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Iran war bared a hidden flaw: Shore up US bases — or risk disaster

The conflict with Tehran has exposed glaring US military deficiencies, with our inability to protect our bases in the region and elsewhere high on the...

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Richard Nixon’s new GOP fans can’t brush off his stained legacy

There’s no doubt Richard Nixon deserves better than the simplistic dismissal of him based on his ignominious exit from the White House — but his...

04.10.2026 8

New York Post

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Scripture-twisting James Talarico rewrites the Bible for leftist ends

Supposedly, through happy coincidence, Our Savior agrees with Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico about important planks of his party's...

29.09.2026 10

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Trump’s tariff vow helped win the White House — now it may cost him Congress

It turns out that Liberation Day was the beginning of the end for any appreciable political support for Trump's tariff policy.

25.09.2026 10

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What’s the Best Line in the Boston Globe Lesbian Bar Story?

The Boston Globe has an extraordinary story on a woke lesbian bar named Last Ditch that has a mandatory masking policy and has been hit by a backlash...

23.09.2026 20

National Review

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‘Perverse priorities’ made Nikole Hannah-Jones put her cause before her child

Hannah-Jones should be furious at the adults who failed her daughter. But she still defends them — calling school choice a racist scam and...

22.09.2026 20

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‘Book of the year’: How a 12-pound tome can save Western civilization

At a time when Western civilization has been successfully “de-centered” in academia and its study relegated to the dustbin of history, "The Golden...

20.09.2026 20

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AOC’s faux lynching panic exposes the left’s poisonous racial delusions

The will to believe the worst about America is very strong among The Squad and its ilk — perpetually convinced that the Ku Klux Klan is on the verge...

14.09.2026 10

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AI won’t kill us— bad actors exploiting an American tech retreat is a much bigger danger

One reason that apocalyptic scenarios involving AI are implausible is that, having seen how that particular movie ends, we are unlikely to be foolish...

11.09.2026 10

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AI has taken a toll on kids’ brains — removing technology from the classroom will fix that

Is it the end of the Flynn effect?

09.09.2026 10

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Woke Colin Kaepernick’s time is past — but he won’t go away

A decade later, former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick is as tiresome — and as committed to woke racial politics — as ever.

06.09.2026 10

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Vance on Tucker

I’m not convinced by Phil’s argument regarding Vance’s RJC remarks, since, again, he embraced Israel, rejected antisemitism in unmistakable...

04.09.2026 10

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The Ridiculous Hyper-Parsing of JD Vance

JD Vance gave a speech at the RJC the other day. I was there, and it was a warm room for him; he got a standing ovation when he arrived and a standing...

03.09.2026 10

National Review

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How Tom Homan’s no-drama deportations trounced Kristi Noem’s flash

Tom Homan has avoided the pyrotechnics favored by the attention-seeking Kristi Noem, with robust immigration enforcement free of militarized raids and...

02.09.2026 30

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What Trump just doesn’t get about his tariff program

President Donald Trump’s tariffs aren’t popular, but he’s found a way to make them even less so — a trade war with America’s most...

28.08.2026 20

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Data-center drama queens risk America’s future — by denying truths of the past

The same people who insist that the American economy needs to re-industrialize can’t bear the thought of industrial-scale computing facilities for...

25.08.2026 30

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Knee-jerk Flock panic threatens a tool that’s making our cities safer

Rolling back Flock won’t reverse this vast change that’s been decades in the making — but it will deny the cops a valuable asset.

21.08.2026 30

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Trump’s South Korea snub sows strife with an ally — again

President Trump has a tendency of unnecessarily sowing dissension with America's allies — and that's a foolhardy game at a time of growing...

18.08.2026 20

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Miracle US economy zooms ahead — so DSA haters resort to lies

The Democratic Socialists of America's case for revolutionary change relies on dishonesty and misleading claims.

11.08.2026 30

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Iran has made our most urgent national-security priority painfully clear

The American way of warfare is often to mess it up before adjusting and getting it right.

08.08.2026 40

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Democrats mock Trump’s alarm bells — but the DSA’s communist coup is real

Trump’s rhetoric has been over-the-top, but he's correct: The most important movement within the Democratic Party is in the process of falling under...

05.08.2026 40

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Trump is facing a major Iran war hurdle — this time on the homefront

An Iran war that was supposed to be brief, and then was supposed to be over, is imposing an increasing price on Donald Trump’s presidency.

31.07.2026 30

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Looney anti-Israel conspiracy theorists find fresh fodder in US defense bill

The NDAA provision has united some of the most fervent anti-Israel conspiracy theorists on the right and the left, from Marjorie Taylor Greene to AOC.

28.07.2026 30

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Sorry, haters, Christopher Nolan’s Odysseus is no wimp — but a hero for our times

Nolan's Odysseus is the very embodiment of the questing, endlessly curious spirit of Western culture that has forged so many new discoveries and...

24.07.2026 30

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DSA revolutionaries aim to topple the Senate — and the Constitution, too

This is literally a revolutionary program to destroy the American system as we have known it since 1789 — the kind of thing you'd expect after angry...

21.07.2026 50

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Democrats’ next hot primary race deepens the party’s stark fractures

The workers of the world may one day unite, but not behind a socialist vessel for the grievances of ideologically exotic, college-educated white...

