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...

yesterday 10

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,...

yesterday 10

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...

yesterday 10

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...

yesterday 10

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...

yesterday 10

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...

yesterday 10

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...

yesterday 10

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...

yesterday 10

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...

yesterday 10

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...

yesterday 10

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...

yesterday 10

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...

yesterday 4

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...

yesterday 4

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...

yesterday 3

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...

yesterday 2

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...

yesterday 2

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...

yesterday 2

Brady Leonard

California is the poster child for fraud and financial waste

yesterday 10

Salena Zito

On This Day: The Tory Act

yesterday 10

Salena Zito

Russia overextends its deception fetish with invented Ukrainian attack on Putin

yesterday 2

Salena Zito

California’s toxic empathy isn’t helping homeless drug addicts

yesterday 1

Salena Zito

Bernie Sanders can’t and won’t stop AI development, and that’s good

People are generating wealth, and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) wants to put a stop to it. First on social media and now on Sunday TV shows, Sanders...

yesterday 10

Conn Carroll

Celebrating Christ at Christmas is apparently right-wing

It’s slim pickings out there for the responsible progressive these days. What is he to do for a pastime without fear of becoming a right-winger? Is...

yesterday 10

Conn Carroll

An essayist who remembers

As you have begun to read this article, I will assume you are a reader. By this, I mean you regard reading creative works of literature as a good,...

yesterday 10

Hugo Gurdon

Streaming and social costs: Our souls are at stake in the Warner Bros. Discovery-Netflix deal

For the overwhelming majority of people whose families, jobs, and personal pursuits loom larger than the endless mergers and acquisitions in...

yesterday 10

Peter Tonguette

A sprawling history of Mexico

“Poor Mexico. So far from God, so close to the United States.” The famous words attributed to eight-term Mexican President Porfirio Díaz have often...

yesterday 10

Kyle Sammin

Salman Rushdie pulls up a chair

When S.M. Arthur, an honorary fellow of the University of Cambridge, wakes up to the realisation that he’s dead, as he does in “Late,” one of five...

yesterday 10

Gustav Jönsson

Is the GOP still the party of life? Hardly

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

previous day 10

Michael Barone

How Hegseth can reinforce military chaplains

George Washington founded the Army Chaplain Corps 250 years ago because he knew it was wrong to ask his troops to give the ultimate sacrifice while...

previous day 10

Amy Vitale

Five hopes for the new year

New Year’s Day is a celebration of the hope and promise of a fresh start. In that spirit, we have identified five goals that we hope will be...

previous day 10

Amy Vitale

Britain has become a warning to Americans

Any Brits reading will know that, until recently, we had a good thing going in the United States. We were widely held to be smarter, politer, and...

previous day 5

Dan Hannan

On immigration and citizenship, listen to George Washington

As news reports proliferate of multimillion-dollar — and possibly billion-dollar — fraudulent diversions of government funds involving Minnesota’s...

previous day 5

Michael Barone

In Pluribus, the apocalypse arrives with a smile

In the imaginative mind of Vince Gilligan, the end of the world does not arrive with flaming alien spacecraft or pulverized monuments, but with the...

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Ian Haworth

Trump acts in the Monroe Doctrine tradition

President Donald Trump is delivering increasingly robust U.S. policies against drug cartels and hostile regimes in Latin America. He has little...

wednesday 1

James Rogan

The Information State is the most important book of 2026

In March 2026, the most important political book of the last several years will be published. It’s called The Information State: Politics in the...

wednesday 5

James Rogan

Trump’s total control of the border is the success story of 2025

Two years ago this month, more than 300,000 illegal immigrants were stopped by Customs and Border Protection officers along the southwest border of...

wednesday 5

James Rogan

Don’t grant citizenship to people who hate their countrymen

It’s not enough that the United Kingdom is arresting people for social media posts, or that it is trying to erode the foundation of justice, or...

wednesday 30

Ian Haworth

A classical education revival hits the capital region

In the shadow of the nation’s capital, a growing number of Washington-area families are quietly rethinking where and how their children learn. From...

wednesday 8

Andrea Picciotti-Bayer

The US can help end the militarization of Ukrainian children

President Donald Trump and his team continue to push for peace in Ukraine. All signs indicate that Russia has zero interest in peace but is...

wednesday 20

Ian Haworth

The heart of Trump’s deportation push

THE HEART OF TRUMP’S DEPORTATION PUSH. You’ve probably heard commentators say that under President Donald Trump, Immigration and Customs...

