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Rich Lowry

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Mom, apple pie and the Savannah Bananas — America at its rollicking best

The madcap exhibition team has made America’s pastime even more American, tapping into the antic spirit of minor-league baseball and the showmanship...

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Trump’s racking up wins — and rewriting the book on diplomacy

Trump has executed a near-complete inversion of the typical diplomatic formula: He’s not nice, he’s not conflict-averse, he’s not euphemistic...

02.07.2025 20

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F1 Is a Great Sports Movie

01.07.2025 3

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Uh, That’s Literal Communism!

01.07.2025 6

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Blast ‘em: Get rid of the blocky brutalist buildings that blight our nation’s capital

Blast ‘em: Get rid of the blocky brutalist buildings that blight our nation’s capital

President Trump wants to ditch concrete monstrosities like the FBI building that uglify Washington DC — and federal agencies are already paying heed.

29.06.2025 10

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Trump seals his ‘President Badass’ cred — and makes US foes think twice

Trump the TV star has a knack for the theatrical and grand gesture — and when he makes good on a threat, it leaves a mark.

24.06.2025 10

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Donald Trump is the very model of a modern GOP moderate

President Donald Trump is hardly moderate in tone, but if the definition of a moderate or centrist is being in the middle of a political party,...

21.06.2025 20

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Trump Holds Forth

19.06.2025 4

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Masks mean mayhem — time to ban the Klan hood of the 21st century

Everyone should be on edge when encountering masked protesters — it’s not a good sign when people are afraid of being associated with their own cause.

18.06.2025 40

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Anti-ICE rioters are just as out of line as anti-black racists in ‘62

Anti-ICE rioters are just as out of line as anti-black racists in ‘62

In 1962, the University of Mississippi experienced a “mostly peaceful” demonstration that devolved into violence to stop the feds from letting...

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Is Rob Manfred the Best Baseball Commissioner Since Kenesaw Mountain Landis?

12.06.2025 10

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Can ICE Operate Anywhere Now Without Encountering Resistance? 

12.06.2025 10

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Americans are starting to learn who ‘Maryland father’ Abrego Garcia really is

Kilmar Abrego Garcia was indeed living in Maryland and was indeed a father, but this wasn’t what was most distinctive thing about him. Per the...

10.06.2025 50

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How About the USS Tom Clancy?

07.06.2025 9

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Biden WH flack Karine Jean-Pierre’s latest ruse just moves her from one ‘grift’ to another

Not only was President Joe Biden in serious decline, Karine Jean-Pierre — celebrated in numerous fawning media profiles — was a rotten White House...

06.06.2025 30

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The Best Rules Controversy Since the Pine Tar Incident?

05.06.2025 10

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Drones: the newest twist in warfare — as Ukraine’s hit on Russia just showed

Ukraine may not have “the cards,” as President Donald Trump put it, but it does have drones.  They were used to great effect over the weekend...

03.06.2025 20

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What Do Some People Have Against Gaza-Hostage-Awareness Marchers?

03.06.2025 20

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Don’t fear the AI reaper — jobs panic is way off base

If technological advance was really a net killer of jobs, the labor market should have been in decline since the invention of the wheel. 

31.05.2025 6

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Remember Okinawa

29.05.2025 2

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No, the Woke Frenzy Isn’t Coming Back

29.05.2025 3

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Is Scott Pelley an Objective Journalist?

28.05.2025 4

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The woke left’s frenzy is over — it will never recover from Donald Trump

President Trump has shifted the Overton window in the culture away from woke, and it’s hard to imagine it shifting all the way back.

28.05.2025 40

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Emmanuel Macron Is the Best Politician on the Planet

28.05.2025 4

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‘Death Before Dishonor’: Never forget true US heroes like John Basilone

On Memorial Day, we remember the likes of John Basilone to honor his sacrifice and to remind us of the blood and toil that has kept us safe and free.

25.05.2025 30

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Mike Johnson Prevails Again

23.05.2025 9

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Trump is getting the Ukraine-Russia war all wrong — and he’s making it even harder on himself

It was never going to be easy for President Trump to bring an end to the Ukraine war, but it’s even harder when he’s operating under an erroneous...

20.05.2025 20

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President outlines the Trump Doctrine: Prosperity equals peace — for the entire world

President Donald Trump gave an important speech in Riyadh that may come as close to outlining a “Trump doctrine” for his second term as we’ll...

16.05.2025 20

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Now It Can Be Told!

15.05.2025 4

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A Vote for Charlie Hustle

15.05.2025 3

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Trump’s China deal is no victory, just a tourniquet for the economic bleeding

If it always seemed likely that there’d be a fig-leaf deal with China, there isn’t even a fig leaf here — just a promise to keep talking and...

13.05.2025 10

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Joe Biden reemerges to prove . . . Dems were right to dump him

In case anyone was wondering, Joe Biden is every bit as unimpressive out of office as he was in it.

10.05.2025 40

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Famous name aside, Alcatraz would make a terrible deportation jail

We don’t need a showy new name-brand prison to demonstrate to offenders that we mean business — but we do need more jail space, and lots of it.

06.05.2025 9

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More dolls means better living — why American abundance matters

Trump must be the first president in history to say that his policies will deprive American children of toys — but he was ultimately dismissing...

02.05.2025 5

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When Will This Charade End?

01.05.2025 7

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Tariffs Are Amazing . . .

01.05.2025 4

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How to deport without due process: make illegal immigrants WANT to leave

People choose to come to the US illegally when they believe they stand a very good chance of getting in and staying. If the balance changes, they make...

29.04.2025 20

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The Golden Age is coming, Trump says— but until then, stock up on toilet paper

Usually, presidencies are rocked by events — a hostage crisis, a war gone wrong. Here, nothing was done to Trump; he was the event.

26.04.2025 20

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How ‘absurd’ US immigration laws let Kilmar Abrego Garcia game the system

How an alleged MS-13 gangbanger managed to stay in the US for years, despite an order for his deportation, reveals the self-defeating madness of our...

22.04.2025 3

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The tale of Paul Revere’s Ride remains very much worth telling — 250 years later

Like all legendary events, Paul Revere’s Ride and the Battles of Lexington and Concord have been encrusted with myth.

19.04.2025 30

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You Are the Best

19.04.2025 2

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Within $10,000 of Our Goal

18.04.2025 3

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Trump will destroy a world economy that has us at the apex and only getting stronger

It’s dangerous to disrupt willy-nilly a system that has ourselves at the apex, and getting stronger rather than weaker. 

15.04.2025 50

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Trump Blows a Hole in His Own Tariff Regime 

13.04.2025 8

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On to $150,000!

13.04.2025 3

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Unless we spike military spending — and FAST — the next major war could be catastrophic

It is President Donald Trump's wont to declare national emergencies, whether a given situation warrants it or not, but the state of our defenses is a...

12.04.2025 30

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Reminder: The Tariffs Are Still Huge

11.04.2025 3

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A Depression Would Have Gone Too Far

11.04.2025 20

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Target: $100,000

10.04.2025 4

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‘Life finds a way’ as science resurrects the dire wolf — and our world is richer for it

The "Game of Thrones" canine species that went extinct more than 10,000 years ago has been revived in a stunning act of de-extinction, a marvelous...

08.04.2025 20

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