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Kamala Harris campaigned on joyful vibes. But it was her opponent, Donald Trump, who actualized them. In just a few hours, Trump will be sworn in for the second time. And the vibes couldn't be more different than 2016.…

President Joe Biden on Monday issued preemptive pardons to several of his family members, Rep. Liz Cheney (R., Wyo.), former coronavirus czar Anthony Fauci, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley, and multiple other Trump critics, breaking…

America's long national nightmare is almost over. President Joe Biden will leave office (and politics) forever at noon on Monday when Donald Trump is sworn in for a second term. The vibes are different this time. Trump is more popular than ever. The incumbent…

The Department of Energy, in one of its final actions under President Joe Biden, earmarked billions of dollars in green energy loans to utility companies based in Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm's home state of Michigan—defying the agency's inspector…

Heavily armed Hamas militants and their Gazan allies paraded through the streets on Sunday, surrounding an ambulance carrying the first round of Israeli hostages released under a tenuous ceasefire deal. The public show of force likely violated that deal—and…

With a foot out the door of the Oval Office, President Joe Biden, in a meaningless but official-looking document, declared that the proposed Equal Rights Amendment, which failed in 1982 when the extended period specified by Congress for its ratification…

Twenty years ago Kevin Roberts was an assistant professor of history at New Mexico State University. Today he’s president of the Heritage Foundation, which bills itself as "America’s most influential policy organization" and is best known for its "Project…

Some books are destined to be bestsellers. Others are destined to end up on a cargo plane to Africa next to pallets of T-shirts celebrating would-be Super Bowl champions and Hillary Clinton's "herstoric" victory. Indeed, sometimes it all comes down to which…

Martin Van Buren should never have been president. That’s not an insult.…

Donald Trump does not formally become president until Monday, but his second term got off to a momentous start this week. As was the case in 2016, he mounted the bully pulpit long before he entered the Oval Office, and day after day he has poured forth speech.…

President Joe Biden's departing green energy loan czar this week finalized a controversial $1.6 billion federal loan to a green energy company with which he had prior financial ties—a farewell shot at federal investigators who have been probing conflicts of…

Last April, the Biden administration finalized environmental rules that effectively force gas and coal plants to adopt carbon capture—an expensive and controversial process in which emissions are stored underground—or risk shutting down. Months later, in…

President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris declared on Friday that the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) is "the law of the land." It isn't, as Biden and Harris do not have the authority to approve constitutional amendments, their statements carry no…

MSNBC host Joe Scarborough said Friday that Jewish Americans will always vote Democratic, even if the party becomes tougher on Israel and puts conditions on military aid to the Jewish state.…

Jennifer Rubin's new #Resistance website, the Contrarian, is determined to establish itself as a cultural force. "We'll have a humor column!" Rubin's co-founder, Norm Eisen, explained with considerable enthusiasm earlier this week. "We'll even have a cooking…

Ohio lieutenant governor Jon Husted will replace Vice President-elect J.D. Vance in the Senate, Gov. Mike DeWine (R.) announced Friday.  The post Ohio Lt. Gov. Jon Husted Tapped To Replace Vance in Senate appeared first on .

Democratic megadonor Reid Hoffman appears to have quietly left a premier Pentagon advisory board after the election of Donald Trump, raising questions about whether he quit the organization on his own or was forced off because of his work to keep Trump out of…

President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Homeland Security pledged to end the controversial CBP One app that is estimated to have facilitated nearly one million migrant entries in the United States during President Joe Biden's tenure. …

PANAMA CITY, Fla.—The jury in the bombshell defamation suit against CNN found the liberal network defamed Navy veteran Zachary Young by airing coverage that portrayed him as an "illegal profiteer" who operated in a "black market" when he worked to evacuate…

"A has power over B," said the political scientist Robert Dahl, "to the extent that he can get B to do something that B would not otherwise do."…