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A Debate over the Future of the Young Right

Yesterday, a line from one of the principals at a new outfit dedicated to cultivating “a younger crop of America First-aligned lawmakers” set me...

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National Review

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The Young Right’s Nauseating New Battle Cry

After Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts scolded the “venomous coalition” of conservatives who recoiled from Tucker Carlson and the...

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Welcome to the Hasan Piker Era of American Politics

Zohran Mamdani forced a chuckle at Fox News Channel host Shannon Bream’s mere mention of the name Hasan Piker. The political commentator embraced by...

06.11.2026 10

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A Transactional President Faces the Wrath of a Transactional Party

The red walls have fallen. The president’s coalition has collapsed. In January, the GOP will be reduced to a rump in Congress. Then, for the first...

06.11.2026 10

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The Silver Lining in the Democratic Party’s Huge Majorities

Nobody understands better than Republicans how impossibly frustrating it is to govern with small congressional majorities. North Dakota Governor Kelly...

04.11.2026 10

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The red walls have fallen, even in Texas

The red walls have fallen, even in Texas

But can the solid Democratic majorities in Congress last?

04.11.2026 10

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Cutting Off Israel Won’t Appease the ‘Anti-Zionist’ Left

During an Election Day interview with the Fox News Channel, Donald Trump ruminated on America’s commitments to “paying Israel,” which is a...

03.11.2026 7

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What Is a ‘Short, Intense’ Campaign Against Iran Supposed to Achieve?

As I wrote yesterday, Iranian recalcitrance at the negotiating table is not helping America’s JD Vance-led team establish the conditions for a...

03.11.2026 6

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The Iranians Are Not Helping Trump Avoid Another ‘Short, Intense’ War

At Donald Trump’s direction late last week, Vice President JD Vance reached out yet again to representatives of the Iranian regime. With the...

02.11.2026 10

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Troy Jackson’s Lazy Campaign Exposes Democratic Divisions

The Atlantic’s Tyler Austin Harper had a valuable observation on Monday morning: https://x.com/Tyler_A_Harper/status/2117255092675940673 Late last...

02.11.2026 9

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What Profits the New York Times to Gain ‘the World?’

The New York Times editorial board’s unctuous effort to drive Democratic turnout this year -- as if Times readers needed the prodding -- makes no...

28.10.2026 10

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Israel Is No Better at Apartheid Than Genocide

We already know that Israel is history’s most inept genocidaire. If its critics were right and the Jewish state had set out to exterminate, in whole...

28.10.2026 10

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Will the GOP See Another False Dawn in Florida on Election Night?

The race for Florida’s seat in the U.S. Senate was already a stretch for Democrats before the party’s socialist nominee, Angie Nixon, exposed her...

27.10.2026 10

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His Antisemitic Fans Hand Abdul El-Sayed a Gift He Can’t Accept

It might be the political ad of the 2026 cycle, but in all the worst ways: https://x.com/cenkuygur/status/2113799606299758984 The pro-Abdul El-Sayed...

26.10.2026 10

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Now They Tell Us

With one week left before voters deliver what political observers believe could be a historic rebuke of the GOP, the Washington Post advises readers...

26.10.2026 10

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The French Are on Their Own, and They Know It

Last weekend’s horrifying riots -- only the most violent expression of the unrest that has plagued France for over a month -- seem to have chastened...

23.10.2026 7

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Troy Jackson’s Petulant Debate Haunts His Campaign

If Abdul El-Sayed had as strong a debate as some observers claimed he had, the press would not have spent the last week and a half talking only about...

19.10.2026 10

National Review

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Trump’s New York Stops Are No Ego Trip

The subtext throughout the Washington Post’s piece on Donald Trump’s “midterm road show” is that his campaign stops in places such as...

16.10.2026 10

National Review

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El-Sayed Goes Viral in All the Worst Ways

According to the unreliable narrators who populate the online environment, Abdul El-Sayed easily dispatched Mike Rogers in last week’s debate. If...

15.10.2026 10

National Review

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The Trump Administration’s Outlook Toward Ukraine Is a Moral and Strategic Atrocity

A reporter asked Donald Trump on Tuesday if he was prepared to cut Ukraine off in retaliation for its long-range attacks on Russia’s energy...

14.10.2026 10

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Trump’s Houthi Headache Is Becoming a Migraine

“Wait until you see what we do to Iran,” Trump told his supporters at a Tuesday night rally in Alaska. “We’re going to do a number.” But...

14.10.2026 10

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Trump’s Dumb Diesel Deal with Russia

Late last Friday, David Frum pointedly proposed a compelling alternative to the Trump administration’s deal with Vladimir Putin’s regime:...

12.10.2026 10

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Do Republicans Want to Rehabilitate Socialism?

Of course, if he wanted to, JD Vance could define socialism. He just doesn’t. https://x.com/cspan/status/2108222744257081533 Contrary to the vice...

09.10.2026 10

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Mike Rogers Hits His Marks

Either Michigan Senate candidate Mike Rogers is still snake-bit from his narrow loss to Senator Elissa Slotkin two years ago, or he’s overcome with...

