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Pelosi’s retirement offers 278 million reasons to ban stock trading

We wish Speaker Emerita Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) happiness and health in her retirement. History will weigh her substantial legacy for decades to...

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Washington Examiner

Mamdani won an election, not a revolution

We can hardly fault Democrats for celebrating Zohran Mamdani’s victory in New York City’s mayoral race. After all, the party has been wandering in...

yesterday 7

Washington Examiner

If Democrats want food stamps fully funded, they should open the government

Senate Democrats voted against a House of Representatives-passed continuing resolution that would fund the federal government through Nov. 21 for...

previous day 9

Washington Examiner

Trump’s Syria strategy might just work

About two decades ago, Ahmed al Sharaa was just another Al Qaeda militant locked up by the U.S. military in Iraq. After Sharaa was released, he...

previous day 2

Daniel Depetris

Viral ‘trans rights’ gym incident shows Democrats lunacy

“Grown men with big d***s … in the women’s locker room!” That’s what singer Tish Hyman yelled about during an argument at Gold’s Gym in...

previous day 1

Daniel Depetris

Democrats’ off-year wins remind us why the filibuster is needed

President Donald Trump again called on Republican senators to end the filibuster this month, a pitch he has made many times before. Thankfully,...

friday 2

Washington Examiner

Trump administration and social trends have led to major reversal in transgender debate

On a cold day in Kansas earlier this year, Chloe Cole testified in front of the state Senate Committee on Public Health and Welfare on Senate Bill...

friday 2

Nicole Russell

Young voters are growing more tolerant of political violence

A rising number of young people are embracing the idea that political violence is acceptable, thanks in part to increasingly hysterical Democratic...

friday 3

Conn Carroll

Filibuster follies: Bipartisan threats to the Senate’s wall against chaos

The federal government has been shut down for over a month, and political finger-pointing has persisted since it began. Republicans claim that they...

friday 1

Conn Carroll

Reinstitutionalizing the homeless

An original black-and-white chart from a 2009 law review article written by Columbia Law School professor Bernard E. Harcourt was colorized by the...

friday 4

Conn Carroll

Federal workers of the world, unite

Parked outside Greenberry’s Coffee in McLean, Virginia, on Election Day were a Porsche Cayenne, a Mercedes-Benz GLS, and a BMW X5 — three luxury...

friday 1

Conn Carroll

Bad billionaires

Billie Eilish, the Generation Z pop star famous for her song “bad guy,” has decided there’s a new bad guy in town, and it’s not her; it’s...

friday 2

Conn Carroll

‘This war ends in a courtroom’: Review of Nuremberg

Against all odds, Hollywood has a pretty decent track record when it comes to depicting world history. Of course, no movie can capture a major...

friday 2

Peter Tonguette

Trump’s tidal surge: Keeping the cartel strikes in historical perspective

The Caribbean sun hung low over the turquoise swells, a deceptive calm masking the venom slithering beneath. In September, a U.S. military strike...

friday 2

Daniel Ross Goodman

Nick Fuentes is a portent of where conservatism is heading

Bootleggers and Baptists. The public choice economist Bruce Yandle coined the phrase to describe how apparently opposed groups might have a shared...

friday 2

Dan Hannan

The MAGA civil war begins: Can conservative institutions figure out what to do?

The MAGA supremacy lasted almost exactly a year. On Nov. 5, 2024, Donald Trump won back the White House as the first president to secure...

friday 1

Dominic Green

Staff Sgt. Mac McArthur

Iowa Army National Guard recruiters really earned their pay in December 1998 when I enlisted. My unit, the 834th Engineer Company, in Davenport,...

friday 1

Trent Reedy

Fear itself: Review of ‘IT: Welcome to Derry’

“Nothing in life is to be feared,” Marie Curie once wrote, “it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that...

friday 1

Michael M. Rosen

A violent science

“Humans are violent creatures,” behavioral scientist Coltan Scrivner writes in Morbidly Curious. “However we aren’t just violent; sometimes we are...

friday 1

Chris R. Morgan

Cocktail Heroes: Review of ‘The Comic Book History of the Cocktail’ by David Wondrich

Thanks to several decades of comic book saturation at the movies, we all know the plot beats of a superhero epic. An intriguing origin. A rise to...

friday 3

Jacob Grier

Democrats’ ‘immunity by insanity’ carries Virginia

MANASSAS, Virginia — Sometimes in politics, the other side is doing something so bad it makes you crazy to even talk about it. Let’s call it...

friday 2

Timothy P. Carney

Now that Democrats won their elections, can they reopen the government before they kill holiday travel?

