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Powell's Era of Consensus at the Fed Is Over
Mon Nov 17 3:46 pm
Federal Reserve policymakers are split over whether they should continue cutting interest rates, ending a period of consensus that has defined Chair Jerome Powell's leadership of the central bank.
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Reality Caught Up to 'Climate Change'
Mon Nov 17 3:46 pm
The climate creed that once ruled unquestioned is cracking as energy needs, geopolitical reality, and basic science force the West to admit carbon isn't dying anytime soon.
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SNAP Is Back, But Trust Is Broken
Mon Nov 17 3:46 pm
For Ashleigh Ligon, a mother of six living in Federal Way, Washington, the defining word for November has been "uncertainty."
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Trump Reverses, Says Release the Epstein Files
Mon Nov 17 3:42 pm
Monday, November 17th on the RealClearPolitics Podcast
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How Charlie Kirk's Murder Changed Trump
Mon Nov 17 3:37 pm
President Donald Trump says Charlie Kirk's death changed him, shaping how he thinks about security and affecting him personally as well.
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Trump Suggests He's Open to Meeting Mamdani
Mon Nov 17 3:37 pm
Throughout the mayoral race, President Donald Trump frequently voiced his strong opposition to Zohran Mamdani's candidacy, threatening to withhold federal funding from the city if he won and going as far as to endorse the Democratic nominee's main opponent, former governor Andrew Cuomo.
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NYT Misfires on Correct Use of the DHS
Mon Nov 17 3:34 pm
The Trump administration has been using all available resources to track down and then imprison or deport the worst of the worst illegal aliens in America, the ones whose criminality extends beyond living illegally in this country. Howe...
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Is a Tariff a Tax?
Mon Nov 17 3:33 pm
Many Americans have forgotten that this question, which has been in the news lately, was fundamental to the American Revolution. And among American Patriots, or Whigs, meaning those who supported the colonists' claims against Parliament, there was almost universal consensus that they are different things, constitutionally speaking.
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Strengthening Education System To Secure Our Future
Mon Nov 17 3:31 pm
The American Dream belongs to every schoolchild.
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A Bright Future for Penn Station
Mon Nov 17 3:33 pm
Imagine yourself on an Amtrak Northeast Regional train bound for New York City, rolling through the brown-and-silver marshlands of northern New Jersey.
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Chile Vote Positions Country for a Right Turn
Mon Nov 17 3:33 pm
Latin America's most market-friendly country veers right as surging crime and illegal immigration rattle voters
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Virtual Civil War Part I: Barack Obama & the Bitter Clingers
Mon Nov 17 9:07 am
When I look around at the crumbling empire I helped build, I wonder how it all went so wrong. How did so many people lose their minds, the legacy media lose its objectivity, and so many so-called "educated" people lose their grip on reality?
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