How Private Is Private? By John Stossel
The Fourth Amendment secures our right to be secure against unreasonable searches, right?
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December 6, 2023
December 5, 2023
Biden Looks Doomed -- But Is He? By Daniel McCarthy
Gavin Newsom is so eager to run for president that he even campaigns to insist he's not running.
December 5, 2023
Green Groups Are No Longer Promoting a Cleaner Environment By Stephen Moore
The late, great humorist P.J. O'Rourke used to quip that everyone wants to save the world, but no one wants to wash the dishes.
December 1, 2023
Orwell and Monroe Got It Right By Michael Barone
George Orwell, call your office. That's my initial and slightly out-of-date response to news stories about the Biden administration's efforts to stamp out "misinformation." It's an interesting irony that covert censorship should be
undertaken enthusiastically by those who call themselves "liberal" or "progressive" and who claim the opposition would threaten the survival of liberal democracy.
November 30, 2023
Putting Biden’s Troubles with Young Voters in Perspective By Kyle Kondik
Youngest voters have been strongly Democratic in recent elections, but the president also has clear weaknesses with that group.
KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE
— Recent 2024 presidential polling has shown President Biden performing poorly with young voters.
— The 18-29 voting bloc has been reliably Democratic leaning for at least the last several presidential elections.
— Biden’s weakness with young voters is not new, despite doing well among the group in the 2020 general election.
November 29, 2023
Smearing Capitalism By John Stossel
You must be lonely. The media say loneliness is everywhere in America.
November 28, 2023
A Test for Trump and His Rivals By Daniel McCarthy
A little more than six weeks before the Iowa caucuses, the race for the Republican presidential nomination looks like it's over before it's begun.
November 28, 2023
Dems Have Now Officially Rejected President John F. Kennedy's Legacy By Stephen Moore
There's a political cartoon going around that shows John F. Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy sitting on a couch watching a speech by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The two hold their palms to their heads and moan that their legacy is being twisted and ruined.
November 22, 2023
You Can't Say That By John Stossel
My first Stossel TV Fellow, Trevor Kraus, initiated this column.
November 21, 2023
When Inequality Is Fatal for Men By Daniel McCarthy
Equality has always been an American preoccupation, right from the words "all men are created equal" in the Declaration of Independence.
November 21, 2023
Will New York Politicians Tax Wall Street Out of Existence? By Stephen Moore
Let's face it. Anyone who works in, or just visits, the Wall Street area of Manhattan can't deny the aura of power and money isn't what it was 20, 30 or 50 years ago.
November 17, 2023
Memo to Hamas: Settler Societies Aren't Evil By Michael Barone
In the nauseating demonstrations celebrating Hamas' slaughter of Israelis, one hears repeated, again and again, the refrain that Israelis are "settlers" and "colonists" -- and therefore, in the catechism inculcated in universities in recent decades,
oppressors not deserving of mercy or sympathy when tortured and murdered by those who deemed themselves the oppressed.
November 16, 2023
Notes on the State of the 2023 Elections By Kyle Kondik
VA 2023 looks a lot like 2019; ads might help explain a PA oddity; Beshear and disaster relief.
Virginia result looked a lot like four years ago
Vote counts in Virginia are nearly final but not yet certified. There were no late changes to the topline result that seemed likeliest the morning after the election: Democrats won their barest possible majorities in both chambers: 51-49 in the state House of Delegates and 21-19 in the state Senate.
November 16, 2023
Republicans Need to Figure Out the Abortion Issue By Brian Joondeph
Abortion continues to be a political hot potato 50 years after the controversial Roe v. Wade decision where the U.S. Supreme Court “legislated” a Constitutional “right” to abortion.
November 15, 2023
Government Deceit By John Stossel
"Experts" were confident that they knew what America should do about Covid. They were wrong about so much.
November 14, 2023
By the Time Abortion Makes the Ballot, the Battle's Over By Daniel McCarthy
The fight over abortion in America is as much a religious contest as a political one.
November 14, 2023
The Nat Cons Are Dead Wrong: Middle-Class America Is Much Better Off Today Than in the Past By Stephen Moore
In the last several months, I have debated some of the intellectual leaders of a group called the "national conservatives."
November 10, 2023
Young Voters Spring (Contradictory) Political Surprises By Michael Barone
What's with young voters? It's a question prompted by two surprising and perhaps contradictory developments that are out of line with conventional wisdom and prevailing expectations among political observers.
November 9, 2023
Elections 2023: Democrats Enjoy a Strong Night By Kyle Kondik and J. Miles Coleman
They score victories in five of the six key races we were watching, although off-year elections do not necessarily predict the following year.
KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE
— Democrats won five of the six key races we were watching in Tuesday night’s elections, turning in a strong showing just a couple of days after a series of bad polls for President Joe Biden left some Democrats shook as the presidential race looms next year.
— The 2023 elections have limited predictive value, in large part because of the key differences between the Tuesday night results and what we should expect next year in the states we were watching.
November 8, 2023
Canceling Cancel Culture By John Stossel
"I was not genuine in my own beliefs," says 23-year-old Rikki Schlott in my new video. "I self-censored."
