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"I wish this was parody," Cruz said, implicitly referring to the abrupt firing of former Disney "Mandalorian" actress Gina Carano. 

Republican Glenn Youngkin will be sworn in as Virginia’s next governor on Saturday. It marks the first time in a decade a Republican will hold that office.

Things have changed for the better on Capitol Hill. Republicans are passing legislation, which hasn’t happened since 2020, and there is a pleasing, if limited, measure of bipartisanship, which had been absent throughout the grim tenure of former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA).

Early this morning I previewed for you a major First Amendment case that was argued in the Supreme Court today: Lee v. Tam. The Court will decide whether the government can deny trademark protection to trademarks (like the band name “The Slants” or the team name “The Redskins”) which it finds to be disparaging. I’ve now had a chance to read through the oral argument, | Read More »

Advisers to former Vice President Joe Biden have reportedly floated the idea of him teaming up with a younger running mate if he ran for president in 2020, including potentially Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-Texas).

The Port of Seattle Police Department has suspended an officer who chastised colleagues across the nation who he says are enforcing coronavirus lockdown orders in violation of their oaths to uphold the U.S. Constitution.

Sixty-two percent of U.S. adults believe a third political party is needed, the highest in Gallup's trend by one percentage point.

The elite, Ivy League, universities are supposed to be where the best and brightest are formed. To get into these schools is an honor, to work there, is an even greater achievement.

A new book details how efforts like mask mandates and drag queen story-hours are an attempt to shift control of kids’ lives from parents to far-left activists.

President Donald Trump speaks following a day of international protests.

Mediocre U.S. rankings in infant mortality and life expectancy have little to do with health-care quality.

Those who objected to the 'believe women' standard did so not because they hated women, but because they discerned its potential for abuse.

Conservative titan and longtime talk radio host Rush Limbaugh has passed away after a battle with cancer. He was 70-years-old. The announcement of his death was made on his radio

He’s just not up to the job of being president.

The Southern Poverty Law Center may want to look a little closer to home in its quest to expose violent extremism.

The nation’s foremost culture warrior is President Donald J. Trump. He wouldn’t, at first blush, seem well suited to the part. Trump once appeared on the cover of Playboy. He has been married three times. He ran beauty pageants and was a frequent guest on the Howard Stern radio show. His “locker-room talk” captured on the infamous Access Hollywood tape didn’t, shall we say, demonstrate a well-honed sense of propriety. There is no way Trump could be a credible combatant in the culture war as it existed for the past 40 years. But he has reoriented the main lines of battle away from issues related to religion and sexual morality onto the grounds of populism and nationalism. Trump’s culture war is fundamentally the people versus the elite, national sovereignty versus cosmopolitanism, and patriotism versus multiculturalism. It’s the difference, in a nutshell, between fighting over gay rights or immigration, over the breakdown in marriage or Black Lives Matter. The new war is just as emotionally charged as the old one. It, too, involves fundamental questions about who we are as a people, which are always more fraught than the debate over the appropriate tax rate or whether or not we should have a defense sequester. The participants are, by and large, the same as well. The old culture war featured Middle America on one side, and coastal elites, academia, and Hollywood on the other. So does the new war. And while Trump has no interest in fighting over gay marriage or engaging in the bathroom wars, his staunch pro-life position is a notable holdover from the old war. Yet any of his detractors who is warning, out of reflex more than anything else, of an attempt to control women’s bodies or establish a theocracy is badly out of date. Donald Trump has many ambitions, but imposing his morality on anyone clearly isn’t one of them. Instead, he wants to topple a corrupt establishment that he believes has put both its selfish interests and a misbegotten, fuzzy-headed altruism above the well-being of the American people. This isn’t just a governing program, but a culture crusade that includes a significant regional and class element. It channels the concerns of the Jacksonian America that is Trump’s base and, as Walter Russell Mead writes in an essay in Foreign Affairs, “felt itself to be under siege, with its values under attack and its future under threat.” The revolt of the Jacksonians as exemplified in Trump’s presidency sets up a cultural conflict as embittered as any we’ve experienced in the post–Roe v. Wade era. “If the cosmopolitans see Jacksonians as backward and chauvinistic,” Mead writes, “Jacksonians return the favor by seeing the cosmopolitan elite as near treasonous — people who think it is morally questionable to put their own country, and its citizens, first.” His emphasis on borders, cultural coherence, law and order, and national pride will engender a particular fear and loathing. This backdrop will add intensity to almost every fight in the Trump years. Consider the president’s war with the media. Almost all Republicans have testy relationships with the press. For Trump, though, the media are something more than a collection of biased outlets; they are a particularly noxious, high-profile expression of exactly the Northeastern elite that he seeks to dethrone. On the other side of the ledger, it’s nothing new for those occupying the commanding heights of our culture to accuse Republicans of being narrow-minded and bigoted, but the level of vitriol will be elevated to meet Trump’s frontal challenge. His emphasis on borders, cultural coherence, law and order, and national pride will engender a particular fear and loathing. It is an article of faith among the cultural elite that these priorities — despite what they consider the aberration of November’s election — are the relics of a rapidly disappearing America that can’t possibly represent the country’s future. Trump and his supporters beg to differ. The culture war is dead; long live the culture war. — Rich Lowry is the editor of National Review. He can be reached via e-mail: [email protected]. © 2017 King Features Syndicate

"Call it the Walmart approach: If I needed to get 30 different items for my shopping list, I could go to 15 different stores or I could go to the one that has everything."

'One should not attack and insult those who have chosen not to wear a mask'

Andrew Cuomo may have swapped civil court orders for criminal sentences as the possible outcome of his nursing homes debacle.

Obama’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) chief pleaded guilty on Friday to stealing government software and databases.

As a pro-life student activist, I spend every day being glared at on my way to class, going through hate messages on social media, and sometimes even being physically attacked all because I’m against killing babies. Sue me for my humanity, right? Yet, despite all this, I wake up every day with a burning passion […]

Pueblo Sin Fronteras, a group of activists escorting the migrant caravan of thousands of Central Americans traveling to the U.S., is being blamed by many — including the migrants themselves — for encouraging such a risky trek.

Republicans would do well to take a page from General George Patton's playbook on winning battles an

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Senator Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., was hospitalized after a fall at a hotel in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday night and is receiving treatment for a concussion.