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Ron York

To achieve peace in Ukraine, Trump has to face down Putin

We are gratified that President Donald Trump held what he described as a “terrific” meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at...

30.12.2025 6

Washington Examiner

The elimination of the penny shows signs of unforeseen costs

When President Donald Trump announced the discontinuation of the penny in February, responses ranged from a resounding “meh” to borderline...

30.12.2025 2

Washington Examiner

Rubio and Landau risk oversleeping on Somaliland opportunity

Perhaps the greatest legacy of President Donald Trump’s first term was ending the debate about whether China would be a cooperative power or...

30.12.2025 1

Michael Rubin

Russia invents Ukraine’s assassination attempt on Putin

Russia’s claim that Ukraine launched aerial attack drones at President Vladimir Putin’s Moscow residence follows a familiar pattern of false...

30.12.2025 6

Michael Rubin

Trump’s shock therapy for Europe

President Donald Trump’s national strategy document “upends” America’s long-standing policy toward European nations, which have been this country’s...

30.12.2025 8

Michael Rubin

China’s military is staring down the barrel of its gun

Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong stated that “political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.” Today, Communist China’s military power has...

30.12.2025 5

Michael Rubin

Nuclear waste is not an engineering problem. It’s a governance failure

As Japan takes the final steps toward restarting the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant, the world’s largest nuclear facility, familiar debates...

30.12.2025 9

Ron York

Trump can deliver these pro-life wins in 2026

From the One Big Beautiful Bill Act provision to defund Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers for one year to the Food and Drug...

30.12.2025 2

Ron York

Dave Chappelle is no bold truth teller

Dave Chappelle is clearly a brilliant storyteller. The comedian can weave a narrative that holds your attention and drop a punch line at just the...

30.12.2025 3

Ron York

How criminal justice reformers empower murderers

Criminal justice reform was peddled to voters as being about poor, underprivileged souls serving harsh sentences for smoking marijuana or some such...

30.12.2025 7

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Streaming broke television’s sense of time

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Happy cows come from Texas now

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No-rules college basketball

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Violence and ‘violence:’ What we should make of new campus data on speech

Varad Mehta

Ralph Lauren’s all-American cultural appropriation

Varad Mehta

Time must have a slop

Varad Mehta

Is a Korean reality show the last honest sport?

Oliver Bateman

Know (how to BS) thyself

Rob Long

Stranger Things is the Happy Days of the COVID-19 era

Jack Baruth

The Heritage Foundation’s former antisemitism task force after its split with the think tank

Melissa Langsam Braunstein

The Force adrift

Varad Mehta

The activism of Mr. Grinch

Hugo Gurdon

Trump’s all-in AI push is paying off handsomely, making up for his failed tariffs gamble at least somewhat

Hugo Gurdon

Electricity grid reliability at risk from bad government policies

Daren Bakst

The Right must learn discernment in 2026

Brady Leonard

The Left must quit its zero-sum thinking

Brady Leonard

Palmer Luckey is right to revel in China’s sanctions

Brady Leonard

California is the poster child for fraud and financial waste

Salena Zito

On This Day: The Tory Act

Salena Zito

Russia overextends its deception fetish with invented Ukrainian attack on Putin

Salena Zito

California’s toxic empathy isn’t helping homeless drug addicts

Salena Zito

Bernie Sanders can’t and won’t stop AI development, and that’s good

Conn Carroll

Celebrating Christ at Christmas is apparently right-wing

Conn Carroll

An essayist who remembers

Hugo Gurdon

Streaming and social costs: Our souls are at stake in the Warner Bros. Discovery-Netflix deal

Peter Tonguette

A sprawling history of Mexico

Kyle Sammin

Salman Rushdie pulls up a chair

Gustav Jönsson

Is the GOP still the party of life? Hardly

Michael Barone

How Hegseth can reinforce military chaplains

Amy Vitale

Five hopes for the new year

Amy Vitale

Britain has become a warning to Americans

Dan Hannan

On immigration and citizenship, listen to George Washington

Michael Barone

In Pluribus, the apocalypse arrives with a smile

Ian Haworth

Trump acts in the Monroe Doctrine tradition

James Rogan

The Information State is the most important book of 2026

James Rogan

Trump’s total control of the border is the success story of 2025

James Rogan

Don’t grant citizenship to people who hate their countrymen

Ian Haworth

A classical education revival hits the capital region

Andrea Picciotti-Bayer

The US can help end the militarization of Ukrainian children