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WILLIAMS: The Myth of Falling Crime: Why Americans don’t trust the numbers

Every election season, mayors and governors step before cameras to boast that crime is down. Charts are waved, statistics cited, and carefully crafted talking points deployed to assure anxious citizens that their streets are safer than ever. Yet when you leave the press conference and walk the ...

ERICKSON: Talking point versus truth

On Twitter, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer tweeted, "Let me be perfectly clear: Undocumented people CANNOT AND WILL NOT receive ACA premium tax credits BY LAW. PERIOD. This is a LIE from Republicans to divert attention from their shutdown. Republicans are refusing to lower health care ...

GRAHAM: In every government shutdown, the media are eager Democrat helpers

If the national media can be counted on to spin anything dramatically toward the Democrats, it's a government shutdown. They feel passionately that the Democrats are the Party of Government, and the Republicans are the Haters of Government, so who naturally favors shutting it all down? ...

BARONE: Donald Trump — Energy in the executive

Whatever else you want to say about him, President Donald Trump has what Alexander Hamilton in Federalist No. 70 called "energy in the executive." Announcing a peace plan for Israel and Hamas, ordering the dispatch of federal troops to protect immigration enforcement personnel in "sanctuary" ...

STOSSEL: Oh, the suffering!

Have you heard how young people suffer now? Scroll TikTok, Instagram, etc., you see the same message: "Young people today can't get ahead!" One popular meme says when baby boomers like me were young, "A family could own a home, a car and send their kids to college, all on one ...

PARKER: Charlie Kirk and the state of our nation

The nation is rightly traumatized by the horrible assassination of Charlie Kirk. The media is filled, also rightly, with give and take trying to understand what can and should be done so that we don't see more of the same. But unfortunately, much of the expression that I hear is informed ...