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ERICKSON: De-escalation

Nexstar and Sinclair Broadcasting are the two largest owners of ABC television stations in the United States. After FCC Chairman Brendan Carr blasted ABC for Jimmy Kimmel suggesting Charlie Kirk's assassin was "MAGA," Nexstar and Sinclair decided to stop airing Jimmy Kimmel and demanded that ...

SAUNDERS: Charlie Kirk showed American youth how to be conservative on campus

"When people stop talking, that's when you get violence. That's when civil war happens because you start to think the other side is so evil and they lose their humanity." Charlie Kirk said that. I'm not sure when. It was a remark Vice President JD Vance aired during a two-hour tribute to the ...

DE RUGY: America’s turn toward ad hoc state capitalism

The question of whether President Donald Trump has turned the United States toward a new "state capitalism" -- one in which the government is not just economic referee but active player -- has been answered. His second term brings policies that go well beyond traditional Republican pro-market ...

STOSSEL: Phones versus play

When I was a kid, childhood meant playing on the street, riding my bike, hanging out with friends. Most kids now experience a different childhood. Jonathan Haidt's bestselling book, "The Anxious Generation," talks about that. He calls it "a tragedy in two acts." "Act One, we lose ...

HOLLIS: Teetering on the edge of the abyss

It has been a week since young conservative activist Charlie Kirk was gunned down at a rally on the campus of Utah Valley University in front of his wife and hundreds of attendees. In the days since, a suspect -- 22-year-old Tyler Robinson -- allegedly confessed to his father that he committed ...

BECKERMAN: Only the nose knows

Superman is able to see through walls. Spider-Man can detect things with his Spidey-sense. Me? I can smell something in the next county. Yes, it's true. I am Super Smell Woman (not to be confused with the significantly less appealing Super Smelly Woman). I can detect unseen mold under a ...