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Competition, not price controls, just slashed GLP-1 prices

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Monique Yohanan

The science wasn’t settled. The CDC finally admitted it

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Monique Yohanan

When will Newsom’s spending bubble burst?

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Washington Examiner

Trump’s immigration crackdown already benefiting American students

Trump’s immigration crackdown already benefiting American students

For decades, activists and economists have urged America’s elite universities to expand their undergraduate enrollment. Yet the schools resisted,...

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Washington Examiner

An insane anti-Trump conspiracy theory goes viral

An insane anti-Trump conspiracy theory goes viral

“Women with advanced degrees should leave the United States immediately.” That’s how one left-wing TikTok influencer responded to a recent minor...

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Brad Polumbo

Mail thieves threaten California’s election system

Mail thieves threaten California’s election system

What happens when you combine California‘s lax criminal “justice” system with an electoral system focused on mailing ballots to voters? You get...

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Zachary Faria

Low housing supply remains Trump’s biggest obstacle to winning voters’ economic approval

Low housing supply remains Trump’s biggest obstacle to winning voters’ economic approval

President Donald Trump, following the GOP’s November off-year election shellacking and a minor but sustained dip in his approval ratings, has been...

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Tiana Lowe Doescher

New York braces for Mayor Zohran Mamdani

New York braces for Mayor Zohran Mamdani

In June, after Zohran Mamdani somehow bulldozed through the New York Democratic mayoral primary and seized the nomination, I was walking through my...

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Daniel Ross Goodman

The decency of ‘Eyes Wide Shut’

The decency of ‘Eyes Wide Shut’

In all the words that have been devoted to the films of Stanley Kubrick, I do not know whether any writer has invoked Gustave Flaubert’s famous...

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Peter Tonguette

Ukraine peace? Not in our time

Ukraine peace? Not in our time

Writers venturing predictions generally prefer events to prove them right, not wrong. But I’d much rather miss the mark in this case than hit the...

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Hugo Gurdon

What Taiwan can and can’t learn from Ukraine

What Taiwan can and can’t learn from Ukraine

“Generals,” French Prime Minister George Clemenceau allegedly said during World War I, “are always fighting the last war.” A century later, his...

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Hugo Gurdon

William F. Buckley Jr. at 100: The irreplaceable policeman of the Right

William F. Buckley Jr. at 100: The irreplaceable policeman of the Right

Nov. 24 was the 100th anniversary of William F. Buckley Jr.’s birth. Even though he has been gone for more than a decade and a half, the impact of...

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Hugo Gurdon

Have high school boys really gotten that bad?

Have high school boys really gotten that bad?

At a time when marriage and birth rates are rapidly declining, a recent Pew poll finding that 12th graders are far less interested in getting...

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Hugo Gurdon

Anti-Trump judge enjoys cushy retirement in the name of ‘free speech’

Anti-Trump judge enjoys cushy retirement in the name of ‘free speech’

Retiring federal judge Mark Wolf says he is stepping down so he can finally speak, unshackled, about what he views as an existential threat to the...

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Shaun Mccutcheon

Congress needs to think beyond Affordable Care Act subsidies

Congress needs to think beyond Affordable Care Act subsidies

I’m going to tell you something that very few of my Republican colleagues would openly admit. If someone says that health insurance will become...

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Troy Downing

What drove the DC shooter?

What drove the DC shooter?

WHAT DROVE THE DC SHOOTER? Three days before an Afghan refugee ambushed two National Guard soldiers in Washington, killing one and critically...

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Troy Downing

Ukraine’s fate and America’s interests

Ukraine’s fate and America’s interests

KYIV, Ukraine — Nobody can agree on an acceptable peace in Ukraine. Should Russia be allowed to keep the lands it took by force? Should Ukraine be...

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Timothy P. Carney

The fall of Ukraine means the end of the post-1945 Western order

The fall of Ukraine means the end of the post-1945 Western order

Can everyone else not see what is wrong with this? What is it that we are throwing away? The years since World War II have been the most peaceful...

