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Erickson: The 15-week sweet spot

The conventional wisdom after Tuesday's elections is that abortion is a killer for the GOP. Republicans had high hopes of winning the Virginia legislature but lost the Virginia House and did not gain the Virginia Senate. In Ohio, an abortion constitutional amendment passed. But a review of the ...

Stiehm: Texas, it almost had to be you

The most tragic rhyme in American history falls in November's time, one century apart. President Abraham Lincoln gave the Gettysburg Address on Nov. 19, 1863; President John F. Kennedy died in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963. These events reach over endless bends in a profound dialogue like the mighty ...

Stossel: Canceling cancel culture

"I was not genuine in my own beliefs," says 23-year-old Rikki Schlott in my new video. "I self-censored." Why? What did this college student believe that was so unacceptable that she felt she had to hide it? The fact that she's a right-leaning libertarian. "I was afraid to have Thomas Sowell ...

Graham: Halloween horror stories in post-Roe Idaho

The libertine Left in America is infuriated that Roe v. Wade was overturned. In their ideal world, abortion would be available everywhere at all times of pregnancy, and it would be taxpayer-funded for the less fortunate. Forget that the people who are least fortunate in an abortion are the ...

Barone: Is a Trump renomination really inevitable?

Is it inevitable that Donald Trump will be the second person in history — Richard Nixon was the first — to win the Republican Party's nomination for president three times? Many thoughtful observers, and others as well, think so. They have some solid evidence. Polling has been showing ...

De Rugy: Responsible government isn’t just for the tough times

Some policy experts who, over the last few decades, saw little need for serious fiscal austerity because the government could borrow at low interest rates are now changing their tune. Their argument is that with rates now rising and the government's interest payments set to become extremely ...

Stiehm: Giant pandas make it all better – for a while

"It's all happening at the Zoo." — Simon and Garfunkel Washington went to the National Zoo en masse last weekend to catch sight of its three most beloved residents: the family of giant pandas. They are Papa Tian Tian, Mama Mei Xiang and "little miracle" Xiao Qi Ji, a pandemic male baby born ...

Stossel: The food insecurity lie

President Joe Biden says 24 million Americans "suffer from food insecurity!" News anchors were shocked that there is "food insecurity in the richest country in the world!" ABC hosts turned "insecurity" into "hunger." But in my new video, Rachel Sheffield, who researches welfare policy at the ...

Harrop: Gun cultures need gun laws, too

Rep. Jared Golden's about-face on gun laws is not surprising. He is a Democrat representing Lewiston, Maine, still convulsed by a mass shooting that took 18 lives. Formerly against tightening the laws, Golden now wants a ban on semiautomatic weapons. One can understand why elected officials in ...

Erickson: Dear Marc Rowan, et al.

Marc Rowan is the chairman of the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. He is also my boss' boss' boss' boss' boss or something like that. The radio company I work for is owned by Apollo Global Management, and Rowan is the CEO of that parent company. The University of ...