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Disruptive. That’s a good word to describe Donald Trump’s presidential candidacy and to describe the sometimes-ramshackle Republican National Convention his campaign more or less superintended in Cleveland. Apple disrupted the music industry; Uber disrupted the taxi cartels; Amazon disrupted the mega-bookstores. Global competition has been disrupting American manufacturing for decades. The inundation of low-skill immigrants unintentionally produced by the 1965…

WikiLeaks blows up the party’s hopes for a smooth convention week. Remember when political conventions were boring? Last week saw the GOP primary’s runner-up booed off the stage for refusing to endorse its winner. This week, the Democrats begin their convention with the resignation of their national committee chairwoman, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, after nearly 20,000 of the committee’s e-mails were…

A landmark bill allowing for the prosecution of climate change dissent effectively died Thursday after the California Senate failed to take it up before the deadline. Senate Bill 1161, or the California Climate Science Truth and Accountability Act of 2016, would have authorized prosecutors to sue fossil fuel companies, think tanks and others that have “deceived or misled the public…

The GOP nominee proposes himself as the sole solution to the nation’s ills. That’s the opposite of conservative. In the battle over the role of government in American life, it’s clear that the Left is winning decisively. The era of small government is over. As Donald Trump’s convention speech made clear, the election of 2016 is a race between an…

The two most breathtaking moments of Governor Mike Pence’s appearance at the Quicken Loans Arena on Wednesday night bookended his speech. The first was the instantaneously historic speech by Senator Ted Cruz, who pointedly refused to endorse the Republican nominee while not-so-tacitly using the words of the Never Trump movement in urging Republicans to “vote their conscience.” The second was…

The Texas senator’s snub created a huge opportunity for Trump. But can he capitalize? There’s been a lot of debate about what Wednesday night’s convention drama means for the future of Ted Cruz. Less discussed, but just as important, is the question of how Cruz’s refusal to endorse on the biggest stage raised the already-high stakes for Donald Trump’s speech…

The ignored importance of Trump’s VP pick. As the curtain rises in Cleveland tonight, America will finally be properly introduced to Indiana governor Mike Pence, who, until now, is likely a mystery to non-Hoosiers who don’t follow politics closely. Yet for all of his previous semi-obscurity, Governor Pence’s nomination for vice president may be one of surprising historical importance. While…

Heather Mac Donald will be discussing her book The War on Cops at the Horowitz Freedom Center’s Wednesday Morning Club luncheon at the Four Seasons in Beverly Hills next Wednesday, July 20th. For more information, click here. There is no more important book to read right now than Heather Mac Donald’s clear-eyed, riveting new work The War on Cops: How…

Three officers are dead and three others are wounded after a shooting in Baton Rouge. Police-community relations in the city have been tense since the killing earlier this month of 37-year-old Alton Sterling, a black man shot by white officers after a scuffle at a convenience store. The killing was captured on cellphone video.  Here is what we know so far: The shooting…