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                            March 21, 2025Experts Have Only Themselves to Blame for the Distrust of Institutions By Michael Barone
Now they tell us.
March 20, 2025Notes on the State of Politics: New Hampshire Senate and Change in Virginia By J. Miles Coleman
Notes on the State of Politics: New Hampshire Senate and Change in Virginia

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                            March 19, 2025The Good, the Bad, the Undocumented By John Stossel
President Donald Trump is deporting immigrants -- 11,000 last month.

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                            March 18, 2025The FDA Can Save Lives by Keeping Copycat Drugs Off the Market By Stephen Moore
For decades, the United States has led the world in pharmaceutical innovation -- developing drugs that combat cancer, heart disease, AIDS, diabetes and other killer diseases. One recent study found that "in health-sciences output in the Nature Index, the United States' Share is almost 8,500, higher than the next 10 leading countries combined."

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                            March 18, 2025The Democrats' Civil War By Daniel McCarthy
Chuck Schumer is running scared from his own party.

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                            March 18, 2025What if President Autopen’s Signatures were Written in Disappearing Ink? By Brian C. Joondeph
An autopen, as described by Wikipedia, is a device designed to automatically reproduce signatures. It is commonly used by celebrities to sign numerous autographs. Presidents have utilized autopens since the era of Harry Truman, with Gerald Ford being the first to openly acknowledge their use.

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                            March 14, 2025Tariffs Based on Tendentious History Could Be Political Malpractice By Michael Barone
   Will the second Trump administration come undone by an economic policy based on what the British military historian Lawrence Freedman, describing Vladimir Putin's rationale for invading Ukraine, calls "tendentious history"?
March 13, 2025Three Things That Usually Happen in Midterms By Kyle Kondik
KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE— There are at least three fairly consistent things that we see in midterms compared to presidential elections.
— The turnout of eligible voters in midterms is consistently lower than the turnout in the most recent presidential election.
— Midterm electorates are typically older, whiter, and more educated than presidential electorates.
— The non-presidential party usually wins a higher share of the two-party House vote in the midterm than that party did in the preceding presidential election.

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                            March 12, 2025Tax the Past? By John Stossel
        Climate activists have found a new way to force us to pay more for energy.

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                            March 11, 2025Want to Soak the Rich? Tax University Endowments. By Stephen Moore
                  Republicans are searching for ways to "pay for" their tax cuts. Democrats want the rich to pay more tax. Here's a solution that should make everyone happy.
                  House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith is suggesting a tax on the $840 billion college endowments. These endowments will soon eclipse $1 trillion in size -- more money than the entire GDP of many countries.

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                            March 11, 2025Can Donald Trump Win a Trade War? By Daniel McCarthy
President Donald Trump knows better than to treat the "honeymoon" a president gets in his first months of office as a time to relax. He's fighting as hard now as he did at the height of last year's campaign.

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                            March 7, 2025A Formidable President Storms Ahead By Michael Barone
Some thoughts spring to mind after President Donald Trump's 100-minute address to Congress.
March 6, 2025Lessons from History: House Incumbents from the Non-Presidential Party Rarely Lose Reelection in Midterms By Kyle Kondik
KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE— The non-presidential party often picks up House seats in midterms, and as a part of it, that party’s incumbents rarely lose in midterms.
— Over 13 general election midterms held during the last half-century, just an average of 3 non-presidential party House members have lost per midterm.
— Redistricting as well as special election winners losing their subsequent general election inflate that total. Otherwise, a variety of other factors—including scandal, strong challengers, political circumstances, and more—contributed to these relatively rare losses.

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                            March 5, 2025What Exactly Does ‘I Support Ukraine’ Mean? By Brian C. Joondeph
Since the irritable, sweatshirt-clad Ukrainian president met with President Donald Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance in the Oval Office last Friday, social media has been filled with profile pictures proclaiming, “I stand with Ukraine” and “Slava Ukraini.“

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                            March 5, 2025The Death of Europe By John Stossel
America needs more rules to protect workers, say some from both parties.

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                            March 4, 2025Europe's Decline Was a Choice By Daniel McCarthy
Donald Tusk, the prime minister of Poland, might not shock Europe's leaders the way Donald Trump does, but he too has a tough message for them.

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                            March 4, 2025For Whom the Zelle Tolls By Stephen Moore
One of the more baffling lawsuits in the final days of the Biden administration was the complaint against Zelle, the popular money transfer network. The Consumer Finance Protection Bureau argued that, despite Zelle's service being free, the network's users were being ripped off.

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                            February 28, 2025Getting to Denmark By Michael Barone
Sooner or later, The New York Times catches on to the news. In the case of immigration policy, the news it has caught up with is that mass immigration, legal and illegal, from less-developed countries is politically toxic.
February 27, 2025House District Loyalty in the Trump Era By J. Miles Coleman
KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE— In presidential elections since 2016, only 28 of the 435 current House districts have backed nominees of different parties.
— In next year’s House elections, districts that have been Electoral College bellwethers since 2016 could play a large role in determining whether Democrats can recapture the majority.
— Still, Republicans have some potential offensive targets in districts that have been national popular vote bellwethers.
— While House Democrats find themselves in a similar overall situation now as they did in 2017, the general contours of the House battlefield are different.

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                            February 26, 2025Does Everyone Hate What Trump is Doing? Far from It By Brian C. Joondeph
On social media, one might get the impression that Americans who voted for President Donald Trump now feel buyer’s remorse.