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Stossel: The chainsaw president

Finally, a real libertarian is president. That's in Argentina, where last year, Javier Milei surprised pundits by winning the election by a landslide. Now that he's had a chance to govern, my new video covers the results and explains why Milei is now even more popular. Argentina was once ...

Parker: Trump’s DEI executive order – good for Blacks, good for America

An going principle of America's democratic republic is e pluribus unum. Out of many, one. We honor and respect the uniqueness of every citizen. But we also have a common turf, a common set of transcendent values, that brings us together and we become one nation. Sometimes, cracks appear. ...

Erickson: Press victims

The American press corps covers Republican presidential administrations very differently from Democratic presidential administrations and covers Donald Trump's administration differently from everything. To the press, Donald Trump is a bad man — a would-be authoritarian tyrant. Therefore, any ...

Harrop: A thicker line must be drawn between legal and illegal entry

It's not hard to understand why Sen. Ruben Gallego voted for the Republican-written Laken Riley Act. The measure would force the federal detention without bail for undocumented migrants accused of any kind of theft. It is named after the Georgia nursing student bludgeoned to death by an ...

Charen: An invitation to worship

The tone was set by Franklin Graham's invocation. Preachers are a fixture at presidential inaugurations, but until now they've confined their words to asking the Almighty to bless the new president and his family and to guide the nation to goodness and mercy. The prophets were popular choices. ...

Barone: Is Donald Trump the second coming of Andrew Jackson?

The portrait of Andrew Jackson has returned to the wall of the Oval Office, put up in time to greet President Donald Trump as he entered for the first time as the 47th president. It's a choice Democrats are poorly positioned to criticize, even though the seventh president owned slaves and ...