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Reclaiming Affordability: Reasonable cost of living is on women’s minds. Here’s how to deliver it

Reclaiming Affordability: Reasonable cost of living is on women’s minds. Here’s how to deliver it

“Reclaiming Affordability” is an op-ed series in partnership between the Independent Women and the Washington Examiner. Each day this week, a...

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Kamryn crane

Trump went to war with Iran alone — now he wants company

Trump went to war with Iran alone — now he wants company

On the morning of Feb. 28, the United States and Israel launched Operation Epic Fury against Iran, killing supreme leader Ali Khamenei and several...

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Jay Caruso

Energy affordability demands an ‘all of the above’ strategy

Energy affordability demands an ‘all of the above’ strategy

On the banks of the Hudson River in Buchanan, New York, the Indian Point Energy Center once stood as one of the most important pieces of the state’s...

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Rep. mike lawler

What the CPAC straw poll says

What the CPAC straw poll says

WHAT THE CPAC STRAW POLL SAYS. The Conservative Political Action Conference finished up its convention this weekend in Dallas with the traditional...

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Byron York

The Strait of Hormuz’s bitter lesson for the European Union

The Strait of Hormuz’s bitter lesson for the European Union

The crisis in the Strait of Hormuz reveals a truth that many European policymakers have ignored: Humanity remains structurally dependent on oil. This...

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Samuel furfari

Democrats keep choosing illegal immigrants over Americans

Democrats keep choosing illegal immigrants over Americans

Senate Democrats failed last week in their effort to end the Department of Homeland Security’s ability to arrest, detain, and deport illegal...

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Washington Examiner

Virginia Democrats turn themselves into pretzels to ‘stop Donald Trump’ with gerrymander

Virginia Democrats turn themselves into pretzels to ‘stop Donald Trump’ with gerrymander

Today’s Democrats hate President Donald Trump so much that they’re willing to abandon long-held positions and twist themselves into pretzels in...

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Jenny Beth Martin

Trump must not abandon Gulf allies to Iranian hegemony

Trump must not abandon Gulf allies to Iranian hegemony

If President Donald Trump backs down at this point in the war, it will leave the Gulf States to face a more radicalized and dangerous Iran seeking to...

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Bradley Martin

Trump is quietly solving America’s healthcare crisis. Here’s how

Trump is quietly solving America’s healthcare crisis. Here’s how

Medicare and Medicaid will devour more than a third of federal government spending within a decade. Republicans take a beating every time they try to...

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Chet Love

Reconciliation is the only path to defunding abortion providers again

Reconciliation is the only path to defunding abortion providers again

Congressional budget reconciliation proved an effective vehicle to achieve a first-of-its-kind victory for taxpayers in restricting the...

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John Mize

Democrats can’t quit their clean-energy-only agenda

Democrats can’t quit their clean-energy-only agenda

Wisely sensing a political opening with gasoline prices up by more than $1 per gallon since the start of the Iran war, Senate Minority Leader Chuck...

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Washington Examiner

Greg Abbott gets it: The Constitution isn’t a shield to protect radical Islamists

Greg Abbott gets it: The Constitution isn’t a shield to protect radical Islamists

Should Texas taxpayers be forced to fund institutions with connections to radical Islamist networks? They will if certain activist groups have their...

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Mandy drogin

Trump closed one of China’s trade loopholes. Now it’s time to finish the job

Trump closed one of China’s trade loopholes. Now it’s time to finish the job

For decades, China has found the loopholes in the U.S.’s economic system and exploited them to the hilt. This is true in technology, finance, and...

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Jason Chaffetz, Opinion Contributor  

The messenger is the message in Iran’s Islamabad talks

The messenger is the message in Iran’s Islamabad talks

The reported shift in diplomatic activity toward Islamabad marks a critical inflection point in the U.S.-Iranian conflict. In a post-strike Tehran,...

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Ron maccammon

This is not Israel’s war. Iran campaign benefits America and the world

This is not Israel’s war. Iran campaign benefits America and the world

A strain of commentary, prevalent on both the isolationist right and the anti-interventionist left, insists on framing the military campaign against...

