menu_open Columnists
Current . Favorites . Archive
We use cookies to provide some features and experiences in QOSHE

More information  .  Close

What a meltdown in the wine aisle taught me about New Year’s resolutions

9

Fast Company

Jess Thevenoz

A Trump Security Is Empty, Mr. Zelensky

Ukraine’s president should stop pressing for U.S. security guarantees and pursue more effective means of self-protection.

8

The New York Times

Philip H. Gordon

Welcome to the Mamdani Era, New York

The new mayor is an entirely familiar type of New York politician.

5

The New York Times

Kim Phillips-Fein

5 Times Liberal Pundits Admitted Painfully Obvious Truths In 2025

'Fundamental mistake'

6

The Daily Caller

Jason Cohen

MEHEK COOKE: Hey Dems, What Happened To ‘Trust The Intel Community’?

They want the old order

6

The Daily Caller

Mehek Cooke

American Pogrom: the Year in ICE Abductions

A year into Trump’s mass purge of immigrants from the United States, it’s beyond debate that the people orchestrating and conducting the raids,...

9

CounterPunch

Jeffrey St. Clair

10 Good Things That Happened in 2025

It’s true — 2025 has been a hard year. It’s easy to focus on the disasters, and there have been many. But we also had real victories that moved us...

6

CounterPunch

Medea Benjamin

Looking Beyond the 2026 Midterms: Slogans Are Not a Strategy

The current buzzword is affordability. “‘Affordability’ mantra helps Democrats turn tide” the New York Times headlined. “Democrats used...

7

CounterPunch

Daniel Warner

A Moment for Desire

I’ve been thinking about moments. Under the heavy onslaught of the last year, the moments of relief I’ve felt in these last twelve months have felt...

6

CounterPunch

Laura Flanders

Portraits by the Mysterious “Master I.S.”:  An Art History Detective Story

It’s often difficult to tell if a Dutch work of art from the 17th century is a portrait (conterfeytsels) or a tronie. Many pictures lack...

7

CounterPunch

Stephen F. Eisenman

Bari Weiss Pulls 60 Minutes’ Report on Trump Outsourcing Torture to El Salvador’s CECOT Prison

According to the concept of “manufactured consent,” elaborated by Noam Chomsky and Ed Herman in the 1980s, the media carries out a propaganda...

6

CounterPunch

Daniel Falcone

Oligarchy XIV: Thoughts on the Anarchism of Dorothy Day

Remarking on the 1927 murder of Italian immigrants and anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Day noted that anarchism “is the word, or...

7

CounterPunch

David S. D’Amato

Meditations on the Loss of a Voice

The ‘minutely privileged’, the people lucky enough not to be in the direct line of fire as of right now, are paralyzed in outrage and bewilderment,...

8

CounterPunch

Julia Abusharr

The Russian Idée Fixe

‘Russia’s defensive war against NATO expansion’ — a concept that has become almost axiomatic for many Western leftists. This concept conveniently...

7

CounterPunch

Andriy Movchan

Cuba on the Brink

Where Will the Island’s Crisis End?

7

Foreign Affairs

Michael J. Bustamante

The ‘Stranger Things’ Finale Is the Escapism We Need

6

Bloomberg

Bryan Reesman

Books We Read in 2025 That Prepared Us for Tech’s Future

6

Bloomberg

Dave Lee

Hindsight Makes It Easy to Profit From Trump 2.0

6

Bloomberg

John Authers

Daily Horoscope: January 1, 2026

January begins with discipline over hype, asking every sign to prove intentions through action before promises take hold. The post Daily Horoscope:...

5

Vice

Ashley Fike

Taurus, January 2026: Your Monthly Horoscope

What do the stars have in store for your sign this month? The post Taurus, January 2026: Your Monthly Horoscope appeared first on VICE.

8

Vice

Ashley Fike

Scientists Turned Leftover Cooking Oil Into Glue Strong Enough to Tow a Car

Plastics like polyethylene are engulfing the planet. It’s not just our landfills that are loaded with them. Our oceans are choking in it; it’s made...

8

Vice

Luis Prada

Gemini, January 2026: Your Monthly Horoscope

What do the stars have in store for your sign this month? The post Gemini, January 2026: Your Monthly Horoscope appeared first on VICE.

8

Vice

Ashley Fike

‘South Park’ Used to Count Down to New Year’s For the First Few Seasons

Between 1997 and 1999, Comedy Central aired three brief South Park shorts in which the characters counted down to the New Year. They ran for...

