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Polls show Americans are angry -- and rightly so -- at accelerating medical bills. Meanwhile, the insurers and hospitals keep raking in record profits.

UnitedHealthcare just reported jumbo profits so far in 2026, and in 2025 they recorded revenues of more than $400 billion. They are raking in profits from the $1.9 trillion in federal healthcare...Read more

PITTSBURGH -- Art Rooney II was standing on the pitch of the brand-new U.S. Steel Community football field, located on the sprawling 178 acres where the men and women who lived in the slopes overlooking Hazelwood Works labored in the mill.

It doesn't seem that long ago when those massive steel structures were churning out steel for over 100 ...Read more

Andrew Jackson is the only president of the United States who got the better of his attempted assassin.

The aged Jackson was at the Capitol for a congressional funeral when a crazed man named Richard Lawrence aimed a pistol directly at his chest and pulled the trigger. It misfired. Jackson bull-charged his assailant with his cane and, ...Read more

America isn't racist enough for the modern left, so the Southern Poverty Law Center appears to have paid white supremacists.

On Tuesday, the Department of Justice unveiled an 11-count indictment against the organization. The most shocking part of the indictment isn't the alleged crimes. It's what federal officials believe led to the crimes.

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In 1990, George H.W. Bush, listening to then-White House Chief of Staff John H. Sununu, nominated David Souter to the U.S. Supreme Court. Sununu, who as governor of New Hampshire had nominated Souter to the Granite State's supreme court in 1983, assured Bush that Souter would be a "home run" for the conservative cause.

That's not what ...Read more

During the national debates of 1788, the great Virginian James Madison worried that mere "parchment barriers," or constitutions, wouldn't be enough to stop an "overbearing majority" from seeking power and stripping minorities of their voice and rights.

What he envisioned, in other words, was someone like Abigail Spanberger.

The governor ...Read more

The Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, has fired Secretary of the Navy John Phelan. This comes after Hegseth fired Army Chief of Staff General Randy George. Hegseth keeps firing senior leaders, often arguing the fired were "woke," but the common thread seems to be that they had good relationships with the president and were competent.

When I...Read more

Back in 2020, National "Public" Radio promoted a nasty little book called "In Defense of Looting." NPR summarized the "Marxist-informed" author Vicky Osterweil in the wake of the "racial justice" rioting in cities: "She argues that looting is a powerful tool to bring about real, lasting change in society."

It's interesting to imagine how they ...Read more

Hypocrisy was triumphant, as it usually is in arguments over redistricting, in Virginia this week, as voters approved a "fairness" constitutional amendment allowing the Democratic-majority legislature to enact a congressional districting plan that is expected to increase Democrats' edge in its congressional delegation from 6-5 to 10-1. This is a...Read more

Is robbing the Louvre a good idea? Left-wing influencer Hasan Piker and New Yorker writer Jia Tolentino did a much-discussed video interview with The New York Times on the ethics of theft, and came out four-square in favor of stealing things, including artwork from the Louvre.

They consider larceny an appropriate response to the inherent ...Read more

In a famous Supreme Court one-liner, reminding the legal community of the finality of the court's rulings, the late Justice William J. Brennan Jr. is reputed to have said that the Constitution means whatever any five of us say it means. This reflects the basic math that five is a majority of nine. It also reflects the theory of realism in ...Read more

The United States Supreme Court has entered its most consequential season.

From April through June, the justices release rulings that do more than interpret the law -- they shape the direction of the country. Cases argued in the quiet months of winter now emerge into public view, often carrying the full weight of the nation's deepest ...Read more

America has a spending problem. It also has a health care problem. These are not two separate crises but rather the same crisis wearing different clothes. The Cato Institute's new "Handbook on Affordability" is a great resource to understand the root problem and how to fix it.

Start with a recap of the fiscal picture. The federal government ...Read more

There simply is no other explanation for it. Not ignorance, not well-intentioned stupidity, not misguided but honest mistakes.

No one could inflict the kinds of cruelty that our politicians do unless they despised their constituents.

The horrible effects of destructive public policies are everywhere: in all our larger cities, in state ...Read more

There's a growing impulse in American politics to blame the free market -- and the technologies it produces -- for every bout of economic indigestion, as if a shadowy cabal of innovators is deliberately dismantling the middle-class way of life.

That impulse is no longer abstract. It has become physical.

People are now attacking data centers....Read more

Many speeches will be delivered this year about the Declaration of Independence as we celebrate its 250th birthday.

However, I think the greatest was just delivered by Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas on April 15 at the Civitas Institute at the University of Texas, Austin.

The force of Thomas' words does not just result from his deep ...Read more