Right as Democrats swept Tuesday’s off-year elections, reclaiming a trifecta in Virginia and keeping New Jersey indigo blue, the party’s shutdown...

friday 1

Tiana Lowe Doescher

Congress demands Columbia University cut ties with China

In an effort to protect America’s sovereignty over its higher education system, Congress urged Columbia University to cut its ties to communist...

friday 2

Tiana Lowe Doescher

Saudi purchase of F-35s signals revival of US alliance

Saudi Arabia is set to receive up to 48 F-35 fighter jets from the Secretary of War Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon, which signals the revival of a...

friday 2

Tiana Lowe Doescher

Mamdani — the mayor against America

Most modern socialists revealingly call themselves “democratic socialists.” The one socialist organization that didn’t do this, the exception that...

friday 1

Hugo Gurdon

Giorgia Meloni’s strong leadership on Ukraine

“If we stop supporting Ukraine, we allow the invasion of Ukraine. I am not hypocritical enough to mistake an invasion with the word ‘peace,'”...

friday 1

Hugo Gurdon

It’s still the economy, stupid

This week was, as President Donald Trump himself put it, bad for Republicans. We faced down election losses in Virginia, where voters embraced...

friday 1

Ian Haworth

Meet Pelosi’s inevitable replacement, the execrable Scott Wiener

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is not running for reelection, so it is time to get familiar with the Democrat who is likely to replace her in...

friday 3

Ian Haworth

Conscientious newspaper objector

Here’s what I know: If I go to my local newsstand and take a copy of the newspaper without paying for it, that would be stealing, and stealing is...

friday 1

Rob Long

Wealth in the age of AI: hedge or harness?

There is no doubt for economists and technology luminaries that artificial intelligence will be a watershed event for many industries,...

06.11.2025 1

Michael Rubin

Marco Rubio needs a bold Nigeria strategy

President Donald Trump declared Friday that “Christianity is facing an existential threat in Nigeria,” and designated Nigeria “a country of...

06.11.2025 2

Michael Rubin

A good day for the separation of powers in the Supreme Court

Does the president of the United States have the power to set tariff rates unilaterally on all goods and services imported from any and every...

06.11.2025 1

Michael Rubin

How Bucks County Democrats won in critical Pennsylvania county

BRISTOL, Pennsylvania — Both Democrats and Republicans know if you want to win a statewide election in Pennsylvania, whether you are running for...

06.11.2025 10

Peter Laffin

Voters don’t love Trump. They love his economic promises

Republicans lost gubernatorial races in Virginia and New Jersey on Tuesday. Well, lost is quite an understatement. The Republican candidates got...

06.11.2025 10

Elisha Krauss

Cheney, Pelosi, and Mamdani — the American saga continues

In the span of three days, former Vice President Dick Cheney died, Zohran Mamdani was elected mayor of New York City, and Speaker Emerita Nancy...

06.11.2025 2

Peter Laffin

Civil rights complaint filed against Princeton gender policies

Defending Education filed a Title IX complaint against Princeton University for forcing students to use “gender neutral” bathrooms, pushing “...

06.11.2025 3

Elisha Krauss

Zohran Mamdani’s unimpressive win

The rise of socialist Zohran Mamdani is concerning for many reasons. None less than that numerous establishment Democrats endorsed the candidacy of...

06.11.2025 2

David Harsanyi

Portland is not a serious city

The Democrats who run Portland can whine all they want about President Donald Trump’s characterization of their community, but there is no doubt...

06.11.2025 2

David Harsanyi

What Russia’s desperate struggle to envelop Pokrovsk tells us

Russian forces are struggling to fully encircle Ukrainian forces in Pokrovsk. While heavily outnumbering their Ukrainian counterparts, they have...

06.11.2025 1

David Harsanyi

Fighting the government-closing Democratic filibuster

FIGHTING THE GOVERNMENT-CLOSING DEMOCRATIC FILIBUSTER. In the last week or so, there have been two conflicting interpretations of what is going on...

06.11.2025 2

David Harsanyi

Why Tuesday’s election win for Democrats really wasn’t that big a deal or unexpected

Democrats were quick to claim Tuesday’s election results as a resounding victory, indicating that Americans are dissatisfied with President Donald...

06.11.2025 2

David Harsanyi

In Bugonia, it’s dangerous to dismiss conspiracy theorists

If you’ve lingered on social media long enough, you’ve probably met the new prophets of paranoia. Their sermons range from Tucker Carlson’s...

06.11.2025 2

Harry Khachatrian

Conservatives, don’t give up on California

A plethora of conservative media outlets, social media stars, and consultants and fundraisers around the country say California is a lost cause,...

