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Colleges are cutting tuition for MBA programs. But it’s not out of charity or because they got another taxpayer-funded subsidy to “fix” exploding higher education prices. Rather, and perhaps counterintuitively, it’s because Uncle Sam finally capped the previously unlimited federal loans for graduate students. At first blush, this sounds like it would make the problem worse. Fewer borrowing options for students seems like it would shift more of the cost of attendance to today, when students are young with relatively low incomes. But that assumes—unrealistically—that the cost of education is fixed, and that colleges don’t respond to changes in the market.

‘The exodus from California is real, troubling, and has become too large to ignore.” That was the message of “California Migrating,” the Pacific Research Institute’s report in 2021 on the mass migration of Californians to other states. The trend has not abated since. From 2020 to 2025, California lost nearly 1.7 million more people due to net domestic migration – meaning that more Americans moved out than in. And this exodus was widespread – 44 of California’s 58 counties were on the losing end. That is real, and troubling. But there is a tiny silver lining. Census data show that 14 of California’s counties—

As an initial matter, China's regime has no red lines and no principles. It moves its "lines" as a result of changing perceptions of its own bargaining position. At the moment, Xi's favored form of diplomacy is intimidation, so he tries to make it appear that he will never change his positions.... [E]verything, including Taiwan, is ultimately negotiable for him. The inability of the Chinese military gives the U.S. the cost-free opportunity to arm Taiwan. Taiwan...is not a "bargaining chip." Taiwan to American security. Taiwan prevents China's navy and air force from surging into the Pacific and threatening America and our democratic allies, such as Australia, Japan and the Philippines, close to home.

Decades ago, I remember reading an article in Newsday, a newspaper based on Long Island and at that time the eighth largest daily in the country. It was a first-person admission of the writer’s irresistible attraction to morbidly obese women. After several family members and friends encouraged him to figure out his obsession by going into therapy, he assented and entered not typical once- or twice-a-week therapy, but five-times-a-week psychoanalysis. In the article, he described the immense benefits he derived from his 20-year commitment to this form of therapy and how it helped his relationships with his parents, his job, and his self-confidence.

A bill that would ban ingredients used in many of New Jersey’s pizzas, along with other food additives, is making its way through the Legislature and drawing pushback from the food industry. The measure, S3785, would prohibit the use of certain ingredients based on their classification as potential carcinogens. Among them is potassium bromate, a dough-strengthening agent used in some commercial bread and pizza doughs, though not all pizzerias rely on it. The bill also takes aim at a range of additives and food dyes, and includes restrictions on what can be served in school lunches in an effort to improve children’s health.

Stephen Colbert's run as a political rent boy for Democratic politicians has, mercifully for America, come to an end. Because American leftists are clinically insane, fans of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert like to blame President Trump for the host's walking papers. Some of them throw in a dash of garment-rending about CBS and corporate evil, but usually circle back to a Trump tantrum. As I have said on many occasions, President Trump isn't just living rent-free in their heads, he's building condos there. What those on the left aren't talking about is the program's bloated production costs and the fact that Colbert made a conscious decision to tell

A one-year-old baby girl has been officially recorded as a crime suspect by Kent Police after allegedly causing a minor injury to another toddler. This is part of a shocking tally where 683 children under 10 were reported for offences over three years. This isn’t some isolated bureaucratic error. It’s the latest symptom of a system that treats tiny children as miniature criminals or budding bigots while real threats from failed integration and ideological grooming go unaddressed. None of these under-10s can be prosecuted — the age of criminal responsibility in England and Wales is 10 — yet police are dutifully logging every playground scrape, tantrum, or alleged slight under ridiculous

The 2026 mid-term and the 2028 presidential elections may well decide the fate not only of the United States but of those who self-identify as left-of-center moderates and liberals and who also make up the bulk of America’s current ruling class. Blinded by their Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS), far too many within this myopic but significant segment of the electorate still foolishly suppose that there remain various alternative political entities that encompass their “centrist” views, such as the Democrat and Republican parties of twenty years ago. But it isn’t true. At this point in our nation’s history, virtually all the alternatives that existed a few years ago are gone. Self-identified moderates

Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich is offering a six-point plan for President Donald Trump and his Republican Party to win the midterms in November, after the president's big victories Tuesday night. Gingrich, as a guest Wednesday on the John Solomon Reports" podcast, urged Trump to work on lowering gas prices before Labor Day this September, arguing it's a critical affordability point if the president wants his candidates to do well in November. (Snip) Gingrich also pushed the White House to compile and promote a list of the "craziest things" that Democrats have done amid the Trump administration, including everything that its leaders have said to try to ensure

The Left has been calling for violence relentlessly since Donald Trump re-assumed his presidency — and once again, they’ve got it. It’s a horrific story, and we warn readers that there’s disturbing content ahead. The facts: The wife of the elderly San Diego man brutally beaten outside his MAGA-inspired “Trump House” said there’s “no hope” for her husband after the vicious attack left him fighting for his life. Kerry Sheron, 69, was in critical condition following the violent assault outside his Escondido property on Wednesday afternoon. His wife, Maria, revealed to The California Post through tears that her husband isn’t expected to survive.

