Real wages up 1.5% and core inflation at four-year low: A Christmas miracle for Trump?

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December 18, 2025

Real wages up 1.5% and core inflation at four-year low: A Christmas miracle for Trump?

In Focus delivers deeper coverage of the political, cultural, and ideological issues shaping America. Published daily by senior writers and experts, these in-depth pieces go beyond the headlines to give readers the full picture. You can find our full list of In Focus pieces here. Though President Donald Trump hosts press gaggles and greetings through all […]

Democrats broke America’s healthcare system. Republicans are working to fix it

Long before Democrats created the worst cost-of-living crisis in a half-century, they gave us the “Unaffordable Care Act.” Their attempt at central planning, 20% of the U.S. economy, resulted in a government-dominated healthcare system that is unaffordable and unsustainable. Now, they are demanding Republicans bail them out by extending their COVID-era, fraud-ridden Obamacare subsidy expansion. […]

Marty Makary must go

A new report from the Society for Family Planning suggests that there are now somewhere between 130,000 and 150,000 abortions per year in states that have enacted heartbeat protections, or further protections, for the unborn. Many pro-life states are apparently on track to have more abortions within their borders each year than they did under Roe v. Wade. To be […]

A farewell to Rob Reiner

With the possible exception of John Hughes, it is difficult to think of a filmmaker who so thoroughly defined the texture, tone, and emotional vocabulary of the 1980s, and whose influence extended so cleanly into the decades beyond, as Rob Reiner. His tragic death this week, alongside his wife, marks not just the loss of […]

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