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Trump’s New York Stops Are No Ego Trip

The subtext throughout the Washington Post’s piece on Donald Trump’s “midterm road show” is that his campaign stops in places such as...

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El-Sayed Goes Viral in All the Worst Ways

According to the unreliable narrators who populate the online environment, Abdul El-Sayed easily dispatched Mike Rogers in last week’s debate. If...

15.10.2026 4

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The Trump Administration’s Outlook Toward Ukraine Is a Moral and Strategic Atrocity

A reporter asked Donald Trump on Tuesday if he was prepared to cut Ukraine off in retaliation for its long-range attacks on Russia’s energy...

14.10.2026 4

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Trump’s Houthi Headache Is Becoming a Migraine

“Wait until you see what we do to Iran,” Trump told his supporters at a Tuesday night rally in Alaska. “We’re going to do a number.” But...

14.10.2026 4

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Trump’s Dumb Diesel Deal with Russia

Late last Friday, David Frum pointedly proposed a compelling alternative to the Trump administration’s deal with Vladimir Putin’s regime:...

12.10.2026 8

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Do Republicans Want to Rehabilitate Socialism?

Of course, if he wanted to, JD Vance could define socialism. He just doesn’t. https://x.com/cspan/status/2108222744257081533 Contrary to the vice...

09.10.2026 8

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Mike Rogers Hits His Marks

Either Michigan Senate candidate Mike Rogers is still snake-bit from his narrow loss to Senator Elissa Slotkin two years ago, or he’s overcome with...

09.10.2026 10

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Buck Up

Far be it from me to interrupt a bout of cathartic fatalism. Lord knows I’m good for those when the occasion permits. But Dan Foster’s latest is a...

08.10.2026 10

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Marco Rubio Makes the Best Case for Trump

Much has been written about Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s speech in Greece on Wednesday, but I want to highlight a few passages that stood out to...

08.10.2026 10

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Anti-Zionism Is an Old Soviet Plot

You have to think that New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani had a grudging admiration for the mob of braying lunatics who heckled him during his...

08.10.2026 9

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French Police Aren’t the Problem

As the rioting in France approaches its third week, and seven days after French authorities stopped pretending to sympathize with the vandals and...

07.10.2026 10

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The Cult of Trump Is Trump’s Worst Enemy

Little else has served Donald Trump as poorly as his own insistence on blind deference and thoughtless fealty from his aides and allies. Once in a...

06.10.2026 10

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Democrats Deliver a Low Blow in Colorado

Since January, the New York Times has tracked at least 35 political advertisements that feature the name “Epstein,” including “many” that...

05.10.2026 10

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‘Just Say It’s a Genocide’

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez did not even bother to disguise her wholly justified irritation with the far-left agitators who, in the spring of 2024,...

02.10.2026 10

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Was the Flydubai Hijacking the Latest Iranian Plot Against the West?

Anyone who assumed that President Trump and his deputies were unreliable narrators — and, therefore, dismissed the administration’s early claims...

01.10.2026 10

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The Democrats Face Their Own Early-Voting Paranoia Problem

In some states, early voting in the 2026 midterm elections has already begun. Many more will follow as this campaign cycle enters the home stretch....

01.10.2026 10

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London Stops Being Ambiguous About Iran’s Involvement in the RAF Fairford Attack

With one possibly state-supported terrorist event dominating international headlines, we shouldn’t let the last possibly state-supported terrorist...

01.10.2026 10

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Trump Won’t Let the GOP Go Its Own Way so Easily

Last Friday, Jim chronicled what seemed like a coordinated breakout among the GOP’s office seekers as one Republican after another sought to...

28.09.2026 10

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Britain’s Malaise in a Time of Terror

From the prime minister on down, authorities in the U.K. are asking the British public and international observers alike to avoid speculating about...

28.09.2026 10

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This Is Who the Protesters Are

What did the celebrities, activists, and politicians who joined the terrorist-curious group Jewish Voice for Peace outside the U.N.’s headquarters...

25.09.2026 10

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Benjamin Netanyahu Turns the Tables on Zohran Mamdani

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani rarely misses an opportunity to criticize Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, to accuse him of various...

24.09.2026 10

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Susan Collins Is Defying the Headwinds

Maine Senator Susan Collins famously trailed in every survey of her 2020 reelection race. But in the end, she defeated her opponent by 8.6 points....

24.09.2026 10

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Russia Is Going to Do Something Really Stupid and Dangerous

Why would the Trump administration invite Vladimir Putin back onto American soil? “We think it’s an opportunity for him to engage not just with...

24.09.2026 10

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Nose-Diving into Moral Relativism

When the Center for Strategic Politics asked 683 Democrats how they would feel if they “woke up tomorrow morning and saw the following headlines,”...

23.09.2026 10

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When You Just Can’t Get Enough Trump, Now There’s ‘Trump TV’

Even those of us who are allergic to conspiracy theorizing struggle with the timing of, and apparent lack of any precipitating incident inspiring,...

