Neal McCluskey To stick it to “woke, elite universities,” House Republicans have included a new tax on private college endowments in their “big, beautiful bill.” The rate would top out…

President Donald Trump’s rallying speech to House Republicans Tuesday morning wasn’t enough to convince some holdouts to unite behind his ‘big, beautiful bill’ ahead of a planned vote this week.…

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is instructing the Pentagon to launch a comprehensive review into the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021.  In 2021, then-President Joe Biden removed U.S. troops…

Robert A. Levy Today, I’m supplementing my posts of December 24, 2024 and February 25, 2025, which discuss proposals by President Donald Trump to enlarge his own powers and those of the…

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. slammed Washington Sen. Patty Murray during a Tuesday Senate hearing for allegedly ‘presiding over the destruction’ of Americans’ health across her…

President Donald Trump rallied House Republicans behind closed doors to pass his ‘one big, beautiful bill’ as soon as possible – and to quickly resolve their interparty disagreements in the…

President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed a possible prisoner swap involving nine Americans during their phone call this week, The Associated Press reported. Russian presidential adviser Yuri…

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt fielded questions from the children of journalists and White House officials to celebrate Take Our Sons and Daughters to Work Day on Tuesday. The…

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Tuesday called U.S. demands that Tehran stop enriching uranium entirely ‘utter nonsense’ and questioned whether future nuclear talks could succeed.  ‘For the Americans to say, ‘We…

Republican senators are renewing calls for the Pentagon’s watchdog to investigate alleged misconduct and efforts to ‘undermine the chain of command’ by former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff…