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Happy Independence Day, everyone. The Supreme Court issued a major ruling on the separation of powers in the case West Virginia v. EPA. Agencies issued new regulations ranging from microlending to walnut marketing. On to the data: Agencies issued 78 final regulations in a four-day week last week, after 33 the previous week. That’s the […]

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No writer can fully escape the spirit of his own age.

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On this Independence Day, remembering the life of an American hero: Hershel Woodrow "Woody" Williams (1923-2022).

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Notes on imperium and libertas from the International Religious Freedom Summit.

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The case for abortion only holds up to those who believe a person’s value is dependent on how much they are wanted.

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The Supreme Court’s ruling in West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency that the EPA exceeded its authority under the Clean Air Act is a warning shot to other federal agencies concerning similar overreach. The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) should take particular notice. The NLRB, an independent federal agency that enforces the National Labor Relations […]

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To big companies like T-Mobile, increased market share equals increased power.

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The Supreme Court’s decision today in West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency is an important brake on the administrative state that has inexorably grown since the New Deal. The Court held that in issuing new emission caps designed to remake the U.S. power generation industry in an Obama era Clean Power Plan, the Environmental Protection […]

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A Nigerian senator’s arrest marks the spread of a common Third World crime into new territory.

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Imagine a group of mothers upset about Disney’s opposition to a state parental rights bill in Florida. Instead of merely venting in a Facebook group, the mothers organize around a shared goal: creating alternative programming for kids. Instead of creating a Limited Liability Company, pitching venture capitalists, and navigating the esoteric world of television, they […]

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'The president intends to run and if he does, I will be his ticket mate. We will run together,' Kamala Harris tells a Los Angeles Times reporter.

Post-Dobbs, social conservatives must take the lead in the conservative movement.

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America should learn what it can from the Soviet abortion regime and the breakdown of families under Communism.

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The January 6 hearings continued and the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. Agencies issued new regulations ranging from nuclear fees to pelagic resources. On to the data: Agencies issued 33 final regulations in a four-day week last week, after 55 the previous week. That’s the equivalent of a new regulation every five hours and […]

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On virtually every point of domestic and foreign policy, Joe Biden's administration has been a flop.

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Republican Rep. Valadao, who voted to impeach Trump, survives California primary but faces a blue district in the November election. Jan Perry advances in L.A.

With the case for life finally re-opened, Americans opposed to the murder of innocents must fight for their cause more fervently than ever.

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The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), the federal labor law enforcement agency, is likely planning to vastly expand its reach through a rulemaking on something called the “joint employer” standard. The proposed change would make companies responsible for workplace violations at pretty much any other company they do business with. It would be the third […]

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Last week, CEI released Wayne Crews’s paper proposing an Abuse of Crisis Prevention Act. (If you prefer the short version, see Wayne’s and my article in National Review.) The main argument is that government grows every time there is a crisis, it never gives back all the new powers it collects, and the best solution […]

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A new report by Laffer Associates released today, Read ‘Em and Weep: How the American Innovation and Choice Online Act (S. 2992) and Other Proposed Antitrust Legislation Stack the Deck Against the American Consumer, is an excellent source for the specifics of proposed antitrust expansion legislation and the principled arguments against those proposals. Most importantly, […]

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The balance of power in Europe is shifting as displaced Ukrainians flow westward and E.U. nations differ on how to receive them.

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Raphael was one of the grandest portraitists of all time, whose pictures illustrated the humanistic principles of Western civilization.

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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today announced that it denied the application of Juul Labs, maker of the Juul e-cigarette, to market its products in America, with the company required to halt all sales within 30 days. The move came after months of pressure on the agency from health charities like the Campaign […]

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It is beyond disappointing that Congress once again dropped the Secure and Fair Enforcement (SAFE) Banking Act—bipartisan legislation that would prevent the federal government from punishing banks and credit unions that deal with marijuana-related businesses following the laws of the states in which they operate—from a broader legislative package. Politico Pro reports (subscription required) that […]

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Cable news and Twitter are aflame with outrage today that Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen proposed price caps for oil. Fortunately, the rumors are false. Yellen’s proposal is for Russia only, would likely have little effect if enacted, and falls well short of any reasonable definition of a price control. Is her proposal a good idea? […]

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Liberal and free Hong Kong is dead. This sad end likely was always inevitable since communists will be communists.

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Hungarians have lost everything before, and know where leftism leads. Americans can learn from them.

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In Kennedy v. Bremerton School District, the Supreme Court can overhaul its unworkable establishment-clause jurisprudence.

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The Life at Conception Act is headed toward a vote, and is likely to set the tone for pro-life legislative efforts in the post-Roe future.

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We should not be surprised that Phil Mickelson and company left their country’s golf league to play for a foreign league.

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The modern denial of biology undermines an essential part of the human story.

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The lines between disorder, unrest, and civil conflict are blurring.

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The Biden administration, in an effort to shore up alliances in the region it believes Trump damaged, is inflating the threat of recent North Korean missile tests.

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Few libs seem to see why a flame-retardant copy of A Handmaid’s Tale that costs $130,000 is a brutal piece of self-satire.

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Russian businessmen view sanctions as manageable and even a blessing in disguise.

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The film shows an America in which every catastrophic policy decision of the last 40 years never occurred.

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Novorossiya, epitomized by its biggest city, is a sort of odd man out in the post-Soviet Russian state.

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There has been no effort to look at national needs and possibilities in the large.

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The tale of how Hollywood and Red China came together may be fascinating, but it is already out of date.

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Large debt is dangerous to the nation and to its responsible citizens. It is time for our leaders to take notice.

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At the onset of its celebratory season, the Rainbow Regime reminds us that we will not be allowed to simply coexist.

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Remembering Father Ragheed Ganni, who was murdered 15 years ago today in Iraq.

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Raising taxes will discourage the investment in goods and services needed to tame price increases.

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Venezuelan propaganda has made the world believe that the economic and humanitarian crises in the country are due to American sanctions. That claim is a blatant lie.

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Merrick Garland has revoked a Trump-era rule prohibiting the redirection of corporate settlement money to third-party organizations.

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A two-faced accession policy will not save Ukraine, nor will it serve the interests of the European Union.

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Yoram Hazony's book outlines the religious foundations of American conservatism.

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For Alexander, great buildings are “timeless” because they seem to reach into eternity, reminding men that they have a higher home.

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