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Ani Chkhikvadze

The Left’s moral posturing meets its match in Iran

The Left’s moral posturing meets its match in Iran

Progressive outrage over U.S.-Israeli military strikes against the Iranian regime could not be more revealing. As Iranians celebrated in the streets...

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Madeline Alfonso

Hostile powers have too much influence in American classrooms

Hostile powers have too much influence in American classrooms

Hostile powers have undue influence in U.S. classrooms. The United States must do more to prevent adversaries from spreading poisonous ideologies in...

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Washington Examiner

Marco Rubio should set his sights on 2032

Marco Rubio should set his sights on 2032

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has been a workhorse for President Donald Trump and a steady hand in a volatile global landscape, serving as a rare...

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Steven Taff

Don’t believe the pundits: Iran is a strategic loss for Russia

Don’t believe the pundits: Iran is a strategic loss for Russia

A class of foreign policy commentators has spent the better part of four years insisting that Russia was winning in Ukraine, that Kyiv’s cause was...

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Ani Chkhikvadze

Syracuse University shows that college wokeness is not dead

Syracuse University shows that college wokeness is not dead

Despite much progress, university wokeness is not dead. Syracuse University effectively accusing its men’s lacrosse team of glorifying genocide is...

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Zachary Faria

On This Day: British fleet leaves Boston, destination unknown

On This Day: British fleet leaves Boston, destination unknown

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

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Salena Zito

Congress wants to protect kids online. Its solution makes them more vulnerable

Congress wants to protect kids online. Its solution makes them more vulnerable

Congress, once again, is at risk of letting good intentions lead to policy that is both ineffective and almost certain to bring unintended...

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Benjamin Ayanian

Big Tech’s patent battering ram isn’t lowering drug prices

Big Tech’s patent battering ram isn’t lowering drug prices

Big Tech and its newfound allies are adopting a novel line of attack in their war against the patent system. These days, they’re latching on to...

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James Edwards

The FTC’s war on low prices isn’t over yet

The FTC’s war on low prices isn’t over yet

Congressional Republicans have been laboring for the past 14 months to undo the damage former President Joe Biden inflicted on the U.S. economy....

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John Pierce

Wealth taxes threaten to cripple charitable giving

Wealth taxes threaten to cripple charitable giving

Ahead of the 2026 elections, a swath of Democrats in office and on the campaign trail are trying to curry favor with voters by calling for wealth...

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Casey Given

Are Chinese drone operators buried under the rubble in Iran?

Are Chinese drone operators buried under the rubble in Iran?

The Islamic Republic of Iran is getting by with a little help from its friends. Moscow has played a significant role in boosting Tehran. But so too...

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Sean Durns

A great opportunity in the midst of Iran oil crisis

A great opportunity in the midst of Iran oil crisis

Albert Einstein is purported to have said, “In the midst of every crisis, lies great opportunity.” While Einstein’s brilliant intellect is...

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Michael Schwartz

It’s easy for noncitizens to vote in many states. Here’s proof

It’s easy for noncitizens to vote in many states. Here’s proof

Liberal pundits and Democrats in Congress claim that the U.S.’s elections are secure, that it is extremely difficult for noncitizens to vote, and...

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Justin Haskins, Opinion Contributor

Ask a stupid gotcha question

Ask a stupid gotcha question

Sometimes it’s hard to know if a reporter’s question comes from an antagonist lamely trying to expose supposed hypocrisy in President Donald Trump...

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Hugo Gurdon

The signal and the noise

The signal and the noise

Generals always prepare to fight the last war. So do armchair generals. Most commentators on the American-Israeli war with Iran see the conflict...

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Dominic Green

Capitalism, modified, in a conservative town

Capitalism, modified, in a conservative town

BLUFFTON, Ind. — There are no hotels in Bluffton, population 10,308. So ahead of my visit, I wrote to Kathy Gardner, proprietress of the Washington...

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Timothy P. Carney

The government can’t be trusted to secure airport safety, so we might as well privatize the TSA

The government can’t be trusted to secure airport safety, so we might as well privatize the TSA

The Democratic Party’s shutdown of the bulk of the Department of Homeland Security is now the second-longest funding gap in history. It’s delaying...

