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MAGA’s moral problem

The rush to exonerate Trump from the implications of the Epstein birthday book message reveals a contradiction at the heart of MAGA. In the immediate aftermath of the Wall Street Journal July scoop about the smarmy message Trump included in the book of friendly tributes assembled in 2003 for ...

Taking the Constitution seriously

Last week, the President of the United States did not take the Constitution seriously. He ordered the murders of 11 people who were riding in a speedboat in the Caribbean Sea around 1,300 miles from the U.S. Afterward he said he did so because he believed that they were members of a ...

Girl on the train

She fled Ukraine for fear she might be killed in the war with Russia and came to America where she thought she might be safe. She was wrong. Iryna Zarutska, 23, was sitting alone on a train in Charlotte, North Carolina, when a security camera showed a man getting up from his seat behind her ...

Murder can’t be erased

Some offenses are so heinous they can never be wiped from the record-- criminal or moral. There's no normalizing first- or second-degree murder. Not by having done the time with good behavior, not by getting a college degree, not by apologizing. Other crimes don't, in themselves, warrant a life ...

Time to unload some federal property

BY JOHN STOSSEL RELEASE: WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 2025 AND THEREAFTER Wasted Land The federal government owns about a third of America. Since we're on a path to bankruptcy, it would be smart to sell some unused property. President Donald Trump's Interior Secretary says it may be worth ...

Trump is losing

As I travel around the country flogging my new book "Coming Up Short" (which, please remember, you can order at bookshop.org, and the audiobook at libro.fm ), I'm seeing a groundswell of revulsion against Trump. His economy is a disaster. He promised to bring down prices, yet the prices of ...