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Jonah Goldberg: Americans should be concerned about the fine print on Trump’s new oil deal

Jonah Goldberg: Americans should be concerned about the fine print on Trump’s new oil deal

So, it was a war for oil after all. On social media Friday, President Trump announced that the United States and Venezuela have struck an agreement...

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Cal Thomas: What’s in a name?

Cal Thomas: What’s in a name?

As part of Donald Trump’s trade war with Canada that the administration claims isn’t a trade war, the president has signed an executive order,...

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Cartoonist’s Take: September 7, 2026

Cartoonist’s Take: September 7, 2026

Cartoonist’s Take: September 7, 2026

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Steven Roberts: Why farmers are fuming

Steven Roberts: Why farmers are fuming

Scott Thomsen is a fourth-generation Nebraska farmer and loyal Republican who supported Donald Trump in all three of his presidential campaigns. But...

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Cartoonist’s Take: September 6, 2026

Cartoonist’s Take: September 6, 2026

Cartoonist’s Take: September 6, 2026

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Byron York: Which Republicans will run to succeed Trump in 2028?

Byron York: Which Republicans will run to succeed Trump in 2028?

Over the last year or so, President Donald Trump has sometimes pointed to Vice President JD Vance as his preference for the 2028 Republican...

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Cartoonist’s Take: September 5, 2026

Cartoonist’s Take: September 5, 2026

Cartoonist’s Take: September 5, 2026

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Elwood Watson: Ex-Trump supporter learns loyalty is a one-way street

Elwood Watson: Ex-Trump supporter learns loyalty is a one-way street

From now on, far-right provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos will have to promote his fringe conspiracies and racial controversies in Great Britain after...

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Cartoonist’s Take: September 4, 2026

Cartoonist’s Take: September 4, 2026

Cartoonist’s Take: September 4, 2026

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Danny Tyree: Does 9/11 mean enough to you?

Danny Tyree: Does 9/11 mean enough to you?

Not that Don McLean asked me, but I was born too late to “recall what was revealed the day the music died.” The terrorist plane crashes of...

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Tom Purcell: Autumn, finally: A season to calm our politics

Tom Purcell: Autumn, finally: A season to calm our politics

September has arrived, which means autumn is here. It couldn’t come soon enough. Politics all day long You see, a 2026 Change Research survey finds...

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Cartoonist’s Take: September 3, 2026

Cartoonist’s Take: September 3, 2026

Cartoonist’s Take: September 3, 2026

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Dick Polman: A stupid war could once again trigger a blue electorial tsunami

Dick Polman: A stupid war could once again trigger a blue electorial tsunami

Republican President George W. Bush’s stupid war in Iraq (launched on false premises and bogus promises) triggered a blue tsunami in the 2006...

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Cartoonist’s Take: Saturday, August 29, 2026

Cartoonist’s Take: Saturday, August 29, 2026

Cartoonist’s Take: Saturday, August 29, 2026

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Steven Roberts: Trump’s loss of trust

Steven Roberts: Trump’s loss of trust

As President Donald Trump escalated his trade war with Canada, Prime Minister Mark Carney responded with a direct and damning comment: “We’ve...

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Byron York: Democratic voters reject resistance stars

Byron York: Democratic voters reject resistance stars

There has been a lot of commentary on the differences between Resistance 1.0, the effort by anti-Trump activists to bring down President Donald Trump...

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Cartoonist’s Take: August 28, 2026

Cartoonist’s Take: August 28, 2026

Cartoonist’s Take: August 28, 2026

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Danny Tyree: How did Dolly Parton touch your life?

If you’re like me, the larger-than-life Dolly Parton has intersected numerous phases of your story. My awareness of Dolly goes back nearly 60 years....

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Cartoonist’s Take: August 27, 2026

Cartoonist’s Take: August 27, 2026

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Dick Polman: Time to harp on Trump and his handmaiden

I’m not qualified to write original lyrics for Natalie Harp: The Musical, so I’ll just crib from Karen Carpenter’s crooning. Feel free to sing...

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Cartoonist’s Take: August 26, 2026

Cartoonist’s Take: August 26, 2026

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Tom Purcell: Gen Z is handwriting letters. The rest of us should, too

Younger generations are driving an old-fashioned comeback: handwritten letters. According to Business Insider, Gen Z and millennials, tired of the...

