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‘Anti-Zionism’ doesn’t need?facts, our unwavering distrust in gov't and other commentary
“What is starting to look like a hate-crimes hoax in Vermont is being used to further increase the ways anti-Zionism seeks to divide the Jewish world against itself and society...
Biden says he lowered prices, Justice KBJ wants us to trust the experts and more
Former President Joe Biden claimed that his administration actually lowered the price of "everything" — despite data showing prices rising and real wages falling during his term.
Trump spots true trend, Dems’ education pessimism and other commentary
The Trump team has a point about how “trends” of “mass immigration” and the “Islamification” of Europe “predict the continent’s ‘civilizational erasure,’?” observes The Spectator’s Gavin Mortimer.
DC elites loathe their protectors, Gen Z’s capitalism complaints and other commentary
Even deep partisanship in Washington, DC, can’t account for “the rancor to which the National Guard and US Immigration and Customs Enforcement have been subject along the Potomac.”
If it’s not a US war, who cares?, making liberal arts matter and other commentary
Foreign desk: If It’s Not a US War, Who Cares? President Donald Trump “calls himself the ‘president of peace’ and says he has ‘ended eight wars,’ ”?notes the Washinton Examiner’s...
High schools’ math con, the hypocritical Eurovision boycott and other commentary
To avoid admitting “tragically unprepared” kids, universities should acknowledge “test-optional admissions” has been a “failure," said Ben Sasse at The Wall Street Journal.?
McMahon’s mission to help kids, AI is erasing hearing loss and other commentary
“Education Secretary Linda McMahon is doing exactly what President Donald J. Trump hired her to do: Clean out a failed education bureaucracy, return power to states and parents, and put...
Find better ‘victims,’ don’t promote e-bikes, ban ’em and other commentary
The New York Times just published “a head-scratcher of a tear-jerker,” snarks Becket Adams at The Hill.
The ‘illegal orders’ minefield, a food-price win for Americans and other commentary
“The law is clear that service members can disobey illegal orders,” explains Joshua Braver, but with a deep “ambiguity,” as this is a system where “all incentives point toward obedience.”
Your COVID dollars at . . . work? UK cops’ Israeli-smearing lies and other commentary
Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-Fla.) and three co-defendants stand “charged with stealing federal COVID funds” to enrich themselves, fund her House campaign and buy bling like a 3.14-carat diamond ring, reports...
Blame Biden for rising costs, how to make the FAA fly right and other commentary
Democrats “blame President Trump” for America’s affordability problem “while ignoring their own responsibility for causing it in the first place,” fumes James Piereson at The New Criterion.
Jewish orgs enabled Mamdani, American dream on hold and other commentary
“The Anti-Defamation League and other well-heeled Jewish groups” did “almost nothing” to prevent the rise of “a man with Mamdani’s views,” fumes Liel Leibovitz at City Journal.
Trump’s new ‘arsenal of freedom,’ ‘socialism of fools’ reborn and other commentary
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth recently warned that America faces a “1939 moment” — a “moment of mounting urgency,” cheers The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board, which hopes this “translates into...
A pack of privileged?Marxists, academic journals vs. truth and other commentary
If Zohran Mamdani's "victory teaches anything, it is that our peril now comes from the overeducated elites,"?fumes Connor Boyack at Reason.
Gavin discovers men, Canada’s tortured talk on killing and other commentary
Michael Bahareen at UnHerd agreed when California Gov. Gavin Newsom told CNN Democrats “ceded ground” on the “struggles” of young men and “it has cost them electorally.”
Study shows bail reform failed, Trump family’s bitcoin reek and other commentary
A new analysis of New York’s bail reforms from John Jay College’s Data Collaborative for Justice does the opposite of what the researches claim, explains City Journal’s Rafael A. Mangual.
Partisan gerrymanders feed extremism, the GOP’s young women problem and other commentary
“For partisan Democrats, it has become necessary to destroy U.S. democracy in order to save it,” grumbles Charles Lane.
Democrats’ premature victory lap, old Leninism in a new suit and other commentary
“Mamdani’s win spoke to the deep failures of 21st-century American politics,”?notes Racket News’ Matt Taibbi.
Pardon ‘Arctic Frost’ scapegoats, Cuomo deserved humiliation and other commentary
“The Biden administration presided over an unimaginably aggressive political witch hunt,” notes Cleta Mitchell at The Federalist.
Now violence-wishing pols win, it’s still ‘the economy, stupid’ and other commentary
“There was a time when suggesting that your opponents should watch their children die would have automatically cost you an election,” recalls Slate’s Molly Olmstead.