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Bottom line on the border: It’s already orderly

There were fewer arrests at the Southern border in July than in the last month of the Trump presidency. Shelters have seen a massive drop in migrants. And Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is having a hard time finding enough recent arrivals to fill buses headed north. The reason for this development ...

The cost of duty, and why we should pay it

It’s hardly even fall, but already I’m looking for airline tickets for Thanksgiving, my jaw agape in horror at the prices. It’s never been cheap to travel during the holidays, so I can’t tell if I’m just getting crotchetier about the cost or if flying is truly getting that much more ...

Why Jews should reject Trump

Dear Fellow Jewish American, I beg you to consider the consequences of a Trump victory. In the aftermath of Oct. 7, we’ve seen an ugly new chapter in left-wing antisemitism. Left-wing activists on campuses and elsewhere adorned their posters with images of hang gliders, delighting, one ...

Israel’s righteous war on Hezbollah

Israel is supposed to tolerate the intolerable. A terror group has launched thousands of missiles into the Jewish state over the last year -- catalyzed by a hideous pogrom against Israel carried out by another terror group -- and we are told that it is Israel, finally hitting back in ...

A brief history of free speech in America

“Congress shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press.” -- First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution When James Madison agreed to be the scrivener at the Constitutional Convention during the summer of 1787, he could not have known that just four years later ...

The Harris campaign might need to change its strategy

In my time as a political consultant, I observed that carrying out a campaign strategy was surprisingly simple. You settled on a basic strategy, emphasizing the candidate’s strong points on issues and character, framing the election in terms favorable to most voters. Then you just carried it ...