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WILLIAMS: Walz, Omar and the billion-dollar Minnesota fraud scandal

Minnesota is now facing one of the largest documented government service fraud scandals in United States history. Under Gov. Tim Walz's evidently unwatchful eye, federal prosecutors have estimated that approximately $1 billion in taxpayer funds have been siphoned from multiple state- and ...

SHAPIRO: What do we do about China?

The United States is confronting an existential threat — but not the kind defined by ships on the horizon or missiles in the air. The danger instead stems from a waning sense of national purpose and a growing doubt about America's global role. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the ...

DE RUGY: Coming for your credit card from left and right

In a scene that perfectly captures the strangeness of American politics today, President Donald Trump, a billionaire and self-styled champion of American business (at least the ones he likes) was all smiles during an Oval Office visit from Zohran Mamdani, the democratic socialist and ...

PARKER: Last thing on Democrats’ agenda — Telling the truth to Americans

Recently in The Wall Street Journal, Neera Tanden, CEO of the Center for American Progress, a major foghorn in our nation's capital for America's left, explained "Why Democrats Won the Shutdown." The most accurate declaration in the article is "fights tell the country a lot about what -- and ...

DE RUGY: The American Experiment isn’t what’s failing

Spend five minutes listening to the American Left's most theatrical tribunes -- Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren or Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez -- and you'll probably hear tales of a country on the verge of collapse, crushed by a rigged system that can be fixed only through a radical redesign of ...

BARONE: Closing the door on immigration? Not yet.

Can the United States come up with an immigration policy that will prove sustainable? Two writers whom I respect and take delight in reading, despite their widely differing views, Tyler Cowen, who favors more immigration, and Christopher Caldwell, who favors less, have their doubts. Both, ...