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NEW KENSINGTON, Pennsylvania -- Thomas Tull is walking along the old wooden brick floor of what began as the Pittsburgh Reduction Company and later became Alcoa, a place where researchers and manufacturers created a hub of foundational aluminum manufacturing for nearly a century.

In truth, this was the center of innovation and manufacturing ...Read more

Fed Chairman Jerome Powell announced last week that he's going to remain on the Federal Reserve Board until 2028 even as he by law surrenders his chairmanship. The announcement came even after President Donald Trump agreed to drop his unwise lawsuit against Powell for funding a $2 billion new Taj Mahal building down the street from the White ...Read more

The left's compassion has inflicted a terrible price on America's poor.

In 1964, former President Lyndon B. Johnson declared an "unconditional war on poverty." He warned it "will not be a short or easy struggle," but that "the richest Nation on earth can afford to win it."

He was right that it wouldn't be a short or easy struggle. Johnson ...Read more

The 5/5/26 Cal Thomas column has been re-posted. In graf 6, the Balanced Budget Amendment has been changed to Balanced Budget Act.

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For almost a year now, America's two parties have been engaged in a mass congressional redistricting battle royale.

The fun kicked off in Texas last July, when Gov. Greg Abbott, following President Donald Trump's urging, first pushed the Texas Legislature to redistrict the Lone Star State's congressional maps in a pro-Republican direction. ...Read more

Maine Gov. Janet Mills has suspended her Senate campaign after failing to raise enough money to compete with socialist Graham Platner, who will now almost certainly face the perpetual centrist Republican Susan Collins in the general.

Chuck Schumer and Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee Chairwoman Kirsten Gillibrand immediately backed ...Read more

The United States Supreme Court has released its decision in Louisiana v Callais. To listen to Democrats, including former President Barack Obama, who just argued that a wildly drawn partisan redistricting scheme in Virginia was "fair," is to hear hysterics lying to whip partisans into a frenzy. A few days after a progressive activist, ...Read more

Black conservatives perennially face the slur that they're "not really black" if they aren't on the Left. Not only that, they are tools of white racists if they dissent from the NAACP hard line.

When the Supreme Court voted 6-3 to overturn a racially gerrymandered congressional district in Louisiana, Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) was outraged by the ...Read more

You have to be awfully smart to believe something this stupid. In a Manhattan Institute survey of Democratic voters, 46% said they believed it was definitely or probably true that "the assassination attempt against Donald Trump in July 2024 was orchestrated by his supporters to increase sympathy for him."

That's a startlingly high number for a ...Read more

It's not 1973 anymore, and that's a very good thing for the United States.

Back then, the U.S. imported more than a third of its oil, much of it from the Middle East, and it paid the price. Now, it's in a transformed position.

"Drill, baby, drill" is arguably the most successful public policy of the past 20 years. It started life in 2008 as ...Read more

The Fourth Amendment protects all persons from warrantless government searches and seizures of their persons, houses, papers and effects. It requires that warrants be supported by probable cause of crime and specifically describe the place to be searched and the persons or things to be seized.

Last week, for the first time in the modern era, ...Read more

Politicians and political parties, when unconstrained by constitutional guardrails or statutory limits, have long demonstrated a remarkable ability to manipulate electoral rules to their advantage. Gerrymandering is among the most enduring and consequential examples of this practice.

The term itself dates back to 1812, when then-Massachusetts...Read more

The most consequential inequality in America is not the wealth gap or the wage gap. It may not be the racial opportunity gap. The marriage gap is wreaking havoc. And unfortunately, it's the gap that gets the least attention.

I'm a libertarian. I don't care whom, or if, you marry. Yet I'm reminded that there is a problem by a new report from ...Read more

"Project Hail Mary" is proof.

Based upon the novel of the same name by author Andy Weir (who also wrote "The Martian"), the science fiction film released by Amazon MGM Studios has already grossed more than $600 million worldwide, on a $190 million budget. The film had the highest opening box office revenues so far this year, and the best ...Read more

The Saturday, April 25, White House Correspondents' Dinner presented an American enemy -- presidential assassin or enemy state -- with a windfall target.

Target: The U.S. president, vice president, secretary of war, secretary of state, FBI director, speaker of the House and another three-score senior administration and congressional leaders ...Read more

Americans love arguing about free speech. We invoke the First Amendment as a kind of political force field: You can say whatever you want, whenever you want, without consequence.

But the First Amendment only restricts government action. It does not guarantee you a career, a platform or immunity from backlash. The real question is not whether ...Read more

"Affordability" is the word grabbing the headlines in public discourse these days.

However, if affordability is a problem, it's important to be clear about what exactly the problem is and what can be done.

Gallup has new polling data noting that the "high cost of living continues to top Americans' list of the most important financial ...Read more