12/30/2025

Karl's Latest In

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of 2025 [[link removed]] December 30, 2025

If you listed the worst years in American history, 2025 wouldn’t be near the top.

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Karl's Upcoming TV Appearances The Story with Martha MacCallum Fox News Channel Monday, January 5, 2026 | 3:00 PM ET America's Newsroom FOX NEWS CHANNEL Tuesday, January 6, 2026 | 9:00 AM ET Kilmeade & Friends FOX NEWS RADIO Wednesday, January 7, 2026 | 11:00 AM ET America's Newsroom FOX NEWS CHANNEL Thursday, January 8, 2026 | 9:00 AM ET

Polling News & Notes

Americans End of Year Cost of Living Woes [[link removed]] December 30, 2025

As 2025 comes to a close, CBS News/YouGov poll found health care costs are rising as a top concern for Americans, above food and housing.

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On The Air

The Problem for Democrats is Nominating Candidates Who Are ‘Too Far Left' [[link removed]] December 28, 2025

Fox News contributor and former White House deputy chief of staff Karl Rove discusses what lies ahead with the 2026 midterms on ‘Sunday Night in America.’

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This Week's Recommended Readings

Using Medical Loss Ratio Data to Examine Advance Premium Tax Credits [[link removed]] December 26, 2025 Elizabeth Plummer, Joshua Brooker, Mark Meiselbach | JAMA Health Forum

In 2025, more than 24 million people were enrolled in individual marketplace health plans.

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Why Russia’s War With Ukraine Is Actually A Global Conflict [[link removed]] November 28, 2025 Ilan Berman | Forbes

Sometimes, it is said, in order to make a problem smaller, you need to make it bigger first. So it is with the Ukraine war, which is now fast approaching its grim fourth anniversary.

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Why Trump Has an Affordability Problem [[link removed]] December 23, 2025 Michael Strain | Project Syndicate

At a recent rally to tout his economic policies, US President Donald Trump suggested that voters’ growing concerns about affordability were a “hoax” created by the Democratic Party.

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250th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence

Niall Ferguson: A Republic—If You Don’t Throw It Away [[link removed]] December 29, 2025 Niall Ferguson | The Free Press

None of us—not even Peter Thiel—will live to be 250. But the polities we create can last a very long time, if they do not expire in their infancy.

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This week's recommended podcast

The U.S. at War | Interview: Aaron MacLean [[link removed]] Steve Hayes | The Dispatch

Aaron Maclean, senior fellow at Hudson Institute and host of the School of War podcast, joins guest host Steve Hayes to discuss the anxiety-inducing analysis of the types of people who make up Trump’s foreign policy coalition.

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