President Donald Trump said Thursday that the United States will be deploying 5,000 troops to Poland as the U.S. reviews its military presence in Europe. It was not clear how long the troops would be stationed in Poland, which currently hosts 369 permanently assigned active-duty ​service members and about 10,000 personnel of rotational force, or when exactly the troops would be moved to the European country. "Based on the successful election of the now President of Poland, Karol Nawrocki, who I was proud to endorse, and our relationship with him, I am pleased to announce that the United States will be sending an additional 5,000 Troops to Poland,"

Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., introduced a constitutional amendment requiring natural-born citizenship for members of Congress and federal judges, sparing the Democrats she targeted while potentially affecting several Republicans. The amendment would apply prospectively, meaning no existing officeholder would lose office if ratified, including Reps. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Pramila Jayapal of Washington, and Shri Thanedar of Michigan, whom Mace named in her news release. The proposal, H.J.Res.188, has no cosponsors and faces long odds in Congress. Since 1973, more than 3,900 joint resolutions proposing constitutional amendments have been introduced, according to Congress.gov. Fewer than 9% received committee consideration, and none have been ratified since 1992.

There’s been a very strange story that was printed not long ago by the liberal opinion journalist Nicholas Kristof. Now, apparently, he’s been retired. He’s written for decades at The New York Times. He’s sort of a social activist. He does some good things sometimes, but he tries to draw attention of The New York Times readership to supposed crises of morality all over the globe, such as the so-called genocide. And it depends on who you talk to. In Darfur, he visited it very many times. But he’s had a checkered career. During the anthrax scare near the millennium,

The president issued his call from his Truth Social account on Thursday. “Big Vote today (48-1!) in the Energy and Commerce Committee on a Bill including The Sunshine Protection Act, which will be making Daylight Saving Time Permanent! This is so important in that Hundreds of Millions of Dollars are spent every year by people, Cities, and States, being forced to change their Clocks,” he wrote. “Many of these Clocks are located in Towers, and the cost of renting, or using, Heavy Equipment to do this twice a year is prohibitive! The House will be attaching The Sunshine Protection Act to ‘The Highway Bill,'”

Key leaders and groups within the CCP-linked Singham Network quickly began to mobilize to defend Raul Castro in the wake of the Justice Department’s indictment against the Cuban Communist leader this week. The DOJ’s indictment of former Cuban strongman Raul Modesto Castro Ruz on Wednesday — just the latest example of the Trump Administration’s efforts to launch a maximum pressure campaign against the Communist island regime — saw swift pushback from key members of the financial and activist network led by wealthy Marxist and China-based businessman Neville Roy Singham. The DOJ revealed that Raul Castro, the brother of former Cuban dictator Fidel Castro, has been charged in connection with a 1996

Jeff Bezos praised President Donald Trump and hyped up AI during a Wednesday interview. “Trump has lots of good ideas, and he’s been right about a lot of things. You have to give him credit where credit is due,” the Amazon founder said. I think he is a more mature, more disciplined version of himself than he was in his first term,” Bezos said of President Trump during an interview with CNBC’s Squawk Box co-host Andrew Ross Sorkin. Trump has lots of good ideas, and he’s been right about a lot of things. You have to give him credit where credit is due,” the Amazon founder continued.

A Supreme Court ruling handed down on Thursday may end up being worth hundreds of millions of dollars for the Havana Docks Corp. In 1960, after the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro’s regime simply took the company’s facilities and made them its own. That’s communism for you, folks. Like democratic socialists Zohran Mamdani and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, they may have big smiles, but in the end, they want to take your stuff. Decades later, the overlords decided to let major cruise lines use the docks, but those cruise lines never paid a dime to the rightful owners. The SCOTUS ruling could change that:

House Democrats joined six Republicans on Thursday to derail legislation advancing the long-delayed Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum after Republicans added language clarifying that the museum would focus on biological women. The bill failed in a 216-204 vote, despite years of bipartisan support for the project. The legislation had been spearheaded by Rep. Nicole Malliotakis. The collapse came after Republicans amended the proposal to specify that the museum would be dedicated to “preserving, researching, and presenting the history, achievements, and lived experiences of biological women in the United States.” The revised legislation also prohibited the museum from portraying “any biological male as a female.”

When Scott and I began writing newspaper op-eds and magazine pieces circa 1990, one of the subjects we focused on was the Democrats’ persistent lying about taxes. One of our articles in National Review, which exposed lies that Democratic journalists told about former President George H.W. Bush’s taxes, generated a signed, hand-typed letter from Bush to us. Lies about taxes are particularly absurd, since the IRS publishes data every year that show who pays the taxes. Spoiler alert: upper-income taxpayers do. Robert Reich is one of the most hateful and dishonest people in public life. Jeff Bezos, on the other hand, is starting to come around: (X)