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Ask the attorney: Back-to-school co-parenting: How divorced parents can avoid custody disputes during the school year

By Michael J. Belsky, Esq. The start of a new school year brings excitement and opportunity for children, but for divorced or separated parents, it...

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Jonah Goldberg: Everyone is campaigning on ‘affordability’ that no one can deliver

Remember “affordability” mania? The time was 2025. A young, charismatic democratic socialist candidate for New York City mayor named Zohran...

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Kathryn Jean Lopez: The real truth about abortion

“Electric” — not a word you’d normally associate with state government affairs. But such was the atmosphere for a gubernatorial bill signing...

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Cartoonist’s Take: August 25, 2026

Cartoonist’s Take: August 25, 2026

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Cartoonist’s Take: August 24, 2026

Cartoonist’s Take: August 24, 2026

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Cartoonist’s Take: August 23, 2026

Cartoonist’s Take: August 23, 2026

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Alexandra Paskhaver: The minimalist

I have decided to follow Diogenes and live in a barrel. Psych. I have enough trouble lying down on wooden floors. I need at least a sleeping bag....

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Cartoonist’s Take: August 22, 2026

Cartoonist’s Take: August 22, 2026

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Byron York: Trump’s Iran struggle comes through on campaign stump

One interesting thing about listening to President Donald Trump’s speeches, as opposed to just reading about them later, is that the listener not...

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Steven Roberts: No good options

The 60-day ceasefire between the United States and Iran has expired. The war drags on through its sixth month with no peace talks scheduled and no end...

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Cartoonist’s Take: August 21, 2026

Cartoonist’s Take: August 21, 2026

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Ask the attorney: New York criminal cases and social media: When online posts become evidence

By Greg T. Rinckey, Esq. In today’s digital world, social media activity can create a permanent record for users with consequences that extend...

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Alexandra Paskhaver : Benjamin Franklin, public servant

Editor’s note: Humor columnist Alexandra Paskhaver is also a big history buff, and is diving into the rich life of Benjamin Franklin for a series of...

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Cartoonist’s Take: August 20, 2026

Cartoonist’s Take: August 20, 2026

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Danny Tyree: Signing the property tax blues?

“With two cats in the yard, life used to be so hard – and THEN they started taxing the cats!” – apologies to Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young....

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Tom Purcell: The IPhone has made life easier – and ruder

Just one year shy of its 20th anniversary, the iPhone, and the other electronic devices we use daily, sure have changed modern life — and not all...

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Cartoonist’s Take: August 19, 2026

Cartoonist’s Take: August 19, 2026

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Christine Flowers: New Massachusetts law is infanticide disguised as health care

People used to tell me that I wrote too many columns about abortion. The staunchly “pro-choice-but-who-are-we-kidding-pro-abortion” readers were...

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Elwood Watson: Republicans wage a senseless war against Anthony Fauci

The Republican war against Anthony Fauci came to a head earlier this month when GOP senators slapped the former director of the National Institute of...

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Cartoonist’s Take: August 18, 2026

Cartoonist’s Take: August 18, 2026

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Cartoonist’s Take: August 17, 2026

Cartoonist’s Take: August 17, 2026

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Jonah Goldberg: The GOP isn’t always the best party for conservatives

I often get asked for my advice on how to vote. I’m the first to concede these requests come from a very niche slice of the electorate — that tiny...

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Cartoonist’s Take: August 16, 2026

Cartoonist’s Take: August 16, 2026

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Steven Roberts: Change without chaos

When left-wing insurgent Abdul El-Sayed won the Democratic nomination for an open Senate seat in Michigan, Donald Trump cheered that it was “great...

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Cartoonist’s Take: August 15, 2026

Cartoonist’s Take: August 15, 2026

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Byron York: You can’t erase woke

This political season, like the last couple, has featured Democratic candidates not only running for office but running away from things they said...

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Alexandra Paskhaver: The host

I have studied the art of conversation and come to a conclusion. “Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all...

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Cartoonist’s Take: August 14, 2026

Cartoonist’s Take: August 14, 2026

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