Trump must be able to fire members of the Fed's Board of the Governors—or else the Fed is structured in an unconstitutional manner.
Year: 2025
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Lack of Will
Today’s comedy is lacking in the kind of mastery of mediums and an understanding of mankind that made Will Rogers an all-time great.
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Trump’s Claim to Be Country’s ‘Chief Law Enforcement Officer’ Has Precedent
The media is slamming the president’s claim but did not object when other presidents and scholars used the same terminology.
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Mamdani Could Lose Even in Crowded Field
Mamdani has become a vulnerable candidate because crime has become a driving issue.
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Corporate Neutrality and the Cracker Barrel Crack-Up
The Cracker Barrel rebrand is not woke—it’s the natural response to the right’s call for corporate neutrality, and it demonstrates exactly why that never ought to have been the goal.
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President Trump Deserves the Nobel Peace Prize
For brokering peace between Azerbaijan and Armenia, Cambodia and Thailand, Congo and Rwanda, and his ongoing efforts between Russia and Ukraine, the U.S. president has a claim beyond all others.
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Is It Time To End Mandated ‘Majority-Minority’ Congressional Districts?
It is time to end court-ordered majority-minority districts, exclude illegal aliens from congressional apportionment, and get an accurate census.
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The Myth of the ‘Good’ Immigrant
At a time when America is struggling to meet the needs of the native population, importing millions of outsiders makes little sense and leads to explosive political outcomes.
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The Sage on the Stage vs. the Student-Directed Classroom
The pedagogy of the last several decades, eschewing lectures and expert lecturers, is shortchanging students and giving them a false sense of confidence.
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Trump’s Industrial Policy Is Realism, Not Socialism
America has a long history of government getting involved in owning companies and it is the national interest to build a sovereign wealth fund.
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A Fed Governor’s Shady Home Purchase May Lead to More Money Printing
President Trump’s hopes to lower interest rates and grow the economy may get a boost from the pending exit of one of Biden’s shady appointees to the Fed.
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Show Intel
The game Washington plays is a one of phony intelligence theater advancing partisan purposes. It’s time to break up the corrupt CIA.
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Vice-Signaling Bad Boys of the Right Do Us No Favors
In breaking down the left’s taboos, too many of us on the right have indulged in embracing being called the bad guy. It’s not helpful.
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Woke Math Doesn’t Add Up
In the wake of DEI rollbacks, billionaire leftists are backing woke mathematic curricula for minority communities.
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The Art of the Deal, Russia-Ukraine Style
Trump, the sober and emotionally detached realist, stands a better chance of making peace than his ideologically inclined White House predecessor.
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The Right Wing’s Institutional Problem
Given the left’s long march through our institutions, we cannot trust that those beholden to such institutions—even if they are on the right—can prevail in politics without a new understanding of the game.
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The Decline of ‘Suits’ and the End of the Non-Woke Bingeable Television
The trajectory of the once delightful USA Network series makes it a perfect test case for examining what woke did to entertainment.
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The Cure for Trump Derangement Syndrome? Success!
Trump’s approval now surpasses that of both George W. Bush and Barack Obama at this stage of their second terms and only shows signs of growing stronger.
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Trump’s Takeover of D.C. Is Working
The Democrat-led disaster city is finding out what happens when the laws are enforced.
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Pam Bondi’s Crackdown on D.C.’s Sanctuary Policies Is Long Overdue
The failures of sanctuary cities are a choice they don’t have to make. Cleaning up D.C. will help expose this truth.
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The Shocking Hypocrisy and Callousness of the Left’s Homeless Outrage
The only effective way to begin tackling the homeless crisis is to stop tolerating street living.
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The Platinum Rule?
A health insurer’s missive attempts to advance DEI by subverting and surpassing the Golden Rule.
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Is Gavin Newsom the Democrats’ Answer to Trump?
California’s Democratic governor is trying too hard to be as tough as Trump and bumping into the consequences of his own policies while doing it.
