Why Elon Musk deserves the Presidential Medal of Freedom

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November 18, 2024

Why Elon Musk deserves the Presidential Medal of Freedom

Tech mogul Elon Musk has done more to safeguard our free speech rights than anyone else for generations. For that, following his inauguration in January 2025, President-elect Donald Trump should issue Musk the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor in the United States. In 1963, President John F. Kennedy changed the original “Medal […]

Last week’s election was a call to reconsider our presumptions about voters

Our politics rely heavily on presumption. We presume how people might vote and what they think based on certain characteristics. We thereby make assumptions about the positions people hold, what they prioritize among those positions, and how they will then act as part of broader electoral groups. Last Tuesday confirmed some of these presumptions. A […]

Energy sector takes confidence from Trump

President-elect Donald Trump is right: Low energy prices are good for America, both households and businesses. One of his favorite campaign slogans was “drill, baby, drill.” Trump promised that his government would open up federal lands to more oil and gas drilling and eliminate unnecessary regulations that retard production, restrain profitability growth, and restrict investment […]

How Trump can further dismantle the Left’s minority coalition

By taking more of the Hispanic vote than any Republican since the U.S. government created the ethnic category in 1977, President-elect Donald Trump has dismantled a coalition that the Left had expected to ride to power throughout the 21st century. That alone bodes well for conservative governance. Voters who self-identified as Hispanic broke for Trump […]

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