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Paul Ryan's false choice

House Speaker Paul Ryan says the nation has just two options...  Read more

Winners and losers under Trump's budget plan

President Trump unveiled a $1.15 trillion budget on Thursday, a far-reaching overhaul of federal government spending that slashes many domestic programs to finance a significant increase in the military and make a down payment on a U.S.-Mexico border wall...  Read more

Madame de Tocqueville

There has never been much written on Tocqueville's wife...  Read more

Obama-Era Guidance Undermined Its Own Aims

An Obama administration guidance, sidestepping law to serve an albeit well-meaning social agenda, may have deepened the very injustice it was meant to correct...  Read more

Ron DeSantis faces heat from both sides on Obamacare repeal

On live television last week, Rep. Ron DeSantis insinuated that cancer patients could get the care they needed at their local emergency rooms...  Read more

The return of the debt ceiling

When Wednesday ends, the federal government won't be able to go any further into debt until Congress gives its permission...  Read more

The Trumpcare advantage

Conservatives were jubilant just a month ago at the Conservative Political Action Conference, hailing President Trump as a conquering hero who would advance the cause of conservatism and potentially even redefine it...  Read more

The Puritanical Love Doctor Is In

Relations with married women. Any situation where that’s a-ok?...  Read more

Ignore the Deniers: The Murder Rate Is Up Significantly

For roughly two decades, the United States enjoyed a marked decline in its crime rates...  Read more

Conservatives ratchet up pressure to ditch Senate rules

Republicans want to use budget reconciliation for measures not currently permitted under the process...  Read more

Conservative-leaning group launches Gorsuch ads targeting red-state Senate Democrats

Concerned Veterans for America is launching a series of web ads boosting Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch and targeting Senate Democrats in Colorado, Indiana, Missouri, Montana, North Dakota and West Virginia...  Read more

In talks with Trump, Conservatives make Ryan the scapegoat

Instead of rebuking Trump, conservative groups are dissing the AHCA as "Ryancare."...  Read more

Could Trumpcare Sink Republicans in 2018?

Not much over the past couple of days has made the passage of the American Health Care Act seem more likely...  Read more

Mnuchin Warns Congress on Debt Ceiling

As tension continues to mount on Capitol Hill, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin warned several Congressional leaders on Wednesday that America would face the debt ceiling next week...  Read more

The power of women

A woman did not finally win the White House in November, but other women fill posts in which they are important influences in American politics...  Read more

Trump calls Planned Parenthood's bluff

Each time Congress debates whether to defund Planned Parenthood, the inevitable refrain from the group's supporters is that the money it receives from taxpayers doesn't pay for abortions and that, besides, abortion makes up just 3 percent of its services...  Read more

Trump, Xi to meet at Mar-a-Lago next month

President Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping will meet next month at Trump's Florida club in their first face-to-face meeting since Trump took the White House...  Read more

CPB needs a breath of fresh air from federal funding

Today, this American life includes a daunting national debt...  Read more