A healthy American conservatism must blend universal principles and distinctive traditions – beliefs, practices, and institutions – because the United States arose out of a blend of universal ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The number of people claiming to be conservatives has increased over the past few years, though only a portion of them are ...

When President Donald Trump said, “The States are merely an ‘agent’ for the Federal Government in counting and tabulating the votes,” he revealed a profound inconsistency: states’ rights—long upheld ...

For decades my fellow Republicans quoted Thomas Jefferson: “The government closest to the people serves the people best.” As the heirs of Ronald Reagan, we know local control is most responsive to and ...

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“If you’re a conservative columnist, why do you often criticize conservative Republican politicians?” Six months back into full-time writing for this newspaper, I frequently hear this question. Or ...

The controversy sparked by the Oct. 27 release of Tucker Carlsons softball podcast interview with white nationalist, antisemitic, misogynist conspiracy theorist Nick Fuentes generated a wide range of ...

The number of people claiming to be conservatives has increased over the past few years, though only a portion of them are “principled conservatives.” That distinction is important, because a person ...

Six months back into full-time writing for this newspaper, I frequently hear this question. Or close variations thereof, such as why I tackle issues not normally associated with conservatives, such as ...

Since American conservatism embraces that “foundational principle of all sound morality,” it “simply cannot include or accommodate white supremacists or racists of any type, antisemites, eugenicists, ...

The number of people claiming to be conservatives has increased over the past few years, though only a portion of them are “principled conservatives.” That distinction is important, because a person ...