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Michael Cohen flips — again

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Michael Rubin

If populism is so great, why are blue states so unaffordable?

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Michael Rubin

Did Trump let his Iran rhetoric get ahead of his strategy?

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Michael Rubin

The Heritage Foundation still leads the conservative movement

The Heritage Foundation still leads the conservative movement

I am a former seven-year veteran of The Heritage Foundation and consider it to be the premier think tank of the conservative movement today. There...

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Brian Darling

Why we must support the Preserving a Sharia-Free America Act

As a lifelong advocate of the First Amendment, having spent years fighting to protect free speech, religious liberty, and the foundational rights...

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Brian Darling

Trump puts Russia on the global back foot

Trump puts Russia on the global back foot

The seizure, by the Army’s Delta Force unit, of Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro from his heavily fortified compound in Caracas on Jan. 3 was a...

yesterday 4

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Brian Darling

Walz won’t tell the truth, so he turns up the heat

Walz won’t tell the truth, so he turns up the heat

Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) appealed to President Donald Trump to turn the temperature down on Thursday, as thousands of Immigration and Customs...

yesterday 4

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Brian Darling

Trump’s unnecessary Greenland threats undermine US interests

Trump’s unnecessary Greenland threats undermine US interests

President Donald Trump is right that Greenland harbors immense strategic value, for it commands a large part of the Arctic where China and Russia...

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Sally Pipes

Enhanced Obamacare subsidies are gone. They deserve to stay that way

Enhanced Obamacare subsidies are gone. They deserve to stay that way

House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith (R-MO) took to the chamber’s floor last week to voice his opposition to legislation that would...

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Sally Pipes

Trump should pursue regime change in Eritrea

In President Donald Trump’s first term farewell address, he spoke with pride about restoring restraint to Washington. “I am especially proud to be...

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Michael Rubin

Generation Z has a gambling problem — in politics

Generation Z has a gambling problem — in politics

Though there is a widening gender gap between young men and women, Generation Z represents a political horseshoe. Regardless of whether they...

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Caroline Downey

Religious freedom requires eternal vigilance

Religious freedom requires eternal vigilance

Religious freedom, Congress unanimously declared in 1998, “undergirds the very origin and existence of the United States.” Presidents of both...

friday 10

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Salena Zito

Years of law enforcement hatred is taking a toll on Minneapolis police

Minnesota Democrats are running around telling their activist base to defy Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers while not acknowledging the...

friday 20

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Hugo Gurdon

Trump should honor his Iran promise with action

Trump should honor his Iran promise with action

President Donald Trump drew a red line on Jan. 2, warning that if Iran’s rulers answered mass protests with mass murder, the United States would...

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Socialism’s rise is really a gift to America

Socialism’s rise is really a gift to America

It’s still the first month of America’s 250th birthday year, but it’s already clear that dark clouds are on the horizon. Socialism, not freedom,...

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Hugo Gurdon

Pennsylvania dairy farmers celebrate the Whole Milk Act

HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania — When word reached the dairy farmers gathered at the Pennsylvania Farm Show that President Donald Trump had signed the...

friday 6

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Salena Zito

Illegal pickup

It’s another reason the Dodgers never should have left Brooklyn. If you had to choose one photograph to capture American childhood in the 1950s,...

friday 6

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Timothy P. Carney

Trump’s sordid pardon economy

Then-Reps. Duncan Hunter (R-CA) and Chris Collins (R-NY) were the first two House members to endorse Donald Trump in early 2016. Both men were...

friday 6

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Timothy P. Carney

Ending Iran’s regime won’t be easy

Protests have rocked the Islamic Republic of Iran with increasing frequency for the past quarter-century, but the closure of the Tehran bazaar on...

friday 6

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Michael Rubin

Donald Trump disproves MAHA

One person not following the tenets of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.‘s MAHA dogma: the president who made him Secretary of Health and Human Services. During...

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Hugo Gurdon

Against the vice economy

Waking up on a Saturday morning to find out that Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro has been captured in a lightning raid by United States special...

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Hugo Gurdon

Trump’s move against Maduro is wildly popular among Latin Americans, including Venezuelans

Last week, we highlighted the political cynicism and incoherence expressed by many Democrats after President Donald Trump ordered a daring and...

friday 20

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Guy Benson

The Trump takeover at 10: The president is a year into his second term but captured the GOP a decade ago

A decade before he exercised force in Venezuela, sought the fall of Cuba, or fixed his eyes on Greenland, Donald Trump had his sights not on...

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Peter Tonguette

The officer and the activist: A perfect storm in Minnesota

Picture it: a crisp January morning in Minneapolis, snowy sidewalks crunching underfoot, the low hum of morning traffic, when Immigration and...

friday 7

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Peter Laffin

The Western alliance is broken beyond repair

Why is no one stopping him? In grabbing at Greenland, President Donald Trump is endangering America, enfeebling the West, and imperiling the world....

friday 7

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Dan Hannan

Mullah lite?

The worst case in Iran is not that the regime murders thousands of civilians and survives in power. The worst case is that the regime commits mass...

friday 6

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Dominic Green

The frenetic charm of ‘Marty Supreme’

The frenetic charm of ‘Marty Supreme’

There is a thin line between being admirably ambitious and being intolerably mercenary, but in the leading awards-season contender Marty Supreme,...

friday 1

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Peter Tonguette

Why government health guidance on alcohol is, and always will be, incoherent 

Why government health guidance on alcohol is, and always will be, incoherent 

Dr. Mehmet Oz — one of the few members of President Donald Trump’s second administration who might once have rivaled him for network television...

