The success of candidates backed by the Democratic Socialists of America in recent congressional primaries in New York and mayoral races in Los Angeles and the District of Columbia underscores the enduring appeal of a leftist moral framework that casts American society as a Machiavellian struggle between the oppressors and the oppressed.
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World Cup Tourists Remind Americans How Great Our Nation Is
Scores of other World Cup visitors have have wandered through Walmart and Costco as if they were touring cultural landmarks. They have posted videos about small-town diners, Texas barbecue, oversize grocery stores, and the sheer abundance that characterize everyday life in the most prosperous country on Earth.
Is Mamdani Taking Over the Country?
After three hard-left candidates endorsed by New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani defeated more establishment-friendly candidates in House Democrat primaries, congressional Democrats are debating whether the results mean the mayor is taking hold of the national party.
This Is Why Dems Won’t Oppose the Socialist Takeover of Their Party
The Democratic Party and the Democratic Socialists of America are becoming indistinguishable from one another. That’s clearly the case in New York City, as a wave of socialist House candidates backed by openly socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani won primary elections on Tuesday against incumbent Democrats.
The Era of a Pride-Dominated Capital May Be Fading
Unlike former Presidents Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, and Joe Biden, the Trump administration has issued no official declaration on behalf of the LGBTQ+ community. The change could be felt in the Nation’s Capital itself. The Washington, D.C., Pride parade took to the streets on Saturday. There were no former presidents or members of Congress or senior officials.
A Christian Response to Pride Month
Navigating the cultural support of this issue as a Christian can be complex and practically challenging. It is important to understand why Christians cannot support Pride Month, and to be able to explain the reasons charitably and logically.
Trump Administration Cuts Right to the Heart of the Child Gender Mutilation Pipeline
The Federal Trade Commission and four attorneys general filed a groundbreaking lawsuit Wednesday, aiming to hold the World Professional Association for Transgender Health accountable for allegedly deceptive trade practices, an action that may dismantle the child gender mutilation pipeline.
Is MLB Treating Christians Differently?
Last week, several SF Giants players wore the Pride-themed baseball cap during the team’s Pride Night, but with a twist: They wrote Bible verses on their caps referencing Genesis verses related to God’s creation of the rainbow. Now Major League Baseball is taking aim at those players.
California Is Where Democracy Died
California, as we’re seeing through the lenses of the Los Angeles mayoral race, is a dysfunctional state. The Democrats talk a lot about democracy dying in darkness. Democracy is dying in California.
Democrats’ Golden Boy Is Already Imploding
Democrats thought they found their next political golden boy in Maine U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner, but they realized his campaign follows the same pattern as disgraced former Rep. Eric Swalwell—with an even worse résumé.
Seattle’s Socialist Mayor Now Panicking Over Businesses Leaving
Seattle’s socialist-in-chief is no longer laughing about chasing away businesses and wealthy residents. But the attitude adjustment may be too little, too late. Just a few weeks ago, Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson infamously giggled when asked if she was concerned about wealthy residents fleeing Seattle because of her policies.
California School District Spends $300K to Partner with LGBTQ Center
California’s Pomona Unified School District signed a memorandum of understanding for the 2024-2025 school year for a “mentoring program” with Pomona Valley Pride. The memo specified that the pride center was to provide “academic support, mentoring, and tutoring services to all students in middle and high school who identify themselves LGBTQ+ and their families to address their unique needs and challenges.”
Blue Cities Like Portland Prioritize the Antisocial Over the Law-Abiding
Like many of America’s once-great metropolises, Portland, Oregon, has seen better days. Drug-addled homeless continue to ravage the streets, and businesses have left for greener pastures. The reason Portland has become such a disaster is simple: It prioritizes the needs of its most destructive residents over those who follow the law.
The Intifada Comes to Brooklyn Under NY’s Socialist Mayor
Mamdani has made it clear he’s a committed socialist who is unlikely to deviate from the Left’s policy priorities. But a significant part of the coalition that brought him to office is also maniacally focused on creating an American intifada.
Today’s NFL Means Higher Prices and More Politics
The president speaks for tens of millions of Americans who are equally fed up with the NFL these days, as it moves to take more games off broadcast while still pushing more woke politics on and off the field.
Gender Ideology Is Bad for Missouri Women
If Missourians think the debate about gender-neutral bathrooms is isolated to states like California, they should pay attention to what recently happened at Kansas City International Airport. Just a few weeks ago, a man was accused of secretly filming at least 66 women inside the airport’s gender-neutral restrooms.
Trump White House Takes Transgender-Motivated Terror Threat Very Seriously
America’s counterterror forces can no longer ignore the threat of extremism motivated by transgender ideology, and President Donald Trump’s new counterterrorism strategy rightly addresses this threat.
Graham Platner and the Maine Election Scam
Platner went to Hotchkiss School. He’s the son of a famous architect. His father was a lawyer. His mother is a restaurateur. So, he’s among the elite, and yet he keeps yelling about millionaires. His parents are millionaires, no doubt. He grew up as a millionaire. So, there’s a problem with him
Is the Left’s Censorship Industrial Complex Pulling the Strings Behind AI?
Over the past decade, the Left has cultivated a censorship industrial complex of “experts” on “extremism” who try to bully Big Tech and corporate America into blacklisting conservatives over hot-button cultural issues such as LGBTQ+ orthodoxy and parental rights.
Nazi Tattoo? Hamas Fan? No Problem, Says Chuck Schumer
Maine Gov. Janet Mills has suspended her Senate campaign after failing to raise enough money to compete with socialist Graham Platner, who will now almost certainly face the perpetual centrist Republican Susan Collins in the general.
Chuck Schumer and Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee Chairwoman Kirsten Gillibrand immediately backed Platner, proving that there’s virtually nothing a leftist can say or do that is disqualifying.
Iran Is Losing the War, and the Global Power Balance Is Shifting
We’re approaching 60 days of the so-called Iran war, and we’re still getting these loud voices that Donald Trump has failed, that the war’s not going well. It’s completely nonempirical. It’s antithetical to the evidence.
Biden Administration’s Anti-Christian Bias Was Even Worse Than You Think
The anti-Christian bias seeped into official policy across the federal government, from personnel matters—where Christians’ requests for time off around Easter Sunday were met with suspicion in the State Department—to the IRS investigating churches for traditional Christian values perceived to be aligned with the Republican Party.
Dems Beclown Themselves by Defending SPLC
The Southern Poverty Law Center makes its money by exaggerating “hate” to scare donors and by comparing conservatives to the KKK. Like a dog returns to its vomit, so Democrats return to the ridiculous claim that the SPLC is some sort of noble civil rights group and that to attack it is to attack America’s soul.
Springsteen’s Land of Hope and Dreams Tour No Longer Welcomes All
Nearly 30 years “down the tracks,” Springsteen has launched his “Land of Hope and Dreams Tour.” Except now, instead of “all aboard,” it’s “No MAGA is welcome.”