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From Obama to el Sayed

From Obama to el Sayed

Abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement, imposing Medicare for All, and disarming Israel used to be policy positions confined to the fringe of...

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Washington Examiner

Washington Examiner

Trump’s worse-than-useless Russian diesel deal

Trump’s worse-than-useless Russian diesel deal

Rising gas and diesel prices are a major reason Republicans risk losing the House and possibly the Senate in November, but President Donald Trump’s...

previous day 10

Washington Examiner

Washington Examiner

Biden’s immigration failures went far beyond the border

Biden’s immigration failures went far beyond the border

President Joe Biden’s record on border security is so bad that his own party members regard it as toxic. Even far-left candidates such as James...

monday 10

Washington Examiner

Washington Examiner

A red-green warning from France

A red-green warning from France

Rioters in France who have been burning schools, vandalizing storefronts, and assaulting teachers for over two weeks do not carry that country’s...

11.10.2026 10

Washington Examiner

Washington Examiner

Iran shows Trump’s opportunity in escalating Hormuz attacks

Iran shows Trump’s opportunity in escalating Hormuz attacks

Desperate to undermine successful American efforts to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, Iran is escalating its attacks on ships transiting this vital...

10.10.2026 10

Washington Examiner

Washington Examiner

Latin America turns right as Democrats turn left

Latin America turns right as Democrats turn left

The final result won’t be known until later this month, but if the first round of Brazil’s election is any indication, it will soon become the...

09.10.2026 10

Washington Examiner

Washington Examiner

Our healthcare system shouldn’t depend on fraud

Our healthcare system shouldn’t depend on fraud

Vice President JD Vance recently announced that the Trump administration would end subsidy payments for 760,000 fraudulent health insurance...

08.10.2026 20

Washington Examiner

Washington Examiner

The two legacies of Oct. 7

The two legacies of Oct. 7

Three years ago today, more than 5,000 Gazans led by Hamas crossed the border into Israel with the intent of raping and killing as many Israeli...

07.10.2026 20

Washington Examiner

Washington Examiner

Spanberger is already making Virginia unaffordable

Spanberger is already making Virginia unaffordable

Gov. Abigail Spanberger (D-VA) campaigned as a centrist who promised to make Virginia more affordable for families. But her existing energy policies...

06.10.2026 10

Washington Examiner

Washington Examiner

Climate policy belongs to Congress, not Colorado

Climate policy belongs to Congress, not Colorado

Do state courts have the power to regulate not just national industries but global ones, including conduct that took place entirely outside the state?...

05.10.2026 20

Washington Examiner

Washington Examiner

A bipartisan deal to get America building again

A bipartisan deal to get America building again

It is unfortunate for Republicans that it won’t pass until after the November elections, but the bipartisan permitting reform deal announced hours...

04.10.2026 20

Washington Examiner

Washington Examiner

Trump just made cars more affordable

It can be easy to forget in a midterm election year, but presidents have immense power to drive up consumer costs. President Joe Biden was doing...

03.10.2026 20

Washington Examiner

Washington Examiner

Preserving due process on college campuses

We may never know exactly what happened on a October 2024 night in a Cornell University fraternity house, but we should be thankful that the factual...

02.10.2026 20

Washington Examiner

Washington Examiner

Yes, DEI can violate civil rights law

Should the Civil Rights Act protect all Americans equally, or must some meet a higher standard to prove racial discrimination? A federal judge...

01.10.2026 10

Washington Examiner

Washington Examiner

The Air Force retreats from studying China

The United States finds itself in a new Cold War with an even more dangerous adversary: communist China. But Washington is woefully unprepared to...

30.09.2026 20

Washington Examiner

Washington Examiner

Netanyahu’s warning to a declining West

“In a time of universal deceit,” George Orwell is often credited with writing, “telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” In his recent...

28.09.2026 20

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Washington Examiner

This is what Democrats’ immigration policy would be

Rep. Delia Ramirez (D-IL), who has declared herself a “proud anchor baby,” is not the first Democrat to introduce legislation that would abolish...

27.09.2026 20

Washington Examiner

Washington Examiner

Trump should force the District of Columbia to allow police pursuits

“A 10-year-old child has just been struck by an illegal dirt bike. He’s in critical condition. The group of all-terrain vehicles and dirt bikes is...

26.09.2026 20

Washington Examiner

Washington Examiner

Newsom’s pathetic energy rebate

Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) celebrated a one-time $75 credit on Californians’ electricity bills this week. He did not, however, note that the average...

25.09.2026 20

Washington Examiner

Washington Examiner

Trump gets his Greenland deal, but at a cost

The Trump administration has finally secured a deal on Greenland. But it was reached despite President Donald Trump’s self-defeating tactics and...

24.09.2026 20

Washington Examiner

Washington Examiner

Trump should pressure Russia, not Ukraine, on energy prices

President Donald Trump is understandably concerned that rising gas prices are harming American households and weakening the Republican Party’s...

23.09.2026 30

Washington Examiner

Washington Examiner

Teachers unions, not racism, are failing New York City’s black students

Just two years after Nikole Hannah-Jones claimed she “made the right choice” in sending her daughter to a social-justice-oriented Brooklyn middle...

22.09.2026 20

Washington Examiner

Washington Examiner

Putin tests Trump’s hopes for a Russia reset

Russian President Vladimir Putin is escalating his war against the West. Putin is directly targeting the United States itself, not just U.S. allies....

21.09.2026 10

Washington Examiner

Washington Examiner

Income is up, poverty is down, but Trump’s economy still needs improvement

If a Democrat were in the White House, the headlines from the Census Bureau’s annual report on income in the United States would have been glowing....

