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SHAPIRO: The dumbest assumption in all of politics

One of the most persistent mistakes in modern politics is the insistence on flattening all ideologies — pretending that all human beings think the same way, want the same things and are motivated by the same forces. Every time policymakers fall into this trap, the result is not compassion or ...

COMER: Hello, again, Mitt Romney

I was thinking just a few days ago how I hadn’t heard much lately from Mitt Romney. I suppose the realization wasn’t shocking, given that the conservative movement at this point revolves completely around President Donald Trump and Romney is no longer a part of the U.S. Senate, but I was ...

WILLIAMS: Walz, Omar and the billion-dollar Minnesota fraud scandal

Minnesota is now facing one of the largest documented government service fraud scandals in United States history. Under Gov. Tim Walz's evidently unwatchful eye, federal prosecutors have estimated that approximately $1 billion in taxpayer funds have been siphoned from multiple state- and ...

BARONE: Closing the door on immigration? Not yet.

Can the United States come up with an immigration policy that will prove sustainable? Two writers whom I respect and take delight in reading, despite their widely differing views, Tyler Cowen, who favors more immigration, and Christopher Caldwell, who favors less, have their doubts. Both, ...

COMER: A willing McAdams dragged left – how far will he go?

Ben McAdams is off and running to the left. On Nov. 19, the candidate for Utah’s potential new Democrat-favoring congressional district shared a story on X written by the left-friendly ProPublica. The story explained a tragic situation where Tierra Walker, a 37-year-old mother, died after ...

BARONE: Enforcing immigration laws is not the moral equivalent of the Holocaust

Whence cometh the conviction, in America and even more in Britain and Europe, that open borders is the only moral immigration policy? Of course, not everyone believes that, and many who do stop short of saying so. But the contrast between the rhetoric and policies of the first two decades of ...