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Carlos Lozada

Carlos Lozada

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The Verdict on Biden Is In

The Verdict on Biden Is In

Preliminary judgments on Joe Biden’s one-term presidency, including Jill Biden’s, are all the rage.

16.06.2026 10

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Stop Whining About Guardrails. Become One Yourself.

Let’s put the sovereign back Into popular sovereignty.

24.05.2026 20

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Stop Looking for an ‘Offramp’ in Iran. There’s No Such Thing.

And no, an exit strategy won’t help you, either.

15.05.2026 30

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The War That Is Way ‘Ahead of Schedule’

In Iran, the schedule is our most malleable illusion.

01.04.2026 20

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The U.S. Is No Longer the Leader of the Free World

Pax Americana, meet Lax Americana.

24.03.2026 70

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The Shields Are Down, Mr. President

Personnel once meant policy; now it means flattery.

27.02.2026 30

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An Elegy for My Washington Post

Seven governing principles still hang in the newsroom, but now as more reproach than reminder.

06.02.2026 70

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‘Melania’ the Book Was Bad. ‘Melania’ the Movie Is Somehow Worse.

The surface is all there is.

03.02.2026 60

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Trump’s Fantasies Are Killing Us

But being a “hot” country does not make you a good country. Or a decent one.

28.01.2026 150

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You Can’t Denaturalize Me

Is purging America of immigrants so crucial that in the process you must unmake America itself?

21.01.2026 30

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Trump Has a New Motto

What happens when America First becomes the Americas first?

08.01.2026 10

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How Did We Get to Such a Bad Question?

How did we get here? I don’t want to know.

01.01.2026 40

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Olivia Nuzzi, Karine Jean-Pierre and Eric Trump Have All Written the Same Book

A recent spate of books highlights the presence of a new category, one well suited to our time: the grievance memoir.

16.12.2025 30

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You Caught Me. I’m Speaking Spanish.

Spanish has become a sanctioned indicator of potential criminality in the United States of America.

20.10.2025 60

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Why Comey Should Not Have Been Indicted, According to Trump

The best case against indicting James Comey is the one the president made for firing him.

27.09.2025 20

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Kamala Harris Is Out of Time

“107 days” is not merely the duration of Harris’s campaign; it is also her excuse for losing the election.

20.09.2025 40

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What MAGA Lost When It Lost Charlie Kirk

His death makes it harder to look ahead and glimpse what MAGA will stand for.

12.09.2025 40

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Stop Calling It the Trump Era

The compulsion to zero in on the president keeps us from understanding the era fully, and from glimpsing what it might become.

09.09.2025 20

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How I Built My Ruthless Summer Reading List

Whichever books you choose, and however you choose them, may your summer reading be satisfying, and your curating ruthless.

07.08.2025 50

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My First America

When I was a teenager, a mostly forgotten series of novels taught me U.S. history. How would they read to me now?

01.07.2025 20

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How’s It Playing? POTUS Wants to Know.

Foreign policy by FOMO is not a sustainable strategy.

27.06.2025 20

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What I Learned About Trump’s Second Term by Reading His First 100 Executive Orders

Even with Republican congressional majorities, Trump favors the flourish of the order over the hassle of lawmaking.

01.04.2025 20

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