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For decades, birthright citizenship has vexed Republicans, Democrats, and constitutional scholars. President Donald Trump’s executive order described both birthright citizenship’s history and its purpose: “The 14th Amendment states: ‘All persons

It’s a truism that it is extremely difficult to govern with a tiny majority in the House of Representatives. When there are no vacancies, there are 435 members; if everybody

In 1936 Bing Crosby entertained the nation by crooning “Pennies From Heaven,” but in 2025 it seems that pennies are The Coin From Hell. It didn’t happen overnight, but inflation

“A crisis is a terrible thing to waste,” Stanford economist Paul Romer said at a venture capital seminar 21 years ago, referring to the increasing levels of education in other countries

The fires that destroyed so much of Los Angeles have dropped off the national media’s front pages. The wildfires are no longer a serious threat. President Donald Trump and the

He wanted his aides to tell diplomats, “I’m sorry … he is out of control … you don’t know the man,” or that he’s a “dramatically disjointed personality … capable

On Saturday, the Democratic National Committee will gather in suburban Maryland to elect a new chair. Every indication suggests they still don’t fully appreciate what happened to them in the

When Donald Trump and his family settled down for a prayer service last week as part of the presidential inaugural events, he very likely didn’t expect a lecture from a

It would be impossible to overstate the complexity of water supply management in California. Hundreds of federal, state and local agencies decree who or what is supplied with water, when

It was a good thing Ronald Reagan didn’t win the Republican Party’s presidential nomination in 1976. It’s also a good thing Donald Trump lost to Joe Biden in 2020. It’s

And so, the Trump administration begins. The newly inaugurated president has set an extraordinarily high bar for his second term, with executive orders to secure the border, increase fossil fuel

TORONTO  This is a big country with only one thing on its mind: Donald Trump. South of the border, no one is taking seriously the notion that the president wants

President Donald Trump has thrown the Justice Department’s Jan. 6 Capitol riot prosecutions out the window. But a week before Trump became president, the Department essentially did the same to

As Donald Trump this week assumed the presidency for the second time, he rekindled his personal and political feud with California and its governor, Gavin Newsom, while also inflating Newsom’s

“You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.” If you don’t believe in coincidences, perhaps you see a vast conspiracy in the fact that the Bob

President Joe Biden issued a flurry of pardons as he left office, but I’m more interested in getting some long overdue and deeply justified pardons from another president, the new

The wildfires sweeping through Los Angeles County communities have destroyed at least 10,000 homes so far and more are in the path of still-uncontrolled flames. Obviously the loss of so

Praise the Lord for his mercy. Joe Biden’s failed presidency has finally come to an end. There’s no predicting what Biden will do at the last minute to sabotage Donald

Three days after immensely destructive and deadly wildfires broke out in and around Los Angeles, Gov. Gavin Newsom proposed a $322.3 billion state budget with a positive revenue forecast “based

President-elect Donald Trump was sentenced last week in the bookkeeping case brought against him by Alvin Bragg, the elected Democratic district attorney of Manhattan. The sentence was effectively nothing. Although