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Abdul el Sayed.

Slick Abdul

Byron York · October 19, 2026 4:45 pm

President Donald Trump and Russia's President Vladimir Putin talk, Friday, Aug. 15, 2025, at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

Trump has killed the American-led world order

President Donald Trump waves as he walks past presidential portraits along the Colonnade.

Inside Trump’s job approval crisis

Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate Abdul El-Sayed, talks to the media after a televised debate with Republican nominee for U.S. Senate Mike Rogers at WOOD-TV, on Thursday, Oct. 8, 2026, in Grand Rapids, Mich. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

El Sayed’s cure for high gas prices would make them worse

Hakeem Jeffries and Mike Johnson

What Pittsburgh can teach the next House majority

The way the Social Security Administration "collects, verifies and maintains" its death records leaves the agency open to a slew of errors, according to the GAO. (Photo: Thinkstock)

In receipt of stolen goods

Walter Williams October 30, 2013 4:00 am

The modern Federal Reserve is charged with two sometimes clashing missions: preserving a stable currency and reducing unemployment. (AP File)

Boring, but bad — the problem of the Federal Reserve

John Stossel October 30, 2013 4:00 am

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Ideological zealots dominate Democrats and Republicans

Noemie Emery October 30, 2013 4:00 am

Texas's low-tax, light-regulation policies have produced a highly diversified economy that from 2002 to 2011 created nearly one-third of the nation's highest-paying jobs. In those years, its number of upper- and middle-income jobs grew 24 percent. (Photo: Thinkstock)

Americans keep moving to states with low taxes and housing costs

Michael Barone October 30, 2013 4:00 am

The withdrawal of American forces from Afghanistan poses a threat to the rights and safety of Afghan women. (AP File)

Afghan women will suffer if the Taliban returns to power

Cal Thomas October 30, 2013 4:00 am

New York City Police Commissioner RayÃÂ Kelly was shouted down by protesters at Brown University in Providence, R.I., on Tuesday, forcing administrators at the Ivy League school to call off his lecture on "Proactive Policing in America's Biggest City." (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

‘Stop and frisk’ protests at Brown University went too far

Gregory Kane October 30, 2013 4:00 am

E-commerce start-up Carvana focuses on selling used cars through large, eight-story vending machines located across the United States.

Vehicle mileage taxes could help states take over road building from Washington

Diana Furchtgott-Roth October 29, 2013 4:00 am

Will the courts end Obamacare by disallowing subsidies on federal exchanges?

You can keep your health plan — if Obama likes it

Timothy P. Carney October 29, 2013 4:00 am

President Obama (AP/Charles Dharapak)

Here’s why Obama said people could keep their insurance

Philip Klein October 29, 2013 4:00 am

President Ronald Reagan addresses a Joint Session of Congress and the nation by television in the House Chamber giving his State of the Union speech on Jan. 25, 1984. (AP/Bob Daugherty)

Hey, GOP, it’s time to put on a happy face

Cal Thomas October 28, 2013 4:00 am

CitizenAudit allows people to view the IRS 990 forms of nonprofit organizations to see who contributes to organizations. (Screenshot: CitizenAudit.org)

CitizenAudit exposes the funding behind Big Green’s Colorado ‘netwar’

Ron Arnold October 28, 2013 4:00 am

Interest in the Arctic is higher today than ever. Covering one-sixth of the world's land mass and vast expanses of sea, it contains a wealth of untapped resources from minerals like rare earths and uranium to gushers of oil and natural resources. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

America is leaving itself out in the Arctic cold

James Jay Carafano October 28, 2013 4:00 am