If Republicans are to recover from a crushing midterm election, they need to understand why their defeat was so sweeping and what must be done to regain the trust of the American people. Voters told pollsters that the issues most crucial to them were government corruption and the cost of ...

Does the government work for us, or do we work for the government? We pay its taxes, obey its laws and regulations, finance its wars and submit to its surveillance. We are told that all of this is necessary for personal safety, collective prosperity and national security. Yet the government ...

There are elections that deliver a warning, and elections that make the warning impossible to ignore. The 2026 midterms were the latter. Democrats won control of both chambers of Congress, and Republicans lost Senate seats in states they had every reason to believe were secure. South ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — On a recent afternoon, April Polk was driving to a doctor's appointment when her assistant flagged something in her business inbox: a grant application, the kind of funding opportunity a small retailer cannot afford to miss. The assistant offered to fill it out while she ...

America has a deadly addiction to war. Since 1950, presidents of both political parties have sent American troops into conflicts across the globe, killed countless people, sacrificed the lives and limbs of American servicemen and women, and wasted trillions of dollars. Yet these wars have ...

It's easy to forget that Americans are voting in a year that marks the 250th anniversary of the nation's Declaration of Independence. You don't hear much about the declaration in the campaign rhetoric, and most people would bristle at the notion that the sublime message of the founding document ...