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HARROP: News for the ‘downwardly mobile elite’: You’re still elite

A dear millennial friend and I once had a fraught conversation. It came back to me upon reading that the demographic most receptive to socialist candidates and their far-left agenda was the urban "downwardly mobile elite." My friend, the son of hard-working immigrants, possessed an Ivy League ...

BARONE: Are ex-presidents a help or hindrance?

For a generation, Americans have had a historically large number of ex-presidents around, a possible source of counsel from one of only 45 people who have exercised the broad powers conferred by Article II of the Constitution. You might expect former presidents to supply elements of personal ...

ZITO: Trump bullish on the golden age of America at Pittsburgh summit

PITTSBURGH — President Donald Trump last week fulfilled his pledge to protect America's national security and grow prosperity in the middle of the country when he announced a staggering $90 billion-plus had been secured to build artificial intelligence data power centers, all fueled by the ...

GARVEY: Praying that the Camp Mystic families find meaning in the madness

On July 16, 1945, the United States detonated the first nuclear bomb in New Mexico on what's now the White Sands Missile Range. About 40 miles away from the Trinity test site, a group of girls at a dance camp were thrown from their bunks in the explosion. Thinking a water heater had exploded, ...

SHAPIRO: Are conservatives demoralized?

This week, Tucker Carlson spoke at Turning Point USA's big event in Tampa, Florida. There -- without naming President Donald Trump — he unleashed on the Trump administration, suggesting that they were covering up a child sex trafficking ring and denigrating Trump's victories thus far. "If you ...

BARONE: Higher education in trouble — political repercussions

Nine months after the 2024 election, we've been graced with definitive dissections of the electorate and how it has changed since that escalator ride 10 years and one month ago. There's wide agreement in the analyses of the Associated Press/Fox News Vote Cast, the Democratic firm Catalist's ...

BARONE: The gender gap grows wider and wider

The gender gap, we're informed by some of the best polling analysts in the business, is bigger than ever. Ever, in this case, means since the election of 1980, when men were more willing than women to vote for Ronald Reagan and oust Jimmy Carter. That spurred political journalists to emit ...

WILLIAMS: In Texas, the cost of early warnings was paid in death

In the early morning of July 4, a flash flood emergency was issued for Austin and San Antonio by the National Weather Service in Texas. According to the NWS, a flash flood emergency is "exceedingly rare" and is only used when "there is a severe threat to human life and catastrophic ...