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The college degree was a signal. Now it’s just noise

The college degree was a signal. Now it’s just noise

As college students across the country prepare for their final exams, many assume they’re entering a job market eager to receive them. But the...

yesterday 10

Washington Examiner

Hugo Gurdon

Reading self-help as the science fiction it is

Reading self-help as the science fiction it is

In Dealing with Feeling, the latest work of speculative fiction by Marc Brackett, the fantasy is simple: What if, at long last, we could tame the...

yesterday 10

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Emmett Rensin

Biden’s EV boondoggles

Biden’s EV boondoggles

Former President Joe Biden‘s time in office may be long forgotten by voters (and perhaps by Biden himself), but the nation is still feeling the...

yesterday 10

Washington Examiner

Zachary Faria

Tools for radicals: Why younger generations have turned against free markets and American traditions

Tools for radicals: Why younger generations have turned against free markets and American traditions

In January 2020, a few weeks before the entire world experienced one of the greatest social and economic disruptions in memory in the form of the...

yesterday 3

Washington Examiner

Jeremiah Poff

Christmas trees and the National Italian American Foundation’s devotion to heritage

Christmas trees and the National Italian American Foundation’s devotion to heritage

Buon Natale!  Some people may know that’s the Italian phrase for “Merry Christmas.” Others may think it’s a Nat King Cole song from 1959. On...

yesterday 2

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Christopher Tremoglie

Praise Jesus, be fond of Jews

Praise Jesus, be fond of Jews

Churchgoing Christians are basically a hate group in the eyes of our liberal elites. Religion, Richard Dawkins wrote 25 years ago, is “a ready-made...

yesterday 3

Washington Examiner

Timothy P. Carney

Communism’s wealthy backers: Champagne socialist wishes and caviar radical dreams

Communism’s wealthy backers: Champagne socialist wishes and caviar radical dreams

“There are some ideas so absurd,” George Orwell is alleged to have said, “that only an intellectual could believe them.” Intellectuals, the British...

yesterday 3

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Sean Durns

America needs a drink

America needs a drink

Americans, we are told, have never been lonelier. We have fewer friends. We spend more time at home and less time out of the house, socializing...

yesterday 2

Washington Examiner

Hugo Gurdon

Dell teaches an anti-socialist lesson

Dell teaches an anti-socialist lesson

Countries that were once imprisoned by Soviet tyranny — think Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic, not to mention Ukraine — tend to be more...

yesterday 2

Washington Examiner

Hugo Gurdon

Why are Copper prices soaring?

Why are Copper prices soaring?

Along with gold and silver, the price of copper is soaring. But unlike the two precious metals, copper prices are rising for economic reasons, not...

yesterday 2

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Hugo Gurdon

Not all immigrants are equal

Not all immigrants are equal

Minnesota may be the single largest source of funds for the Somali terrorist organization al Shabaab. An investigation by Ryan Thorpe and...

yesterday 3

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Dan Hannan

Will Trump’s revenge campaign backfire?

yesterday 10

Washington Examiner

Salena Zito

The fight to keep politics out of medicine

The fight to keep politics out of medicine

Dr. Stanley Goldfarb’s Doing Great Harm? isn’t another anti-woke broadside. It’s something rarer: a first-hand dispatch from a man who spent half a...

yesterday 2

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Bethany Mandel

Christmas Books: Editor’s note

Christmas Books: Editor’s note

Holidays are nothing but traditions, and traditions should not be broken or changed lightly. Since before this magazine took its current form and...

yesterday 2

Washington Examiner

Nicholas Clairmont

On Christmas reading

On Christmas reading

Every time I resolve to read through a lengthy work of literature, I am reminded of the funniest scene in Temporary Kings, the penultimate book of...

yesterday 2

Washington Examiner

Nic Rowan

Trump new weakness on China

Trump new weakness on China

President Donald Trump’s foremost accomplishment during his first term was breaking the decadeslong bipartisan consensus that Beijing’s threats...

yesterday 2

Washington Examiner

Hugo Gurdon

The Epstein impasse: It’s less about new revelations than old arguments about Trump