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Tiana Lowe Doescher

How Congress can deliver healthcare affordability and mitigate Inflation Reduction Act disaster

How Congress can deliver healthcare affordability and mitigate Inflation Reduction Act disaster

A little over a year into President Donald Trump’s second term, the economy is strong. Core inflation is down to the lowest point in years, and real...

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Joe Grogan

American Story’s whitewashed fiction of the Kennedy family

American Story’s whitewashed fiction of the Kennedy family

With the fifth installment of his bingeable American Story anthology, Ryan Murphy has pulled off the impossible: he has managed to make one of his own...

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Tiana Lowe Doescher

For the Left, some lives are apparently more valuable than others

For the Left, some lives are apparently more valuable than others

Another young woman was murdered, allegedly by an illegal immigrant released into the country under the Biden administration. If the name Sheridan...

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Peter Cordi

March Madness lost Cinderella to the transfer portal

March Madness lost Cinderella to the transfer portal

Cinderella is dead, and the transfer portal killed her.  For the second year in a row, the Sweet 16 of the NCAA’s March Madness tournament is made...

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Conn Carroll

Babies and families should not be exotic

Babies and families should not be exotic

Go to London, and you’ll see Italian and Polish tourists losing their minds over the gray squirrels in Hyde Park. Some will express bafflement over...

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Timothy P. Carney

Two wives, two media standards

Two wives, two media standards

Have you heard about the scandal surrounding the social media footprint of Rama Duwaji, the wife of New York City’s left-wing Mayor Zohran...

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Guy Benson

Let Muslims pray in public

Let Muslims pray in public

One of the big cultural differences between Britain and the United States, alike in so many other ways, concerns the public status of religion. “I...

friday 10

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Dan Hannan

The Left’s Epstein war: Conspiracy theories gain ground among progressives

The Left’s Epstein war: Conspiracy theories gain ground among progressives

On Feb. 27, 2025, fifteen online MAGA influencers walked out of the West Wing holding white binders stamped “The Epstein Files: Phase 1.” Rogan...

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Jay Caruso

The road to the 2028 GOP nomination: Vance will be extremely difficult to beat, but someone will try

The road to the 2028 GOP nomination: Vance will be extremely difficult to beat, but someone will try

As soon as the networks declared Donald Trump the winner of the 2024 presidential election, attention shifted to 2028. Most of the focus so far has...

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Varad Mehta

Trotsky’s fatal conceit

Trotsky’s fatal conceit

On Aug. 20, 1940, the Bolshevik firebrand Lev Bronstein, better known by his nom de plume, Leon Trotsky, was viciously attacked in the study of his...

friday 9

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Carson Becker

The decline and fall of the information state (for now)

The decline and fall of the information state (for now)

For the most part, I relished my eight years as staff writer for Columbia University’s Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science. I...

friday 6

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Jesse Adams

In full Blume

In full Blume

Mark Oppenheimer is an unabashed Judy Blume fan. He admits that Blume’s language could be more vivid and her plots less predictable — Blume...

friday 10

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Diane Scharper

‘Paradise’ found

‘Paradise’ found

Hulu’s Paradise, currently wrapping up a fine second season after an Emmy-nominated first, is the most spoilable show on TV. Try as he might, even...

friday 10

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Graham Hillard

Lincoln lovers

Lincoln lovers

A friend of mine has a vintage Jaguar — a beautiful, impractical thing that he loves the way some men love boats, which is to say expensively and...

friday 10

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Rob Long

The cultural dominance of Chuck Norris

The cultural dominance of Chuck Norris

The amazing persistence of the legend of Chuck Norris, who died on March 19 at the age of 86, says something profound about American popular culture....

friday 10

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Peter Tonguette

Completed ‘Hail Mary’

Completed ‘Hail Mary’

Movies too often use outer space as nothing more than a convenient setting for battles, explosions, and laser fights. The fabulously entertaining...

friday 10

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Peter Tonguette

Diego Garcia is critical to American national security

Diego Garcia is critical to American national security

With the launch of two ballistic missiles at the United States and United Kingdom military base in Diego Garcia, in the Indian Ocean, Iran...

friday 10

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Washington Examiner

Who will go for us?

Who will go for us?

I was 20 years old when I asked my father if he thought I should enlist in the Army National Guard. My old man’s word was still law, so I was...

friday 9

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Trent Reedy