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Here’s how Elon Musk could serve in the Trump administration beyond 130 days

yesterday 8

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Christopher Tremoglie

National Beer Day isn’t random, it marks FDR’s economic gamble

yesterday 10

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Jason Taylor

Hey, USA Fencing, women shouldn’t have to compete against biological males

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Brad Polumbo

Designer babies won’t solve our fertility crisis

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Brad Polumbo

Medicaid reform is popular

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Brad Polumbo

I survived 50 days in captivity. Trump, please help bring all the hostages home

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Brad Polumbo

JD Vance fulfills promise to celebrate his mother’s 10-year sobriety at White House

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Brad Polumbo

Lutnick’s reasoning behind Trump “penguin tariffs”

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Christian Papillon

Will Congress ever do its job?

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Christian Papillon

Tim Walz and the border crisis that would still be a crisis

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Ron York

Trump’s MAGA brand may be nontransferable to rest of GOP

previous day 10

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Tiana Lowe Doescher

If Trump wants tariff reciprocity, he must reject Lutnick and Navarro

previous day 8

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Tiana Lowe Doescher

Illinois Democrats bully home school families

previous day 8

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Trump just crushed China’s war on American small businesses

Since coming into office, President Donald Trump has made rebalancing our trade agreements a top priority, placing historic tariffs on traditional...

previous day 20

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Bernard Kerik

FEMA’s DEI misadventure

“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others,” George Orwell wrote in Animal Farm. The legal tide is turning against reverse...

previous day 10

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Barry Angeline And Dan Mccabe

As the UK hesitates, assisted suicide advances in America

After passing the British House of Commons last year, it looks as though a U.K. bill to legalize doctor-assisted suicide may itself be on life...

previous day 10

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Bernard Kerik

Slogans, stunts, and the shrinking soul of the Democratic Party

Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) will go down in history for delivering the longest talking filibuster ever on the Senate floor. Unfortunately for him, he...

saturday 10

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Elizabeth Stauffer

The Left’s new ‘Abundance Agenda’ is a farce 

Still stinging from their 2024 defeat, Democrats are sampling new messages in an attempt to win back lost voters. One prominent effort is the “...

saturday 9

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Elizabeth Stauffer

Churchill understood the folly of protectionism better than Trump

On Feb. 19, 1904, a young English politician delivered a speech at Free Trade Hall in Manchester, England. For more than 90 minutes, he spoke with...

saturday 8

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Elizabeth Stauffer

A short history of the Democrats’ staggering filibuster hypocrisy

In rare fleeting moments of childlike naivety, I sometimes wonder how these people live with themselves. And by people, I mean Sen. Cory Booker...

saturday 10

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Senate Republicans go weak on spending cuts

Senate Republicans passed budget reconciliation instructions last week that are far weaker on spending cuts than those House Republicans passed in...

saturday 4

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Trump’s trade war: The world will get poorer — and the US especially

The United States is about to plunge into recession, pulling much of the world down with it. The tariffs announced by President Donald Trump on...

04.04.2025 2

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Hugo Gurdon

Eugenics are coming back in fashion

“Sex is for fun. Embryo screening is for babies.” That’s one motto of industrial eugenicist Noor Siddiqui, whose company makes babies in a lab,...

04.04.2025 3

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Hugo Gurdon

Shed no tears for Luigi Mangione

The Department of Justice announced on Tuesday that Attorney General Pam Bondi has “directed federal prosecutors to seek the death penalty” in the...

04.04.2025 3

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Ian Haworth

Scott Bessent is right. Cheap goods are not the American dream

Everybody likes cheap stuff. We bargain hunt constantly, eager to find a way to save a dollar here and a dollar there while buying what we want and...

04.04.2025 3

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Ian Haworth

Trump’s visa ban should differentiate between Somalia and Somaliland

President Donald Trump is preparing to issue a new travel and visa ban for citizens of countries whom he deems a security risk or who have a...

04.04.2025 4

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Beth Bailey

The US can’t win the fight against fentanyl without the Coast Guard

When folks think about the Coast Guard, they usually picture a rescue swimmer jumping from a helicopter — something straight out of The Guardian ....

04.04.2025 4

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Beth Bailey

Trump should stop running in circles to save TikTok

President Donald Trump is jumping through hoops to save Chinese-run TikTok at a time when cutting off China should be a priority. TikTok must be...