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Dan Hannan

BBC exists to sustain its monopoly

BBC exists to sustain its monopoly

An American friend described modern Britain to me as “a health service with a nuclear deterrent.” This is unfair. Modern Britain is a health...

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Dominic Green

Only you can prevent in-flight fashion faux pas

Only you can prevent in-flight fashion faux pas

Bare feet. Bad breath. Boisterous conversations and body odor. When you fly, you run the risk of a memorable experience, to say the least. And it’s...

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Madeline Fry Schultz

Trump plan to cut farmworker wages hurts America’s competitiveness

Trump plan to cut farmworker wages hurts America’s competitiveness

There was widespread outrage at President Donald Trump’s comments earlier this year that Immigration and Customs Enforcement shouldn’t enforce...

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Mark Krikorian

Breaking Glad: Review of ‘Pluribus’

Breaking Glad: Review of ‘Pluribus’

Vince Gilligan is the master of the slow burn. Rewatching the showrunner’s debut now, one is startled to find that Breaking Bad (2008-2013) is...

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Graham Hillard

Trump vs. the Democrats on the affordability crisis

Trump vs. the Democrats on the affordability crisis

The Democrats’ latest con job is blaming President Donald Trump for former President Joe Biden’s legacy inflation and claiming that Zohran Mamdani-...

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Peter Navarro

Why Democrats aren’t thankful for America

Why Democrats aren’t thankful for America

From Presidents Franklin Roosevelt through John F. Kennedy, the Democratic Party projected patriotic confidence, fully comfortable celebrating...

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Washington Examiner

The only villain that matters

The only villain that matters

The soap-opera sideshow currently roiling elite media involves journalists Olivia Nuzzi and Ryan Lizza, a formerly engaged Washington, D.C., power...

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Tiana Lowe Doescher

Of Fission, Fusionism, and Fuentes

Of Fission, Fusionism, and Fuentes

There’s been much talk of late about fissures in the Republican Party. It’s not just MAGA vs. “GOPE” — the GOP Establishment. That’s old news. The...

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Hugo Gurdon

Trigger warning: Immigrants, armed and American

Trigger warning: Immigrants, armed and American

The first time Nayara Andrejczyk fired a gun, she fell in love. It was a revolver, handed to her at a Pennsylvania range after years of quiet...

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Daniel Allott

President Abraham Lincoln’s Thanksgiving proclamation

President Abraham Lincoln’s Thanksgiving proclamation

President Abraham Lincoln issued his famous “Proclamation of Thanksgiving” on Oct. 3, 1863, with the Civil War still raging. As is our annual...

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Ani Chkhikvadze

As an immigrant, I love Thanksgiving

In 2013, I moved to the United States from the United Kingdom, and in the years since, I’ve learned that there are really two kinds of American...

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Ani Chkhikvadze

Pass-Fail

Pass-Fail

“How are your grades?” My father asked me, nearly 43 years ago, when I was home from college for the Thanksgiving holiday. In many ways,...

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Micah Mattix

Making Magic: Review of ‘The Master of Contradictions’ by Morten Høi Jensen

Making Magic: Review of ‘The Master of Contradictions’ by Morten Høi Jensen

Book s on the politics of literary works can go wrong in at least two ways: They can reduce the significance of a literary work to the politics of...

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Micah Mattix

Rick Steves and the closing of the travel frontier

Rick Steves and the closing of the travel frontier

For Americans of a certain age and income bracket, Europe is synonymous with Rick Steves, a one-man travel impresario whose guidebooks and tour...

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Micah Mattix

The long shadow of the federalist debates

The long shadow of the federalist debates

“While I am a Jeffersonian in my genuine faith in democracy and popular government,” President Theodore Roosevelt once said, “I am a Hamiltonian...

thursday 1

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Micah Mattix

Peter Matthiessen, mystical Renaissance man

Peter Matthiessen, mystical Renaissance man

Peter Matthiessen was a towering figure in 20th-century American letters. He was a naturalist, environmentalist, Zen Buddhist priest, teacher,...