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‘Weapons’ De-escalates the Self-Righteous Hollywood Act
Unlike other horror films that take themselves too seriously, Weapons is willing to caricature themes and characters that previously have been off limits.
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The Hope and Peril of AI
For good or for ill, and probably both, AI is with us. It is up to us to determine whether we will be its master or if we will allow it to master us.
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More Questionable Government Statistics, This Time From the Justice Department
A new report from the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics is a product of flawed methodology imposed during the COVID era and should not be trusted.
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America’s Catholic Bishops Fan the Flames of Violence Against ICE
Comparing immigration enforcement to the work of slavecatchers and Nazis is contrary to Catholic teaching and encourages violence against those enforcing just laws.
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The Ugly Truth About a Necessary Ukrainian Peace
There is no path to a clear and just victory. A negotiated peace will require concessions to Russia, and it is better to accept them than to continue this madness.
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MAGA Should Not Enable Stoner Culture
Reclassifying marijuana as a Schedule III drug won’t do anything to advance MAGA politically and it will make American culture decidedly less great.
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What I’ve Learned While Interning at ‘Chronicles’
Undaunted by the fires raging against our civilization, Chronicles remains a place where sifting through those ashes and building again is possible.
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Gerrymandering: Obama vs. Obama
Not surprisingly, at various times, Barack Obama has been on all sides of the gerrymandering question.
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It’s Time to Federalize Washington, D.C.
After 52 years of a failed home rule experiment, it’s time to return the responsibility for governing our nation’s capital to Congress as the Constitution intended.
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Liberalism’s Cure for the Man Crisis Makes Men Worse
The kind of men we look to for strength are precisely the kind of men our culture now condemns.
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Court Halts Boasberg’s Judicial Activism
In an unusual show of deference to the Constitution as it was intended to be read, the judicial branch limited its own authority to interfere with executive powers.
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The Fauci Variants
Dr. Anthony Fauci’s acolytes populate governmental health institutions at all levels and continue their quest for permanent panic. They should be marginalized and ignored.
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Just Say No to More Marijuana
The president should ignore the well-funded cannabis lobby and focus on what more marijuana use means for ordinary Americans.
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What We Owe Graduates in the Age of the Great Slowdown
For too long, we’ve allowed the idea of college to operate on autopilot and assumptions.
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Erik Wemple Should Call Out His ‘New York Times’ Colleagues for Their Lies
The former Washington Post media columnist has an opportunity to do some housekeeping and call out his new colleagues at The New York Times.
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A Quarter of Americans Are on Medicaid
When that many people are receiving Medicaid to cover their medical expenses, one has to wonder whether this level of dependency is part of the plan.
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The ’80s Called—They Want Their Sanctuary Policy Ideas Back
Sanctuary cities are a dated concept that, even from the point of view of immigration doves, are unsustainable when confronted with today’s realities.
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A Territorial Lease Agreement Could End the War in Ukraine
A territorial lease approach may be the most face-saving solution for all parties involved in the Ukrainian quagmire.
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DEI Henchmen Continue to Threaten Florida’s Freedoms
The University of Florida’s board of trustees is attempting to undermine the board of governors’ rejection of a DEI ideologue as president of the Florida system.
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Democrats Have Been Gerrymandering the Whole Country
The immigration policy of Democrats for the last generation is a much more brazen version of gerrymandering than anything proposed by Republicans in Texas, or anywhere else.
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Depose King James Boasberg
To eliminate black-robe supremacy, Judge James Boasberg has got to go.
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Will the GOP Make Liberals Generous Again?
Are wealthy liberals willing to put their money where their mouths are?
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We Need a Sexual Nonproliferation Pact
Mutually assured destruction may have worked during the Cold War, but it’s a lousy dating strategy.
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August 2025 Chronicles
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Polemics & Exchanges: August 2025
Chronicles readers tussle over history, immigration, and economics!
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The Woke Right and Déjà Vu All Over Again
Conservatism Inc. pins the "woke right" label on anyone who confronts the left rather than cowering before it.