17.07.2026 20

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Strait talk: Iran’s Hormuz attacks must end the ‘phony peace’

The US-Iran memorandum of understanding was an illusory means of achieving Trump's goals via diplomacy. Time to face reality.

13.07.2026 30

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Substack Just Got Smarter!

Our friend Karl Rove is now on Substack. If, like me, you consider him an indispensable source for political analysis, independent-minded commentary,...

10.07.2026 20

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Women’s basketball is out to destroy superstar Caitlin Clark — and itself, too

Caitlin Clark is a generational talent in women's professional basketball — but the WNBA has treated the Indiana Fever star like a virus that the...

07.07.2026 30

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Karl Marx knew what the DSA doesn’t. America hates socialism

If the Democratic Socialists' movement succeeds, it will do it by running against the grain of American tradition and mores.

06.07.2026 40

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Who Is Going to Be Next to Donate $1,776 to Our July 4 Fundraiser?

At NR, we’ve always been proud to be a star-spangled organization in a frankly patriotic cause — defending this country from smears and radical...

03.07.2026 40

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Mamdani’s Israel dodge is nothing but bad faith and hypocrisy

Zohran Mamdani is trying to justify his blatant anti-Israel stance — but his purported universalism is a pretext, a way to dress up his irrational...

30.06.2026 30

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‘Temporary’ deportation shield for immigrants has always been a total farce

The Temporary Protected Status program for immigrants has long been a one-way ratchet — always extended but never revoked — that's made a mockery...

28.06.2026 20

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Trump’s three big retreats lay bare the limits of his power

If the theme of the first year of Trump's second term was aggression on all fronts, his second year has so far been defined by significant retreats.

23.06.2026 20

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The one growing gap between Dems and Republicans that shouldn’t ever exist — patriotism

A new NBC News poll captured the partisan gap over pride in America.

19.06.2026 40

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The one thing that played no role in Karmelo Anthony’s murder of Austin Metcalf

The case has garnered national attention entirely for its racial angle.

12.06.2026 30

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Democrats’ Gaza genocide claims reveal the depths of their depravity

Progressive Democrats and radical influencers are reveling in a grotesque libel: accusing the Jewish state of genocide, the same enormity that...

10.06.2026 60

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Democrats’ Supreme Court threat puts the United States in mortal danger

Should they sweep in 2028, Democrats are vowing they'll push the American constitutional order past an event horizon from which it will never return.

05.06.2026 30

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Britain banned the odious Hasan Piker — now far-left influencer gets to play the victim

In an open society, official hostility tends to make targeted voices more famous and interesting, whether it’s James Joyce, the Sex Pistols — or...

02.06.2026 60

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James Talarico’s desperate drive to detransition from his woke past

Anyone who has relied on the Texas senatorial candidate for theological guidance might be experiencing whiplash.

30.05.2026 60

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AOC’s ‘dirty water’ trick feeds the left’s delusional data-center panic

The left's fight against data centers is a moral panic — except there's nothing moral about sabotaging America's AI race with China based on...

28.05.2026 40

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Why DNC’s belated 2024 election ‘autopsy’ term paper warrants a ‘D’ grade

Under pressure, the DNC finally released its autopsy of the 2024 election, after rampant speculation about what it contained and why it hadn’t yet...

21.05.2026 40

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‘The Odyssey’ sparks classic duels over race, casting — and fairness

What’s good for Lupita Nyong'o should be good for Scarlett Johansson, and vice versa — but Hollywood wants to put its finger on the scale.

19.05.2026 40

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How our schools’ foolishness is courting ‘civilizational failure’

Our children aren’t learning to read — first because we’ve forgotten how to teach them, then because we're outsourcing their education to screens.

15.05.2026 40

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Socialist AOC targets billionaires — and aims to make us all poorer

Typical: Socialist AOC is taking a strength of American society — its openness to talent and innovation — and portraying it as a fundamental problem.

13.05.2026 50

New York Post

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Why Ketanji Brown Jackson is hell-bent on destroying the Supreme Court

The Supreme Court’s decision in a landmark gerrymandering case makes leftists — including one of the court's own justices — even more determined...

08.05.2026 60

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Democrats’ fingerprints are all over the Spirit Airlines crime scene

The demise of Spirit Airlines was wanton economic destruction masquerading as antitrust enforcement.

05.05.2026 40

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Epic Fury is highlighting the utter brilliance of ‘Drill, baby, drill’

The Western hemisphere stands to gain from the Iran crisis, as the closure of the Strait of Hormuz underlines the inherent risks of reliance on Middle...

03.05.2026 30

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Rich Lowry

Epic Fury is highlighting the utter brilliance of ‘Drill, baby, drill’

The Western hemisphere stands to gain from the Iran crisis, as the closure of the Strait of Hormuz underlines the inherent risks of reliance on Middle...

01.05.2026 30

New York Post

Rich Lowry

So Close to Our Final $175,000 Goal — Please, Help Us Get There

Here we go again! Once again, we’ve run a webathon. Once again, you’ve responded in an amazing fashion. And, I’m hoping, once again, you’ll...

30.04.2026 50

National Review

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