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The Mob’s Candidate

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani upended Democratic expectations this week when he abandoned his pledge to endorse longtime congressman and Hispanic...

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The Case for JD Vance to Run

I agree with Phil and Dan: JD Vance will run for president in 2028, and he’ll do so while dragging the Trump administration’s baggage along with...

27.05.2026 8

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How to Leverage a Riot

New Jersey Democrats got the headline they wanted, even if the treatment they endured to get it was far from ideal. New Jersey Senator Andy Kim “was...

26.05.2026 10

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Grab Your Financial Stake in America’s Decline While You Can

The Wall Street Journal published an immensely troubling dispatch on Thursday exposing how cryptocurrency networks — specifically, the formerly...

22.05.2026 10

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Jeff Bezos’s Subversive Appeal to the Progressive Left

For all the activists' theatrical expressions of contempt for billionaires, they’re not above deferring to the wisdom and expertise of the...

21.05.2026 10

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The Best ‘Chilling Effect’ Yet

Before his resounding primary loss on Tuesday night, outgoing Representative Thomas Massie lent credence to the notion that foreign interests and...

20.05.2026 10

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The Issue Is the Revolution

Paraphrasing a “radical” associated with the 1960s-era Students for a Democratic Society, the late David Horowitz once said of the activists’...

19.05.2026 10

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The Trump Ballroom and Unmanned Aerial System Launch Site

Trump says the roof of his ballroom will protect all of Washington: If a drone hits it, it bounces off. It’s also a drone port....

19.05.2026 10

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No, California’s Backyard BBQ Ban Proposal Is Not Justified

In a headline that seems tailor-made for Spencer Pratt’s insurgent mayoral campaign in Los Angeles, the New York Post reported this morning that one...

15.05.2026 10

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Another One

For a while, it looked like the president was gearing up to engineer a resolution to his claim that the federal government under Joe Biden had been...

15.05.2026 10

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How Maximum Partisan Warfare Gives Way to a More Centrist Politics

With the overturning of Virginia’s partisan gerrymander by the state’s highest court and the Supreme Court’s ruling that the majority-minority...

14.05.2026 10

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The Students Are Lying

The Nazi swastika flew proudly over New York City’s West 4th Street this week. It was hoisted over New York University’s Greenwich Village campus...

14.05.2026 10

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The Democratic Socialists Need a New Model

The capitalist enterprise is alive and well, even in that “paragon of collectivism,” as the Wall Street Journal put it: Sweden. “Today, nearly...

13.05.2026 10

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The Wrong Way to Talk About the Iran War

As Donald Trump prepared to embark on his trip to China, he was asked by a reporter if Americans’ worsening “financial situation” had motivated...

13.05.2026 10

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This Is What It Looks Like When a Great Power Is Losing a War

In the war against the Islamic Republic of Iran, the United States is “losing.” In fact, the president may have already “lost” his...

11.05.2026 10

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Regime Change Has Its Perks

Just 18 months ago, Syria, under the thumb of Bashar al-Assad’s despotic regime, represented an outsize threat to American national interests in the...

08.05.2026 20

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Everyone Is Still Spending

In a conventional signal of tough times ahead, American consumer confidence declined markedly in April. Surging fuel prices and the deteriorating...

07.05.2026 10

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The Market for a New Pandemic

There isn’t a cable news producer on earth who could resist the temptations presented by the outbreak of a rare and deadly communicable disease --...

07.05.2026 20

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That Same Old Song

Barack Obama is deeply concerned for the institutional health of the Republican Party. Indeed, whatever the current iteration of the GOP happens to...

06.05.2026 10

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The Torching of Los Angeles Was Anti-Capitalist Vigilantism

Among the many things progressives would probably like to forget about the moral panic they succumbed to in the summer of 2020 is the extent to which...

05.05.2026 10

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The Illusion of Control

There is still much debate over whether banning advertisements for tobacco products on television and radio had the intended effect of ensuring that...

04.05.2026 10

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We Meant to Do That

Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson recently manufactured a viral moment for herself: https://x.com/BrandiKruse/status/2049562844862324861 This one deserves...

01.05.2026 10

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The Monarchical Logic of Trump’s Tariffs

Americans were summarily informed by the president on Thursday that he would loosen the reins he had imposed on American importers in deference to the...

01.05.2026 10

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$25,000 to Go

“It isn’t so much that liberals are ignorant,” Ronald Reagan once observed. “It’s just that they know so many things that aren’t so.”...

27.04.2026 10

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Chris Murphy’s Revealing Social Media Faceplant

Apparently, it’s everyone else’s fault that no one quite knew what to make of Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy’s characteristically...

21.04.2026 10

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The Blockade Is Scrambling Calculations in Tehran and Beijing

The news over the weekend featured a blizzard of vaporous claims about the status of a potential deal to extend the cease-fire between the U.S. and...

