Rich Lowry
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If AOC is their future, the Democrats are hopelessly lost
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is a cartoon version of the Democratic Party that the GOP would love to run against — and Democrats say she embodies their philosophy.
Tesla terrorism only reveals the left's impotence
The agitation is meant to exact a price on Musk for DOGE and get him to abandon the effort: No one wants to buy an expensive vehicle and then become...
Blame Canada? Trump's trade tiff is way out of whack — and harming US, too
The madman theory has much to recommend it when dealing with Hamas or the Houthis — but no one heretofore has thought it has similar benefits when handling our once-friendly...
This lone district judge has no right to run US foreign policy
Judge Amir Ali has no authority over the conduct of US foreign policy, but that's not stopping him in his escalating conflict with the Trump administration over USAID spending.
How English makes us stronger: national language brings unity
It’s no disrespect to speakers of, say, Tagalog to enforce English as our predominant language — and not learning it excludes them from the mainstream of American life.
Bezos' Washington Post overhaul reveals the weakness of the woke
The furious reaction to Jeff Bezos reveals the left’s intolerance of any dissenting news source — but his changes will make the legacy media less monochromatic and more interesting.
In general, a major shakeup at the Pentagon is admiral
President Trump and his defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, have outraged the Beltway by dismissing top generals, including Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Charles Q. Brown.
Europe finally gets it: pony up and help defend yourselves
Serious countries need serious militaries, but Europe has preferred to spend on everything else while relying on the might of the United States for security and power projection.
Trump's war on woke is tearing down the left's cultural sway
Fashionable progressive ideas that have long been ascendant, including DEI and gender ideology, have received hammer blows since Trump’s inauguration, and there’s more to come.
Dems suffering from Musk Derangement Syndrome
Democrats have finally found someone they hate more than Donald Trump.
Panama's canal cave-in a triumph of Trump's brash diplomacy
Right now Marco Rubio has the easiest job in the world: President Trump is throwing his weight around in our hemisphere in a way we haven’t seen in a century,...
Media claims of 'racist' deportations are bogus — here are the numbers
The leftist logic is that it’s racist to keep out non-white illegal immigrants, racist to make them go — and racist to have a country that takes its borders seriously.
Talk loudly and swing a yuge stick: the new Trump doctrine
Donald Trump is practicing not deterrence but?'compellence,' making a threat to coerce foreign actors into doing things we want.
Trump's bold strike against DEI ends 60 years of discrimination
We’re only days into the Trump administration, and we can already identify one of his top five achievements.
Disco was waiting for Trump: he's seized culture AND politics
How did a Democratic Party that has long prided itself on its hipness lose the culture fight to Donald J. Trump? Voters concluded that he made more sense than his...
Whatever Coca-Cola's politics may be, the drink's a gift to the world
In 1942, the Nazi apparatchik Otto Dietrich sniffed, “America never contributed anything to world civilization but chewing gum and Coca-Cola.”
LA fires lay waste to DEI agenda: race, gender don't matter
Los Angeles for years has been in the grips of a bizarre obsession with recruiting more women firefighters, as if gender diversity somehow makes it easier to rescue people and...
Location, location: Why Trump's Greenland push is smart geopolitics
To understand the world, and to a large extent the behavior of nations, you need to look at a map — which is why Donald Trump is talking up Greenland.?
Forget Biden's shameful drilling ban — energy will be Trump's superpower
The offshore oil and gas drilling ban is a sad attempt by Joe Biden to impose his green policy on Donald Trump — but it's bound to fail.
No, Canada! Despite Trump's trolling, 51st state would drag the US down
The United States doesn’t need another huge, misgoverned blue state. We already have California, where the climate and the surfing are much better.?