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Entrepreneurial capitalism is crucial to America’s success

Laura Hollis

Monday, November 24, 2025

Afew years ago, I was invited to speak in Mobile, Alabama. Driving down from Indiana, I stopped for the night in Nashville, Tennessee, but on the way back, I decided to drive all the way from Mobile to Indianapolis. I had planned an early start, but I didn’t leave until well after noon.

The next social epidemic: legalized sports gambling

Josh Hammer

Monday, November 17, 2025

In 2018, the U.S. Supreme Court decided Murphy v. National Collegiate Athletic Association. A fractured court, led by a conservative majority, held that the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act of 1992, signed into law in the final months of the George H.W.

Mamdani wants big government to solve government’s failures

Victor Joecks

Monday, November 17, 2025

In 1996, former President Bill Clinton declared, “The era of big government is over.”Three decades later, the left has a different message.

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Poverty, obesity and SNAP in America

Laura Hollis

Monday, November 17, 2025

Adisturbing statistic revealing the dismal state of health in America is that more than 40% of the population is obese (defined by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as having a body mass index of 30 or higher).

It’s still the economy, stupid

Josh Hammer

Monday, November 10, 2025

Republicans are licking their wounds after last Tuesday’s ballot box defeats. But there is a lesson to be learned here.

AOC poised to be Democrats’ Trump

Victor Joecks

Monday, November 10, 2025

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is both radical and unqualified to be president. But she still has a clear path to winning the Democratic presidential nomination.Last Tuesday, Socialist Zohran Mamdani became the next mayor of New York City.

Tuesday’s takeaways

Laura Hollis

Monday, November 10, 2025

Ihad two different topics I intended to cover this week, but the election results across the country, and the events leading up to them, warrant some observations. So here are a few of mine: 1.

NYC mayoral race has national ramifications

Josh Hammer

Monday, November 3, 2025

In just a few days, a Karl Marx-quoting communist who has struggled to disavow Hamas is likely to be elected the next mayor of the nation’s financial and cultural epicenter. Thirty-three-year-old New York state Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani has surged to the front of the race.

What our country cannot afford

Victor Joecks

Monday, November 3, 2025

Undermining the principles that made America wealthy is no way to fix poverty. Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently participated in a CNN Town Hall. Sanders appears to be passing the socialist leadership torch to AOC.

Misguided ‘compassion’ contributes to our political polarization

Laura Hollis

Monday, November 3, 2025

For the past 20 years, the University of Notre Dame has sponsored a yearlong dialogue on a given theme, with featured speakers, panels and other public events at which the theme is discussed and debated. This year’s theme is “Cultivating Hope.

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