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Here’s what America owes Mahmoud Khalil: absolutely nothing

The fact that Mahmoud Khalil can’t condemn Hamas tells us not only that he deserves to be deported, but that it’s imperative we deport him.

thursday 6

New York Post

David Harsanyi

America owes Mahmoud Khalil nothing

America owes Mahmoud Khalil nothing

Pro-terrorist activist Mahmoud Khalil was asked by CNN the other day if he would condemn Hamas. He, of course, would not, calling the question...

07.10.2026 5

Washington Examiner

David Harsanyi

The good news on federal workers you probably never heard about

The federal government has reduced its workforce by 300,000 jobs since Jan. 20, 2025, bringing it down to a still-bulky 2.7 million employees.

02.10.2026 8

New York Post

David Harsanyi

A leaner federal workforce is a win for taxpayers

A leaner federal workforce is a win for taxpayers

One of the most unheralded policy successes of President Donald Trump’s second term has been the purging of many unnecessary federal jobs. The...

01.10.2026 5

Washington Examiner

David Harsanyi

Why Abdul El-Sayed refuses to condemn Iran’s Revolutionary Guard thugs

Iman Dashti, a Michigan University student, confronted Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed this week about his habitual whitewashing and...

25.09.2026 10

New York Post

David Harsanyi

There is no lynching epidemic in the US

This week, police arrested a second man in connection to the death of 29-year-old Tasia Fortune, whose body was found hanging behind an abandoned...

23.09.2026 8

Washington Examiner

David Harsanyi

Nativist nimrods like Texas’ Bo French reject the immigrants we all should welcome

A growing contingent of the new right, like the identitarians of the left, craves its own affirmative action.

17.09.2026 10

New York Post

David Harsanyi

If Israel’s war in Gaza is ‘genocide,’ so is every modern war ever fought

The word “genocide” is thrown around by Israel-haters to conjure up Nazi imagery for credulous Western leftists. That’s the beginning and end of...

16.09.2026 10

Washington Examiner

David Harsanyi

Memo to Vance & GOP: You’ll never outspend the left — so stop trying

Last week, the Trump administration floated the idea of redirecting federal child-care aid so low-income married stay-at-home parents could get a...

14.09.2026 20

New York Post

David Harsanyi

The case against AI hysteria

Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon caused a big stir this week after quitting his job over fears that artificial intelligence may lead to the end of...

09.09.2026 10

Washington Examiner

David Harsanyi

We Spend a Lot More on Welfare Than Bombs. That’s a Problem.

The other day, New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani told Qatari state media that the United States was “spending tens of billions of dollars on killing...

09.09.2026 10

The Daily Signal

David Harsanyi

Mamdani’s hit on US military is economic idiocy — here’s the truth

Do the math, Zo: The United States spends immense amounts of money feeding and caring for the poor — far more than it does on war.

07.09.2026 10

New York Post

David Harsanyi

The ‘Gaza Genocide’ Is a Hoax

In May 2025, Tom Fletcher, the United Nations under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs, went on BBC Radio and told the audience that 14,000...

06.09.2026 7

The Daily Signal

David Harsanyi

Evidence doesn’t point to a genocide in Gaza — despite all of the rage

A UNICEF survey found Gaza's acute malnutrition rate was just 0.5%, debunking widespread media and UN claims of an impending famine.

02.09.2026 10

New York Post

David Harsanyi

No, Democrats haven’t distanced themselves from Hasan Piker

A string of news stories informs us that Democrats have “distanced themselves” from America-hating Mao-loving antisemitic terrorist-cheerleader...

31.08.2026 8

Washington Examiner

David Harsanyi

The damage 9/11 did to our country

On Sept. 10, 2001, I was working in the newly refurbished Chelsea Market on 9th Avenue and 115th Street in Manhattan. In another life, the building...

28.08.2026 20

Washington Examiner

David Harsanyi

Forcing the Washington Post to rehire Karen Attiah is a victory for unions, not free speech

There’s nothing a union loves more than an incompetent worker.  The New York Times informs us that a private arbitrator sided with the...

25.08.2026 10

Washington Examiner

David Harsanyi

Mamdani Marts will offer real-time Econ 101 lessons

One of the upsides of New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s $70 million state-run supermarket project is that it allows rational Americans to watch...

05.08.2026 10

Washington Examiner

David Harsanyi

Look at the data, doom-and-gloomers — food costs aren’t what you think

Critics on the left and the right alike claim "unaffordable" food prices are the crisis of our time — but the data shows they’re all wrong.

05.08.2026 20

New York Post

David Harsanyi

Fauci’s cowardly Fifth Amendment evasion

There’s nothing inherently wrong with invoking the Fifth Amendment. The perception that anyone who pleads the Fifth to protect themselves from...

29.07.2026 10

Washington Examiner

David Harsanyi

Data-center debate has one winning argument: sheer panic — and it will backfire

The voices against data centers are the same Luddites who’ve spread environmental apocalypticism to stop modernization projects like pipelines and...

19.07.2026 10

New York Post

David Harsanyi

Quit whining, AOC: Gen Z should THANK Boomers for what they’re leaving behind

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says she knows why socialism is on the rise: Blame it on the Boomers.

13.07.2026 30

New York Post

David Harsanyi

Evil Charlie Kirk conspiracy theories finally wither in court — but that still won’t crush the Candace Owens-like grift

The pre-trial hearing for Charlie Kirk's alleged assassin is collapsing the madness of podcast grifters like Candace Owens in real time — but the...