23.09.2026 10

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Isn’t the Absence of Racial Violence Good News?

For weeks, the progressive left has alleged that America is in the grip of a new outbreak of racist lynchings, the total lack of supporting evidence...

22.09.2026 10

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For Now, Trump Won’t Pull the Trigger on the Houthis

We’re a long way from those heady days when the Trump administration’s foreign policy theorists objected to finishing the campaign against...

21.09.2026 10

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The Left Loves Populism Now

It wasn’t that long ago that Democrats and their allies in the media would expectorate the word “populist” with unbridled contempt. But that was...

21.09.2026 10

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Losing the Sun Belt

If you seek evidence that the GOP might still avert an electoral crisis in November, you’ve come to the wrong place. While avoiding a forecast —...

18.09.2026 10

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We’re Not as Dumb as You Think

There’s a certain type of political observer whose low esteem for his fellow Americans’ character and intelligence is matched only by his high...

17.09.2026 10

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The Climate Underground

Matthew Huber’s May op-ed in the New York Times went off like a bomb inside the increasingly jilted community of climate activists. The Democratic...

16.09.2026 10

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Russia’s Attempted Attack Inside America Should Be a Turning Point for Trump

Moscow has grown increasingly brazen amid a campaign of sabotage and provocations targeting the West. The tempo of attacks on Western targets is also...

16.09.2026 10

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Or Maybe It’s the Chinese Propaganda

A little under a month ago, I speculated that the conversation within the professional commentariat around AI-supporting data centers had become a...

15.09.2026 30

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Don Jr. Will Regret It

Recall all the juice that the Trump campaign wrung out of Hunter Biden’s obvious corruption and his father’s complicity. The Burisma contract and...

15.09.2026 20

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The Mall Is Back

The death of the American mall was inevitable, perhaps even desirable. By the end of the last decade, the climate-controlled indoor shopping...

14.09.2026 10

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The Houthis Finally Open a Second Front in the Iran War

The Iranians seem to have finally, after many unsuccessful attempts, dragged Yemen’s Houthis into the fight. Sort of. From the outset of Operation...

11.09.2026 20

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Ted Cruz Is Right About the ‘Islamism’ Threat

I got into a quarrel on the set of CNN’s NewsNight on Thursday over Senator Ted Cruz’s remarks at the GOP’s midterm convention. On this one,...

11.09.2026 20

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Trump’s Runaway Trade War

The president’s advisers -- senior White House officials and even “elected Republicans,” according to Axios, are throwing up their hands in...

09.09.2026 10

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The Countdown to Iran’s ‘October Surprise’

The report CNN published last Wednesday was notable only for its mention of the milestone that America achieved at the Strait of Hormuz. The U.S....

08.09.2026 10

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The Press Looks Beyond the Midterms to the Democratic Civil War of 2027

There’s plenty of campaigning left to do before voters head to the polls in November. There will be plenty of surprises in store for us in the weeks...

08.09.2026 10

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Revolutionary Bloodlust, Ghoulish Satisfaction

I had the opportunity to sit down with Fox & Friends host Brian Kilmeade today to discuss the ghoulish satisfaction that one prominent filmmaker...

04.09.2026 10

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Petty Caesarism

Behold, the face of the president: https://x.com/usmint/status/2095104491536167250 Donald Trump’s visage is already circulating on these...

03.09.2026 20

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The Terrorization of the Democrats

When Democratic Representative Adam Smith voted with 103 of his fellow Democrats for a failed measure that would have drawn U.S. support for Israel...

01.09.2026 10

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The Democratic Center Is Now as Radical as Its Left

He was described as one of the Democratic Party’s most influential “moderates.” A “kingmaker” who saved Joe Biden’s career from the...

31.08.2026 20

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Abdul El-Sayed’s Non-Apology Tour

It’s not as though Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed is struggling in the polls. His opponent, Republican Mike Rogers, trailed in...

31.08.2026 10

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Life Inside Iran Is Becoming Intolerable

There was a perceptible hint in dispatches from CNN and the Wall Street Journal over the last two weeks that their journalists couldn’t believe...

28.08.2026 20

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Do Republicans Need More Trump?

The GOP’s problem heading into the 2026 midterms has been obvious for months and so visible that you could see it from space: Democrats are...

28.08.2026 20

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The Brewing Anti-DSA Backlash in Seattle

The Seattle residents who filmed a shootout between what locals called the “known drug dealers” operating out of a city park and “roughly six...

27.08.2026 20

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The ‘Vocabulary’ Is Only a Symptom of the ‘Problem’

Over a year after the self-consciously anti-partisan think tank Third Way warned Democrats against adopting the left-wing newspeak native to the...

27.08.2026 20

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Good Luck Making Jared Moskowitz into a Household Name, Progressives

“Translation: a giant f*** you from Democratic leadership to Democratic voters.” So wrote Ben “Hamas” Rhodes in response to Representative...

26.08.2026 10

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