Phil Kerpen
The state visit by Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida isn't just about tea and photo ops.. The deal is a win-win for American workers and shareholders.. The market roared its approval. Joe Biden's knee-jerk opposition to the deal sent U...
The biggest disappointment of the Kevin McCarthy speakership was on work requirements for welfare...
For two years, starting in 2015, the FCC regulated internet service providers as public utilities in the name of net neutrality. “End of the Internet as We Know It,” headlined the CNN home page...
The Biden administration's infatuation with electric vehicles is no secret, with billions in subsidies lavished on them in the so-called Inflation Reduction Act and now direct bribes to vehicle manufacturers to shift their production...
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Today's AARP, formerly called the American Association of Retired Persons, is not a seniors advocacy group. In turn, AARP lobbies and funnels hefty amounts towards major advocacy campaigns aligned with Democrat leaders' policy priorities...
More than halfway through his four-year term in office, President Biden is expected to issue his first veto: to block a bipartisan bill requiring fund managers to maximize financial returns for investors rather than compromise them to pursue objecti..
President Joe Biden isn't waiting for the Supreme Court to decide on his last $400 billion student loan bailout before rolling out another, even more costly plan (oral arguments are scheduled for Feb...
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There were a lot of ingredients in the 2010 Republican electoral landslide. Remarkably, twelve years later Democrats may – in a last-ditch attempt to salvage something from the wreckage of Build Back Better – repeat the exact same mistake again...
Energy prices are up 32 percent in the past year, causing pain at the pump, paying monthly utility bills, and buying everything that's grown, shipped, or manufactured...
Full Archive
- 04/10/2024 Biden wrong to oppose Nippon Steel Deal
- 11/09/2023 Farm bill must strengthen work requirements for food stamps
- 10/05/2023 FCC chair’s bad Wi-Fi not a reason to regulate the internet
- 09/14/2023 Biden’s illegal attack on gas-powered cars
- 07/13/2023 Governor’s flip shows teachers unions own the Democratic Party
- 06/06/2023 The AARP-UnitedHealth-Democrat combine
- 03/14/2023 Biden veto lets fund managers put politics over investors
- 01/23/2023 Biden’s second student loan bailout scheme is even worse
- 01/12/2023 More debt without spending reform is dirty
- 09/12/2022 Oklahoma and Missouri can stop Biden’s student loan bailout
- 07/01/2022 Democrats want to raid Medicare to pay for Obamacare – again
- 05/10/2022 Reject new energy taxes with prices already soaring
- 11/14/2021 Drug Price Controls Would Hurt Seniors
- 09/08/2021 Biden’s Double Death Tax
- 07/08/2021 Credit Card Rewards Are in Political Peril
- 06/29/2021 Biden’s Infrastructure Plan Ignores Success of Broadband
- 08/05/2020 Too Many of the Wrong Tests and None of the Right
- 06/23/2020 COVID-19: The Nursing Home Disease
- 06/15/2020 CBO Won’t Hide Biden’s Government Takeover of Health Care
- 05/14/2020 Unmasking AARP As A Front Group
- 04/28/2020 Coronavirus Failures Show Folly of Government-Controlled Medicine
- 04/21/2020 Enjoying Fast Internet During the Lockdown? Thank Trump’s FCC.
- 03/05/2020 Reject a Government Takeover of Consumer Lending
- 02/14/2020 MAGA Companies Power Trump Stock Boom
- 11/27/2019 Trump Should Veto Greedy Green Act
- 11/20/2019 Transparency for Big Tech: The Least-Bad Option
- 10/24/2019 Fed Power Grab Will Delay Real-Time Payments
- 09/03/2019 Trump Should End Tax Pelosi Also Once Wanted to Kill
- 08/19/2019 Why Milton Friedman Rightly Opposed Drug Policy
- 06/24/2019 WWI Era Law is Hurting Puerto Rico
- 05/14/2019 Let Electric Vehicle Subsidies Die on Schedule
- 02/25/2019 Sick of Cable TV Fees? The FCC Could Help.
- 02/11/2019 Trump’s FCC Could Make WiFi Great Again
- 01/02/2019 Don’t Import Foreign Price Controls – Break Them
- 12/01/2018 What Trump Should Do About Electric Vehicle Subsidies
- 11/15/2018 Senate Republicans Are Blocking Trump Appointments
- 10/15/2018 Democrats Voted to Take Health Care Away from Millions
- 09/11/2018 Mulvaney Should Lift Cloud from Student Loan Trusts
- 08/05/2018 Trump is Right to End Obama’s Fuel Economy Scheme
- 07/26/2018 GOP Can’t Appease the Left Caving on Key Issues
- 06/25/2018 Nanny Bloomberg Wants to Tax the World’s Poor
- 06/14/2018 Democrat Net Neutrality Plan is Really About Raising Taxes
- 05/15/2018 Farm Bill Should Reform More Than Food Stamps
- 05/03/2018 Democrats Exploit McCain Absence for Stunt Vote
Phil Kerpen is president of American Commitment, a columnist on Fox News Opinion, chairman of the Internet Freedom Coalition, and author of the 2011 book Democracy Denied.
American Commitment is dedicated to restoring and protecting America’s core commitment to free markets, economic growth, Constitutionally-limited government, property rights, and individual freedom.
Washingtonian magazine named Mr. Kerpen to their "Guest List" in 2008 and The Hill newspaper named Mr. Kerpen a "Top Grassroots Lobbyist" in 2011.
Mr. Kerpen's op-eds have run in newspapers across the country and he is a frequent radio and television commentator on economic growth issues.
Prior to joining American Commitment, Mr. Kerpen served as vice president for policy at Americans for Prosperity. Mr. Kerpen has also previously worked as an analyst and researcher for the Free Enterprise Fund, the Club for Growth, and the Cato Institute.
A native of Brooklyn, N.Y., Mr. Kerpen currently resides in Washington, D.C. with his wife Joanna and their daughter Lilly.
Column Archive
- 04/10/2024 Biden wrong to oppose Nippon Steel Deal
- 11/09/2023 Farm bill must strengthen work requirements for food stamps
- 10/05/2023 FCC chair’s bad Wi-Fi not a reason to regulate the internet
- 09/14/2023 Biden’s illegal attack on gas-powered cars
- 07/13/2023 Governor’s flip shows teachers unions own the Democratic Party
- 06/06/2023 The AARP-UnitedHealth-Democrat combine
- 03/14/2023 Biden veto lets fund managers put politics over investors
- 01/23/2023 Biden’s second student loan bailout scheme is even worse
- 01/12/2023 More debt without spending reform is dirty
- 09/12/2022 Oklahoma and Missouri can stop Biden’s student loan bailout
- 07/01/2022 Democrats want to raid Medicare to pay for Obamacare – again
- 05/10/2022 Reject new energy taxes with prices already soaring
- 11/14/2021 Drug Price Controls Would Hurt Seniors
- 09/08/2021 Biden’s Double Death Tax
- 07/08/2021 Credit Card Rewards Are in Political Peril
- 06/29/2021 Biden’s Infrastructure Plan Ignores Success of Broadband
- 08/05/2020 Too Many of the Wrong Tests and None of the Right
- 06/23/2020 COVID-19: The Nursing Home Disease
- 06/15/2020 CBO Won’t Hide Biden’s Government Takeover of Health Care
- 05/14/2020 Unmasking AARP As A Front Group