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Why is Trump yelling at us? End of year address utterly lacked human touch

Why is Trump yelling at us? End of year address utterly lacked human touch

On Wednesday night, President Donald Trump angrily shouted a cheerful speech about how well his administration is doing. The bizarre and...

yesterday 10

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Peter Laffin

AI should be a first-tier public policy issue

AI should be a first-tier public policy issue

In the current discourse on artificial intelligence, the interplay between expected consequences and understanding of social impacts demands a...

yesterday 6

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Sebastien Laye

Josh Shapiro should stop his lawfare against nuns

Josh Shapiro should stop his lawfare against nuns

Gov. Josh Shapiro (D-PA) really doesn’t like it when people accuse him of suing nuns. The solution here is simple: He should stop fighting nuns in...

yesterday 2

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Washington Examiner

Marty Makary must go

Marty Makary must go

A new report from the Society for Family Planning suggests that there are now somewhere between 130,000 and 150,000 abortions per year in states...

yesterday 2

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David Harsanyi

Legacy media ignored the border crisis. Will they wake up on public safety?

Legacy media ignored the border crisis. Will they wake up on public safety?

Sheriffs live with the real-world consequences of decisions made in Washington every day. We welcomed the depth of the New York Times’s recent...

yesterday 2

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David Harsanyi

Newsom acts like a king when it comes to the death penalty

Newsom acts like a king when it comes to the death penalty

The murder of Rob Reiner and his wife has revived discussion of the death penalty in California. Perhaps Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) can stop...

yesterday 1

Washington Examiner

Zachary Faria

Hollywood butchers Animal Farm

Hollywood butchers Animal Farm

One of my favorite possessions is a 50th anniversary copy of George Orwell’s 1945 novella, Animal Farm, with illustrations by Gonzo artist Ralph...

yesterday 2

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David Harsanyi

Will Democrats film a video about Biden DOJ illegal orders?

Will Democrats film a video about Biden DOJ illegal orders?

Congressional Democrats have portrayed themselves as arbiters of truth, defenders of morality, paragons of virtue, and every other benign assertion...

yesterday 2

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David Harsanyi

Questions of sovereignty, not neutrality, drive Russia’s war on Ukraine

Questions of sovereignty, not neutrality, drive Russia’s war on Ukraine

An old argument has returned to debates over the war in Ukraine: that Russia might not have invaded had Ukraine pledged to stay out of NATO. Amanda...

yesterday 2

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Ani Chkhikvadze

Real wages up 1.5% and core inflation at four-year low: A Christmas miracle for Trump?

Real wages up 1.5% and core inflation at four-year low: A Christmas miracle for Trump?

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

yesterday 0

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Zachary Faria

The objective of Trump’s drip-drip Venezuela strategy

The objective of Trump’s drip-drip Venezuela strategy

President Donald Trump is adopting a positive strategy toward removing Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro from power. By gradually escalating...

yesterday 0

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Zachary Faria

A farewell to Rob Reiner

A farewell to Rob Reiner

With the possible exception of John Hughes, it is difficult to think of a filmmaker who so thoroughly defined the texture, tone, and emotional...

yesterday 2

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David Harsanyi

We have reached the Emily Litella moment on climate change 

We have reached the Emily Litella moment on climate change 

It’s been a cold winter so far in the Midwest and much of the Northeast, early-in-the-season snow even in Washington, D.C., and temperatures...

previous day 2

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Michael Barone

The intifada, globalized

The intifada, globalized

You do not have to squint to see a pattern.  Sixteen Jews innocently celebrating Hanukkah are shot dead at Bondi Beach, Australia. The attackers...

previous day 1

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Hugo Gurdon

The road to Venezuela runs through Cuba

The road to Venezuela runs through Cuba

U.S. forces continue to ramp up their presence in the Caribbean. The USS Gerald R. Ford, the nation’s largest and most advanced aircraft carrier,...

previous day 2

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Hugo Gurdon

Kevin Warsh would be an excellent Fed governor

Kevin Warsh would be an excellent Fed governor

Last week, President Donald Trump said, “I think the two Kevins are great.” Trump was referring to Kevin Warsh, a former governor of the Federal...

previous day 1

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Hugo Gurdon

Good, bad, and ugly jobs report

The top-line numbers of the jobs report released Tuesday are mixed. The 64,000 jobs added in November beat the 40,000 expected, but they came on...

previous day 2

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Hugo Gurdon

Debunking gun-related conspiracy theories

Debunking gun-related conspiracy theories

“Gun guys” (and gals) across the country can be reliably found rolling their eyes when leftist politicians fearmonger about firearms....

previous day 2

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Brady Leonard

Did you know that Mark Kelly served 25 years in the US Navy?

Did you know that Mark Kelly served 25 years in the US Navy?

Did you know that Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) served 25 years in the U.S. Navy? If you’ve been paying attention to the controversy surrounding the...

previous day 2

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Brady Leonard

Safer highways start with enforcement of training standards

Safer highways start with enforcement of training standards

Highway safety is a basic assurance every American relies on each time they merge onto an interstate. But that trust has been shaken, as recent...

previous day 2

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Brady Leonard

Jimmy Lai is a living martyr 

Jimmy Lai is a living martyr 

Guilty. The verdict is not a surprise. No one actually expected the Chinese Communist Party to acquit Jimmy Lai. That would be to admit that it was...

previous day 2

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Zachary Faria

New York slides down Canada’s slippery assisted suicide slope

New York slides down Canada’s slippery assisted suicide slope

Canada’s assisted suicide regime has devolved into doctors and the government encouraging people with non-terminal diseases or injuries to kill...

previous day 2

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Zachary Faria

Are Democrats getting desperate about Epstein?

