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Veronique de Rugy

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When House Speaker Mike Johnson lashed out at last weekend's "No Kings" rallies soon to arrive on Washington's National Mall, he reached for an old conservative refrain: "They hate capitalism. They hate our free enterprise system." I am sure he's correct about some of the protesters. But the message rings hollow coming from a party leader that stands by as President Donald Trump does precisely what Johnson rightly decries: substituting political control for market choice and ruling by executive order. Indeed, what began as a populist revolt against so-called elites has become a program ...

Rachel Marsden

Columns

VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Every American president has a foreign policy doctrine. But no president has ever had one quite like Donald Trump's. With President George W. Bush, it was to invade resource-rich countries under the pretext that there are terrorists there, preferably ...

Stephen Moore

Columns

The following column is coauthored by Stephen Moore and David M. Simon. The government shutdown has focused debate on the vast sum ($136 billion in 2025, as projected by the Congressional Budget Office) that the federal government spends to annually subsidize continually skyrocketing ...

Jamie Stiehm

Columns

The "No Kings" protest across the nation added up to nearly 7 million people protesting President Donald Trump's reign. Dissent is upon us, catching and spreading. Shakespeare's King Lear, King Charles I of England and King Louis XVI of France met fates that upended their eras. Two kings ...

Tim Graham

Columns

One of the more tiresome mantras of leftist media coverage is Trump allegedly paging through his "authoritarian playbook." The media have their own protest playbook, as you could tell when leftists organized another mass protest titled "No Kings," as if we've ever had a king. The network ...

Letters to the editor

Letters to the Editor

Ranked Choice Voting, a better way To the Editor: Are you concerned about all the anger that is part of politics in the US today? Feel like your concerns aren’t being heard by politicians? The problem with the current election system is a candidate only needs to get the MOST votes to win. Our system allows candidates to win with less than half of the votes. If there are more than two candidates, someone could win with only 35% of the total votes, which leaves 65% of the voters unhappy. The more candidates there are, the percentage of votes needed to win becomes smaller and smaller. ...