Think Past the Establishment
Working Americans moved right because they wanted secure borders, public order and relief from an economy that has made housing, health care and family life increasingly unaffordable. With the 2026 midterms approaching and that support already showing signs of erosion, Republicans must demonstrate what their governing majority has delivered.
American investment, productivity and industrial capacity are growing as capital flows into energy, nuclear power, semiconductors, robotics and domestic manufacturing. Germany, meanwhile, is losing companies, technology and productive capacity to American investors as its industrial base contracts under high energy costs, regulation and government debt.
Meta will pay as much as $18 billion to settle claims that Facebook and Instagram deliberately addicted children while concealing the harm. More consequential than the payment are mandated age verification, limits on beauty filters and visible likes, interruptions to endless scrolling and restrictions during school and overnight hours.
Democrat Mary Peltola led Republican Senator Dan Sullivan by more than five points in Alaska’s open primary, putting a presumed safe seat in play before the midterms. Alaska’s ranked-choice system introduces additional uncertainty: a second Republican named Dan Sullivan and a progressive fourth-place candidate could…
Europe cannot maintain a credible military while dismantling the energy and industrial systems that make modern defense possible. More than 95 percent of Dutch military aircraft, ships and vehicles still depend on hydrocarbons, while high energy prices are driving European steel, chemical and manufacturing capacity into decline.
Dolly Parton rose from Appalachian poverty to become a national icon without discarding the family, faith, marriage and mountain culture that formed her. Her greatest songs treated love as a serious moral concern requiring gratitude, loyalty, forgiveness and sacrifice, while giving dignity to people and places increasingly absent from American popular culture.