Bill of Rights Day: How Your Rights Keep Authoritarianism in Check
The document remains remarkably resilient, even as Republicans and Democrats keep launching assaults on liberty.
The document remains remarkably resilient, even as Republicans and Democrats keep launching assaults on liberty.
When voters believe they're living through an economic apocalypse, they're willing to embrace the very policies that would create one.
Friedrich Hayek's most popular work was dedicated to "the socialists of all parties." That phrase perfectly captures politics in 2025.
Trump respects outreach from opponents more than submissive flattery from friends.
By looking to the past, Democrats could chart a pro-freedom blueprint for their party’s future.
There probably is no “client list,” but the files could help answer some pressing questions—and open the door to more revelations.
Rent freezes will discourage construction, government-run grocery stores are a joke, and free buses will become roving homeless shelters.
Neither side, however, has a good plan to bring down prices.
Congressional investigators released emails from the late sex trafficker discussing how to leverage his relationship with the future president.
To support chipmaker Intel, the president used our money to buy 433 million shares of Intel stock. That's not a free market.
Plus: Chi Ossé's big play, canceled flights, D.C. groyperism, and more...
Plus: Obamacare subsidies take center stage, the abundance agenda meets socialism after Mamdani’s win, and the differences between liberals and libertarians
Many in the rising generation are embracing collectivist ideas.
Democrats' Election Day victories are downstream of Trump's misguided economic policies.
Mikie Sherrill will mostly continue business as usual—but with the possibility of some regulatory reform.
Plus: Virginia and New Jersey governor’s races, a court ruling extending SNAP funding during the shutdown, and Trump’s tariff fight reaches the Supreme Court
What political insurgencies can teach us about major parties
Plus: D.C. curfews, SNAP funding, the Georgia abortion ban, and more...
His plans to offer "free" buses and daycare, freeze rents, and create city-owned grocery stores are expensive and proven failures.
Democrats defend every entitlement and dream up new benefits. Republicans demand more defense spending and still more tax cuts.
Politicians across the aisle love free speech—until they're in power.
Four ideas that are better than extending Obamacare subsidies and a government shutdown.
Democrats should use the shutdown to curb the Trump administration's worst authoritarian abuses, not to try to goad Republicans into eliminating an important check on executive excess.
This time, Democrats turned the most basic government housekeeping into hostage drama.
Refusing to fund the government is the primary way minority party lawmakers can check the excesses of the executive branch and the majority party.
Plus: Eric Adams drop out, Assata Shakur gets fawned over, James Comey gets roasted, and more...
Nobody should be governed by people who despise them.
America doesn’t have an official list of domestic terrorist organizations, but the declaration could mean heavier political surveillance and RICO prosecutions.
The evidence against Kawhi Leonard, Steve Ballmer, and the Clippers is damning.
Plus: Zoomer values, leftist naivete, prayer outlawed in parts of Australia, and more...
Newsom hired a brass-knuckled social-media team to fight fire with fire, but the result is even more childish nonsense in politics.
Plus: Beware of distorted data, inside the mind of Curtis Sliwa, a thong-related clarification, and more...
His negotiations with North Korea and Russia should be judged by their results. But opposing those talks from the beginning is a pro-war position.
The author and psychologist joins the show to breakdown the Zohran Mamdani campaign, among other fads.
The housing crisis is bad for national Democrats. At the state level, it's a political winner.
Voters overwhelmingly supported Initiative 83, but Democratic lawmakers have been hesitant to adopt it.
How did Zohran Mamdani’s rise happen, and what does it tell us about the future of the Democratic Party?
Plus: Senate GOP releases version of “Big Beautiful Bill” and Republicans shift on gay marriage
Plus: Trump the Jacksonian, a big day for SCOTUS decisions, and more...
The presumptive Democratic nominee for mayor of New York has repeatedly missed opportunities to forthrightly condemn antisemitic violence.
After Vance Boelter allegedly targeted Democrats in an attack, some conservatives jumped to claim that he was actually on the left. Why?
It's a return to the Reagan era, but not in the way that should make conservatives happy.
And Americans deserve dissenting voices that aren’t inept and crazy.
Plus: Tensions in the Middle East, another terrible Boeing crash, intimacy coordinators, and more...
Democrats keep trying to out-hawk Republicans, even though the mood in America has shifted toward diplomacy.
If he's chosen, he ain't Rogan.
Ignore David Axelrod's suggestion that questions "should be more muted and set aside for now as he's struggling through this."
Plus: That big, beautiful bill; Romanian election results; China's pivot to nuclear; and more...
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