The FCC as a Stage Prop
When a president invokes a regulatory agency to intimidate a television host, the real story is what that tells us about institutional discipline, not press freedom.
Commentary
Signed opinion columns from The Republic Standard’s contributors, in the American constitutional tradition.
Forty-Five Million Acres of Negligence
Rescinding the roadless rule is not deregulation — it is the surrender of a national inheritance that no generation has the right to squander.
When the Heat Becomes a Tax on the Poor
Tulsa families are losing power in a summer emergency, and the culprit is not the weather but the unaccountable private hand on the switch.
The Mullahs Are Laughing, and They Have a Point
When a regime under maximum pressure starts lecturing you about the limits of your power, the correct response is not a press release.
Trading Readiness for a Relationship
Scaling back joint exercises with South Korea in exchange for a pleasant rapport with Pyongyang is not diplomacy — it is unilateral disarmament by sentiment.
The Long Island Calculation
A president visiting a police academy before midterms is not a civics lesson; it is a targeting exercise, and the only question worth asking is whether the target is real.
Ninety Dollars and Rising: The Strait of Hormuz Is a Verdict on American Energy Dependency
When a chokepoint in the Persian Gulf can erase a decade of complacency in a week, the republic has not secured its energy; it has merely rented it.
The Amber Trap: How a Single Metaphor Is Dissolving Originalism from Within
When every justice on the Court reaches for the same phrase to escape the fixed meaning of law, the phrase has ceased to clarify and begun to corrode.
What We Owe the Smallest Americans
The federal government is proposing to hand Head Start to the states, and the forgotten children in the poorest counties will pay the price.
The States Stir, and We Should Not Sleep Through It
When governors of both parties arrive at the same complaint about federal power, something more than partisan theater is being performed.