The Epstein impasse: It’s less about new revelations than old arguments about Trump

Meet the new fight, same as the old fight.  When the Democratic members of the House Oversight Committee released a few emails from Jeffrey...

yesterday 1

Washington Examiner

Isaac Schorr

The printed Disney

The printed Disney

The Walt Disney Company has released some of the world’s finest animated short films and movies for over a century, including Oswald the Lucky...

yesterday 2

Washington Examiner

Michael Taube

Why the Georgian government is so angry with my article

yesterday 9

Washington Examiner

Zachary Faria

How non-governmental organizations perpetuate the conflict in Gaza

yesterday 4

Washington Examiner

Zachary Faria

Girls’ wrestling now the fastest growing sport in the country, and it starts young

yesterday 1

Washington Examiner

Salena Zito

The popularity of ‘buy now, pay later’ is a product of consumer profligacy, not poverty

yesterday 1

Washington Examiner

Salena Zito

Trump revives California’s water wars between farms and fish

yesterday 0

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Zachary Faria

Closing the door on immigration? Not yet

Closing the door on immigration? Not yet

Can the United States come up with an immigration policy that will prove sustainable? Two writers whom I respect and take delight in reading,...

previous day 10

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Michael Barone

Everyone is wrong about this viral controversy at the University of Oklahoma

Everyone is wrong about this viral controversy at the University of Oklahoma

People all across the internet are once again at each other’s throats over a minor incident that’s morphed into the latest fuel for the culture...

previous day 10

Washington Examiner

Elisha Krauss

What are Trump’s motivations in Venezuela?

What are Trump’s motivations in Venezuela?

If you take his comments at face value, President Donald Trump’s objectives in Venezuela seem clear enough: President Nicolas Maduro needs to pack...

previous day 10

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John Roberts

Trump rightly changes the rules of engagement

Congressional critics of President Donald Trump’s tactics in the war on drug cartels are badly confused. Because the War Department, instead of the...

previous day 3

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John Roberts

Parental rights win in California

Parental rights win in California

A public school district in an idyllic beach town north of San Diego is finally acknowledging a Supreme Court decision to allow opt-outs for...

previous day 3

Washington Examiner

Elisha Krauss

AI and the death of macroeconomics as we knew it

It’s not inflation or recession that has blindsided traditional macroeconomists, but irrelevance. Artificial intelligence has not just transformed...

previous day 2

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Elisha Krauss

It’s time for Congress to review the pardon power

It’s time for Congress to review the pardon power

Alexander Hamilton defended the unilateral presidential pardoning power as a practical necessity for a young republic. He argued that it enabled...

previous day 2

Washington Examiner

John Roberts

Tennessee special election brings bad news for both parties

Tennessee special election brings bad news for both parties

Shortly after Republican candidate Matt Van Epps defeated Democrat Aftyn Behn in an off-year special House election in Tennessee, media in...

wednesday 20

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Timothy P. Carney

Connellsville, Pennsylvania, honors its past

CONNELLSVILLE, Pennsylvania — Thirteen years ago, hundreds of locals lined the streets of the downtown business district of this Fayette County...

wednesday 1

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Salena Zito

Consumers love Trump’s economy as holiday spending soars to record highs

Consumers love Trump’s economy as holiday spending soars to record highs

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas, and with the holiday season approaching, consumers were not reluctant to start spending over the...

wednesday 6

Washington Examiner

Christopher Tremoglie

Karine Jean-Pierre was no Jackie Robinson

Karine Jean-Pierre was no Jackie Robinson

Former President Joe Biden perfectly demonstrated the folly of liberal diversity, equity, and inclusion policies when he hired Karine Jean-Pierre...

wednesday 3

Washington Examiner

Timothy P. Carney

Tennessee is a warning for the GOP

Tennessee is a warning for the GOP

Former Army helicopter pilot Matt Van Epps bucked the recent trend of right-wing electoral disasters on Tuesday, defeating Democratic state Rep....

wednesday 2

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Timothy P. Carney

The GOP underperformance in Tennessee matters less than you think

The GOP underperformance in Tennessee matters less than you think

A favorite pastime of election watchers and political operatives is to extrapolate every little detail possible from the results of an off-year or...

wednesday 2

Washington Examiner

Jeremiah Poff

A congressional solution for the collegiate NIL chaos

A congressional solution for the collegiate NIL chaos

Across the country, student-athletes are returning to fields and gymnasiums. Stadiums are roaring to life, tailgates stretch for miles, and...

wednesday 10

Washington Examiner

James Rogan

Do voters care about a ‘president of peace’?

