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Why John Brennan Belongs in Prison

Former CIA Director John Brennan is one of the most contemptible and shady people in public life. Few people have abused their position, power, and......

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The Daily Signal

David Harsanyi

Lying ex-CIA head John Brennan belongs in prison — but I’ll settle for eternal shame

Few people in American public life have abused their position, power and access with such impunity and hubris.

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New York Post

David Harsanyi

Trump Learned the Lessons of Iraq

President Donald Trump has finally moved the United States past the traumas of the Iraq War. With the bombing of Iranian nuclear facilities in...

28.06.2025 10

The Daily Signal

David Harsanyi

With Iran strike, Trump broke the spell of Iraq — and reset US foreign policy

The failures of a foreign technocratic nation-building project turned many Americans into cynics and panic-mongers. Trump reminded them that a...

27.06.2025 10

New York Post

David Harsanyi

Israel’s war with Iran was a historic success

25.06.2025 10

Washington Examiner

David Harsanyi

The ‘Regime Change’ Fallacy

MAGA celebrity Charlie Kirk, attempting to balance support for the administration and appeal to online isolationists, maintains that the “regime...

21.06.2025 3

The Daily Signal

David Harsanyi

Don’t fall for ‘regime change’ myths — US power is a force for good

The ideological overcorrection after the failures of Iraq mean that non-interventionists, both left and right, simply can't fathom that exertion of...

20.06.2025 7

New York Post

David Harsanyi

Greta Thunberg, Useful Idiot for Hamas

Professional leftist Greta Thunberg was brought to Israel this week after the “selfie yacht” she was traveling on attempted to break through a...

14.06.2025 3

The Daily Signal

David Harsanyi

Greta Thunberg’s a vapid leftist — and a useful idiot for terror

We live in a time where empty emotionalism is often confused with decency and wisdom. Greta Thunberg is the embodiment of this trend.

13.06.2025 20

New York Post

David Harsanyi

No, Gavin Newsom, the LA riots are nothing like Philadelphia Eagles celebrations

10.06.2025 4

Washington Examiner

David Harsanyi

Los Angeles riots — violent disorder organized by the revolutionary Left

10.06.2025 9

Washington Examiner

David Harsanyi

Greta Thunberg is the embodiment of progressive vapidity

10.06.2025 2

Washington Examiner

David Harsanyi

How the media tore down Britney Spears

10.06.2025 4

Washington Examiner

David Harsanyi

The NCAA arms race is about to get chaotic

10.06.2025 2

Washington Examiner

David Harsanyi

Democrats rationalize lawlessness in Los Angeles

10.06.2025 10

Washington Examiner

David Harsanyi

Sooner or later AR-15 bans will be found unconstitutional 

04.06.2025 3

Washington Examiner

David Harsanyi

We Have No Constitutional or Moral Duty to Subsidize Harvard

Do taxpayers have a constitutional duty to bankroll Harvard University? On MSNBC, David French argued that the Trump administration’s defunding of...

31.05.2025 10

The Daily Signal

David Harsanyi

Harvard’s bogus ‘free speech’ claim — 1st Amendment doesn’t make taxpayers cough up cash

Harvard is howling after President Trump turned off its federal money spigot — but giving the university $3 billion was an executive-branch choice.

29.05.2025 6

New York Post

David Harsanyi

Welcome to the Intifada, America

28.05.2025 10

Townhall

David Harsanyi

Welcome to the Intifada, America

Now we know what “globalize the intifada” means. After a pro-Palestinian Marxist was arrested after shooting and killing Yaron Lischinsky, a...

24.05.2025 20

The Daily Signal

David Harsanyi

Intifada hit US at DC Jewish Museum — fueled by slanderous hate

Reality doesn't matter to the "Free Palestine" crowd: the terrorist who shot and killed two Israeli embassy workers was acting on a blood libel that's...

24.05.2025 50

New York Post

David Harsanyi

Scapegoating Joe Biden Isn’t Going to Solve the Democratic Party’s Problems

“We got so screwed by Biden, as a party,” former Barack Obama adviser David Plouffe is quoted saying in a New Yorker excerpt from Jake... Read...

17.05.2025 4

The Daily Signal

David Harsanyi

Democrats are delusional to blame Biden for their election mess

Now that they've admitted the truth about Joe Biden's mental decline, Democrats are rushing to pin their party's troubles on him.

16.05.2025 20

New York Post

David Harsanyi

The Pulitzer Prizes Have Become a Sad Joke

Last week, Mosab Abu Toha, a Hamas apologist and serial fabricator who vilified female Israeli hostages and justified their kidnapping on Oct. 7, won...

