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PHILADELPHIA- U.S. Senator David McCormick hosted the inaugural Pennsylvania Red Tape Dialogues last week at Temple University in Philadelphia with the goal of bringing together C-suite executives, small business owners, policy experts, and federal/state regulators to identify and eliminate burdensome government regulations. (credit Sen. McCormick's office)

McCormick takes on Pennsylvania’s red tape, one binder at a time

Salena Zito · October 26, 2026 4:08 pm

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Another 2026 polling wrinkle

President Donald Trump boards Air Force One, Sunday, Oct. 25, 2026, at Joint Base Andrews, Md.

The logic behind Trump’s ‘pretend I’m on the ballot’ appeal

President Donald Trump touches his ear as he talks about the noise from the new ballroom construction before a Medal of Honor ceremony in the East Room of the White House, Monday, March 2, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

The closing economic pitch Republicans are too scared to make

Trump.

Trump and the MAGA enthusiasm strategy

The new Series 2006 $20 currency notes are seen at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing in Washington.

Trump has slowed national debt growth by 92%

Tiana Lowe Doescher May 7, 2025 3:27 pm

Real IDs epitomize the poor decisions of a bloated, inefficient bureaucracy

Christopher Tremoglie May 7, 2025 12:10 pm

A Pulitzer injustice

Byron York May 6, 2025 6:46 pm

The Left comes for John Fetterman

Joe Concha May 6, 2025 4:23 pm

Boxes of the drug mifepristone sit on a shelf at the West Alabama Women's Center in Tuscaloosa, Ala., on March 16, 2022. Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry has signed a first-of-its-kind bill Friday, May 24, classifying two abortion-inducing drugs, mifepristone and misoprostol, as controlled and dangerous substances. (AP Photo/Allen G. Breed)

ProPublica is rewarded for its political hackery with a Pulitzer Prize

David Harsanyi May 6, 2025 1:38 pm

Joe Biden’s decline: The inside story and the outside story

Byron York May 5, 2025 6:18 pm

The case for defunding NPR and PBS is about a lot more than bias

David Harsanyi May 5, 2025 5:55 pm

Pope Francis saw the plague of alienation

Timothy P. Carney May 2, 2025 5:45 am

Borgia liberalism

Dominic Green May 1, 2025 11:10 pm

India and Pakistan are our future

Dan Hannan May 1, 2025 11:00 pm

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, President-elect Donald Trump's nominee to be Secretary of Homeland Security, appears before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee for her confirmation hearing, at the Capitol in Washington, Friday, Jan. 17, 2025.

Don’t blame Trump for Real ID — blame Congress

Tiana Lowe Doescher April 30, 2025 5:54 pm

On Democrats’ claim that Trump ‘crashed’ the economy

Byron York April 30, 2025 5:07 pm