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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The Emerging Right on Parade
A former MSNBC host paraded out a selection of young people on the new right and their performances left much to be desired.
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Sweeney Bod
The left’s unhinged and entirely predictable meltdown over the Sydney Sweeney blue jeans ad is, in fact, an expression of their dismay at realizing their days of bullying the beautiful are over.
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How Progressive Researchers Are Trying to Turn Men Into Victims of Sexual Violence
A new “made to penetrate” category of rape attempts to expand the definition of sexual violence and blur the distinction between male and female sexuality.
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When Architecture Kills
When architecture is divorced from the collective memory of history and tradition, it ceases to inspire. Often, it even ceases to be functional.
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Think the George Floyd Riots Were Bad? What If Obama Gets Indicted?
If Obama is charged, the 2020 “Summer of Love” riots are going to look like a picnic.
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Winning, Even When It Doesn’t Feel Like It
Perpetual skeptics would do well to consider how far the right has come in the last five years, even as they count the battles left to fight.
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How Bob Woodward Could Have Saved the ‘Washington Post’ from Russiagate Humiliation
Woodward identified the lack of curiosity at the Post that allowed the paper, and all of legacy media, to take the Russiagate bait that is now choking them.
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The Real January 6 Wasn’t at the Capitol – It Was at Trump Tower
The scandalous meeting on January 6, 2017 between the incoming president and James Comey was the beginning of an attempted coup.
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Israel’s Right to Exist Does Not Negate Palestinian Territorial Claims
Chronicles Editor-in-Chief Paul Gottfried responds to a critic who misrepresents and distorts his position on the Jewish state and what ought to be America’s posture toward it.
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The Obama Dossier
Recalling the back story to the Russia hoax that fundamentally transformed America.
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Trump’s Trade Lesson for Economists (and the World)
Trump and America are winning this trade war and demonstrating the shortcomings of the economists in the Ivory Tower.
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A Young Filmmaker’s Take on the Tales of Youth
Paul Roland’s inspiration in the legendary filmmaker, John Hughes, offers some hope that Hollywood can once again tell the poignant stories of American teenagers.
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House of Edification or House of Horrors?
If art reflects the society that produces it, postmodern art is a reflection of an age without boundaries, meaning, or hope.
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Tax Remittances to Stop the Border Cash Leak
Enforcing immigration law with ICE raids is an important, but difficult, way to secure the border. Taxing remittances is much easier and would also be very effective.
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In Defeat, Leftists Attempt to Repair Families and Friendships Broken by Politics
After a decade of politicizing everything, leftists now feel compelled to make nice with friends and family members they snubbed.
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Grading the Second Trump Presidency, Six Months In
Trump’s second administration is off to a strong, and fast, start because Trump has learned to seize the day.
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When the Bill for Bad Comedy Comes Due
Stephen Colbert chased applause instead of laughter. He catered to his audience’s prejudices instead of challenging them. It was boring, and thankfully he’s out of a job.
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Love Gov Threatens Florida Move
The irony of Andrew Cuomo’s threatened move to Florida, should he lose the New York mayoral race this fall, is not lost on Florida Republicans.
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Dems Rail Against Colbert’s Cancellation—Here’s Why
Democrats rush to Stephen Colbert’s defense because they know that Colbert, and all of the dying late-night television phenomenon, run cover for and serve the interests of Democrats.
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Defining Anti-Semitism
Simplistic definitions and easy assumptions about anti-Semitism shut down the conversations that would help to overcome it.
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The Left’s Concert of Violence
When America rejected the left, they viewed it not as a rejection of their policies, but as a rejection of them as people. Many leftists feel justified in lashing out.
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Brett Cooper and Conservatism’s Creative Bankruptcy
Will the right ever break free from its parasitic relationship with Hollywood, and create real art instead of complaining about it?
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Mamdani, Man From Nowhere
A rootless, third-world would-be cosmopolitan wants to impart his special blend of regressive, anti-Western grievance on America. We should stop inviting it.
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Whose Politics Canceled Stephen Colbert?
Donald Trump didn’t get Stephen Colbert canceled; everything Democrats like about him did.
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Keep Maverick in the Cockpit
As warfare is increasingly driven by advancements in drone technology and artificial intelligence, the loss of the human element will be catastrophic for civilian populations.
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ADL’s Thought Police Helped Create the Current Climate of Anti-Semitism
How the Anti-Defamation League now embraces the ideology that they were originally established to combat.
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Muhammad Ali and a Half-Century of Fooling Ourselves
The full legacy of Muhammad Ali, including his period of venomous anti-white bigotry, needs to be remembered and understood.
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Building the 21st-Century American Athlete
American families need to reclaim the origins of athletics as way to impart and inspire excellence and virtue.