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Rich Lowry

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Trump is playing with fire in declaring an ‘emergency’ to roll out his tariffs

Trump is playing with fire in declaring an ‘emergency’ to roll out his tariffs

The Trump administration is using Humpty Dumpty rules to justify its new tariffs. 

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Screwed!

02.04.2025 3

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Bye-Bye, Chain Gangs; Hello, Sony’s Hawk-Eye Virtual Measurement System

02.04.2025 2

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March Sanity

01.04.2025 8

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Free seas matter — and only the United States can protect them for the world

Free seas matter — and only the United States can protect them for the world

President Trump’s decision to hit the Houthis toward the goal of fully freeing the Red Sea to shipping again was fundamentally American.

01.04.2025 8

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Trump Is ‘Pissed’ at Putin

31.03.2025 10

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A Signalgate Coda

30.03.2025 3

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The Campaign Against Mike Waltz

29.03.2025 3

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How Trump caught big-government fans in their own trap

How Trump caught big-government fans in their own trap

None of the mechanisms the president is using to push his agenda were put in place by conservatives for leverage against progressive institutions. 

28.03.2025 20

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Woke Boston Mayor Michelle Wu coddles rapists as ‘part of the family’

Woke Boston Mayor Michelle Wu coddles rapists as ‘part of the family’

Michelle Wu's obsessive defense of illegal immigrant criminals is still in line with much of her party, and its a near-theological commitment to the...

26.03.2025 50

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Joe Biden’s De Facto Open Border Went Too Far Even for Bernie Sanders

24.03.2025 10

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President Trump’s right: If our Navy doesn’t get more ships, we’ll never beat China in a war

President Trump’s right: If our Navy doesn’t get more ships, we’ll never beat China in a war

The great 19th-century strategist and navalist Alfred Thayer Mahan would be shocked and mystified that we have allowed the country with which we are...

22.03.2025 20

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If AOC is its future, the Democratic Party is hopelessly lost

If AOC is its future, the Democratic Party is hopelessly lost

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is a cartoon version of the Democratic Party that the GOP would love to run against — and Democrats say she embodies their...

19.03.2025 20

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Tesla terrorism only reveals the Left’s impotence

Tesla terrorism only reveals the Left’s impotence

The agitation is meant to exact a price on Musk for DOGE and get him to abandon the effort: No one wants to buy an expensive vehicle and then become a...

14.03.2025 20

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Another Bad Day in Court for Michael Mann

13.03.2025 10

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Blame Canada? Trump’s trade tiff is way out of whack — and harming US, too

The madman theory has much to recommend it when dealing with Hamas or the Houthis — but no one heretofore has thought it has similar benefits when...

11.03.2025 30

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This lone district judge has no right to run US foreign policy

Judge Amir Ali has no authority over the conduct of US foreign policy, but that's not stopping him in his escalating conflict with the Trump...

08.03.2025 50

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Democrats Aren’t Getting Off the Mat

06.03.2025 8

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A Word on Bridge Colby

05.03.2025 4

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Why English makes the US stronger

It’s no disrespect to speakers of, say, Tagalog to enforce English as our predominant language — and not learning it excludes them from the...

05.03.2025 50

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Robot Warfare Is Here

05.03.2025 9

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Zelensky Wants Back In

05.03.2025 3

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A Trump Win on the Panama Canal

05.03.2025 8

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Is Zelensky an Idiot?

02.03.2025 40

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Jeff Bezos’ Washington Post overhaul and the weakening of the woke

The furious reaction to Jeff Bezos reveals the left’s intolerance of any dissenting news source — but his changes will make the legacy media less...

28.02.2025 20

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Governor DeSantis Joins the 2025 Ideas Summit Lineup

28.02.2025 2

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In general, a major shakeup at the Pentagon is admiral

President Trump and his defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, have outraged the Beltway by dismissing top generals, including Chairman of the Joint...

