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Trump’s unnecessary Greenland threats undermine US interests

yesterday 10

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Sally Pipes

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

yesterday 7

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Sally Pipes

Generation Z has a gambling problem — in politics

yesterday 1

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Caroline Downey

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...

previous day 10

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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...

previous day 10

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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,...

previous day 6

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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...

previous day 5

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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,...

previous day 5

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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...

previous day 5

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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...

previous day 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...

previous day 5

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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...

previous day 5

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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...

previous day 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...

previous day 10

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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...

previous day 6

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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....

previous day 5

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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...

previous day 5

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Dominic Green

Religious freedom requires eternal vigilance

previous day 10

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Salena Zito

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,...

previous day 5

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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...

previous day 5

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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...

previous day 5

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Jay Caruso

Gavin Newsom’s sad, two-faced campaign

previous day 7

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Salena Zito

The Svalbard proof Trump wants Greenland for dollars, not defense

previous day 4

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Tom Rogan

How should pro-lifers respond to Trump?

previous day 4

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Salena Zito

More bad economics from the White House 

previous day 4

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Salena Zito

On This Day: Washington convenes a council of war

previous day 3

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Salena Zito

How the internet breeds extremism

previous day 4

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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....

previous day 10

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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...

thursday 20

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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...

thursday 9

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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...

thursday 8

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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...

thursday 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...

thursday 6

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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...

thursday 6

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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”...

thursday 6

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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...

thursday 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...

thursday 9

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Elisha Krauss

The Democratic Party’s immigration endgame is still amnesty

Instead of cooperating with federal law enforcement officers, as states governed by Republicans have done, states run by Democrats, such as...

14.01.2026 9

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Philadelphia sheriff calls Wesley Hunt a racial slur during anti-ICE rant

Philadelphia officials continue to thrust their city into the spotlight regarding the Trump administration’s illegal immigration efforts, including...

14.01.2026 8

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Christopher Tremoglie

Online mob pounces on SNL star for fake ‘racism’ scandal

Online mob pounces on SNL star for fake ‘racism’ scandal

What year is it again? Most of American culture has moved on from the hypersensitive, identity-obsessed hysteria of 2020, but some online...

14.01.2026 8

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Christopher Tremoglie

Iranian protesters expose the Leftist-Islamist alliance

Iranian protesters expose the Leftist-Islamist alliance

There is a deafening silence on the Left about Iran. Now, in the third week of a popular uprising against tyranny, not a peep of support has been...

14.01.2026 30

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Harry Khachatrian

Iran turns to Iraqi militias to save its revolution

Iranians hate the Mojahedin-e Khalq not only because it is a corrupt cult that helped bring Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini to power, but also because...

14.01.2026 9

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Harry Khachatrian

Mamdani’s immediate attacks on Jewish safety

On his first day as mayor, New York City’s Zohran Mamdani decided to set the stage for his time in office by slashing key executive orders...

14.01.2026 9

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Lizzy Savetsky

Eos Energy announces a breakthrough in battery energy storage

Eos Energy announces a breakthrough in battery energy storage

PITTSBURGH – Eos Energy, the Western Pennsylvania-based energy company that manufactures zinc-based battery storage systems, told the Washington...

14.01.2026 9

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Harry Khachatrian

Peace negotiations aside, Ukraine’s security guarantees are a big deal

However negotiations with Russia to end the war in Ukraine conclude, a profound shift has already occurred in Washington: the Trump administration...

14.01.2026 9

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Harry Khachatrian

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 10

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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