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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...

yesterday 1

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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...

previous day 5

National Review

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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....

previous day 5

National Review

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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...

previous day 6

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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,”...

wednesday 3

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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,...

wednesday 3

National Review

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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 3

National Review

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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 6

National Review

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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 4

National Review

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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 8

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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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Noah Rothman

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 9

National Review

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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 8

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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 10

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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 6

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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 9

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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 6

National Review

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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 6

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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 7

National Review

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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 7

National Review

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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 8

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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 10

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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 9

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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 9

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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 8

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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 10

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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 10

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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 10

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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 10

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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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The CIA Director’s Surprise Visit to Moscow Comes at an Ominous Moment

Andrew Stuttaford has been a devoted chronicler of the “gray zone” provocations that cannot be directly pinned on America’s adversaries but sure...

25.08.2026 10

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No One Who Bought the Gaza Starvation Narrative Deserves to Be Taken Seriously

The Free Press’s Olivia Reingold published a bombshell report this week: At the rate of 0.5 percent, Gaza has one of the lowest rates of acute child...

25.08.2026 10

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El-Sayed’s Circumcision Quip Was Too Clever by Half

You know that a Democrat has done or said something indefensibly asinine when the political press covers the reaction to it with more vigor than the...

25.08.2026 10

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Blinded by AIPAC

The Washington Post eventually came to its senses, but not before all the wrong people saw how it characterized the race to replace former...

21.08.2026 10

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The hubris of the Democratic Socialists

The Democrats’ left wing might be more persuasive if they didn’t dismiss their critics as corporate tools.

21.08.2026 20

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Mamdani’s Bodega Bailout

New Yorkers were treated to a vivid illustration of the delusions fueling Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s push to get his city-run grocery stores up and...

20.08.2026 10

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Trump’s Iran Strategy May Actually Be Working

The “rhetoric” coming from both sides of the conflict over the Strait of Hormuz has “caused considerable confusion and doubt,” CNN’s David...

19.08.2026 10

National Review

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Darline Graham Didn’t Do the Homework

In my years observing American politics, I’ve had the displeasure of witnessing some genuinely mortifying debate performances. I cringed along with...

19.08.2026 10

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Florida Democrats Just Made the GOP’s Case for Them

Charlie will no doubt have a more detailed take on last night's seismic political events in Florida. Jeff, workhorse that he is, already has one....

19.08.2026 10

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Only Trump Gets to Do the Insult Comic Act

All the self-confidence with which Jon Ossoff delivered a pointed barb at Donald Trump — or, more accurately, his relatively unknown aide Natalie...

18.08.2026 10

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Mamdani Solves the Problem of Too Much Liberty in New York City

Mamdani is trying to solve a problem, although not one that most New Yorkers would recognize as an issue. It’s the same conundrum that vexed Gavin...

13.08.2026 30

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Trump Scores an Unexpected Success in Syria

To hear Donald Trump’s more vehement critics on both the right and the left tell it, the president and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu...

12.08.2026 20

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Yes, ‘Woke 1’ Was Crazy. Now, About Those Fascist Cartoon Dogs . . .

Democrats just needed permission to express their pent-up resentments over the hoops they were made to jump through during the era Alexandria...

12.08.2026 20

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You Didn’t Build This, Establishment Democrats

Mainstream Democrats are patting themselves on the back this morning, a target into which the party’s jilted far-left fringes would love to shove a...

12.08.2026 20

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The GOP Can’t Beat Something with Nothing

Commentary executive editor Abe Greenwald’s admonition for the GOP ahead of the midterms is worth careful consideration. The rise of the Democratic...

10.08.2026 20

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Noah Rothman

The Pro-Science Left Is More Pro-Left Than Pro-Science

An organization “promoting science” is dragging Senator Mark Kelly into the 2028 presidential race, according to Axios’s Holly Otterbein. The...

10.08.2026 20

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Noah Rothman

Don’t Blame the Iran War for the Awful Jobs Report

“US employers unexpectedly cut 23,000 jobs amid strain from the Iran war,” said one headline that exemplified what seems to be the consensus in...

07.08.2026 20

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Hasan Piker Is a Symptom, Not the Cause

It’s pretty bleak out there. But if you’re looking for a sliver of hope, it seems that a critical mass of Democrats understand that most Americans...

06.08.2026 20

National Review

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Cori Bush Bet It All on Israel and Lost

“I have not heard one single tangible policy from the other side,” Missouri Congressman Wesley Bell (D.) told his supporters on Tuesday night....

05.08.2026 20

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