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How I learned to love the 9/11 Memorial — after years of being a skeptic

I refused to go see the memorial once it opened in 2011, and I made it a point to avoid the site for years after. Until, at last,...

Republicans’ Midterm Hopes Rest on the Insanity of Their Opponents

Republicans are counting on the flaws of Democratic candidates to overcome an overall political...

Draining the Swamp, Continued

How bad do you have to be when even the Qataris and UAE aren’t...

Trump’s Venezuelan Oil Seizure and the Chavez Crony Abetting It

A likely double fail in which the president both undermines the American-led global order...

For members of Congress, a picture may soon join a thousand words

Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez wants lawmakers to be able to include images in the text of their bills, figuring it could help illustrate or simplify some of the trickier things lawmakers are trying to do in their legislation.

Team Obama loved Victor Shokin, so why did Joe Biden get him fired?

Joe Biden bragged of having Ukraine prosecutor Victor Shokin fired for corruption. Now it looks certain he had him fired to help Hunter Biden.

Majority of likely voters think ‘cheating’ won Georgia for Biden in 2020

Former President Donald Trump was indicted last week on charges of attempting to overturn the 2020 presidential election results in Georgia. The state went to President Joe Biden in the election, but Trump’s campaign allegedly tried to influence state officials to deny Biden won the state and instead claim there was voter fraud. Yet despite the indictments, a majority of voters believed that it was “corrupt public officials” and not actual votes that won the state for Biden.

Republican debate: Here’s the Ukraine question moderators should ask tonight

Republican foreign policy has gotten interesting since Donald Trump arrived on the scene. Before Trump, there was a consistent dynamic: the party rank and file were fairly noninterventionist, while the party establishment was very interventionist.

Republican debate: Nikki Haley could win by reminding the debate it’s about the economy, stupid

Nikki Haley has consistently high favorables — 47% of Republicans view her favorably, with just 19% viewing her unfavorably — and the fact that she's a Gen X, Indian American woman running to compete with President Joe Biden, who would be 86 at the end of a second term in the Oval Office, and Kamala Harris, another Gen X, Indian American woman, explains why some Democrats are terrified of the chance Haley catches fire. But the former South Carolina governor has failed to break through the noise of the 24-hour Trump news cycle, polling around 3% nationally.

Why should anyone care about Fauci’s opinion on climate change?

Dr. Anthony Fauci is the personification of the incoherent, anti-science pandemic response that millions suffered through for two years or more. So why are we still expected to entertain his opinions about anything, much less about areas of science where he has no expertise?

Don’t believe doomsayers — new COVID outbreak is mild, and masks don’t help

COVID-19 cases are expected to rise this fall as new variants become more prevalent. And, as unfortunately expected, it's already triggered demands by some...

It seems likely that Vladimir Putin just eliminated Yevgeny Prigozhin

A plane belonging to Russia's Wagner Group mercenary force exploded while flying in the Tver region just north of Moscow on Wednesday. The Tass state media outlet reports that Wagner's chief, Yevgeny Prigozhin, was on board.

What time does the Republican debate start? Too late. That’s when

Donald Trump won’t be the only Republican skipping tonight’s presidential debate. A huge portion of likely Republican primary voters will miss it, too, thanks to it starting at the ungodly late hour of 9 p.m. Eastern.

Republican debate: Republicans crave debate about the economy, not Trump or 2020

Nearly a year after former President Donald Trump announced his third bid for the White House, the Republican presidential bid has begun in earnest with the first primary debate on Wednesday — but without the protesting former president. While Trump remains the dominant front-runner in the national polling, it turns out Republican voters don't want to hear much during the debate about the elephant (not) in the room.

Megan Rapinoe just doesn’t get it

The U.S. women’s national team’s embarrassing World Cup performance, and the reaction to it, should lead to some introspection from the political activists in its ranks. Evidently, former star Megan Rapinoe is not interested in any introspection.

Republican debate: Whatever happens in the debate, fundamentals could still matter

Heading into the first presidential debate of the 2024 campaign cycle, it’s tempting to focus on minor but perhaps momentarily decisive details, such as whether Ron DeSantis was wise to outsource strategy to a committee that he’s legally barred from communicating with or whether Trump campaign spokesmen are to be allowed in the Fox News spin room.

Republican debate: I believe Vivek Ramaswamy is serious. Can he convince the country?

At 38 years old, Vivek Ramaswamy became one of the 20 youngest billionaires in the nation, according to Forbes's estimation. He did so not primarily through opining on woke corporatism or becoming a fixture on cable news but rather through the meritocratic tedium of biotech investing. His wife is an elite laryngologist in her own right, and the couple has two not-yet-school-aged children.

Is Bradley Cooper’s film promotion too on the nose?

Actor Bradley Cooper has recently found himself at the center of a social media-driven controversy following the release of the trailer for his second directorial feature, Maestro.

Young conservatives urge GOP to leave a climate legacy

Republican presidential candidates, ready to test their mettle, will take center stage for their inaugural debate of the election cycle Wednesday night. However, amid the familiar buzz of political discourse, something new has emerged.

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