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Why Are They the Way They Are?

Why Are They the Way They Are?

I’ve been there. I like Canadians. I even like poutine. And Tim Hortons has rescued me on more than one occasion. So explain something to me. Why...

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An Angel Walked Among Us

An Angel Walked Among Us

Dolly Parton died Tuesday in Nashville at 80. And somehow even writing that sentence feels wrong. Dolly was one of those people who seemed like she...

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SCOTUS Overruled a Blue-State Judge Who Never Should Have Blocked This

SCOTUS Overruled a Blue-State Judge Who Never Should Have Blocked This

Of course it was a Massachusetts judge. Of course she was appointed by Barack Obama. And of course, when President Trump signed an executive order in...

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Iran’s D-Day Has Begun

Iran’s D-Day Has Begun

Iran has spent months threatening the world over the Strait of Hormuz. Don’t cross us. Don’t challenge us. Don’t ignore our rules. Don’t...

24.08.2026 7

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Girls Just Want a Locker Room

Girls Just Want a Locker Room

I watched the video from outside Barclays Center on Saturday more than once because I wanted to be sure I was seeing what I thought I was seeing. A...

23.08.2026 8

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Not One Dollar

Not One Dollar

Lindsay Clancy is on trial in Massachusetts for strangling her three children — Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months old — in the basement of...

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They Wanted Him Dead. Now They Want Him.

They Wanted Him Dead. Now They Want Him.

Some stories don’t need embellishment. They just need to be laid out plainly, because the facts alone do all the moral work. Nausheen Gilkar and...

20.08.2026 8

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A Hot Mess, by Design

A Hot Mess, by Design

This election cycle is a hot mess for Democrats, and the mess isn't an accident. It's fake polling. It's false new positions. It's...

19.08.2026 9

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I Can’t Really Believe Them

Democrats generally fold faster and easier than a wet paper towel. When your belief system is more or less fully transactional, you don’t become...

17.08.2026 5

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Thank You to the Nine

I’ve always argued that life is the more bipartisan belief. Most days, the noise coming out of statehouses and cable news makes that argument hard...

14.08.2026 7

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Two Women, Two Institutions, One Very Telling Week

Some weeks hand you an argument. This one handed me something better: a picture. Two stories broke within hours of each other, on entirely different...

13.08.2026 4

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What's the Problem Here?

I have some questions, and I'd genuinely like answers, because nobody seems to be offering any that hold up. This week, President Trump signed an...

12.08.2026 2

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Fauci: Now We Know

For years, this argument has run in a maddening loop: does Anthony Fauci know more than he's telling us? Did he understand the risks he...

11.08.2026 10

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25 Years Ago, Coming to a Mosque Near You

In 30 days, this country marks 25 years since 19 men murdered nearly 3,000 of us on a Tuesday morning that started like any other. A quarter century....

10.08.2026 7

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Clothesline Privilege

Walk through this with me for a second. Imagine you're jogging down a basketball court on a fast break, minding your business, mid-layup, doing...

09.08.2026 9

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Is Fauci's Pardon Legit If His Pardon Was by AutoPen?

Let's play a fun little game of "what does 'sign' actually mean," shall we? Because Dr. Anthony Fauci just spent a Senate...

05.08.2026 10

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Since This Is the Issue Anyway

Every so often, a story breaks that looks like a policy footnote on the surface and turns out, on inspection, to be a chess move played four squares...

26.07.2026 9

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Look, If James Carville Says So…

There's a particular kind of political admission that lands harder than anything the opposition could say about you. It's the admission that...

24.07.2026 9

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Caught on Their Own Emails

For years, we were told to trust the process. Trust the intelligence community. Trust the experts who assured us that America's elections were...

20.07.2026 4

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Mamdani: Priorities Tell You Everything

I want you to sit with something for a second. New York City has a mayor right now whose signature initiatives—the ones he’s chosen to spend his...

19.07.2026 10

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Up Next: Pickaxe Mountain

The easiest decision any president can make is the one he never has to make. Hold another meeting. Send another envoy. Extend another deadline. Issue...

16.07.2026 10

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Who Gets to Choose America?

How in the world is this controversial? Congress is debating whether American citizens—and only American citizens—should vote in American...

15.07.2026 10

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The Consensus Senator

Stop for just a second and consider this list: Donald Trump. John Fetterman. Benjamin Netanyahu. George W. Bush. John McCain. John Thune. You can...

12.07.2026 9

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The Price of Saying What Was True

I knew she was right. I knew I was right. And I never had any doubt. Of course, the people who were dead wrong are moving the goalposts. It’s the...

