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Iran Tests Trump’s Appetite for Humiliation

A little over a week ago, I wrote that Iran’s tests of Trump’s resolve to pretend that his memorandum of understanding is intact and in force will...

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Does Josh Shapiro Have a Fight in Him?

Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro sounds like he’s itching for a fight with his party's insurgent socialist wing, whose uncomfortable marriage...

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The Intifada Sidelines the Resistance

Four years ago, Mallory McMorrow wasn’t just a rising star within Michigan’s Democratic Party but a “role model” that every Democrat in...

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The Handful of Democrats Fighting Back Against the DSA Takeover

For the most part, the most prominent Democratic lawmakers in the country are making peace with the rise of the Democratic Socialists. Democratic...

02.07.2026 6

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The U.S. Approach to Iran Talks Is as Clear as Mud

The Trump administration is not speaking with one voice when it comes to its efforts to secure a durable and advantageous peace with Iran through...

01.07.2026 8

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The Court Gave Agency Back to the Parties but Not the Courage to Wield It

The Dispatch’s David Drucker recently summarized the result of Tuesday’s Supreme Court decision striking down limits on coordination between...

01.07.2026 10

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How Much More Evidence Do We Need?

Fifteen-term Representative Diana DeGette was ousted by her Democratic constituents last night in favor of the 29-year-old Democratic Socialist Melat...

01.07.2026 8

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America’s economic engine is outperforming this century’s expectations — whether the Dems like it or not

We should be grateful that the left’s insatiable appetite for other people’s money is matched only by their ineptitude in stealing it.

27.06.2026 20

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It’s Just Another Isolated Incident

Melat Kiros, a Democratic candidate for Congress in Colorado’s first congressional district, is a dyed-in-the-wool Democratic Socialist. At least,...

26.06.2026 10

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Iran’s Tests of Trump Will Keep Coming, and They’re Going to Get Worse

It was Iran’s terrorist catspaws in Hezbollah who were the first to test Trump’s commitment to his supposedly war-ending memorandum of...

26.06.2026 9

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The Hostile Takeover of the Democratic Party That Everyone but the Democrats Saw Coming

The first time I ever heard of Zohran Mamdani was in early February 2025. Donald Trump had just taken the oath of office for the second time....

25.06.2026 6

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Marco Rubio Cleans Up Trump’s and Vance’s Mess

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has resurfaced after a conspicuous absence from the diplomatic stage following the implementation of Donald Trump’s...

24.06.2026 6

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Gen Z? Doesn’t Ring a Bell

There’s a bit of a mismatch in the results produced by a recent survey of 2,000 British citizens. That poll found that an absurd number of...

23.06.2026 10

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This Is What ‘Revolutionary Terror’ Looks Like

Two people are dead, including one police officer, after a gunman opened fire in Montreal's Côte-des-Neiges neighborhood. According to legacy...

23.06.2026 9

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Trouble in the Democratic Socialists’ Paradise

John Fund’s timely warning about the march of the Democratic Socialists through America’s electoral institutions should not be missed. His...

22.06.2026 10

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The Fantastical Abstract World of the Democratic Socialists

If you were looking for an excruciating experience, the New York Editorial Board -- a Substack -- has you covered. The outlet recently posted a...

19.06.2026 9

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Trump Throws Vance and Rubio Under the Bus

The president has struck an obdurate pose in defense of his supposedly war-ending memorandum of understanding with the Islamic Republic. For the most...

18.06.2026 10

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Trump’s Feeble Threats Are Not Credible

Donald Trump’s aides and allies continue to claim that the versions of the Iran War-ending Memorandum of Understanding presently circulating in...

17.06.2026 10

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I Learned It by Watching You

Alaska’s director of elections, Carol Beecher, was unsparing in a letter explaining her decision to boot Dan Sullivan from the ballot in November....

16.06.2026 10

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An Epochal Mass Casualty Attack Targeting ‘Capitalist Elites’ Thwarted

The Washington Post’s comically vague dispatch on the thwarted terrorist plot targeting Donald Trump’s UFC event on the White House lawn on Sunday...

16.06.2026 10

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Patriotism Should Not Be Another Partisan Costume

According to NBC News, “America at 250 is riven with doubt and pessimism.” The assessment is fueled by the outlet’s latest poll, which found...

15.06.2026 10

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All That for This?

It’s unwise to invest too much emotional and intellectual energy in the selectively leaked terms of the deal that will supposedly end the conflict...

12.06.2026 10

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The U.S. Energy Revolution Is Iran’s Worst Enemy

With gasoline prices still averaging over $4 per gallon and the rate of inflation rising to a three-year high on the back of rising energy costs,...

11.06.2026 10

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The Natural Gas Ban That Totally Did Not Happen Is Crushing New York’s Consumers

Reuters couldn’t even be bothered to properly write up the revelation this week that New York State’s electricity supplies have collapsed over the...

