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Two Visions: November 3 Is a Choice, Not a Mood

Thirty-eight days. A House majority. A country with a border, police, and markets, or a faction that ran this year on abolishing them.

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Crime & justiceOpinion

Evidence of Lucidity and Deliberate Decision-Making in the Lindsay Clancy Case

Lindsay Clancy has admitted to strangling her three children—Cora, 5; Dawson, 3; and Callan, 8 months—with exercise bands in the basement of their Duxbury, Massachusetts home on January 24, 2023. Her defense argues she should not be held criminally responsible because she was suffering from postpartum psychosis and other mental illness that left her without substantial capacity to appreciate the wrongfulness of her actions or conform her conduct to the law.

August 20, 20267 min read
Fiscal policyOpinion

Republicans Must Seize This Moment: A Conservative Plan to Confront the $40 Trillion Debt

America’s national debt has officially crossed $40 trillion. As of August 18, 2026, the Treasury reported the total public debt outstanding at $40,047,425,768,420. That figure more than doubled in less than a decade. Interest payments alone have become one of the largest items in the federal budget—already rivaling or exceeding what the nation spends on national defense in recent periods. The annual deficit is on track to exceed $2 trillion. This is not an abstract accounting problem. It is a direct threat to economic growth, national security, and the freedom of future generations.

August 20, 20266 min read

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