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Mamdani and Trump’s sanctuary-city clash: Letters to the Editor — Jan. 20, 2026

The Issue: President Trump’s threats to cut federal funds if New York City remains a sanctuary city. Like him or not, President Trump holds enormous power to help or...

The Second Amendment Back on the Supreme Court’s Docket

Hawaii’s law represents one of the most brazen attempts yet to effectively nullify the...

Republican state AGs use MLK holiday to dismantle affirmative action, DEI policies

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier each announced opinions Monday declaring affirmative action and DEI policies to be forbidden in their states -- on the holiday set aside to honor civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.

House Speaker Mike Johnson says he doesn’t see ‘any necessity’ for war with Iran

House Speaker Mike Johnson does not see the U.S. going to war against Iran, despite President Trump threatening military intervention if Tehran executes protesters.

Schmitt proposes bill to make it easier to revoke citizenship of fraudsters after Minnesota scandal

Sen. Eric Schmitt wants to make it easier for the U.S. to revoke the citizenship of individuals who defraud the government in response to the Somali-led organizations in Minnesota that used a pandemic program to steal hundreds of millions in taxpayer money.

Government unions show Newsom who’s really in charge of California

Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) is incapable of getting his employees to show up to the office more than two days a week. This is an indictment of his leadership and reveals a flaw that should be fatal to his presidential aspirations. It is also an indictment of the California Democratic Party, which has shown itself […]

’28 Years Later’ and the permanent apocalypse

In 2003, director Danny Boyle and screenwriter Alex Garland introduced the concept of fast zombies to popular culture with their apocalypse film 28 Days Later. In 2025, I have finally forgiven them for it.  28 Years Later comes 23 years after the release of 28 Days Later. If you’re confused by the titling format, just […]

When the murder mystery and the campus satire collide

The campus novel may have its origins in the early 1950s with Mary McCarthy’s satire The Groves of Academe and Kingsley Amis’s comic caper Lucky Jim, but for many contemporary readers, the genre is best defined by Donna Tartt’s 1992 Gothic murder mystery The Secret History. That book inspired a raft of college-set thrillers, most […]

How many voters really care about Jeffrey Epstein?

If you were on the social media site for the past week you’d have thought that the most important issue to American voters is...

Dallas laps New York City in the housing race — fueling the Texas boom

Gotham’s leaders would rather be powerful in a broken system than incidental in an effective one.

Review of ‘Clint: The Man and the Movies’ by Shawn Levy

Most lives would be more than adequately covered by biographies released when the subject was 67 and 72. Clint Eastwood is not most people. He’s directed 17 films since that latter biography was published, more than many directors make in their entire lives. Eastwood, at 94, was almost certainly the oldest director to helm a Hollywood […]

Zohran Mamdani is giving NYC businesses fair notice: He’s coming after them

Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani is giving business leaders fair warning: He promised he'd tax them and wealthy New Yorkers if elected — and...

NY’s failed criminal-justice reforms have just claimed two more victims — when will the madness end?

Scotty Enoe, a CVS worker, and Charles Brito, a homeless serial shoplifter, are the latest victims of New York's disastrous criminal-justice reforms.

Douglas Murray: A 50-day deadline is 50 days to kill. Force Putin’s hand now

Who would ever have thought that dealing with the Middle East would look easy?

Trump’s 50-day Russian sanctions pause will cost more lives — and achieve nothing

The Kremlin creep is laughing up his sleeve at what he can only read as timidity.

Shane Gillis’ hilarious ESPYs set was a litmus test for our uptight culture

Right out of the gate, the comedian made clear that there would be no genuflecting when he name-dropped one of the most insufferable athletes...

How Trump can mold the new Middle East in his own deal-making image

As Iran’s clout fades, more nations see that their future lies in normalization and economic cooperation with Israel — not endless conflict and grievance.

Pathetic media pretends the autopen was the scandal — not Biden’s brain

The real problem is that the autopen may have allowed staffers to hijack a Constitutional power because the president probably didn’t know what year...

This week in whoppers: Newsom’s profanity-filled Trump complaint, Hunter’s election delusion and more 

Hunter Biden claimed that Democrats lost the 2024 presidential election because the party wasn't loyal to his father — even though Joe Biden's campaign...

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