09.10.2026 20

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Buck Up

Far be it from me to interrupt a bout of cathartic fatalism. Lord knows I’m good for those when the occasion permits. But Dan Foster’s latest is a...

08.10.2026 20

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Marco Rubio Makes the Best Case for Trump

Much has been written about Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s speech in Greece on Wednesday, but I want to highlight a few passages that stood out to...

08.10.2026 20

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Anti-Zionism Is an Old Soviet Plot

You have to think that New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani had a grudging admiration for the mob of braying lunatics who heckled him during his...

08.10.2026 20

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French Police Aren’t the Problem

As the rioting in France approaches its third week, and seven days after French authorities stopped pretending to sympathize with the vandals and...

07.10.2026 20

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The Cult of Trump Is Trump’s Worst Enemy

Little else has served Donald Trump as poorly as his own insistence on blind deference and thoughtless fealty from his aides and allies. Once in a...

06.10.2026 10

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Democrats Deliver a Low Blow in Colorado

Since January, the New York Times has tracked at least 35 political advertisements that feature the name “Epstein,” including “many” that...

05.10.2026 20

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‘Just Say It’s a Genocide’

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez did not even bother to disguise her wholly justified irritation with the far-left agitators who, in the spring of 2024,...

02.10.2026 20

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Was the Flydubai Hijacking the Latest Iranian Plot Against the West?

Anyone who assumed that President Trump and his deputies were unreliable narrators — and, therefore, dismissed the administration’s early claims...

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The Democrats Face Their Own Early-Voting Paranoia Problem

In some states, early voting in the 2026 midterm elections has already begun. Many more will follow as this campaign cycle enters the home stretch....

01.10.2026 20

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London Stops Being Ambiguous About Iran’s Involvement in the RAF Fairford Attack

With one possibly state-supported terrorist event dominating international headlines, we shouldn’t let the last possibly state-supported terrorist...

01.10.2026 10

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Trump Won’t Let the GOP Go Its Own Way so Easily

Last Friday, Jim chronicled what seemed like a coordinated breakout among the GOP’s office seekers as one Republican after another sought to...

28.09.2026 20

National Review

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Britain’s Malaise in a Time of Terror

From the prime minister on down, authorities in the U.K. are asking the British public and international observers alike to avoid speculating about...

28.09.2026 20

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This Is Who the Protesters Are

What did the celebrities, activists, and politicians who joined the terrorist-curious group Jewish Voice for Peace outside the U.N.’s headquarters...

25.09.2026 20

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Benjamin Netanyahu Turns the Tables on Zohran Mamdani

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani rarely misses an opportunity to criticize Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, to accuse him of various...

24.09.2026 20

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Susan Collins Is Defying the Headwinds

Maine Senator Susan Collins famously trailed in every survey of her 2020 reelection race. But in the end, she defeated her opponent by 8.6 points....

24.09.2026 20

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Russia Is Going to Do Something Really Stupid and Dangerous

Why would the Trump administration invite Vladimir Putin back onto American soil? “We think it’s an opportunity for him to engage not just with...

24.09.2026 10

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Nose-Diving into Moral Relativism

When the Center for Strategic Politics asked 683 Democrats how they would feel if they “woke up tomorrow morning and saw the following headlines,”...

23.09.2026 20

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When You Just Can’t Get Enough Trump, Now There’s ‘Trump TV’

Even those of us who are allergic to conspiracy theorizing struggle with the timing of, and apparent lack of any precipitating incident inspiring,...

23.09.2026 20

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Isn’t the Absence of Racial Violence Good News?

For weeks, the progressive left has alleged that America is in the grip of a new outbreak of racist lynchings, the total lack of supporting evidence...

22.09.2026 10

National Review

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For Now, Trump Won’t Pull the Trigger on the Houthis

We’re a long way from those heady days when the Trump administration’s foreign policy theorists objected to finishing the campaign against...

21.09.2026 20

National Review

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The Left Loves Populism Now

It wasn’t that long ago that Democrats and their allies in the media would expectorate the word “populist” with unbridled contempt. But that was...

21.09.2026 10

National Review

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Losing the Sun Belt

If you seek evidence that the GOP might still avert an electoral crisis in November, you’ve come to the wrong place. While avoiding a forecast —...

18.09.2026 20

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We’re Not as Dumb as You Think

There’s a certain type of political observer whose low esteem for his fellow Americans’ character and intelligence is matched only by his high...

17.09.2026 20

National Review

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The Climate Underground

Matthew Huber’s May op-ed in the New York Times went off like a bomb inside the increasingly jilted community of climate activists. The Democratic...

16.09.2026 20

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Russia’s Attempted Attack Inside America Should Be a Turning Point for Trump

Moscow has grown increasingly brazen amid a campaign of sabotage and provocations targeting the West. The tempo of attacks on Western targets is also...

16.09.2026 20

National Review

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Or Maybe It’s the Chinese Propaganda

A little under a month ago, I speculated that the conversation within the professional commentariat around AI-supporting data centers had become a...

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