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Last week, the President of the United States did not take the Constitution seriously. He ordered the murders of 11 people who were riding in a speedboat in the Caribbean Sea around 1,300 miles from the U.S.

Afterward he said he did so because he believed that they were members of a "narco-terrorist gang" and were delivering illegal drugs to ...Read more

Last week's Senate Finance Committee hearing was supposed to be about oversight, to ask the tough but necessary questions on how a federal agency is moving toward its authorized mandate. Instead, it became a bipartisan spectacle of scorn aimed squarely at Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Republicans and Democrats alike...Read more

Everyone in Washington loves tax credits and deductions. Politicians tout them as a painless way to help families pay for green energy, buy homes or lower the cost of health care. They're also politically irresistible: No one wants to be accused of "raising taxes" by trimming perks that voters now consider to be entitlements.

But for all ...Read more

I had a different column planned for this week -- on the same topic that's in the title, as it so happens. But not five minutes before I sat down to write it, I heard that conservative commentator and speaker Charlie Kirk had been shot in the neck at a speaking event in Utah.

Before I could get even a few paragraphs completed, it was ...Read more

This week, most Americans were shocked by the images of Decarlos Brown Jr., a violent schizophrenic with a 14-count rap sheet, stabbing a young Ukrainian refugee, Iryna Zarutska, to death on a Charlotte light rail commuter train. The video of the incident is absolutely horrifying: Brown, clad in a red hoodie, sits behind Zarutska; then, he ...Read more

S.E. Cupp's column will post tomorrow, Sept. 11.

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An age-old conundrum regarding raising children is the issue of nature versus nurture.

That is, do genes determine a child's success in life, or is it the environment in which that child is raised?

Or, even more fundamentally, is intelligence genetic, or can education increase IQ?

James J. Heckman, a Nobel Prize-winning economist from the ...Read more

Down, direct and perhaps a bit dirty has its place, especially in the complex undertaking German strategic theorist Carl von Clausewitz called "politics by other means."

Politics by other means was Clausewitz's restrained definition of war. When economic enticements go bust and diplomatic "jaw jaw" deadlocks, destructive acts of violence ...Read more

Get ready for more Zohran Mamdani-like candidates -- avowed socialists -- to soar to popularity across New York state and the rest of the U.S.

We the public have ceded control of education to the far left. The result is a curriculum that never mentions the brutal consequences of socialist experiments in Eastern Europe, Latin America and ...Read more

The federal government owns about a third of America. Since we're on a path to bankruptcy, it would be smart to sell some unused property. President Donald Trump's Interior Secretary says it may be worth as much as $200 trillion. Selling just a fraction of it would reduce our enormous debt. Not just that -- since government doesn't manage things...Read more

President Donald Trump has nominated Riley Barnes to serve as the assistant secretary of state for the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, which is dedicated to helping "advance individual liberty and democratic freedoms around the world."

At his confirmation hearing in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee last week, Barnes ...Read more

PBS News tweeted out something unexpected from conservative Christian author Allie Beth Stuckey, author of the book "Toxic Empathy: How Progressives Exploit Christian Compassion." This was the Stuckey quote they shared: "Empathy becomes toxic when it encourages you to affirm sin, validate lies, or support destructive policies."

At first, I ...Read more

I'll be a lot more worried about AI when it stops acting like a lazy child.

For the last several months, I've been kicking around a book idea. The biggest hurdle isn't the writing or even the daunting task of creating a way to ensure someone else actually reads it. It's assembling the massive database of information that the book would be ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- CNN anchor Jake Tapper repeated the conventional wisdom Monday when he referred to the "sweetheart deal" federal prosecutors made with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in 2008. Tapper's disdain fit nicely with the narrative the media have embraced about the Epstein saga -- with girls as victims, the media as heroes and Republican-...Read more

President Donald Trump has done an admirable job at defanging the IRS, which was converted into a weaponized agency targeting Democrats' political enemies.

Chief Justice John Marshall famously pronounced early in our nation's history that "the power to tax involves the power to destroy."

The Democrats inside the Biden IRS took that to heart....Read more

SPRINGFIELD, Illinois -- In casual conversations with Democrats in August from across the Midwest, I found that their biggest frustration with the national party is that its platform didn't appeal to them. I was not surprised to see that same sentiment captured in a poll by The Wall Street Journal around the same time. It found Democrats' ...Read more

In her response to the murder of Iryna Zarutska on a light-rail train in Charlotte, North Carolina, the city's mayor demonstrated the mindset that allowed the heinous act to happen in the first place.

Mayor Vi Lyles called the murder of the young Ukraine refugee woman, "a tragic situation that sheds light on problems with society safety nets ...Read more