09.07.2026 10

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The Platner Effect

Every now and then a political story comes along that’s bigger than the person whose name ends up in the headline. I think this is one of those...

08.07.2026 10

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The Next Great American Frontier

It was one of those moments you don't forget. On Saturday, I had the privilege of joining a broadcast aboard the USS Intrepid. As classic...

06.07.2026 20

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Why 56 Different Men Agreed

Try organizing lunch for 56 people. Somebody wants Italian. Somebody else is craving barbecue. One fellow read an article this morning about seed...

30.06.2026 10

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Signing Their Death Warrants

I’ve had the privilege of standing in some remarkable places. I’ve walked through the White House, where every room reminds you that decisions...

29.06.2026 10

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Why Is Thune Running Scared?

There are moments in the life of a republic when what Congress chooses not to do says more than every speech, every press conference, and every...

26.06.2026 10

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Maximum Transparency, Ultimate Accountability

I know housing is expensive. Spend enough time in the metro New York City area, and you’ll discover that “starter home” has become one of the...

25.06.2026 10

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This Is America, FIFA

There are a lot of things visitors should know before coming to America. Don’t stand in the middle of the sidewalk in Manhattan. And for the love of...

21.06.2026 10

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Fathers Who Stay

Today is a disjointed Father’s Day. For as long as our family can remember, Father’s Day meant worshiping together. Sitting together. Singing...

21.06.2026 10

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These People Are Nuts!

Three different high-profile people have pulled me aside over the last several days. All three conversations were off the record. All three involved...

17.06.2026 10

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An American 250 Story

As the basket dropped to tie the game 83-83, I gently woke my bride from the couch. She had endured enough already. The emotional swings. The blown...

14.06.2026 10

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Fight the Nazi Hard!

Hate rarely dies a quiet death. History teaches something darker than that. It retreats. Regroups. Changes clothes. Finds softer language. Waits for...

10.06.2026 10

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Embedded Evil

We’re not talking about Scott Pelley here. The strange little newsman and his apparent confusion over what it means to be “embedded” during...

09.06.2026 10

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Are You Now or Have You Ever

There’s a revival play running off Broadway right now, revisiting one of the more combustible chapters in American political history: the...

07.06.2026 10

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Turns Out You Can’t Do That

Turns out you can’t do that. You can’t retain classified material for years, move it around like it’s old tax paperwork, transmit sensitive...

05.06.2026 10

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So, About That Super Bowl I Was In

The last time Tom Brady faced Eli Manning in the Super Bowl, I was in the Super Bowl. At least that’s apparently how we define these things now. The...

04.06.2026 20

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The Forgotten Room Heroes

There is something deeply hilarious about the modern administrative state. The same people who can somehow lose trillions of dollars in accounting...

03.06.2026 10

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Texas Just Won a Border Fight That Common Sense Settled Years Ago

Texas just scored a significant legal victory in its ongoing fight to protect its citizens from the consequences of federal immigration negligence....

01.06.2026 20

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Maximum Transparency, Ultimate Accountability

For decades, Americans have had the same sickening feeling every April. You work. You pay taxes. Washington wastes them. And somewhere buried inside...

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Trump and Iran: The Most Critical Juncture

I’ve said it in pieces on my show for several weeks now: between Memorial Day and July 4. That is the calendar stretch in 2026 when President Trump...

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When Propaganda Becomes Psychological Abuse

There was a time when even the American press understood that certain accusations required extraordinary evidence. Not anonymous whispers. Not...

17.05.2026 20

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Why It’s Time to Disown Tucker and Megyn

Not long ago, at Charlie Kirk's memorial service, I sat listening as speaker after speaker talked openly about faith. Not performative faith. Not...

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Trump's Three Big Targets With Xi

In my opinion, the upcoming summit between President Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping could not be happening at a more important moment. The...

12.05.2026 20

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Why Dems Ignore Rules

One of the defining characteristics of the modern American Left is that it treats rules the way toddlers treat vegetables: tolerated only when...

11.05.2026 20

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The Legacy That Outlives Everything

By the time you read this, Mother’s Day will already be moving at full speed. Restaurants crowded. Flower deliveries arriving. Families gathering...

10.05.2026 30

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The Quiet Power No One Applauds

Modern America has a strange way of measuring importance. If it trends, it matters. If it makes money, it matters. If it gets applause, builds a...

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What Happens When Moms Are Missing

There are some truths modern America desperately tries to avoid because acknowledging them would require admitting that the old ways weren’t quite...

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