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We’ve Stripped $1 Billion from the Left’s Patronage Machine
The new playbook is working.
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How DOGE Could Take Down the Department of Education
Its initial strikes could be the start of a broader fight.
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How to Dismantle the Department of Education
GOP presidential candidates have long vowed to shrink or abolish the department, but its budget has only grown.
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How Trump Can Make Universities Great Again
The message he should send to college presidents: reform, or lose funding
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The DOGE Boys Take DC
Plus: USAID in shambles and Trump as world-spirit.
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The Downfall of Ibram X. Kendi
The race guru’s research center will close.
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January 2025

Trump’s Extraordinary Opening Moves
Plus: The cultural Right is ascendant, while the Left splinters into violence.
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The Trump Coalition Is Forming. Who Should Be in It?
On the Tech Right, dissident Democrats, “principled conservatives,” and “reasonable centrists”
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Post-Progressivism
Social scientist Eric Kaufmann on the future beyond "social justice" leftism.
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What the Left Did to Me and My Family
For the past five years, I have been fighting to defeat critical race theory and DEI.
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Trump Abolishes DEI for the Feds
The two-year campaign for colorblind equality notches its biggest win yet.
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Will the Left Disrupt the Inauguration?
A network of progressive groups and militants is preparing for battle.
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