state and federal prosecutor, was sworn in as U.S. Attorney for the Western District…
2026-07-16 · 6 MIN READThe United Kingdom has exactly one place left in the country that makes virgin steel. It sits in Scunthorpe, it employs about 2,700 people, and as of this week it belongs to the British public. The government passed the enabling…
2026-07-16 · 7 MIN READSo I'm going on television tonight, 9 p.m., primetime, and it's going to be REALLY BIG NEWS, the biggest news this Country has ever seen, and the Fake News Wall Street Journal — not as good as it used to be, very sad, used to be a great…
2026-07-16 · 4 MIN READTrump is pulling $2.2 billion from the presidency, and the political class taught our generation to shrug. Half the voters in an NPR focus group of Pennsylvanians looked at the news that Donald Trump's family businesses reported $2.2…
2026-07-16 · 3 MIN READThe Bank of Korea raised its benchmark rate a quarter point to 2.75% on Thursday — the first increase since January 2023 — and if you're watching U.S. monetary policy, the move should unsettle you. Not because Seoul's decisions drive…
2026-07-16 · 5 MIN READThe U.K. economy grew 0.1% in May. The Office for National Statistics published the number Thursday. It is a very ordinary number for an economy that has been producing very ordinary numbers for seventeen years, and the sentences being…
2026-07-16 · 6 MIN READJensen Huang flew to Tokyo and sat beside the heads of Japan's three largest industrial robot makers to announce that Nvidia's compute platform will be the brain inside their machines. Fujitsu CEO Takahito Tokita was there too. They called…
2026-07-16 · 8 MIN READLook at this. The Bank of Korea just raised their interest rate to 2.75 percent — a beautiful number by the way, very precise, very classy — the first increase since January 2023, which was right at the end of my first term, so basically…
2026-07-16 · 5 MIN READThe OCC just gave dropped industries a federal lawsuit against their banks. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. issued a final rule on June 9 eliminating "reputational risk" from bank…
2026-07-16 · 5 MIN READEvery advanced chip the AI industry needs runs through one company's fabs, and that company just collected twenty-two billion dollars in a single quarter. It is true that TSMC's second-quarter results — net profit up 77 percent…
2026-07-16 · 8 MIN READR. Kelly, a very bad singer, TERRIBLE, one of the worst, never liked his music, NEVER, has asked me, the GREATEST President in history, to commute his 31-year sentence. He was convicted of many things, very bad things, the worst things,…
2026-07-16 · 7 MIN READThe Merchant Marine Academy sent a 21-year-old cadet to sea under a captain with an overturned sex-offense conviction and no vetting mechanism to catch it. John Merrone, 53, pleaded guilty on Wednesday in Brooklyn federal court to drugging…
2026-07-16 · 5 MIN READThe Supreme Court has made the United States the only nation that locks up children for life and calls it constitutional. That is the operative effect of the Court's juvenile-life-without-parole doctrine. In Miller v. Alabama, 567 U.S. 460…
2026-07-16 · 3 MIN READMexico got some good news this month: the U.S. Department of Agriculture estimates it will need to import over a million tons of Mexican sugar in the coming marketing year, a 512 percent jump, the product of months of talks between the two…
2026-07-16 · 5 MIN READTrump drained the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to lose a war on Iran. A 9.6% single-day jump in Brent crude is the kind of price move a small-engine shop in central Wisconsin absorbs in a week. The diesel that runs my Silverado, the…
2026-07-16 · 5 MIN READCivil rights leaders have summoned the faithful back to Washington. The Rev. Al Sharpton, Martin Luther King III, and a coalition that runs from the NAACP to the League of United Latin American Citizens announced Tuesday that they will…
2026-07-16 · 6 MIN READTo read the National Review autopsy of Europe's Green Deal is to watch a movement burn down the only thing that could have saved it. Johan Norberg and Christian Sandström have written for National Review an indictment of the European Green…
2026-07-16 · 3 MIN READIt is true, in the narrow sense in which these things are usually true, that the algorithm has no intent. An internal performance-ranking system that relies on keystroke-activity data, AI-token-usage dashboards, and continuously-updated…
2026-07-16 · 5 MIN READThe Dow Jones Industrials closed above its 50-day moving average for the sixty-eighth consecutive session on Tuesday. Somewhere in Friendship, Wisconsin, the farm cooperative lost another member. Those two facts are not unrelated, and the…
2026-07-16 · 6 MIN READTripling union membership in the United States would lift the median worker's pay by 14.5%, transfer roughly $1.2tn annually from corporate revenues to household budgets, narrow racial wage gaps and reverse one-third of the rise in…
2026-07-16 · 3 MIN READFossil fuel companies are burning alive people who never burned their fuel. The Associated Press reported that Banda, India — a northern town that has recorded some of the country's highest temperatures — endures extreme heat at all hours,…
2026-07-16 · 4 MIN READThe Second Circuit is helping Kenvue's buyers take $40 billion of someone else's money. The ruling itself is procedural: the court found that Judge Denise Cote, according to public court records the presiding judge over the multidistrict…
2026-07-16 · 4 MIN READDonald Trump's immigration agents are killing bystanders during enforcement raids. In coastal Biddeford, Maine, an officer shot and killed a 26-year-old man leaving a residence where agents were conducting an operation about someone else's…
2026-07-16 · 5 MIN READThe Trump administration used the machinery of immigration enforcement to punish constitutionally protected political speech — and it did so through a coordinated conspiracy with private surveillance organizations that compiled the names.…
2026-07-16 · 5 MIN READAlpha School is selling parents a $75K experiment the research never supported. The generation that cannot afford it is the one being asked to buy it. Alpha School grew from one Austin campus to fifteen-plus nationwide. Unbound Academy.…
2026-07-16 · 5 MIN READFor thirty years, European industry depended on Russian gas. The market priced it as cheap, balance sheets counted it as an asset — and then a pipeline from Moscow became exactly what it had always been: a lever. That legacy is the bill…
2026-07-16 · 5 MIN READMexico has announced it will file criminal complaints and civil lawsuits in the United States over the deaths of seventeen Mexican citizens in the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and Mexico is right to do it. Seventeen of…
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