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Levin fits big ideas in a little book

By TIM GRAHAM Mark Levin has written a brand-new book on a huge subject: “On Power.” How do you boil that subject down to 208 pages? In America, the founders and their current admirers have been all about limiting power, having the humility about human nature to understand that people ...

Mental illness is literally killing us

By GARY FRANKS It is my understanding that being “woke” means that we cannot talk about history or the past, about things like “slavery in America and suicides in America,” as such topics could make white people, especially white men, uncomfortable. Yes, as Jack Nicholson once ...

Why MAGA purists can’t always get what they want

By JONAH GOLDBERG MAGA has a problem, in the form of Donald Trump. Put simply: MAGA wants to define what MAGA (or “America first”) means, and Donald Trump wants it to mean whatever he says at any given moment. I should offer a little definitional clarity and political nuance. Make ...

Mental illness is literally killing us

By GARY FRANKS It is my understanding that being “woke” means that we cannot talk about history or the past, about things like “slavery in America and suicides in America,” as such topics could make white people, especially white men, uncomfortable. Yes, as Jack Nicholson once ...

Obama better statesman than rough-and-tumble politician

By JAMIE STIEHM Happy 64th birthday it was on Monday to the 44th president, Barack Obama. Effortlessly cool, the first Black president proved a soaring speaker up there with John F. Kennedy, and the bringer of the Affordable Care Act. Also on the record — Obama never played hard against ...

Post checked facts the way it wanted to see them

By TIM GRAHAM Washington Post “fact checker” Glenn Kessler announced on Monday he’s hanging up his Pinocchios and accepting a generous buyout after 27 years. “Much as I would have liked to keep scrutinizing politicians in Washington, especially in this era, the financial ...