06.11.2025 1

Elisha Krauss

Virginia is set to become one of the most pro-abortion states

Virginia Democrats on Tuesday increased their majority in the House of Delegates from 51 to at least 64. What began as a slim advantage has turned...

06.11.2025 1

Elisha Krauss

Reader’s Digest list of best fantasy novels omits J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter

For J.K. Rowling, the creator of the Harry Potter franchise, the people in the publishing world who compile best-of lists may as well be dementors....

05.11.2025 10

Mark Judge

Jeffrey Sachs learns he is Russia’s useful idiot

Last weekend, Sen. Carlo Calenda of the Italian Republic cut off American academic Jeffrey Sachs mid-sentence. “You’re lying,” Calenda said flatly....

05.11.2025 10

Ani Chkhikvadze

Index funds and Big Tech are working together to hurt Little Tech

The influence that index funds such as BlackRock, Vanguard, and State Street have had on markets is unmistakable. They are so influential that both...

05.11.2025 4

Ani Chkhikvadze

Trump Supreme Court ruling will matter for the Constitution, not tariffs

On Wednesday, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on President Donald Trump’s so-called “reciprocal tariffs.” The case is another test of...

05.11.2025 2

Ani Chkhikvadze

Voters send Trump a course correction message

Off-year election results are never a cause for panic, but they are a relevant data point. There is no denying that Tuesday’s election results were...

05.11.2025 3

Ani Chkhikvadze

Maryland schools force gender ideology on seventh graders

The Montgomery County Public Schools in Maryland coerced 11 & and 12-year-olds to acknowledge and differentiate between their “gender identity”...

05.11.2025 2

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Pelosi’s retirement offers 278 million reasons to ban stock trading

Washington Examiner

Mamdani won an election, not a revolution

Washington Examiner

If Democrats want food stamps fully funded, they should open the government

Washington Examiner

Trump’s Syria strategy might just work

Daniel Depetris

Viral ‘trans rights’ gym incident shows Democrats lunacy

Daniel Depetris

Democrats’ off-year wins remind us why the filibuster is needed

Washington Examiner

Trump administration and social trends have led to major reversal in transgender debate

Nicole Russell

Young voters are growing more tolerant of political violence

Conn Carroll

Filibuster follies: Bipartisan threats to the Senate’s wall against chaos

Conn Carroll

Reinstitutionalizing the homeless

Conn Carroll

Federal workers of the world, unite

Conn Carroll

Bad billionaires

Conn Carroll

‘This war ends in a courtroom’: Review of Nuremberg

Peter Tonguette

Trump’s tidal surge: Keeping the cartel strikes in historical perspective

Daniel Ross Goodman

Nick Fuentes is a portent of where conservatism is heading

Dan Hannan

The MAGA civil war begins: Can conservative institutions figure out what to do?

Dominic Green

Staff Sgt. Mac McArthur

Trent Reedy

Fear itself: Review of ‘IT: Welcome to Derry’

Michael M. Rosen

A violent science

Chris R. Morgan

Cocktail Heroes: Review of ‘The Comic Book History of the Cocktail’ by David Wondrich

Jacob Grier

Democrats’ ‘immunity by insanity’ carries Virginia

Timothy P. Carney

Now that Democrats won their elections, can they reopen the government before they kill holiday travel?

Tiana Lowe Doescher

Congress demands Columbia University cut ties with China

Tiana Lowe Doescher

Saudi purchase of F-35s signals revival of US alliance

Tiana Lowe Doescher

Mamdani — the mayor against America

Hugo Gurdon

Giorgia Meloni’s strong leadership on Ukraine

Hugo Gurdon

It’s still the economy, stupid

Ian Haworth

Meet Pelosi’s inevitable replacement, the execrable Scott Wiener

Ian Haworth

Conscientious newspaper objector

Rob Long

Wealth in the age of AI: hedge or harness?

Michael Rubin

Marco Rubio needs a bold Nigeria strategy

Michael Rubin

A good day for the separation of powers in the Supreme Court

Michael Rubin

How Bucks County Democrats won in critical Pennsylvania county

Peter Laffin

Voters don’t love Trump. They love his economic promises

Elisha Krauss

Cheney, Pelosi, and Mamdani — the American saga continues

Peter Laffin

Civil rights complaint filed against Princeton gender policies

Elisha Krauss

Zohran Mamdani’s unimpressive win

David Harsanyi

Portland is not a serious city

David Harsanyi

What Russia’s desperate struggle to envelop Pokrovsk tells us