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Donald Trump has been fretting about the crowd size for his July 4 speech on the National Mall for some time. When he opened the More »

It was of course inevitable that a World Cup hosted by the U.S. while FIFA’s first and only peace prize winner Donald Trump is president would involve some precedent-shattering political … More »

In 2024, Australia passed a new law called the Online Safety Amendment. Its primary purpose was More »

On a muggy Saturday evening in May, 30 young men and a few women, all Christian and mostly Catholic, filed into a 19th-century redbrick building on Capitol Hill, part of Hillsdale College’s Washington, D.C., campus. The occasion was the monthly meeting of the Cicero Society, a parliamentary debat… More »

This Fourth of July weekend, if you are looking for a brief timewarp back to a moment in your lifetime when America felt almost normal, may I direct you to the last time the United States played Belgium in a World Cup. It was 2014, in Brazil — back before the World Cup routinely took

America’s 250th birthday party is here at last. It’s a strange moment to be valorizing the United States, and the general mood of pessimism pervading the country seems reflected in the haphazard celebrations — at least those involving President Trump, who has inserted himself into many of the pro… More »

Norway is not a traditional soccer power, but its arrival at the World Cup’s Round of 16 feels entirely expected. That is largely because of the team’s towering center forward Erling Haaland, a blunt-f… More »

Keith Krach was barely out of high school when the country celebrated its 200th birthday. He vividly remembers images of tall ships in New York Harbor, the Bicentennial Minutes that aired on CBS, and the fireworks by the Ambassador Bridge in Detroit. The war in Vietnam was over, Nixon wa… More »

It says a lot about the evolving conventional wisdom on the 2026 midterm elections that professional contrarian Harry Enten of CNN felt the need to explain that Democrats don’t exactly have a lock on flipping control of the U.S. Senate in November: More »

With just a few months to go before voting starts in the midterm elections, the Republican-controlled Congress has become completely jammed by Donald Trump’s insistence that… More »