Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced on Tuesday that the statewide mask mandate and all restrictions on business’ operating capacity would be lifted this coming week. The following day, President Biden called these decisions “Neanderthal thinking.”

When you consider what has happened in the United States in the last nine months, incredibly, it doesn’t even seem like our own nation anymore.

Last year, Amazon began removing books the gatekeepers felt took the wrong side of the ongoing LGBTQ debate. Some of them weren’t the sort of books most small bookstores would deem to have on their shelves because of their mean-spirited tone.

Last summer, I flew to Montana ahead of a week-long road trip through Yellowstone and Teton National Park. When I landed at the airport in Bozeman, I was greeted by National Guard troops.

By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – March 1, 2021 Advocates present the legislation as a good-government reform that won’t favor either party. But H.R.1 is packed with provisions that would federalize election rules to dubious result; unsettle longstanding practices; end security measures that local officials think prudent; undermine public confidence; and increase the odds of contested outcomes. Start with permanent...

While the Democratic Party pulled off a complete (albeit narrow) victory over Donald Trump and the Republican Party in 2020, they lost ground with nonwhite voters—despite significantly raising the salience of racial justice issues during the campaign.

Did you know America is going bankrupt? Most people don’t. Maybe the saddest part about our country’s state of affairs is that all our vitriol and dysfunction has come at a time when we aren’t even addressing our biggest problems.  

It is possible to believe the 2020 presidential election was fair and legitimate and also understand that tighter voting requirements are necessary to preserve the integrity of our elections if mail-in voting is to be the norm moving forward. Unsurprisingly, Democrats disagree.

Jan. 12, 2021 – House Democrats are expected to vote today on a measure calling for President Trump to be removed from office through the 25th Amendment. They also plan to vote Wednesday to impeach the president.

Although 2020 may be remembered as one of the most contentious presidential elections in American history, a new post-election survey shows strong bipartisan support—representing a “supermajority” of more than two-thirds of Republican voters and two-thirds of Democratic voters—for a number of seeming “win-win” policy issues in the new year.