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Derek Robertson

The problem with populism: Anger feels good but isn’t an effective way to govern

Populism is having a defining moment again, though it never really went away. This approach to politics surged after Donald Trump made his...

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Jay Caruso

Gavin Newsom’s sad, two-faced campaign

Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) is going to run for president in 2028. He is trying to run a two-faced campaign where he portrays himself as the obnoxious...

friday 9

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Salena Zito

The Svalbard proof Trump wants Greenland for dollars, not defense

The Svalbard proof Trump wants Greenland for dollars, not defense

President Donald Trump dishonors the United States and Denmark, one of America’s most loyal allies, with his threats that the Danish territory of...

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Tom Rogan

How should pro-lifers respond to Trump?

When a Republican president goes off course on the pro-life cause, what should anti-abortioners do? If you’re Washington Examiner columnist Peter...

friday 6

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Salena Zito

More bad economics from the White House 

More bad economics from the White House 

Democrats won nearly all of last November’s off-year elections by successfully weaponizing the term “affordability.” Inflation is down from...

friday 6

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Salena Zito

On This Day: Washington convenes a council of war

The following is an installment of “On This Day,” a new series celebrating America’s 250th anniversary by following the actions of Gen. George...

friday 5

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Salena Zito

How the internet breeds extremism

In the predawn hours of Jan. 10, the Beth Israel synagogue in Jackson, Mississippi, went up in flames. Not long after the incident, 19-year-old...

friday 2

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Kimberly Ross

Democrats — the party of lawbreaking

Minnesota’s Democratic politicians have lost touch with reality — hardly surprising when their heads are lodged in a fundamentally dark place....

friday 20

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Hugo Gurdon

Trump learns the hard way that interest rates control the presidency, not the other way around

Trump learns the hard way that interest rates control the presidency, not the other way around

In Focus delivers deeper coverage of the political, cultural, and ideological issues shaping America. Published daily by senior writers and...

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Zachary Faria

On This Day: Washington writes Founding Father Joseph Reed for advice

On This Day: Washington writes Founding Father Joseph Reed for advice

The following is an installment of “On This Day,” a new series celebrating America’s 250th anniversary by following the actions of Gen. George...

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Zachary Faria

A rise in religious persecution in college sports calls for NCAA action

Brigham Young University is a prestigious university with a sports program revered by many. But it is under attack, as several derogatory chants...

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Zachary Faria

The UK proves it has institutionalized antisemitism

The United Kingdom has institutionalized antisemitism, surrendering to Islamists and activists who are using the threat of mob violence to shape...

15.01.2026 10

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Zachary Faria

Pritzker’s insults of DHS’s Tricia McLaughlin are typical, baseless left-wing propaganda

Gov. JB Pritzker’s (D-IL) appetite for delusional, biased, and deceptive commentary about the Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and...

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Christopher Tremoglie

Healthcare isn’t broken. Health insurance is

Healthcare isn’t broken. Health insurance is

Nearly half of Americans have resolved to save more money in 2026. Unfortunately, many of those New Year’s resolutions are dead on arrival due to...

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Robert Goldberg

Keep up the pressure on state voter roll purges

Keep up the pressure on state voter roll purges

In a victory for the Trump administration, Oregon Secretary of State Tobias Read announced this month that the state will resume “routine cleanup”...

15.01.2026 2

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Robert Goldberg

Minnesota: Federal law shouldn’t apply to us

Minnesota: Federal law shouldn’t apply to us

MINNESOTA: FEDERAL LAW SHOULDN’T APPLY TO US. There was another shooting in Minneapolis on Wednesday. An Immigration and Customs Enforcement...

15.01.2026 20

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Zachary Faria

When it comes to Iran, celebrities suddenly have nothing to say

After seeing the brave demonstrations of women all over Iran lighting cigarettes with burning pictures of the dictatorial ayatollah, I’m inspired...

15.01.2026 3

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Elisha Krauss

We flipped the food pyramid. Here’s why

We flipped the food pyramid. Here’s why

As a urologist specializing in men’s health, I see the devastating consequences of poor nutrition every day in my practice. Over the past several...

14.01.2026 20

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Brian Christine

Trump retreats on abortion

Trump retreats on abortion

Health and Human Services Sec. Robert Kennedy Jr will do absolutely anything to keep you safe from the menace of Red Dye No. 3 but nothing to save...

14.01.2026 2

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David Harsanyi

How the federal government can actually help housing affordability

The White House last week targeted institutional investors to bring down the sky-high rents in New York City, Washington, and countless other...

14.01.2026 10

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Brian Christine

What’s the matter with Minnesota?

What’s the matter with Minnesota?

Minnesota? Somalis? Nine billion dollars in alleged welfare fraud? To understand what’s going on from a distance, it helps to understand basic...

14.01.2026 9

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Brian Christine

The US must stand with the Iranian people 

The US must stand with the Iranian people 

For nearly half a century, the Iranian people have endured a religious dictatorship that rules through repression, economic mismanagement, and the...

14.01.2026 9

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Brian Christine