By Uri Berliner: The Senate voted this morning to claw back $1.1 billion from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which provides funding for NPR, PBS, and local stations. The vote is a victory for Republicans who have long had NPR in their sights. But it is also a victory for those of any political stripe who believe the government has no business funding the media.
Publication: The Free Press
It’s a Fascist! It’s a Communist! No, It’s Superman
There is no explicit agenda other than creating a crowd-pleasing movie that makes a lot of money for Warner Bros. Mission accomplished.
How Yuppies Became Socialists
Fifty years ago, the professional managerial class swung right. Today, in America’s biggest cities, they’re voting for leftists like Zohran Mamdani. Here’s why.
Trump Kept His Promise on Iran
The world is safer for it.
The Murder Rate Is Plummeting
America’s big cities are returning to law and order—but have they learned their lesson?
NPR and PBS Aren’t Entitled to Your Tax Dollars
National Public Radio is suing the Trump administration on free speech grounds. That argument doesn’t fly.
The Leftists Celebrating Joe Biden’s Cancer
“He ought to seek out treatment in a cancer ward in Gaza,” one person told The Free Press.
It’s a Terrible Idea, But Trump Probably Can Accept a Free Jet from Qatar
The Emoluments Clause doesn’t stop the president from getting a new ‘palace in the sky,’ as long as Congress goes along with it.
How China Turns Stanford Students into Spies
Chinese law says that its citizens must support its intelligence work. Students who resist can lose their scholarships—and endanger their families.
Harvey Weinstein and the Death Rattle of #MeToo
The online right have taken the Democratic ex-king of Hollywood as their martyr—and the left have only themselves to blame.
The Young Black Democrat Dubbed a “Puppet of the Right”
New Hampshire state rep Jonah Wheeler, 22, has been called a ‘Nazi’ for voting against his own party on trans rights, but he refuses to back down. ‘I’m an independent-minded Democrat.’
No, the President Has Not Defied a Supreme Court Ruling
The exaggerations on both sides are spectacular. The truth? There’s less to the case than meets the eye.
Harvard Had It Coming
That doesn’t mean Trump is right. Any sympathy for Harvard has to be tempered by the knowledge that the school—and others like it—brought much of their current predicament on themselves.
Trump’s Just Trade War
By Victor Davis Hanson: Ignore the Wall Street hysteria. The president is trying to end a 50-year injustice directed at the U.S.—and to help the most overlooked Americans.
Confessions of a MAGA Lefty Who Used to Hate Trump
By Batya Ungar-Sargon: The president is giving the working class its best shot at the American Dream in 60 years. That’s why I support him.
Why Tariffs Are Good
The claim that tariffs are inherently misguided and inevitably harmful does not stand up to scrutiny.
Two Cheers for DOGE
It turns out that Washington spends our money on some very, very stupid things.
Most Average Americans Weren’t Horrified by Trump’s Treatment of an Ally
The elite classes are engaged in a full-scale meltdown, accusing our president of gaslighting, humiliating, berating, and bullying a defenseless ally. But, as has become the dominant trend over the past decade, ordinary American taxpayers saw things differently.
The New Robert De Niro Netflix Series Is Elite Propaganda
“Zero Day” is an establishment revenge fantasy that lets the system off the hook.
The Triumph of the Plastic Straw
By Nellie Bowles: They took our straws and made us drink from mushy paper. And it was based on a 9-year-old’s bad math.
Shut Down the Department of Education
By Betsy DeVos: Since its creation in 1979, the Department of Education has sent well more than $1 trillion to schools with the express purpose of closing the gaps between the highest and lowest performers. Today, those gaps are as wide as they have ever been, and by many measures, even wider.
The End of DEI
Trump is ending racial preferences, and America will be better because of it.
Climate Change Did Not Cause the LA Fires
It was bad policy.
Has Europe’s Islamist Threat Come to America?
Two suspected terror attacks on New Year’s Day signal a new worry for Americans that Europe has long faced: a deadly threat from our own citizens.