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Supreme Court must reject the indirect carbon tax

yesterday 10

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Andrew Gould

Which companies might be winners and losers in Venezuela?

yesterday 10

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Bethany Mandel

Will any Democrat condemn Mamdani’s Marxist tenant advocate?

yesterday 10

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Bethany Mandel

What the ‘Donroe Doctrine’ does and doesn’t mean

yesterday 20

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On this Jan. 6, remember the violence of 2020’s BLM riots

yesterday 10

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Brad Polumbo

Is Mohammed bin Salman an ally or adversary?

yesterday 5

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Michael Rubin

On This Day: Adams advises Washington on the defense of New York

yesterday 4

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Brad Polumbo

Venezuela’s downfall should be a wake-up call to fans of ‘democratic socialism’

yesterday 3

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Brad Polumbo

The Temple Mount post-Oct. 7: Where faith and politics collide

yesterday 3

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Bethany Mandel

Why Maduro’s capture is such a major crisis for Cuba

yesterday 4

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Bethany Mandel

European leaders fail the international law test on Venezuela

yesterday 4

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Bethany Mandel

Cuba is the big loser in Maduro’s capture

yesterday 4

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Sean Durns

How much will the US justify in the name of ‘narco-terrorism’?

yesterday 1

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Ron York

Jack Smith reveals Jan. 6 committee charade

yesterday 1

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Ron York

Venezuela: It all depends on the meaning of the word ‘run’

VENEZUELA: IT ALL DEPENDS ON THE MEANING OF THE WORD ‘RUN.’ There have been two parts to the political world’s reaction to the American...

previous day 10

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Ani Chkhikvadze

In Marty Supreme, Timothée Chalamet makes ambition look like destiny

previous day 10

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Gentry  Collins

The real ‘international law’ has always been that might makes right

Democrats and Europeans are wailing about “international law” after the U.S. capture of former Venezuelan dictator Nicholas Maduro. This should be...

previous day 5

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Zachary Faria

Will Trump make Cuba the next Haiti or Puerto Rico?

Like almost everything else in Havana, the old Tropicana hotel and casino seems frozen in time. When I visited Cuba two years ago, the hotel was...

previous day 6

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Zachary Faria

On This Day: Col. Henry Knox

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

previous day 4

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Zachary Faria

Ignore everything Trump says about Venezuela

previous day 7

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Gentry  Collins

Rugged individualism built the American Century. Collectivism could unmake it

previous day 4

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Gentry  Collins

Dave McCormick pens inaugural letter to Pennsylvania voters

previous day 2

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Gentry  Collins

California’s Palisades fire cover-up continues

Almost a full year after a fire in the Pacific Palisades burned more than 6,000 homes and killed 12 people, Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) still has not...

previous day 30

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Ani Chkhikvadze

Trump’s righteous warning to Iran’s leaders

President Donald Trump has warned Iran that the United States would come to the rescue of peaceful protesters if Iranian security forces killed...

previous day 10

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Ani Chkhikvadze

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”...

sunday 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...

sunday 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...

03.01.2026 10

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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...

03.01.2026 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...

03.01.2026 2

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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...

03.01.2026 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-...

03.01.2026 1

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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...

02.01.2026 1

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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...

02.01.2026 4

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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,...

02.01.2026 5

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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...

02.01.2026 1

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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...

02.01.2026 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...

02.01.2026 3

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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...

02.01.2026 1

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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...

02.01.2026 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...

02.01.2026 3

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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...

02.01.2026 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...

02.01.2026 5

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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...

02.01.2026 3

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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...

02.01.2026 1

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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...

02.01.2026 3

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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...

02.01.2026 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...

02.01.2026 1

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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...

02.01.2026 1

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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...

02.01.2026 1

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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...

02.01.2026 30

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Salena Zito