10.05.2025 4

The Daily Signal

David Harsanyi

Hate and hackery: How the Pulitzer Prize destroyed itself

This week Mosab Abu Toha, a Hamas apologist and serial fabricator who vilified female Israeli hostages and justified their kidnapping on Oct. 7, won...

09.05.2025 20

New York Post

David Harsanyi

The case for defunding NPR and PBS is about a lot more than bias

06.05.2025 20

Washington Examiner

David Harsanyi

How Do You Do, Fellow White People? Tim Walz Says Hello!

Former vice-presidential candidate Tim Walz recently told an audience at Harvard’s Kennedy School that former Vice President Kamala Harris chose him...

04.05.2025 10

The Daily Signal

David Harsanyi

Tim Walz’s goofy ‘revelation’ speaks volumes about Democrats’ identity-politics fixation

Former vice presidential candidate Tim Walz recently told an audience at Harvard’s Kennedy School that former Vice President Kamala Harris chose...

02.05.2025 4

New York Post

David Harsanyi

Tariffs, not transparency, are the ‘hostile act’

30.04.2025 20

Washington Examiner

David Harsanyi

Supreme surprise: Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson accidentally came out — for school choice

In Supreme Court oral arguments, she said parents have a “choice” to protect young kids from sexually themed books: “You don’t have to send...

27.04.2025 8

New York Post

David Harsanyi

Ketanji Brown Jackson Makes a Powerful Argument for School Choice

During oral arguments in the case of Mahmoud v. Taylor, Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson unintentionally made a practical and convincing...

26.04.2025 4

The Daily Signal

David Harsanyi

Effective altruism creeps up on the uncommitted

24.04.2025 4

Washington Examiner

David Harsanyi

Is there any hope of a nonpartisan future for our planet?

24.04.2025 4

Washington Examiner

David Harsanyi

The American History Museum: An exhibition for DEI

24.04.2025 4

Washington Examiner

David Harsanyi

So Abrego Garcia is just like Jesus now?

24.04.2025 3

Washington Examiner

David Harsanyi

Ketanji Brown Jackson makes a powerful argument for school choice

24.04.2025 3

Washington Examiner

David Harsanyi

Smug experts shattered our trust — now ‘charlatans and cranks’ fill the void

We learned the wrong lessons from the COVID-era cratering of trust in experts and authority: now we're filling the credibility gap with fakers and...

18.04.2025 30

New York Post

David Harsanyi

The Left’s Imaginary COVID-19 ‘Reckoning’

When I first came across Jonathan Chait’s new Atlantic piece, “Why the COVID Reckoning Is So One-Sided,” I assumed the answer would be that...

01.04.2025 10

The Daily Signal

David Harsanyi

Democrats still won’t admit the toll of their COVID hysteria

The fearmongering and statism leftists applied to the pandemic mirrors their reaction to virtually every other issue — and is a big reason why Dems...

30.03.2025 60

New York Post

David Harsanyi

Elon’s Fox interview reassures Americans that DOGE knows what it’s doing

Bret Baier’s interview with Elon Musk and DOGE leadership was so good you wonder why they waited so long to speak to the American people directly....

29.03.2025 60

New York Post

David Harsanyi

JFK assassination files won’t dispel our poisonous paranoia

No matter what the documents say, a healthy skepticism of government has mutated into a psychological need to blame the government for everything.

21.03.2025 10

New York Post

David Harsanyi

Good Riddance, Mahmoud Khalil

On the same day that Islamic State terrorist Shamsud-Din Jabbar murdered 15 Americans by plowing a car into a crowd in New Orleans, thousands of......

14.03.2025 7

The Daily Signal

David Harsanyi

Love him or hate him, Mitch McConnell is a first-ballot GOP Hall of Famer

The Senate leader's iron rule held together a fractious GOP conference that ran from squishy centrist to hardline conservative — and somehow managed...

02.03.2025 10

New York Post

David Harsanyi

Misinformation alert — RFK Jr. keeps peddling his detestable autism lies

Tons of data on what causes autism — and doesn't — already exists, but Kennedy keeps ignoring it, repeating debunked claims and creating fear.

21.02.2025 50

New York Post

David Harsanyi

‘Acting’ like leaders at the Department of Education

20.02.2025 2

Washington Examiner

David Harsanyi

Permitting reform will strengthen US energy competitiveness

20.02.2025 3

Washington Examiner

David Harsanyi

Trump’s trade policy will save US farmers

20.02.2025 10

Washington Examiner

David Harsanyi

Wall Street is not capitulating on climate change

20.02.2025 3

Washington Examiner

David Harsanyi

RFK Jr.’s reprehensible anti-vaccine crusade

20.02.2025 4

Washington Examiner

David Harsanyi

‘Trumpism’ is ideological anarchy — who will be its heir?

14.02.2025 7

Washington Examiner

David Harsanyi