25.02.2025 3

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Europe finally gets the US memo: Pony up and partner in your own defense

Serious countries need serious militaries, but Europe has preferred to spend on everything else while relying on the might of the United States for...

20.02.2025 70

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Trump’s all-out assault on woke is tearing down the left’s cultural sway

Fashionable progressive ideas that have long been ascendant, including DEI and gender ideology, have received hammer blows since Trump’s...

11.02.2025 60

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Dems suffering from Musk Derangement Syndrome

Democrats have finally found someone they hate more than Donald Trump.

08.02.2025 100

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It’s a New Era: Ryan Anderson’s Book Is Unbanned

06.02.2025 7

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Panama caved on the canal after Trump channeled Teddy Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan

Right now Marco Rubio has the easiest job in the world: President Trump is throwing his weight around in our hemisphere in a way we haven’t seen in...

05.02.2025 30

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Media claims of ‘racist’ deportations are bogus — here are the numbers

The leftist logic is that it’s racist to keep out non-white illegal immigrants, racist to make them go — and racist to have a country that takes...

01.02.2025 20

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Talk loudly and swing a yuge stick: Trump does Teddy Roosevelt one better

Donald Trump is practicing not deterrence but 'compellence,' making a threat to coerce foreign actors into doing things we want.

29.01.2025 5

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Yes to Robots

28.01.2025 4

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A Tale of Two Executive Orders

26.01.2025 4

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Trump’s bold strike against DEI ends 60 years of discrimination — and makes history

We’re only days into the Trump administration, and we can already identify one of his top five achievements.

25.01.2025 70

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Trump Threatens Russia

24.01.2025 10

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Disco never died, it was waiting for Trump: How new prez won the political and cultural center

How did a Democratic Party that has long prided itself on its hipness lose the culture fight to Donald J. Trump? Voters concluded that he made more...

21.01.2025 6

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Whatever Coca-Cola’s politics may be, the drink’s a gift to the world

In 1942, the Nazi apparatchik Otto Dietrich sniffed, “America never contributed anything to world civilization but chewing gum and Coca-Cola.”

18.01.2025 3

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Gender doesn’t matter to an inferno: LA fires lay waste to DEI agenda

Los Angeles for years has been in the grips of a bizarre obsession with recruiting more women firefighters, as if gender diversity somehow makes it...

15.01.2025 6

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Google Search Didn’t Want Me to Write Today’s Column

15.01.2025 5

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Location, location: Why Trump’s Greenland push is smart geopolitics

To understand the world, and to a large extent the behavior of nations, you need to look at a map — which is why Donald Trump is talking up...

11.01.2025 30

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Forget Biden’s shameful drilling ban — energy will be Trump’s superpower

Rarely has there been a more concerted effort by a country’s leadership to eliminate a source of national strength than the Biden administration’s...

07.01.2025 60

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The College Football Playoffs Finally Deliver

The hope for the playoffs is that you’d have some March Madness–type drama. Instead, every weak team you’d expect to lose has lost (small sample...

04.01.2025 2

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Johnson Survives

It never made any sense to take down Speaker Mike Johnson, and after some dramatic arm-twisting to bring back a couple of defectors, Johnson got...

04.01.2025 3

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The Great Ozempic Debate 

I have a piece up on the home page on the tension between Elon Musk (pro) and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (basically anti) on obesity drugs. I really...

03.01.2025 2

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Three Cheers for the Pop Tarts Bowl

I’m a sucker for almost any sports phenomenon, so count me emphatically in on the Pop Tarts bowl. It is not quite the granddaddy of them all, but...

02.01.2025 5

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Forget Musk’s H1-B visa spat — merit immigration is the fight we need

Over Christmas, Elon Musk and his tech allies started a yeasty intra-MAGA debate over recruiting top immigrant talent to the United States and the...

01.01.2025 20

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We Don’t Need More Legal Immigration to Get More Geniuses

Anybody who hasn’t been under a rock is aware of the battle that has taken place the last several of days over legal immigration and H1B visas,...

31.12.2024 4

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