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More food aid flows into Gaza after Israel authorizes new United Nations aid transit routes. This is a welcome development amid a humanitarian crisis in the Palestinian territory. International organizations, the United States intelligence community, and many other nations assess that the civilians are going hungry, some of them dangerously so. The most sympathetic people, the elderly,…

It takes a certain amount of gall to ask the country to follow your state’s lead on energy policy when your state currently has the nation’s highest electricity prices. But that is exactly what California Gov. Gavin Newsom did last week. Hopefully, voters will choose not to follow him. Writing in the Wall Street Journal,…

The Democratic Party may be planning to campaign against President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act “from now until November 2026,” but new polling shows it will need more than anti-Trump rhetoric to break up Republican control of the House and Senate next year. Trump’s polling numbers may be underwater right now — the…

“The purpose of a system is what it does,” British theorist Stafford Beer once observed. For decades, federal and state governments poured tens of billions of dollars into programs to reduce homelessness, providing free housing and treatment later. Thousands of jobs were created at nonprofit organizations in cities across the country, and millions of dollars…

Business in the House has come to a premature halt due to the negligent handling of the Jeffrey Epstein case, but the Senate is scheduled to keep working for at least one more week. Even so, Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) should threaten to stay longer, canceling some if not all of the August recess…

Housing prices hit a record high this June, despite the fact that overall sales are down thanks to sky-high mortgage rates. But this isn’t true for all communities. Some cities have seen prices fall, even while the local job market stayed hot. The secret of these communities isn’t surprising. They made it easier for people…

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard’s recent document dumps expose the determined and persistent campaign of former CIA Director John Brennan to use and abuse his office for the political aim of defeating Donald Trump’s presidential campaign in 2016, trying to undermine Trump after he won, and weakening or derailing Trump’s presidency before it even…

Ukrainian resistance to Russia’s brutal invasion deserves strong international support, but it cannot be unconditional. A new law signed by President Volodymyr Zelensky to undermine the country’s anti-corruption efforts weakens the strong case he has made in other respects for support of Ukraine. Ukrainians deserve immense credit for the courageous defense of their freedom. They have lost…

At the behest of President Donald Trump, Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) has recalled the legislature to Austin for a special session from which Trump hopes Abbott can squeeze a few more Republican House seats out of the Lone Star State by redrawing congressional district maps.  Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) has seized on this as fuel…

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass wants to prevent Immigration and Customs Enforcement from wearing masks as they enforce federal immigration law in her city because she claims the practice needlessly spreads fear in immigrant communities. The only ones spreading fear are Bass and her Democratic colleagues as they amplify hoaxes and demonize law enforcement officers…