Key Points Average US student assessment scores appear to tell a simple story: Performance rose through the 2000s, plateaued during the 2010s, and then declined sharply during the pandemic. But ...

Since our nation’s founding, American Catholics have confronted the question of whether one can be a faithful Catholic and a devoted citizen of the United States. Most Catholic citizens ...

On his first day in office, President Donald Trump ordered a wholesale change in the federal government’s immigration policies. Trump declared that almost four years of unrestricted and illegal ...

Farm interest groups are deeply concerned that unilateral actions by the new Trump adminis­tration to substantially increase tariffs on all or many imports from major trading partners could harm ...

China’s AI ambitions have long been hamstrung by a critical weakness: access to high-end computing hardware. US export controls have effectively cut Beijing off from the most advanced AI chips ...

Jonah Goldberg has a bone to pick with John Podhoretz’s exuberance over the second Trump ascension. Once John has been adequately chastised, the pod couple covers Trump’s inauguration speech ...

Pollsters have been busy in recent weeks laying a public opinion foundation for Donald Trump’s second term. The new data support a truism: Americans aren’t ideologues. They want significant ...

Predicting where the Trump administration ends up on tariffs is quite the task. This post is about what will help, and who. Tariffs can replace Chinese goods with American goods without causing ...

As he prepares to negotiate an end to the war in Ukraine, President Donald Trump says he will continue to send U.S. weapons to Kyiv. “I want to reach an agreement, and the only way you’re ...

Even before he took office, President Donald Trump was already securing major policy wins. Trump’s election induced the Biden administration to withdraw two pending regulations that would have ...

A video livestream will be available on this page starting at 5:00 p.m. on Wednesday, January 22, 2025. Please scroll down to view. On January 22, Georgia’s fifth president and opposition leader ...

A new forecast from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) reveals the scale of the fiscal challenge that the second Trump administration has inherited from its predecessors, including Trump 1.0 ...