I Stand for Freedom

Imagine discovering that your basement has been flooding for years; not from a storm, but from a faucet someone left running while you kept paying the water bill. Now multiply that by a few billion dollars, and you’ll start to understand what’s been happening inside federal assistance programs.

Consider Ohio’s Medicaid budget: A decade ago, it sat at $27 billion. Today...

For decades, Republicans running for governor in California have been less candidates than sacrificial offerings—names on a ballot in a state where Democratic dominance seemed as permanent as the Pacific coastline.

The Golden State hasn’t elected a Republican governor since Arnold Schwarzenegger cruised to re-election in 2006, and most political observers assumed that ...

The last time someone from the North marched into Dixie with grand plans to remake it, things got complicated. You’d think we’d have learned by now, but history, it seems, has a sense of humor—and so does Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, though perhaps not intentionally.

The New York congresswoman found herself in Montgomery, Alabama last month, standing at a rally dubbed “Al...

Imagine sitting down to a poker table where your opponent gets dealt an extra ace every hand, and the house pretends not to notice. For years, that’s essentially what young American graduates have faced entering the job market—only nobody told them the deck was stacked.

Every spring, hundreds of thousands of college graduates clutch their diplomas and flood into a work...

The best political illusions don’t require sleight of hand; they just need a compliant press and an audience that’s been trained to nod along. Repeat a claim often enough, amplify it through official channels, and it becomes something that feels true … even when the facts say otherwise.

Which brings us to New York City, where Mayor Zohran Mamdani kicked off Pr...