20.09.2026 20

Washington Examiner

Washington Examiner

The Fed just ended Washington’s cheap-money era

The Federal Reserve’s decision Wednesday to raise its benchmark interest rate by a quarter percentage point to 4% surprised almost no one. Inflation...

19.09.2026 30

Washington Examiner

Washington Examiner

Brett Kavanaugh gets Trump’s mail ballot rules right

North Carolina began mailing ballots to voters two weeks ago, and the deadline for states to transmit requested ballots to overseas military voters is...

18.09.2026 10

Washington Examiner

Washington Examiner

America must confront the Axis of Aggressors

America’s foremost enemies are massing their talents and strengths. U.S. political leaders, however, have yet to name, let alone begin to counter,...

17.09.2026 30

Washington Examiner

Washington Examiner

Immigrants should be self-sufficient

Supporters of mass immigration often justify their position by assuring us that immigrants do not use welfare and are a net benefit to society, so we...

16.09.2026 30

Washington Examiner

Washington Examiner

Slow down the race to regulate AI

That the leaders of the most powerful artificial intelligence companies are all calling for regulation shouldn’t be ignored. But big businesses...

15.09.2026 30

Washington Examiner

Washington Examiner

Let’s not criminalize motherhood

Being a mother is one of the most rewarding jobs in the world. It is also exhausting and can be stressful, especially when raising five children....

14.09.2026 20

Washington Examiner

Washington Examiner

The UK’s disastrous decision to boycott Israel

The United Kingdom’s new policy of boycotting Israeli goods is not only discriminatory; it is disastrous. It will increase antisemitism, strain...

13.09.2026 20

Washington Examiner

Washington Examiner

Against Trump’s $5,000 bribe

Producer price inflation is up 5.4% from a year ago, but that is nothing compared with the inflation in vote-buying. Last fall, President Donald Trump...

12.09.2026 20

Washington Examiner

Washington Examiner

Remembering the worldview that inspired 9/11

Anniversaries are occasions for remembrance. This week, 25 years after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, Americans will rightly remember the...

11.09.2026 20

Washington Examiner

Washington Examiner

There is no ‘win-win’ with Vladimir Putin

The Trump administration has again sent envoys to Moscow to try to end Russia’s war of conquest against Ukraine. The objective is laudable, but the...

10.09.2026 20

Washington Examiner

Washington Examiner

Trump’s quiet jobs revolution

Friday’s jobs report offered something Americans have not seen much of lately: an economic surprise on the upside. Employers added 162,000 jobs in...

09.09.2026 30

Washington Examiner

Washington Examiner

Trump’s immigration enforcement was no miracle, just responsible government

For years, we were told that Congress must pass new legislation in order for the southern border to be secured. But now, 19 months into the second...

08.09.2026 30

Washington Examiner

Washington Examiner

How Labor Day became Government Day

When the American Federation of Labor pushed to make Labor Day a national holiday in 1894, it promoted the occasion as a celebration of “all wage...

07.09.2026 30

Washington Examiner

Washington Examiner

The US-Saudi nuclear deal needs improvement

The United States and Saudi Arabia are in the final stages of a landmark nuclear arrangement. But a pact between longtime allies must not become a...

06.09.2026 30

Washington Examiner

Washington Examiner

Trump DOJ scores win for energy consumers in federal court

A federal judge appointed by former President Barack Obama handed the Trump Justice Department a major victory over New York Democrats this week that...

05.09.2026 40

Washington Examiner

Washington Examiner

Trump should dismiss Tom Barrack

President Donald Trump should sack his friend, U.S. Ambassador to Turkey Tom Barrack. The president deserves advisers who don’t contradict his...

04.09.2026 30

Washington Examiner

Washington Examiner

The blue-state corporate exodus

CG Oncology, a cancer immunotherapy biotech company, announced last week that it was moving its headquarters from California to Texas, becoming the...

03.09.2026 20

Washington Examiner

Washington Examiner

If DC won’t arrest ATV riders, Trump should

The latest iteration of the popular Grand Theft Auto computer game will be released this November. As with previous editions, the game will allow...

02.09.2026 20

Washington Examiner

Washington Examiner

Richmond memo shows why the weaponization investigation was necessary

Democrats were so desperate to find white supremacist violence during the Biden administration that they spied on two innocent priests. Then, when the...

01.09.2026 30

Washington Examiner

Washington Examiner

Young Americans need to learn communism’s true history

Socialism is gaining ground, particularly among younger adults. It is sometimes modified with the word “democratic,” as in the name Democratic...

31.08.2026 20

Washington Examiner

Washington Examiner

A nuclear renaissance could be an important Trump legacy

The Army announced Wednesday that its Janus Program has selected five companies to build nuclear microreactors at five military installations,...

30.08.2026 30

Washington Examiner

Washington Examiner

Washington should have kept its Syria leverage

The United States has removed Syria from its list of state sponsors of terrorism as the Trump administration seeks to shape an emerging new order in...

29.08.2026 20

Washington Examiner

Washington Examiner

Closing the tourist visa loophole

Lying to the government should not be any immigrant‘s method of entry into the United States, which is why the Trump administration’s proposed...

28.08.2026 30

Washington Examiner

Washington Examiner

Gavin Newsom’s tire mandate rolls over consumers

Considering that California still has yet to lay a single mile of track for its $126 billion high-speed rail system, first approved 18 years ago, we...

27.08.2026 30

Washington Examiner

Washington Examiner

No more lifelines for Iran

America’s war against Iran has been at a standstill for months. The Trump administration’s new plan to use America’s considerable economic...

26.08.2026 50

Washington Examiner

Washington Examiner

Blame spending for our $40 trillion debt

The federal government’s debt burden passed $40 trillion last week, a terrible milestone. It shows the extent to which we are living beyond our...

25.08.2026 20

Washington Examiner

Washington Examiner