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Jim GeraghtyNational Review |
This is exceptional timing. President Trump continues to become a de facto ally of Russia in its war against Ukraine*, and is willing to reverse a...
Following up on yesterday’s Corner post, wanting to know more about Katie Zacharia’s work for a law firm in Beijing with close ties to the Chinese...
Zhong Lun is one of the biggest and most well-connected law firms in China. The firm’s clients include China’s Justice Ministry in Beijing. You...
Over in the U.K. Guardian, Moira Donegan writes that the Department of Homeland Security search of the Washington home of Minnesota congresswoman...
October surprises are not such a big deal anymore; voters’ attitudes are less flexible and they’re less likely to be persuaded by some last-minute...
One of the best bits of news for Republicans in a mostly gloomy midterm election cycle: Hillary Clinton has reemerged from hibernation. With the...
The good news is that on Saturday, more than a week after the first reports of a researcher at the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Institute of Siberia and the...
The U.S. Army has regulations regarding executions. Those regulations specify who may be in attendance as witnesses. The regulations do permit “a...
It is not exactly surprising to hear that, according to an audio of an event with donors in Washington, GOP Texas Senate candidate Ken Paxton is...
Wisconsin Democratic gubernatorial candidate David Crowley does not believe that state and local law enforcement should ever cooperate with U.S....
News from over in the United Kingdom this morning: “Asked on Monday whether RAF Fairford was safe, the Prime Minister’s official spokesman said:...
Our James Lileks, lamenting the city of Minneapolis requiring that self-driving cars have a $31.50-per-hour non-driver sitting in the driver’s seat,...
I didn’t think I would need to have an opinion on whether current Department of Justice employees should spend any time or money reviewing Watergate...
The last three polls in the Minnesota U.S. Senate race between Democratic Lieutenant Governor Peggy Flanagan and Republican Michele Tafoya have...
Several states can make an argument for being the most important one in the midterms, but Iowa belongs up there. The state features a competitive –...
The U.K. Guardian publishes another profile of Hasan Piker, emphasizing how no one knows who he is and how no one cares about him: Voters, so far,...
Conservative talk show host Steve Deace wrote earlier this week, “Iowa House Republicans were informed by their own pollsters that if you are in a ...
The saga of New York Times writer Nikole Hannah-Jones and the subpar education of her daughter in a lower-rated New York City public school is no...
When you see that the Trump White House has revoked the press passes for correspondents of MSNOW, CNN, and Politico, it is understandable if you feel...
Back in July 2025, Kamala Harris decided to not run for governor of California, and I expressed some skepticism that she would run for president, and...
As noted on today’s edition of The Editors, besides Donald Trump Jr.’s abysmal judgment in who he accepts lavish wedding parties from, and general...
Back in 2018, President Trump’s job approval rating was around 43 percent, but despite doing badly in U.S. House, gubernatorial, and state...
Out in Iowa, Republican incumbent governor Kim Reynolds is not seeking a third term, and Republican Zach Lahn is in a tough race against Democrat...
President Trump, speaking on the Ellipse, Tuesday at a ceremony honoring the victims of the 9/11 attacks: For three months after September 11th, the...
Anyone with even a slim majority of the five senses likely sensed that Corey Lewandowski was exceptionally bad news and you wouldn’t want to trust...
We can question whether the U.S. wanted to see Indian prime minister Narendra Modi attending the Shanghai Cooperation Organization Summit in Bishkek...
This is really Jeff Blehar’s beat, but last week in the Morning Jolt, I noted, “after a troubling spike during the pandemic and immediately after,...
Look, maybe I’m just showing my age, but we’re rapidly approaching the 25-year anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, and I cannot imagine anyone...
The first week of Joe Biden’s term in 2021, the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve had had 638 million barrels of oil. The first week of President...
Reasonable people can have disagreements about the the effectiveness of the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement policies, but the news...
You don’t have to care about the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington. But the president clearly cares a great deal about it, and...
From the U.S. National Park Service’s court filing before the Supreme Court in defense of the continuing construction of the White House ballroom:...
A point about President Trump and North Korea’s Kim Jong-un that didn’t fit in today’s Morning Jolt: On Wednesday, Trump said: I get along with...
I have very little to say about Alexandria Ocasio Cortez’s decision to freeze her eggs, other than to say parenthood is one of the great joys and...
The Trump administration remains the undisputed world champion and a first-ballot hall-of-famer in the category of picking stupid fights with little...
Way back in the early 1990s, when we rode dinosaurs to school, I remember a college professor looking at the breakup of the Soviet Union, and...
With 100 percent of precincts reporting, in the Minnesota Republican gubernatorial primary, state house speaker Lisa Demuth has 179,545 votes, and...
Nearly one year ago, on August 15, Bill Pulte, the director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, sent the U.S. Department of Justice the first of...
President Trump in a phone interview with Wayne Allyn Root, yesterday: By the way, they talk about munitions and we’re fine with munitions. You...
The Morning Jolt, reporting from Riga, Latvia, back in May: And a Latvian official who deals with national security issues speculated that perhaps a...
“Why Is Everyone Scared of Hasan Piker?” asks the headline at Rolling Stone. Five paragraphs later, correspondent Josh Eells writes: Among his...