10.06.2026 10

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Graham Platner Is the Very ‘Toxic Masculinity’ Stereotype the Left Invented

Transcription alone fails to convey the uniqueness of the characters who recruited Maine’s Democratic U.S. Senate nominee, Graham Platner, into the...

10.06.2026 10

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Donald Trump Has Deterred Himself

It was not long after the Pentagon revealed that a U.S. Apache attack helicopter that crashed near the Strait of Hormuz on Tuesday was, in fact, shot...

10.06.2026 10

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Violent Crime in New York City Isn’t Trump’s Fault

To read the coverage, you’d think that a great injustice had been done to the city of New York. Donald Trump is heading into town on Monday night to...

08.06.2026 10

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The Democrats want another long, hot summer of violence

America is experiencing a wave of left-wing political violence unlike any it has seen in the last half-century. But it’s not unprecedented.

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Russia Is Losing Its War, and Congress Should Help Finish the Job

George Barros, one of the Institute for the Study of War’s leading analysts of Russia’s war of conquest in Ukraine, believes that the long-running...

05.06.2026 10

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The Associated Press Asks: Aren’t We All Scott Pelley?

You can tell that the press is struggling to find a rationale to justify its instinct to rally around former CBS News anchor Scott Pelley. The...

05.06.2026 10

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The Democrats’ Contradictory Delaney Hall Narrative

In remarks to reporters, New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill recently related “heartbreaking reports of unsafe, inhumane and unconstitutional...

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Spencer Pratt’s Humble Promise of Competence

Spencer Pratt had a good line ready for reporters as the results of yesterday’s mayoral primary in Los Angeles continued to indicate that he would...

03.06.2026 10

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The Monsters Come for Their Creators

Democrats can blame themselves for tolerating a species of “anti-Zionism” so radical that their voters are now willing to overlook a few...

03.06.2026 10

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Assuaging the Graham Platner Guilt Complex

It wasn’t just the existence of the Waffen SS tattoo on Graham Platner’s chest that raised questions about his judgment. It was the way we learned...

01.06.2026 20

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The Mob’s Candidate

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani upended Democratic expectations this week when he abandoned his pledge to endorse longtime congressman and Hispanic...

29.05.2026 10

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The Case for JD Vance to Run

I agree with Phil and Dan: JD Vance will run for president in 2028, and he’ll do so while dragging the Trump administration’s baggage along with...

27.05.2026 20

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How to Leverage a Riot

New Jersey Democrats got the headline they wanted, even if the treatment they endured to get it was far from ideal. New Jersey Senator Andy Kim “was...

26.05.2026 20

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Grab Your Financial Stake in America’s Decline While You Can

The Wall Street Journal published an immensely troubling dispatch on Thursday exposing how cryptocurrency networks — specifically, the formerly...

22.05.2026 20

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Jeff Bezos’s Subversive Appeal to the Progressive Left

For all the activists' theatrical expressions of contempt for billionaires, they’re not above deferring to the wisdom and expertise of the...

21.05.2026 10

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The Best ‘Chilling Effect’ Yet

Before his resounding primary loss on Tuesday night, outgoing Representative Thomas Massie lent credence to the notion that foreign interests and...

20.05.2026 20

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The Issue Is the Revolution

Paraphrasing a “radical” associated with the 1960s-era Students for a Democratic Society, the late David Horowitz once said of the activists’...

19.05.2026 10

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The Trump Ballroom and Unmanned Aerial System Launch Site

Trump says the roof of his ballroom will protect all of Washington: If a drone hits it, it bounces off. It’s also a drone port....

19.05.2026 10

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No, California’s Backyard BBQ Ban Proposal Is Not Justified

In a headline that seems tailor-made for Spencer Pratt’s insurgent mayoral campaign in Los Angeles, the New York Post reported this morning that one...

15.05.2026 20

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Another One

For a while, it looked like the president was gearing up to engineer a resolution to his claim that the federal government under Joe Biden had been...

15.05.2026 20

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How Maximum Partisan Warfare Gives Way to a More Centrist Politics

With the overturning of Virginia’s partisan gerrymander by the state’s highest court and the Supreme Court’s ruling that the majority-minority...

14.05.2026 20

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The Students Are Lying

The Nazi swastika flew proudly over New York City’s West 4th Street this week. It was hoisted over New York University’s Greenwich Village campus...

14.05.2026 20

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The Democratic Socialists Need a New Model

The capitalist enterprise is alive and well, even in that “paragon of collectivism,” as the Wall Street Journal put it: Sweden. “Today, nearly...

13.05.2026 20

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The Wrong Way to Talk About the Iran War

As Donald Trump prepared to embark on his trip to China, he was asked by a reporter if Americans’ worsening “financial situation” had motivated...

13.05.2026 20

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This Is What It Looks Like When a Great Power Is Losing a War

In the war against the Islamic Republic of Iran, the United States is “losing.” In fact, the president may have already “lost” his...

11.05.2026 20

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Regime Change Has Its Perks

Just 18 months ago, Syria, under the thumb of Bashar al-Assad’s despotic regime, represented an outsize threat to American national interests in the...

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