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Candace Owens' toxic Charlie Kirk slanders are poisoning the right
Influential voices on the right have become more and more conspiratorial in recent years — and now, the paranoia is being wielded against its own.
The 'Trump Doctrine' isn't just branding — it's a crucial update for US power
Since the 1990s, we’ve let down our guard in the Western Hemisphere. Trump aims to right the power balance in America's backyard.
Three cheers for President Trump for letting motorists choose gas-powered cars
This uneconomical push for electric vehicles over gas-powered ones ignored consumer preferences and relied on high-handed executive overreach.?
Ilhan Omar and Somali scammers are the immigrants we DON'T want
Rep. Ilhan Omar stands for everything we shouldn’t want an immigrant to be — petulant, hostile to the American system as such, and perhaps not above perpetrating fraud.
Ukraine peace deal exposes Europe's total irrelevance
Once-great European powers can’t even dictate the end of a war in a European country whose fate they deem crucial to their own future.
Ken Burns makes a woke mockery of America's founding
Ken Burns says he wants to strip away 'the barnacles of sentimentality' around the American Revolution — but his film creates new barnacles romanticizing 'oppressed' groups.?
President Trump's tariffs are making US manufacturers shudder
Ronald Reagan famously said the most frightening words in the English language are: “I'm from the government, and I'm here to help.” US manufacturers must know exactly what he meant:...
Epstein scandal is no mystery — just an indictment of America's 'elites'
This conspiracy wasn’t the work of the Deep State or Israel, but something worse: A criminal's wealth and connections led most of America's upper crust to embrace him.?
How the GOP can push true health care 'affordability' — and win
Obamacare imposed massive regulations on the individual insurance market to cover the sick and lower costs, but it's failed on both counts. It's time for real reform.
The pointless government shutdown is over -- but Schumer and Dems' psychodrama only just getting started
The longest shutdown in US history — with increasing pain points across the country, whether among travelers or SNAP recipients — is ending, while the Democratic recriminations are just getting...
Ozempic for all — Trump the deal-maker aims to make America slim again
GLP-1 drugs make it easier to lose weight, and to avoid associated serious health problems — and President Trump's latest deal will bring down their high costs.?It's a win-win-win.
Tucker Carlson aims to poison us with hatred — but Trump stands in the way
White-nationalist influencer and self-avowed racist Nick Fuentes hit the big time on the “Tucker Carlson Show,” where he laundered noxious ideas into the conservative mainstream.?
Trump reverses 'asinine' US nuclear-weapons policy — and it's about time
Donald Trump recognizes an important reality: There is nothing immoral about testing US nuclear weapons, and not testing them doesn't make the world safer.
Mamdani's 9/11 crocodile tears reveal his callow self-regard
If Mamdani's career arc is what Islamophobia looks like, everyone should welcome having some sectarian hatred directed their way.
Sports gambling is out of control — NBA scandal is just the start
We’ve created, out of nothing, an enormous industry that is inherently corrupting and ruins lives — and the criminal cases are adding up.
Depending on China for rare-earths is one of our dumbest mistakes — and must be corrected PRONTO
In the 1960s, the conservative intellectual James Burnham wrote a book arguing that the decline of Western civilization was a self-imposed choice. The volume, famously called “The Suicide of the...
Phil Murphy's foolish obsession with wind power has carved a huge opening for Jack Ciatarrelli
New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy’s obsession with wind power is one of the reasons the state’s gubernatorial race is competitive and Republican Jack Ciatarrelli has a chance to upset Murphy’s...
Trump's Knesset 'pep talk' a ringing endorsement of Israel — and of peace
Donald Trump’s speech was a raucous, celebratory affair as lawmakers in Jerusalem showered him with adulation — and he delivered the most lavishly pro-Israel message any US president has given.
Thank Trump's useful, 'gonzo' foreign policy for the Mideast cease-fire — and other wins
The “cease-fire now” crowd finally got its cease-fire, although not the way it hoped.?
Dems have only themselves to blame for Trump's National Guard patrols
Leftist leaders' incendiary rhetoric has whipped followers into an anti-ICE frenzy — but if we’re in the run-up to another Civil War, they're in the Confederate role, opposing federal authority.