09.07.2026 20

New York Post

David Harsanyi

What young people don’t understand about America and its wars

Welcome to history.

03.07.2026 20

New York Post

David Harsanyi

Nationwide, Democrats elect and embrace socialists who hate America

Democratic Socialists of America candidates are no longer relegated to dense urban areas on the East and West coasts.

01.07.2026 20

New York Post

David Harsanyi

Dems’ ‘big tent’ excuse will lead to their doom — and maybe the country’s too

The Zohran Mamdani slate that swept New York’s Democratic Party primaries this week is explicit in its aim to dismantle the republic.

26.06.2026 20

New York Post

David Harsanyi

Trump’s Iran deal secrecy was atrocious — and Vance’s dodging made it worse

It’s disgraceful that the administration was taking direction from the radical clerics of Iran on the “right way” to share a “peace...

17.06.2026 20

New York Post

David Harsanyi

Vance’s scandalous excuse for not showing the Iran deal to the people

17.06.2026 20

Washington Examiner

David Harsanyi

Graham Platner’s brain-dead baloney is the REAL scandal

Graham Platner is the embodiment of performative left-wing populism, whose empty rhetoric makes former Vice President Kamala Harris sound weighty by...

11.06.2026 10

New York Post

David Harsanyi

Even without his controversies, Graham Platner is just a lightweight extremist

10.06.2026 20

Washington Examiner

David Harsanyi

The Southern Poverty Law Center’s long-running scam is getting even shadier

It turns out the SPLC's true objective hasn't been civil rights, but destroying the reputations of legitimate groups that have absolutely nothing to...

08.06.2026 60

New York Post

David Harsanyi

Ignore Candace Owens. Putin’s Russia is a failing kleptocracy

03.06.2026 20

Washington Examiner

David Harsanyi

Just what do lefties like Graham Platner have to do to get Democrats to condemn them?

There’s virtually nothing a left-wing candidate could say or do that would elicit condemnation from Democrats if doing so threatened their power.

01.06.2026 40

New York Post

David Harsanyi

Abdul El Sayed ‘struggles’ with the Jewish state’s right to exist. Let me explain

27.05.2026 20

Washington Examiner

David Harsanyi

Jeff Bezos gets taxes right — and very, very wrong

Even if the rich can afford high taxes, it’s unhealthy and unstable for a country to rely on a sliver of people to prop up the entire government.

25.05.2026 40

New York Post

David Harsanyi

Republicans are better than Democrats at keeping bigots out of the party — but for how long?

21.05.2026 20

Washington Examiner

David Harsanyi

Dems’ idiotic rhetoric on courts reveals what they’re really after

In any other age, vocalizing illiterate nonsense about our system of governance might be an embarrassing career-ending flub. Today, it’s the norm...

18.05.2026 50

New York Post

David Harsanyi

Nick Kristof’s grotesque journalistic malpractice

12.05.2026 30

Washington Examiner

David Harsanyi

European arrogance treats NATO as a one-way partnership

Europe's NATO members exhibit a haughty detachment from American interests, demanding help but rarely offering any.

08.05.2026 20

New York Post

David Harsanyi

Of course we should be deporting America-hating noncitizens

01.05.2026 30

Washington Examiner

David Harsanyi

Democrats’ leftist takeover is complete with Graham Platner’s rise in Maine US Senate race

There’s virtually nothing a leftist can say or do that's disqualifying in today’s Democratic Party.

01.05.2026 20

New York Post

David Harsanyi

What would it take for Democrats to abandon a progressive candidate?

30.04.2026 20

Washington Examiner

David Harsanyi

The scourge of left-wing violence isn’t new. It’s only going to get worse

28.04.2026 20

Washington Examiner

David Harsanyi

The Founding Fathers tried to save us from Abigail Spanberger’s greedy Virginia power grab

We're inching closer to a true constitutional crisis as blue states — now including Virginia — try to force popular-vote presidential contests on...

23.04.2026 30

New York Post

David Harsanyi

Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Tehran)

21.04.2026 30

Washington Examiner

David Harsanyi

Mamdani’s folly: capitalists have already solved the grocery problem

New Yorkers should demand their government work with the efficiency of a supermarket, not the other way around.

17.04.2026 30

New York Post

David Harsanyi

The lesson behind Argentina’s miracle recovery — after rolling back socialism

Capitalism remains undefeated. In 2023, over 100 leading economists from around the world, including progressive darling Thomas Piketty, signed a...

13.04.2026 40

New York Post

David Harsanyi

Abigail Spanberger’s terrible gamble

Gov. Abigail Spanberger (D-VA) may be an intellectual lightweight with the charisma of a room-temperature cucumber, but that’s never stopped a...

07.04.2026 30

Washington Examiner

David Harsanyi

Democrats’ new AIPAC obsession shows exactly why it’s needed

California gubernatorial candidate Tom Steyer says the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, or AIPAC, “is a dark money organization that should...

05.04.2026 50

New York Post

David Harsanyi

Trump’s Iran plan puts Obama’s cowardly nuke deal to shame

We know what a “good deal” with Iran looks like: more or less everything former President Barack Obama’s Iran deal wasn’t.

27.03.2026 50

New York Post

David Harsanyi