Are Democrats getting desperate about Epstein?

ARE DEMOCRATS GETTING DESPERATE ABOUT EPSTEIN? For months now, disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein has been the Democratic Party’s go-to subject...

tuesday 3

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Ron York

Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery treats faith with unexpected seriousness

Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery treats faith with unexpected seriousness

Sometimes, the old maxim holds true: The third time really is the charm. With Wake Up Dead Man, filmmaker Rian Johnson delivers the strongest and...

tuesday 3

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Ron York

The lesson of Bondi Beach

The lesson of Bondi Beach

The murder of 16 people at a Hanukkah celebration at Sydney‘s Bondi Beach was not the only violence committed by Islamists last weekend. An ISIS...

tuesday 1

Washington Examiner

Washington Examiner

After Australia, will Jewish people in France, Norway, Turkey, and Ireland be next?

After Australia, will Jewish people in France, Norway, Turkey, and Ireland be next?

The tragedy of the Bondi Beach massacre of Australian Jewish people celebrating Hanukkah is that it is the tragedy everyone saw coming. Some Jews...

tuesday 2

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Michael Rubin

HSAs can shift power to patients. Transparency must come first

HSAs can shift power to patients. Transparency must come first

The longest government shutdown in history ended on Nov. 12, 2025, 43 days after the Democrats first refused to vote to fund the government based...

tuesday 2

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Monique Yohanan

Never, ever give up your guns

Never, ever give up your guns

After the Port Arthur mass shooting of 1996, during which 35 people were murdered and 23 wounded in the deadliest massacre in modern Australian...

tuesday 1

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Monique Yohanan

Europe’s ‘digital sovereignty’ is an attack against US innovators

Europe’s ‘digital sovereignty’ is an attack against US innovators

U.S. Trade Representative Jameison Greer and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick traveled to Brussels recently to meet with their counterparts to...

tuesday 1

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Monique Yohanan

Democrats live in a two-state solution fantasy world

Democrats live in a two-state solution fantasy world

Democrats continue to live in a fantastical world where they claim they do not want Hamas in power in Gaza but oppose any and all measures of...

tuesday 2

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Zachary Faria

Welcome to the global intifada

Welcome to the global intifada

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

tuesday 3

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Zachary Faria

Palestinian propaganda has globalized the intifada

Palestinian propaganda has globalized the intifada

There was a flurry of antisemitic and Islamist attacks and thwarted attacks across the world at the start of Hanukkah. It comes after people spent...

15.12.2025 10

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Zachary Faria

Why Democrats may be structurally screwed

Why Democrats may be structurally screwed

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

15.12.2025 5

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Sarah Bedford

Trump’s deranged statement gives Rob Reiner the last laugh

Trump’s deranged statement gives Rob Reiner the last laugh

In light of the horrific news of Hollywood legend Rob Reiner’s tragic murder at the alleged hands of his son and President Donald Trump’s equally...

15.12.2025 6

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Zachary Faria

Don’t reverse progress on deficits with new spending

Don’t reverse progress on deficits with new spending

The U.S. government spent $173 billion more than it collected in revenues in November. But as bad as that sounds and is, it is nevertheless better...

15.12.2025 1

Washington Examiner

Washington Examiner

Democrats blame guns, not evil, for Bondi Beach and Brown University shootings

Democrats blame guns, not evil, for Bondi Beach and Brown University shootings

The United States and Australia suffered horrific mass shootings over the weekend. First, a gunman at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island,...

15.12.2025 10

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Peter Laffin

Reclassifying marijuana will not make America great again

Many decisions should not be based solely on the influx of money. The possible reclassification of marijuana is one of those decisions. It has been...

15.12.2025 2

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Christopher Tremoglie

How Democrats ‘Jacked’ up the justice system

How Democrats ‘Jacked’ up the justice system

For four years under former President Joe Biden, Americans witnessed the Department of Justice‘s fall from a respected pillar of our democracy to...

15.12.2025 1

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Christopher Tremoglie

Partisan pundits are wrong. Trump is keeping his promise on Social Security

Partisan pundits are wrong. Trump is keeping his promise on Social Security

At the Social Security Administration , we meet Americans at life’s turning points. Whether retiring, dealing with the loss of a loved one, or...

15.12.2025 2

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Christopher Tremoglie

Trump is right to demand social media details for foreign tourists

Trump is right to demand social media details for foreign tourists

The Department of Homeland Security announced last week that foreign visitors seeking entry through the United States’s visa waiver program...

15.12.2025 3

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Christopher Tremoglie

What I found in Hamas’s internal documents

What I found in Hamas’s internal documents

Hamas‘s rule over Gaza since 2007 has been marked by the exploitation of its civilian population and abuse of humanitarian aid mechanisms. Now, led...

15.12.2025 2

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Christopher Tremoglie

The miracle of Hanukkah lives on

The miracle of Hanukkah lives on

Hanukkah has always been my favorite holiday. It arrives at the darkest time of year, yet it brings with it so much light. The entire Hebrew month...

15.12.2025 1

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Jamie Geller

An active, engaging, and honest National Security Strategy

An active, engaging, and honest National Security Strategy

Sometimes, what a troubled relationship needs more than anything else is honesty. That is what President Donald Trump‘s 2025 National Security...

14.12.2025 1

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Washington Examiner