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Some cultures are simply not compatible with American values

First, there was fraud in the Department of Agriculture’s Federal Child Nutrition Program. Then it was fraud in Medicaid’s “nonstandard benefits”...

yesterday 10

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Beware the company Zohran Mamdani keeps

Zohran Mamdani has become New York City mayor just a few years after being an unemployed wannabe rapper, a few years after becoming an American...

yesterday 2

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Ian Haworth

Mamdani’s collectivist vision for America

The most disturbing part of New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s inauguration was not that he chose fellow socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) to swear...

previous day 10

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Washington Examiner

A welcome end to the Maduro regime

President Donald Trump took decisive and justified action this morning, launching precision military strikes in Venezuela that enabled special...

previous day 10

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Washington Examiner

What Trump should do if Ukraine peace talks collapse

Peace talks on ending Russia’s war on Ukraine are likely to collapse once Russia rejects binding security guarantees for Ukraine. Russia entered...

previous day 10

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Ani Chkhikvadze

This wasn’t an arrest in Venezuela. This was an unauthorized regime-change war

Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio both justified the United States’s overnight invasion of Venezuela and capture of its...

previous day 4

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Timothy P. Carney

Capturing Maduro was the extraordinarily challenging but easier part

Delta Force, the Army’s premier special operations unit, has just earned another testament to its deserved reputation as the world’s finest close-...

previous day 4

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Timothy P. Carney

California’s toxic empathy isn’t helping homeless drug addicts

The toxic empathy of Democratic policies on homelessness and drug use allows homeless drug addicts to slowly kill themselves in the streets and...

friday 6

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Salena Zito

Streaming broke television’s sense of time

Almost a full 10 years after debuting on Netflix, Stranger Things has finally come to a close in its fifth and final season. Ordinarily, one would...

friday 2

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Conn Carroll

Happy cows come from Texas now

If you’ve ever ordered a pizza from Domino’s, Pizza Hut, or Papa John’s, you’ve probably eaten mozzarella made by Leprino Foods in Lemoore,...

friday 4

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Conn Carroll

No-rules college basketball

“Santa Claus is delivering mid-season acquisitions,” back-to-back NCAA basketball champion Dan Hurley posted on Christmas. “This s*** is...

friday 4

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Conn Carroll

Violence and ‘violence:’ What we should make of new campus data on speech

When President Donald Trump roared to victory in 2024, conservatives told themselves a number of just-so stories. Biden-era profligacy had driven...

friday 10

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Varad Mehta

Ralph Lauren’s all-American cultural appropriation

After years of Scandinavian and Bauhaus-inflected minimalism, no-frills graphic design, and the Marie Kondo-inspired culling of closets, clutter is...

friday 1

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Varad Mehta

Time must have a slop

The American republic is tottering toward its 250th birthday like a character in a Jimmy Buffett song: debauched and in debt, but with its Stanley...

friday 10

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Varad Mehta

Is a Korean reality show the last honest sport?

The beauty of Physical: Asia, a televised sporting event-cum-reality show that originated in Korea before spinning off to this international...

friday 10

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Oliver Bateman

Know (how to BS) thyself

I have reached the age where my New Year’s resolutions arrive pre-broken. I know which ones will fail, roughly when they will fail, and what excuses...

friday 1

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Rob Long

Stranger Things is the Happy Days of the COVID-19 era

Stranger Things was never meant to end like this, largely because it was never meant to go on the way it has. The first season was conceived and...

friday 10

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Jack Baruth

The Heritage Foundation’s former antisemitism task force after its split with the think tank

Some choices are minor and forgettable. Others have large, lasting repercussions. Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts’s decision to side...

friday 1

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Melissa Langsam Braunstein

The Force adrift

Looking back at it now, 10 years later, the warning signs were clear from the start — from the first trailer, in fact. Its initial image was a shot...

friday 10

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Varad Mehta

The activism of Mr. Grinch

That mean one, Mr. Grinch, came early and stayed late this year. He arrived before Christmas, then lingered like a bad smell days afterward. The...

friday 4

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Hugo Gurdon

Trump’s all-in AI push is paying off handsomely, making up for his failed tariffs gamble at least somewhat

When politicos look back on President Donald Trump’s first year in his second stab at the presidency, early 2026 may mark the nadir of his...

friday 1

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Hugo Gurdon

Electricity grid reliability at risk from bad government policies

The purpose of the nation’s electricity grid that powers our homes and businesses is to provide reliable electricity. That’s hardly a radical...

friday 1

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Daren Bakst

The Right must learn discernment in 2026

In Focus delivers deeper coverage of the political, cultural, and ideological issues shaping America. Published daily by senior writers and...

friday 4

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Brady Leonard

The Left must quit its zero-sum thinking

In recent years, researchers have increasingly focused on zero-sum thinking, namely the widespread belief that economic, social, or political gains...