20.04.2026 20

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The Economist Swoons over Iranian ‘Slopaganda’

Sure, the Iranian regime’s leadership is smashed and scattered, its remnants now publicly warring with one another. Yes, its air-defense networks...

20.04.2026 10

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Kicking Out the Crazy

Washington Post reporter Brianna Sack’s interpretation of Cameron Hamilton’s reportedly forthcoming nomination to lead the Federal Emergency...

17.04.2026 10

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A False Dawn in the Strait of Hormuz

Global energy prices collapsed on Friday morning following an announcement from Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi that “passage for all...

17.04.2026 10

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‘Winning’ Is a Strange Word for What Iran Just Experienced

If the Islamic Republic’s leadership — or what remains of it — had been consuming Western media coverage of the 40-day conflict with the United...

16.04.2026 10

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Mamdani’s Socialist Delusion

In an appearance on CBS Mornings on Thursday, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani articulated a Marxian version of dialectical materialism in which...

16.04.2026 10

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Right Thing, Wrong Reasons

Congressional Democrats did the right thing when they refused to look away from the allegations of sexual harassment and assault that have put an end...

15.04.2026 20

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Is ‘Just War’ Ethical?

In a roundtable interview with U.S. cardinals, CBS News provides us with an illuminating exchange prompted by the dustup between Pope Leo and...

14.04.2026 20

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The Rising Tide of Anti-AI Violence

The attempted firebombing of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s San Francisco home should be a wake-up call. Had the attacker, who also reportedly made threats...

13.04.2026 10

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Radical Islam Is the Wedge Issue in Michigan’s Democratic Senate Primary

CNN asks this morning whether Democrats are ready to embrace a “moderate” with a track record of “winning in Trump country,” like Michigan...

09.04.2026 10

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Mamdani Hopes Racial Agitation Succeeds Where ‘Affordability’ Has Failed

Zohran Mamdani wouldn’t be the first mayor of New York City to harbor contempt for the municipality and its residents. He may, however, be the first...

09.04.2026 10

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The Strait Hype

“A single regime has decided to exert control over a 21-mile passage, and as a result, we are living through the worst energy crisis the world has...

08.04.2026 20

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The Obvious Flaw in JD Vance’s Expansive Definition of Election Interference

Vice President JD Vance dropped a bombshell in his remarks to reporters during his swing through Hungary on Tuesday. The Trump administration is, he...

07.04.2026 20

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Another Windfall for the Bottomless ‘Blue Texas’ Money Pit

According to the New York Times, Texas Democratic Senate nominee James Talarico is a powerhouse fundraiser. “In the first two months of the quarter...

06.04.2026 10

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A Serious Answer to a Silly Question

Arizona Representative Yassamin Ansari is, by her own admission, confused: https://x.com/RepYassAnsari/status/2041005005822689528?s=20 It’s a...

06.04.2026 10

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It Was Funny While It Lasted

Unfortunately, the president violated one of the cardinal rules of combat: Never interrupt your opponent while he’s making a mistake. Even as Donald...

06.04.2026 20

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Where Is the Mass Outpouring of Anti-War Sentiment?

The invasion of Iraq was still five months away when an estimated 100,000 Americans poured into the streets of several major cities to protest the...

01.04.2026 10

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The Definition of Bigotry

The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) “working definition” of antisemitism, to which the U.S. government and 30 other...

31.03.2026 20

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Iran’s Terror Cells Are Active and Dangerous

French police knew exactly what kind of plot they had interdicted over the weekend. According to prosecutors, the man they arrested with a homemade...

30.03.2026 10

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‘No Kings’ May Be Largely Peaceful, but the Peaceful Are Giving Cover to the Violent

Like the last two similar exhibitions of nationwide anti-Trump protests, the third in a series of coordinated “No Kings” protests against Donald...

30.03.2026 10

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The New York Times Reads My Mind

I like to think that I’m honest about what I write. Unfortunately, I have been exposed as a duplicitous liar — in the pages of the New York Times,...

27.03.2026 20

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A Portrait of a Failing Civilization

Noelia Castillo Ramos is dead. In the mere 25 years she spent on this earth, nearly everyone in her life except for her immediate family failed her....

27.03.2026 20

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JD Vance’s Allies Drive a Wedge Between Israel and America in Wartime

One month into the U.S.-Israeli war against the Islamic Republic of Iran, a theocracy soaked with American blood, as well as the viscera of so many...

27.03.2026 20

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The Attempted Domestic Terror Attack on a U.S. Air Force Base

Domestic American law enforcement is on high alert as the U.S. and Israel execute combat operations against the world’s chief state sponsor of...

26.03.2026 20

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Can Anyone Tell the President to Stick to the Teleprompter?

It has been said so many times -- and will be said again here, because it’s worth saying: The war against the Islamic Republic is a national...

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