If you’re a parent, you know that social media can cause problems for your children. What you may not know is just how serious the problem is.  Social media apps aren’t innocent places for kids to share funny cat videos with their friends. They’re sophisticated data-collecting and marketing platforms that use personalized algorithms to addict users — including […]

Many of America’s most powerful companies have combined to pursue a dangerous political agenda masquerading as altruism. This agenda, known as Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) investing, hurts shareholders, undermines workers, and sabotages American energy independence. It’s also illegal. Since the passage of the 1890 Sherman Antitrust Act, any “contract,” “combination,” or “conspiracy, in restraint […]

For too long Washington has ignored an evil that threatens every American community. This evil is not sown in secluded soil, it emanates across all 2,000 miles of our southern border from a sprawling network of cartelized criminal organizations that have industrialized misery, monetized terror, and revived slavery in the hemisphere. The Mexican drug cartels […]

America does have a student loan problem. But it’s not the problem Joe Biden wants you to believe it is. The real issue with student debt today is that the cost of college tuition has skyrocketed, yet the value of a college diploma has plummeted. What’s worse is the federal government created this problem by […]

Last week, President Biden told congressional Democrats that he plans to absolve millions of student-loan borrowers of their debts. Biden and the Democrats have labeled this debt plan “cancellation” or “forgiveness,” but this is nonsense. This illegal and unwise plan would “cancel” nothing. It would only transfer debt from borrowers to taxpayers and redistribute wealth […]

Today, we commemorate the two hundredth anniversary of Ulysses S. Grant’s birthday. Born to humble beginnings, this great defender of America won our bloodiest war, trampled the dark forces of disunion, and bandaged our deepest national wounds. Yet progressive historians, a partisan press, and political enemies tarnished his record from the beginning. They maligned him […]

Starting this week, China’s genocidal prison state will host the 2022 Winter Olympics. But it didn’t have to be this way – the Games could easily have been delayed or moved. Instead, the International Olympic Committee (IOC), the Biden administration, and hypocritical executives gave the Chinese Communists what they wanted: the honor of hosting the […]

Within days of taking office, President Joe Biden’s campaign-trail veneer of tough-talking Russia hawk melted away to reveal a weak-kneed appeaser unwilling to constrain the Russian bear. Today, Russia may be on the brink of invading Ukraine because President Biden’s weakness has emboldened Vladimir Putin. In his first week in office, Biden agreed to extend […]

In 2020, our nation’s state and federal prison populations plummeted 15% to the lowest levels since 1992 – at the same time, murders skyrocketed nearly 30% to the highest level since 1998. By the middle of last year, local jail populations similarly shrank by an astonishing 25%. In raw numbers, state and federal authorities reduced […]

Last year, our nation experienced the largest increase in murder in American history and the largest number of drug overdose deaths ever recorded. This carnage continues today and is not distributed equally. Instead, it is concentrated in cities and localities where radical, left-wing, George Soros progressives have captured state and district attorney offices. These legal […]

Twenty years ago today, China joined the World Trade Organization with the promise of greater peace and prosperity for all mankind. As he championed this historic mistake, then–president Bill Clinton patronizingly said, “It is ironic, I think, that so many Americans are concerned about the impact on the world of a strong China in the […]

While Jerome Powell was a better choice than Lael Brainard for Federal Reserve chairman, that alone isn’t a good reason to confirm Mr. Powell for a second term. The Senate should not support his reappointment. The Fed’s core mission is to ensure stable prices and a sound currency. No one can seriously argue that it […]

Editor’s note: This is the last in a series that Senator Cotton has written for National Review on the problem of crime in modern American life, and what to do about it. You can find previous entries here, here, here, here, here, and here. Over the past two years, violent crime and drug overdoses have claimed over 200,000 American lives. This dark reality […]

Google, Facebook, Amazon and Apple are monopolistic technology corporations that dominate a greater market share in their fields than any similar firms in American history. While size alone isn’t a problem, these firms have used their extraordinary wealth and power to buy up rivals, stifle competition and muzzle speech that they oppose. This harms Americans, […]

While President Biden has been distracted by a climate-change conference and sagging approval at home, President Vladimir Putin is building up Russian forces along the Ukrainian border. The Biden administration must respond to this provocation and do what President Obama didn’t—deter Russian aggression against its Western neighbor—before it’s too late. Russia’s war against Ukraine started […]

Only 42% of Americans approve of Joe Biden’s presidency and as few as 15% approve of Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi’s Congress. The reason for this abysmal approval rating is simple; Democrats in Washington do not represent the interests of the American people. Instead, they appear hellbent on bankrupting our government, derailing our economy, and […]

Qualified immunity is essential to effective and diligent policing. It shields good police officers from bankruptcy while still subjecting individual bad actors to personal financial repercussions. Any effort to abolish or significantly curtail this indispensable protection is a veiled attempt to defund, defame, and disarm the police in the midst of the worst violent-crime wave in a generation. Qualified […]

Joe Biden has created the worst border crisis in American history. In the midst of a once-in-a-century pandemic, soaring inflation, and skyrocketing street crime, the border isn’t just open, it’s the most open it has ever been.   It is time for President Biden to face the reality of what he has created: a national emergency.  […]

The promise of American higher education has always been that it equips young people with the skills and the knowledge to be wise, productive members of society. Today, going to college is less promising and more perilous for the thousands of young people who head to campus and immediately encounter angry activists and administrators intent […]

President Biden recently named Suffolk County District Attorney Rachael Rollins to be the U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts. Rollins has nothing but contempt for the rule of law. If she is confirmed by the U.S. Senate, the residents of Massachusetts, New Hampshire and all of New England would suffer the consequences. Rollins became Suffolk District Attorney […]