friday 4

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Brady Leonard

Palmer Luckey is right to revel in China’s sanctions

China has sanctioned the leaders of top U.S. business and technology companies. The punitive measures are a response to a recent U.S. arms sale to...

friday 4

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Brady Leonard

California is the poster child for fraud and financial waste

Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) is trying to push back on the notion that California is rife with fraud and financial waste. Now would be a bad time to...

friday 40

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Salena Zito

Russia overextends its deception fetish with invented Ukrainian attack on Putin

Inventing a nonexistent Ukrainian assassination attempt against Russian President Vladimir Putin, Russian officials have damaged their credibility...

friday 6

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Salena Zito

Bernie Sanders can’t and won’t stop AI development, and that’s good 

People are generating wealth, and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) wants to put a stop to it. First on social media and now on Sunday TV shows, Sanders...

friday 1

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Conn Carroll

Celebrating Christ at Christmas is apparently right-wing

It’s slim pickings out there for the responsible progressive these days. What is he to do for a pastime without fear of becoming a right-winger? Is...

friday 10

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Conn Carroll

An essayist who remembers

As you have begun to read this article, I will assume you are a reader. By this, I mean you regard reading creative works of literature as a good,...

friday 10

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Hugo Gurdon

Streaming and social costs: Our souls are at stake in the Warner Bros. Discovery-Netflix deal

For the overwhelming majority of people whose families, jobs, and personal pursuits loom larger than the endless mergers and acquisitions in...

friday 10

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Peter Tonguette

A sprawling history of Mexico

“Poor Mexico. So far from God, so close to the United States.” The famous words attributed to eight-term Mexican President Porfirio Díaz have often...

friday 10

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Kyle Sammin

Salman Rushdie pulls up a chair

When S.M. Arthur, an honorary fellow of the University of Cambridge, wakes up to the realisation that he’s dead, as he does in “Late,” one of five...

friday 1

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Gustav Jönsson

On This Day: The Tory Act

The following is the first installment of “On This Day,” a new series celebrating America’s 250th anniversary by following the actions of Gen....

friday 10

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Salena Zito

Is the GOP still the party of life? Hardly

In Focus delivers deeper coverage of the political, cultural, and ideological issues shaping America. Published daily by senior writers and...

01.01.2026 2

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Michael Barone

How Hegseth can reinforce military chaplains

George Washington founded the Army Chaplain Corps 250 years ago because he knew it was wrong to ask his troops to give the ultimate sacrifice while...

01.01.2026 4

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Amy Vitale

Five hopes for the new year

New Year’s Day is a celebration of the hope and promise of a fresh start. In that spirit, we have identified five goals that we hope will be...

01.01.2026 10

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Amy Vitale

Britain has become a warning to Americans

Any Brits reading will know that, until recently, we had a good thing going in the United States. We were widely held to be smarter, politer, and...

01.01.2026 2

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Dan Hannan

On immigration and citizenship, listen to George Washington

As news reports proliferate of multimillion-dollar — and possibly billion-dollar — fraudulent diversions of government funds involving Minnesota’s...

01.01.2026 5

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Michael Barone

In Pluribus, the apocalypse arrives with a smile

In the imaginative mind of Vince Gilligan, the end of the world does not arrive with flaming alien spacecraft or pulverized monuments, but with the...

31.12.2025 2

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Ian Haworth

Trump acts in the Monroe Doctrine tradition

President Donald Trump is delivering increasingly robust U.S. policies against drug cartels and hostile regimes in Latin America. He has little...

31.12.2025 2

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James Rogan

The Information State is the most important book of 2026

In March 2026, the most important political book of the last several years will be published. It’s called  The Information State: Politics in the...

31.12.2025 5

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James Rogan

Trump’s total control of the border is the success story of 2025

Two years ago this month, more than 300,000 illegal immigrants were stopped by Customs and Border Protection officers along the southwest border of...

31.12.2025 2

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James Rogan

Don’t grant citizenship to people who hate their countrymen

It’s not enough that the United Kingdom is arresting people for social media posts, or that it is trying to erode the foundation of justice, or...

31.12.2025 30

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Ian Haworth

A classical education revival hits the capital region

In the shadow of the nation’s capital, a growing number of Washington-area families are quietly rethinking where and how their children learn. From...

31.12.2025 2

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Andrea Picciotti-Bayer

The US can help end the militarization of Ukrainian children

President Donald Trump and his team continue to push for peace in Ukraine. All signs indicate that Russia has zero interest in peace but is...

31.12.2025 20

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Ian Haworth

How criminal justice reformers empower murderers

Criminal justice reform was peddled to voters as being about poor, underprivileged souls serving harsh sentences for smoking marijuana or some such...

30.12.2025 7

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Zachary Faria