04.04.2025 4

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Zachary Faria

Democrats shouldn’t get too excited about their special election results

Democrats are excitedly touting the results of Tuesday night’s elections, contending they show that the public is tiring of President Donald Trump...

04.04.2025 3

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Zachary Faria

Trump tariffs bring business to DC

If President Donald Trump’s goal was to stimulate the economy of Washington, D.C., or to maximize the number of CEOs, lobbyists, and foreign...

04.04.2025 2

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Timothy P. Carney

Chappell Roan’s road to unhappiness

To be honest, I had never heard of Chappell Roan until clips of her talking on Alex Cooper‘s Call Her Daddy podcast started appearing in my X feed....

04.04.2025 2

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Conn Carroll

Trump’s leftist thinking on tariffs

There is a glaring omission in all the words spoken and written about tariffs since President Donald Trump announced his horrific new trade...

04.04.2025 2

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Hugo Gurdon

A feminist influencer’s dilemma

There is an endless audience for the art of influence grifting, and influencer Paige Connell has found her niche: giving relationship “equity”...

04.04.2025 2

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Hugo Gurdon

John Boyega should blame Rian Johnson, not Star Wars fans, for his struggling career

John Boyega should blame Rian Johnson, not Star Wars fans, for his struggling career

The Star Wars franchise has fizzled as a cultural phenomenon thanks to the contempt Disney has for the franchise and its fans. Actor John Boyega,...

04.04.2025 2

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Hugo Gurdon

At least Trump’s swarm of sycophants supports his tariffs

After months of uncertainty, “Liberation Day” finally arrived. On Wednesday, President Donald Trump gathered the people he loves most, his inner...

04.04.2025 2

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Ian Haworth

Profiles in discouragement

In 1759, British Adm. John Byng was executed by firing squad for “failing to do his utmost” to relieve Minorca, a Mediterranean island besieged by...

04.04.2025 1

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Dominic Green

Trump administration is right not to normalize relations with the Taliban

While a U.S. delegation traveled to Kabul to secure the release of U.S. citizens in Taliban custody, Afghanistan‘s de facto government requested...

04.04.2025 3

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Beth Bailey

What is DOGE doing with Login.gov?

If I were a betting man, I would not have put my early money on the Department of Government Efficiency bailing out an Obama-era, government-built...

04.04.2025 3

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Beth Bailey

TikTok must be sold for women’s rights

As the chief executive of a company that has been at the wrong end of TikTok’s unfair business practices, including being banned as an advertiser...

04.04.2025 3

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Beth Bailey

Democrats switch from racism to oligarchy

The victory for the Democratic Party in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race on Tuesday was a blow to Elon Musk, who spent $20 million to elect the...

04.04.2025 3

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The Great Gatsby at 100

In 1816, John Keats wrote in his poem “On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer” that when he encountered George Chapman’s translation of...

03.04.2025 2

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Alexander Larman

Returning to the origins of baseball

My brother Rick and I grew up in a time and place ideally suited to the formation of lifelong baseball fans. The time was the 1950s and early...

03.04.2025 2

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John Wilson

Adolescence is gripping, beautiful … propaganda

One Sunday morning in October 2007, I woke up without having seen someone brutally stabbed for the last time. I was 16, and along with a few other...

03.04.2025 2

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Nicholas Clairmont

W.G. Sebald’s essays from beyond

When W.G. Sebald died in a car crash in 2001 at the age of 57, he was eulogized by the Anglophone literary world as the author of four singular...

03.04.2025 2

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Nicholas Clairmont

A murder on the San Francisco frontier

Shortly before dusk on Nov. 3, 1870, Laura Fair approached Alexander Parker Crittenden as he sat with his wife and three of his children on El...

03.04.2025 1

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Nicholas Clairmont

My career avoiding giving career advice

A young friend of mine called me up the other day. He is in the venture capital business and feels he has reached what young people call “a career...

03.04.2025 2

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Nicholas Clairmont

John McWhorter’s preferred pronouns

“To mess with our pronouns is to mess with our sense of the order of things, what’s up and what’s down — life itself,” the Columbia University...

03.04.2025 2

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Jesse Adams

Congress must take back the tariff power

This publication has for years urged Congress to take back the authority over tariffs that it needlessly delegated to the executive branch. Some...

03.04.2025 20

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Nicholas Clairmont

The Biden dam breaks

THE BIDEN DAM BREAKS. During much of the last administration, and especially in its final year, the president of the United States suffered serious...

03.04.2025 30

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Ron York