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Micah Mattix

America’s audacious aspirations

America’s audacious aspirations

“I believe we, the Americans of today, are ready to act worthy of ourselves,” President Ronald Reagan proclaimed in January 1981 during his first...

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Ani Chkhikvadze

Dick Cheney: Always unintimidated

Dick Cheney: Always unintimidated

The word that best describes how former Vice President Dick Cheney, who wielded the responsibilities he undertook in public affairs over a long...

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Ani Chkhikvadze

Ukraine must recognize it will likely have to keep fighting

“Soul and body shall we lay down for our liberty,” the Ukrainian anthem says. That line echoed through Kyiv in 2022 as Russia tried and failed to...

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Ani Chkhikvadze

Elissa Slotkin, Mark Kelly, and Democratic privilege

Elissa Slotkin, Mark Kelly, and Democratic privilege

Democrats stood firm on their efforts to sabotage the Trump administration this week. It was their latest attempt to manipulate the American public...

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Zachary Faria

Is Turkey’s Erdogan the new Gadhafi?

Is Turkey’s Erdogan the new Gadhafi?

Former Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi was always flamboyant, but he grew even more bizarre during his decades in power. The former Libyan army...

26.11.2025 3

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Michael Rubin

Hollywood movie studios might want to hire the pope as a consultant

Hollywood movie studios might want to hire the pope as a consultant

The Catholic Church may seem like an unlikely consultant for Hollywood, an industry far more inclined to cut seven-figure checks to McKinsey in...

26.11.2025 1

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Michael Rubin

What DOGE’s failure says about Trump’s second term

What DOGE’s failure says about Trump’s second term

The Department of Government Efficiency no longer exists as a distinct bureaucratic entity, but its spirit will live on in every federal agency as...

26.11.2025 1

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Michael Rubin

Why Russia won’t accept any firm security guarantees for Ukraine

Why Russia won’t accept any firm security guarantees for Ukraine

There is new optimism as Ukraine signals support for a narrowed, 19-point peace framework following weekend talks with the United States. Still,...

26.11.2025 4

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Michael Rubin

Activists are redefining ‘gender’ to save a collapsing narrative

Activists are redefining ‘gender’ to save a collapsing narrative

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

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Rusty Wright

Will Trump get into heaven?

Will Trump get into heaven?

Heaven has been on President Donald Trump’s mind a lot these days. Recently, he told some folks at Mar-a-Lago that speaker Eric Metaxas was the guy...

26.11.2025 10

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Rusty Wright

Be thankful for America

Be thankful for America

On Thanksgiving eve, many families start to gather, and often those that do have wonderful times together. Some do not. To the end of promoting the...

26.11.2025 6

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Rusty Wright

Thanksgiving is uniquely American. That’s worth celebrating

Thanksgiving is uniquely American. That’s worth celebrating

The nation will this week partake in a ritual unlike any other in the rest of the world. Americans of all persuasions, races, and creeds will...

26.11.2025 2

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Rusty Wright

No, Los Angeles still hasn’t rebuilt homes lost in January wildfires

No, Los Angeles still hasn’t rebuilt homes lost in January wildfires

It has been 10 months since the wildfires in Los Angeles ended. Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass have been running around...

26.11.2025 10

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Zachary Faria

Peter Navarro’s book is a raw retelling of his experience in prison

Peter Navarro’s book is a raw retelling of his experience in prison

Peter Navarro, who spent four months in federal prison for a contempt of Congress order over the Jan. 6 investigations and now serves as senior...

25.11.2025 2

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Salena Zito

How insurance mandates and policy incentives drive autism diagnoses

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

25.11.2025 2

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Bethany Mandel

Trump’s HSA plan puts Democrats on the spot

Trump’s HSA plan puts Democrats on the spot

Democrats initiated the longest government shutdown in history under the guise of caring about Americans’ access to affordable healthcare. Now they...

25.11.2025 3

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Dean Clancy