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George F. Will

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Why Mamdani’s socialism-on-the-Hudson would be useful for America

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Five ways to stop the onrushing debt disaster. All long shots, alas.

09.08.2025 30

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The epically blundering Putin is alienating even Trump

07.08.2025 20

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80 years since Hiroshima. How much longer can the world’s luck hold?

01.08.2025 30

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Five words that today are gratingly misapplied or worn out

31.07.2025 80

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This tariff court case could rein in the rampant Trump presidency

25.07.2025 70

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Does Trump understand what ‘the West’ is? Does the West itself know?

24.07.2025 40

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How Trump dominates and corrupts the private sector

18.07.2025 100

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As Democrat Beshear eyes 2028, he’ll need to deal with ‘the groups’

16.07.2025 10

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How the coronavirus sparked an epidemic of intellectual malpractice

12.07.2025 50

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If Emanuel runs, he’ll bet on candor defeating the ‘culture police’

09.07.2025 6

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Republicans may be cooking up a mess in Texas

04.07.2025 60

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The Supreme Court puts off restoring the Voting Rights Act’s shine

03.07.2025 20

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Exploding U.S. indebtedness makes a fiscal crisis almost inevitable

28.06.2025 100

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On Trump and Iran: But then what?

25.06.2025 40

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Progressives suddenly remember presidents shouldn’t act monarchically

21.06.2025 40

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The Supreme Court made the right call about the wrong house

19.06.2025 10

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Peak absurdity on campaign finance reform heads to the Supreme Court

14.06.2025 7

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Nine reasons for cautious optimism about individual liberty

11.06.2025 7

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Putin is an open book. U.S. leaders have refused to read it.

07.06.2025 70

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Ukraine’s valor is reminiscent of Britain’s in 1940

04.06.2025 5

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Ernie Pyle, Capt. Waskow and the common soldiers who died for America

24.05.2025 100

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Souter’s subtle reasoning defied ‘liberal’ and ‘conservative’ labels

22.05.2025 4

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This Supreme Court case could stall the charter school movement

26.04.2025 20

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The elevating, at times appalling, path to America’s founding

17.04.2025 30

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Even without the tariffs, Trump’s economic agenda is a disaster

05.04.2025 100

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Progressivism explains much of what the new book ‘Abundance’ deplores

02.04.2025 10

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Government and universities battle in a contest of bad behavior

28.03.2025 20

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Congress needs a Supreme Court jolt to rein in a rampant presidency

22.03.2025 100

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A dismal scorecard after two months of the Musk-Trump administration

20.03.2025 100

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How the Corporation for Public Broadcasting is like the human appendix

14.03.2025 30

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On qualified immunity, the Supreme Court commits an unqualified error

12.03.2025 3

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The perils of a screen-obsessed society incapable of patience

11.03.2025 40

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Urgently needed: A reborn patriotic belief in Western virtues

02.03.2025 70

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Multi-car pileup as electric vehicles collide with reality

26.02.2025 6

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The Supreme Court can fix this mess of its own making

19.02.2025 10

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A spurious U.S. ‘realism’ about Ukraine flirts with catastrophe

18.02.2025 100

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Here comes the betting and fretting

08.02.2025 10

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On the bright side, maybe Democrats and Republicans will be chastened

07.02.2025 50

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Counting up the costs if the U.S. chooses to lose in Ukraine

02.02.2025 100

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When trust in government collapses, that’s how you get RFK Jr.

30.01.2025 10

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There were ample reasons, not about his personal life, for rejecting Hegseth

25.01.2025 100

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Neither euphoric nor despairing be. Trump too shall pass.

21.01.2025 300

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Trump doesn’t have a mandate. But, oh, does he have executive orders.

17.01.2025 9

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Biden’s presidency got an early start on its road to ruin

15.01.2025 10

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Republicans, enjoy ineffectual control of Congress while you have it

10.01.2025 4

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Biden’s ‘security’ concern about TikTok and U.S. Steel is doubly specious

When, on Friday, the Supreme Court hears the Biden administration defend the law that bans TikTok, the justices should remember what the...

08.01.2025 3

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Memo to Musk: Overhauling government isn’t rocket science. It’s harder.

Elon Musk, a Don Quixote with Vivek Ramaswamy tagging along as Sancho Panza, recently ascended Capitol Hill to warn the windmills of tiltings to...

04.01.2025 100

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Jimmy Carter was the president who made Ronald Reagan necessary

30.12.2024 60

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Thanks for the laughs, 2024, you ridiculous year

29.12.2024 20

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