7

Vice

Tony Alpsen

Can the Scandinavian Sleep Method Actually Stop Your Sleepless Nights?

It starts the same way. Two people. One bed. One blanket. By midnight, one partner is sweating like it’s August, the other is curled into a human...

8

Vice

Ashley Fike

Cancer, January 2026: Your Monthly Horoscope

What do the stars have in store for your sign this month? The post Cancer, January 2026: Your Monthly Horoscope appeared first on VICE.

8

Vice

Ashley Fike

Leo, January 2026: Your Monthly Horoscope

What do the stars have in store for your sign this month? The post Leo, January 2026: Your Monthly Horoscope appeared first on VICE.

6

Vice

Ashley Fike

Virgo, January 2026: Your Monthly Horoscope

What do the stars have in store for your sign this month? The post Virgo, January 2026: Your Monthly Horoscope appeared first on VICE.

7

Vice

Ashley Fike

Gary Horton | The Year of Choosing Not to Look Away

The New Year arrives the way it always does: a date change. A fresh page. A familiar temptation to believe that simply making it this far means we...

6

Santa Clarita Valley Signal

Signal Contributor

Minnesota’s Fraud Is Blowing the Lid Off a Broken Election System

7

Townhall

Josh Findlay

Will the US Senate Stall Much-Needed Permitting Reforms?

7

Townhall

Duggan Flanakin

The Danger of Nick Fuentes' Ideology

7

Townhall

Armstrong Williams

Oligarchies, Terrorism, Greed, and Other Obstacles to Forecasting the Future

7

Townhall

Jeff Davidson

Obamacare Was, Is and Will Always Be a Problem

7

Townhall

Larry Elder

Yeah, Culture Does Matter

7

Townhall

Alan Joseph Bauer

Let’s All Hope 2026 Brings Us Some Real ‘News’ Outlets

8

Townhall

Derek Hunter

While America Watched the Border, the Cyber Front Exploded

6

Townhall

Julio Rosas

How My 2025 Predictions Went – and Some Predictions for 2026

8

Townhall

Kurt Schlichter

HVAC System Maintenance in New Jersey: Guaranteeing Your Comfort

HVAC systems are an integral part of modern life in both residential and commercial properties.…

20

qolumnist

Miguel Ribeiro Souza

LIST: Which restaurants are open for New Year's Eve, Day?

Need a quick bite, or hoping for a pick-me-up after ringing in the new year?

10

The Hill

Addy Bink

5 takeaways from the 2025 elections

This year’s elections offered early signs of what to expect in next year’s midterms. After much of the country shifted rightward last year,...

10

The Hill

Julia Mueller

List: Which stores will be open on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day?

Forgot the champagne or hoping to shop some holiday clearance

10

The Hill

Addy Bink

How the US could lose its Diego Garcia military base to China 

After the loss of Bagram air base in Afghanistan, Diego Garcia is a critical lifeline for the American military in the region. 

20

The Hill

Gordon G. Chang, Opinion Contributor

Trump ends 2025 with questions

Morning Report is The Hill’s a.m. newsletter. Subscribe here. In today’s issue: ▪ Trump faces questions going into 2026 ▪ Venezuela tensions...

10

The Hill

Elliott Davis

New state laws in 2026 target climate change, drunken driving

A slate of new laws will go into effect in states across the country beginning Jan. 1. From Hawaii imposing a tax on tourists to address...

10

The Hill

Max Rego

Saving for a down payment now takes 7 years, double prepandemic pace

In some California cities, a median-income household would need more than 30 years to save for a down payment.

10

The Hill

Andrew Dorn

Public employee unions facing final showdown

This year, my organization helped over 50,000 public employees across America exercise their First Amendment rights to opt out of union membership...

10

The Hill

Aaron Withe, Opinion Contributor

Michele and Rob Reiner's autopsy reports blocked from release

The Reiners’ bodies were cremated at Mount Sinai Mortuary.

10

The Hill

Teddy Grant

Prince William, Kate's annual salary revealed in financial report

The income covers the public, private and charitable expenses for Kate, William and their children.

10

The Hill

Teddy Grant

How to watch the Times Square ball drop on New Year's Eve 2025

All of the celebratory excess of a New York New Year's Eve. None of the overcrowding and claustrophobia

10

Quartz

Chris Morris

Open Thread

10

Reason.com

Eugene Volokh