Do voters care about a ‘president of peace’?

DO VOTERS CARE ABOUT A ‘PRESIDENT OF PEACE’? President Donald Trump sometimes calls himself the “president of peace” and says he has “ended...

wednesday 2

Washington Examiner

Timothy P. Carney

Fishy smell comes from Democrats, not from drug boats

Fishy smell comes from Democrats, not from drug boats

A fishy reek is emanating from the latest scandal about President Donald Trump’s military campaign against drug runners in the Caribbean Sea and...

wednesday 5

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James Rogan

California can’t keep track of its useless bureaucracies

California can’t keep track of its useless bureaucracies

California‘s first-in-the-nation Fast Food Council is another one of its run-of-the-mill duds, proving that the state’s obsession with bureaucracy...

wednesday 1

Washington Examiner

Timothy P. Carney

Why silver prices are likely to stay high

Why silver prices are likely to stay high

In global financial markets, quietly, silver has become the hot precious metal. Currently, silver is trading at around $59 per ounce, a price...

wednesday 3

Washington Examiner

James Rogan

The DHS watchdog enabling corruption

The DHS watchdog enabling corruption

This is the fifth Washington Examiner op-ed documenting our team’s whistleblowing experience related to the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s...

wednesday 9

Washington Examiner

Barry Angeline

The Supreme Court case that shows asylum is too easy

The Supreme Court case that shows asylum is too easy

Urias-Orellana v. Bondi is not a case name that history will remember in the way it does Roe v. Wade or Obergefell v. Hodges. The question...

wednesday 2

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James Rogan

Blame Democrats, not data centers, for rising electricity prices

Blame Democrats, not data centers, for rising electricity prices

Healthcare and housing costs have dominated voters’ concerns for decades, and soaring food prices under former President Joe Biden added to the...

02.12.2025 2

Washington Examiner

Washington Examiner

Georgia’s chemical weapons scandal deserves Trump’s attention

Georgia’s chemical weapons scandal deserves Trump’s attention

The Georgian government is facing outrage after a BBC investigation alleging that the government used World War I-era chemical toxins on protesters...

02.12.2025 10

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Zachary Faria

Voters were right to reject Tim Walz in 2024

Voters were right to reject Tim Walz in 2024

It has been just over a year since the 2024 elections, and Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) continues to prove that voters were right to reject him and the...

02.12.2025 3

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Zachary Faria

The final season of Stranger Things is ardently anti-communist

The final season of Stranger Things is ardently anti-communist

After four seasons of serial disappearances, gruesome murders, and a litany of monsters terrorizing their town, the residents of Hawkins, Indiana,...

02.12.2025 2

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Mark Meadows

Aluminum imports threaten Trump’s efforts to rebuild domestic supply chains

Aluminum imports threaten Trump’s efforts to rebuild domestic supply chains

As President Donald Trump declared in recent days, “If we don’t have tariffs, we don’t have national security.” While the globalists attack the...

02.12.2025 2

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Mark Meadows

Does Mark Kelly ever stop lying about Trump?

Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) enjoys touting his military service when fending off criticism about his incessant attacks on President Donald Trump.   And,...

01.12.2025 5

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Christopher Tremoglie

Requiem for a scandal

Requiem for a scandal

REQUIEM FOR A SCANDAL. Nearly four years ago, on Jan. 18, 2022, this newsletter wrote about a frenzy that was sweeping the anti-Trump world. It had...

01.12.2025 50

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Ron York