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Obamacare Is a Massive Failure. The GOP Shouldn’t Bail It Out.

Obamacare Is a Massive Failure. The GOP Shouldn’t Bail It Out.

Since Democrats have shut down the federal government because they want another $1.5 trillion bailout of Obamacare, it’s a good time to remind...

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The Daily Signal

David Harsanyi

Blame government shutdown on ObamaCare — the ruinous law that broke American politics

Blame government shutdown on ObamaCare — the ruinous law that broke American politics

The Democrats unilaterally rammed through a massive national reform without any input from half the country. It's been a costly fiasco ever since.

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New York Post

David Harsanyi

How Can We Expect Immigrants to Embrace American Values If We Don’t?

How Can We Expect Immigrants to Embrace American Values If We Don’t?

In addition to demonstrating a basic handling of speaking, reading, and writing in English, federal immigration law requires prospective citizens to...

27.09.2025 2

The Daily Signal

David Harsanyi

Gen Z’s casual antisemitism is growing — seeded by influencers like Tucker Carlson

Gen Z’s casual antisemitism is growing — seeded by influencers like Tucker Carlson

The conspiratorial swamp of social media has been spreading ugly tropes about Jews — and young Americans are wallowing in them.

26.09.2025 50

New York Post

David Harsanyi

How can we expect immigrants to embrace American values if we don’t?

How can we expect immigrants to embrace American values if we don’t?
23.09.2025 2

Washington Examiner

David Harsanyi

Surveys on Political Violence Are Criminally Misleading

Surveys on Political Violence Are Criminally Misleading

In the wake of Charlie Kirk’s assassination, Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., posted an Anti-Defamation League chart that purports to prove that...

23.09.2025 2

The Daily Signal

David Harsanyi

Studies claiming most political violence is right-wing are transparently bogus

Studies claiming most political violence is right-wing are transparently bogus

In the wake of Charlie Kirk’s assassination, Ilhan Omar tweeted an Anti-Defamation League chart that purports to prove that right wingers...

21.09.2025 4

New York Post

David Harsanyi

Did Democrats forget about Disney firing Gina Carano and Roseanne Barr?

Did Democrats forget about Disney firing Gina Carano and Roseanne Barr?
18.09.2025 70

Washington Examiner

David Harsanyi

The Right is winning the culture war, it doesn’t need the FCC

18.09.2025 7

Washington Examiner

David Harsanyi

Israel’s strike on Hamas in Qatar should’ve happened long ago

Israel's strike at Hamas in Qatar happened about 23 months too late. Every one of the reported targets has been sanctioned by the US for terrorist...

13.09.2025 10

New York Post

David Harsanyi

An Open Letter to My Esteemed Colleagues at the International Association of Genocide Scholars

Friends, As a member in good standing of the International Association of Genocide Scholars, I am simply appalled by our beloved organization’s...

06.09.2025 2

The Daily Signal

David Harsanyi

An open letter to my fellow ‘genocide scholars’: our Gaza finding is a farce

Our elite association of academics, researchers and randos — I mean, I paid $125 to join this very week — has allowed its once-sterling reputation...

05.09.2025 20

New York Post

David Harsanyi

Chicago’s murder toll exceeds Iraq War deaths

03.09.2025 10

Washington Examiner

David Harsanyi

An open letter to my respected colleagues at the International Association of Genocide Scholars

03.09.2025 20

Washington Examiner

David Harsanyi

Trump’s flag-burning order baits the Democrats — but it’s still a bad idea

The new executive order will no doubt provoke progressive Democrats to champion the finer points of burning Old Glory — and defending that...

29.08.2025 3

New York Post

David Harsanyi

Governance by threat, not constitutional order

28.08.2025 3

Washington Examiner

David Harsanyi

Viral video of Scottish girl with knife exposes Western antidiscrimination madness

28.08.2025 10

Washington Examiner

David Harsanyi

Broken hearts in a shattered sanctuary

28.08.2025 3

Washington Examiner

David Harsanyi

It’s not a problem DC isn’t a state, it’s the point

28.08.2025 10

Washington Examiner

David Harsanyi

Is Socialism as Popular as the Media Think?

“Democratic socialists” have been getting the teenage-idol treatment from giddy reporters and editors at legacy media outlets for years. Their...

23.08.2025 9

The Daily Signal

David Harsanyi

The media is all aflutter over socialism — but America isn’t convinced

Centrist Democrats are poised to win entire purple states like Virginia, showing far wider appeal than NYC's Zohran Mamdani — but they get no media...

22.08.2025 4

New York Post

David Harsanyi

Trump’s UN ambassador nominee needs a Senate vote

22.08.2025 3

Washington Examiner

David Harsanyi

If Israel cures paralysis, will its haters boycott the cure?

22.08.2025 4

Washington Examiner

David Harsanyi

Save the Little Sisters of the Poor!

It’s enraging. More than a decade after the Barack Obama administration tried to force the Little Sisters of the Poor to buy contraception for...

16.08.2025 4

The Daily Signal

David Harsanyi

Little Sisters of the Poor are still fighting ObamaCare— as states force nuns to violate their faith

More than a decade after the Obama administration first tried to force the Little Sisters of the Poor to buy abortifacient drugs for employees, states...

15.08.2025 70

New York Post

David Harsanyi

RFK Jr.’s anti-vaccine fixation is a menace to public health

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. claims to support “safe, effective vaccines” — but yanking $500 million of research funding on 22 key research projects...

08.08.2025 6

New York Post

David Harsanyi

RFK Jr.’s war on vaccines and public health continues 

07.08.2025 7

Washington Examiner

David Harsanyi

Europe’s Recognition of ‘Palestine’ Is a Cynical Joke

French President Emmanuel Macron and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced this week that their countries would unilaterally recognize a...

03.08.2025 4

The Daily Signal

David Harsanyi

Europe’s preening appeasers will recognize a fantasy — not ‘Palestine’

Will France and Britain send in their citizens to administer this new state and its borders to ensure it doesn't keep exporting terror — or will...

01.08.2025 40

New York Post

David Harsanyi

Obama Knew the Russiagate Intelligence Was Manufactured

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard contends that new declassified documents show that former President Barack Obama engaged in the plot...

26.07.2025 10

The Daily Signal

David Harsanyi

Barack Obama’s dirty trick destroyed a presidency — and our trust

It was the dirtiest political trick in US history — and as intended, the Russia hysteria paralyzed the incoming Trump administration.

25.07.2025 20

New York Post

David Harsanyi

Cory Booker urges Democrats to download Chinese spyware

24.07.2025 4

Washington Examiner

David Harsanyi

Obama knew the Russiagate intelligence was manufactured

24.07.2025 3

Washington Examiner

David Harsanyi

Legacy Media Still Covering for Biden

Was President Joe Biden aware of who he was pardoning in the final days of his presidency? Or were White House staffers behind the unprecedented......

19.07.2025 4

The Daily Signal

David Harsanyi

Pathetic media pretends the autopen was the scandal — not Biden’s brain

The real problem is that the autopen may have allowed staffers to hijack a Constitutional power because the president probably didn’t know what year...

18.07.2025 20

New York Post

David Harsanyi

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......

12.07.2025 10

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.

11.07.2025 40

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 4

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 4

Washington Examiner

David Harsanyi

Democrats rationalize lawlessness in Los Angeles

10.06.2025 10

Washington Examiner

David Harsanyi