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SHAPIRO: Rubio’s case for a stronger West

Secretary of State Marco Rubio delivered a speech at the Munich Security Conference on Saturday that stood out not for its bombast but for its clarity. In a room filled with political figures from across the Atlantic — and from both parties at home — Rubio was unmistakably the adult in the ...

DE RUGY: The CBO’s latest report and the choice between reform and disorder

Despite what progressives have been arguing lately, the United States does not have a tax problem. Federal revenues, even after last year's extension of the Trump tax cuts, are running above their historical average as a share of GDP. What America has is a spending problem so large that the ...

GRAHAM: No space for Homan on locating missing migrant children

When President Donald Trump's border czar Tom Homan held a press conference on Feb. 12 to announce a drawdown in federal enforcement in Minnesota, he reported that during their surge, ICE agents "located 3,364 missing unaccompanied alien children — children that the last administration lost ...

HARROP: Trump stops race to save the creation

May we talk about spiritual matters? "In the beginning," the Bible opens, "God created the heavens and the earth." Several lines down, God says, let humankind "have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the wild animals of the earth, ...

SHAPIRO: The con consuming American politics

There is a growing sense of frustration coursing through American politics, and it is no longer confined to one party or ideology. That frustration has real roots. Major institutions badly damaged their credibility during the COVID-19 pandemic, the excesses of the Black Lives Matter movement, ...