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The Left’s Imaginary COVID-19 ‘Reckoning’

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...

tuesday 10

The Daily Signal

David Harsanyi

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

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

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

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 6

New York Post

David Harsanyi

Good Riddance, Mahmoud Khalil

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 40

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 3

Washington Examiner

David Harsanyi

Wall Street is not capitulating on climate change

20.02.2025 2

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

Pull the plug on EV subsidies — a government racket that dooms the auto industry

What sane corporation continues manufacturing a product that loses more money per unit every year and undermines profits? One reacting only to...

14.02.2025 30

New York Post

David Harsanyi

If You Really Support Immigration, Stop Excusing Chaos

12.02.2025 10

Townhall

David Harsanyi

Trump runs defense for deep state with Mark Zaid clearance revocation

12.02.2025 8

Washington Examiner

David Harsanyi

The dumbest immigration policy in the world

12.02.2025 10

Washington Examiner

David Harsanyi

If there’s a ‘constitutional crisis,’ blame Democrats

12.02.2025 10

Washington Examiner

David Harsanyi

If You Really Support Immigration, Stop Excusing Chaos

Celebrity Selena Gomez recently posted, and then quickly deleted, a video of herself sobbing uncontrollably over the treatment of illegal immigrants...

09.02.2025 4

The Daily Signal

David Harsanyi

Trump would send Gaza’s people to Egypt, Jordan — and that makes perfect sense

Letting the innocent become temporary refugees in Egypt and Jordan would let Israel eliminate Hamas so the rebuilding of Gaza can start — and it's...

02.02.2025 20

New York Post

David Harsanyi

Trump’s Gaza Proposal Makes Complete Sense

President Donald Trump recently floated a fantastic idea: Arab nations, he said, should accept large numbers of Gazans as refugees, a move that...

02.02.2025 40

The Daily Signal

David Harsanyi

If you really support immigration, stop excusing border chaos

01.02.2025 20

Washington Examiner

David Harsanyi

RFK Jr. is a menace to health and common sense — shame on Republicans who support him

There has perhaps never been a GOP Cabinet nominee in history less suited for public office than brainworm-ridden dilettante Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

29.01.2025 20

New York Post

David Harsanyi

How Biden’s Pardons Normalize Abuse of Power

As expected, Joe Biden handed out 10-year blanket pardons to his corrupt family, which had profited in the millions from influence-peddling schemes....

24.01.2025 7

The Daily Signal

David Harsanyi

Executive disorder

24.01.2025 4

Washington Examiner

David Harsanyi

Israel Makes a Deal With the Actual Devil

Only hours after a possible ceasefire deal was announced between Israel and Hamas, Khalil al Hayya, chairman of the terrorist organization, declared...

17.01.2025 3

The Daily Signal

David Harsanyi

Israel’s cease-fire is no triumph but a wrenching, risky deal with the devil

Donald Trump said the cease-fire deal is "epic." It isn't: At best, it's a painful, and hopefully fleeting, surrender to theocrats that will save the...

17.01.2025 10

New York Post

David Harsanyi

How Argentina’s Javier Milei got governing right — and proved the elites wrong

Javier Milei, the chainsaw-wielding economist president, followed through on his promise of “shock therapy,” taming inflation by cutting spending...

10.01.2025 20

New York Post

David Harsanyi

Intra-MAGA H-1B visa rift misses broader point about immigration and workforce

Those of us with friends and families spent the end of 2024 celebrating Christmas, Hanukkah, and the Advent of the New Year. The internet’s most...

03.01.2025 3

Washington Examiner

David Harsanyi

The West is back: A new willingness to fight the rot that has been corroding our civilization

With any luck, the recent grand reopening of the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, which was destroyed by a devastating fire in 2019, will be looked...

03.01.2025 20

Washington Examiner

David Harsanyi

The Obama Doctrine Is Dead

 The Obama Doctrine is as dead as Yahya Sinwar. And the world is better off in both cases. While the massacre of Oct. 7, 2023, was one of the most...

27.12.2024 4

The Daily Signal

David Harsanyi

Iran’s Oct. 7 blunder — and Israel’s response — have transformed the Middle East

The Obama Doctrine is as dead as Yahya Sinwar. And the world is better off in both cases. While the massacre of Oct. 7, 2023, was one of the most...

20.12.2024 5

New York Post

David Harsanyi

It’s Time for a National Conversation About Left-Wing Violence

Even before we knew the targeted killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson by Luigi Mangione was politically motivated, many leftists were...

16.12.2024 30

The Daily Signal

David Harsanyi

Luigi Mangione frenzy: It’s time for a national conversation on left-wing violence

Even before we knew the targeted killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson by Luigi Mangione was politically motivated, many leftists were...

13.12.2024 100

New York Post

David Harsanyi

The Biden Crime Family Is Above the Law

President Joe Biden is right about one thing. His son Hunter Biden has always been “treated differently.” If Hunter Biden had a different last...

09.12.2024 10

The Daily Signal

David Harsanyi

Legacy media have no business lecturing anyone about the ‘truth’

06.12.2024 5

Washington Examiner

David Harsanyi

Like many Democrats, the Biden crime family is above the law

02.12.2024 5

Washington Examiner

David Harsanyi

Handmaid’s tales: How the Left gins up a war on women

29.11.2024 6

Washington Examiner

David Harsanyi

Big Pharma is pretty great, actually

22.11.2024 8

Washington Examiner

David Harsanyi

Trump, don’t trash the Constitution to get your Cabinet picks installed

Donald Trump has the right to pick anyone he likes for his Cabinet — but the Senate has the duty to vote down irresponsible and ridiculous...

22.11.2024 6

New York Post

David Harsanyi

How the Left hurts the homeless

19.11.2024 3

Washington Examiner

David Harsanyi

Don’t trash the Constitution to dunk on the liberals

19.11.2024 3

Washington Examiner

David Harsanyi

A Lesson for Democrats: Don’t Be Weird

A lot of you people sound nuts. It is unsurprising that a Trump campaign ad featuring the tagline “Kamala is for they/them. President Donald Trump...

17.11.2024 6

The Daily Signal

David Harsanyi

Democrats, heed the lesson of the 2024 election — stop being so weird

Cultural forces are nudging virtually every demographic and ethnic group away from Democrats. One of the reasons is that you people sound nuts.

17.11.2024 10

New York Post

David Harsanyi

RFK Jr is a progressive who doesn’t belong in a GOP Cabinet

15.11.2024 4

Washington Examiner

David Harsanyi

What Trump can do about illegal immigration

15.11.2024 3

Washington Examiner

David Harsanyi

Joe Biden is finally at peace

15.11.2024 3

Washington Examiner

David Harsanyi

The lesson of 2024? Don’t be weird

14.11.2024 5

Washington Examiner

David Harsanyi

The Senate does not exist to make Trump happy

12.11.2024 3

Washington Examiner

David Harsanyi

Good News: Americans No Longer Listen to Mass Media

If the 2024 presidential contest proved anything, it’s that the mass media no longer drive the national conversation. They can no longer stoke fear...

11.11.2024 10

The Daily Signal

David Harsanyi