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Kamala Harris’ new $8M mansion is in a neighborhood with virtually no Black residents

Kamala Harris' $8 million Malibu mansion sits in a census tract that is 94% White and 0.2% Black, despite her career fighting racial bias in housing.

Capital culture war heats up as GOP lawmaker targets DC schools over Old Glory snub

Sen. Ashley Moody's PLEDGE Act would require American flags and daily Pledge of Allegiance recitation in every Washington, D.C., school classroom.

Conservatives mock Talarico for gushing over Fauci doll in resurfaced Christmas post

James Talarico's 2021 post celebrating a Fauci action figure resurfaced as Anthony Fauci invoked the Fifth Amendment 111 times before Congress.

Trump admin’s push to scrap DEI in federal government takes landmark step with new hiring rule

OPM's new rule removes 1978 hiring guidelines tied to disparate impact, marking a deeper push to dismantle the legal framework behind federal DEI policies.

Trump threatens to yank his own AG nominee as GOP revolt grows

Trump threatened to withdraw Todd Blanche's nomination until John Cornyn and Thom Tillis leave office, escalating a standoff over his tax settlement.

Trump v. California on women’s sports, a risky mortgage retread, and other commentary

The 2028 Los Angeles Olympics will become “a slow-motion car crash” over the issue of transgender athletes in women’s sports, The Spectator's Jennifer Sey...

California Democrats wonder if they are the problem with gas prices

California Democrats in the state legislature are discovering that they may not have been running the state very well in recent years. They questioned state regulators about California’s brewing oil crisis. In the past year, Phillips 66 and Valero have both announced they will be closing a refinery in California, leading to a 21% decline […]

What Josh Shapiro learned from Original Sin and the Biden decline cover-up

In reading Original Sin, the blockbuster book by journalists Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson, I vividly remembered covering then-candidate Joe Biden when he came to my hometown in April 2019 to begin his run for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination. As someone who covered Biden for decades because he frequently visited the state in which […]

The WNBA is fueled by hate crime hoaxes and anti-white bigotry

The WNBA can’t seem to get out of its own way. After experiencing a dramatic increase in viewership and fandom, league players, administrators, and executives insist on genuflecting to the woke mob and continue their devotion to social justice ideology.  In arguably its most eagerly anticipated season since the league debuted in 1997, the women’s […]

The US must war-game an Israel-Turkey conflict

War games are an important planning tool. Various military and political experts sit around tables or in separate rooms and role-play decision-making in different countries. The decisions in the previous round are then played out in multiple rounds. The goal is not for the teams to win or lose but rather to force analysts to […]

Continue Trump’s success in the battle against the opioid epidemic

The opioid epidemic began to take root more than a decade ago during the second term of President Barack Obama. But the response to the crisis largely fell on the shoulders of President Donald Trump, who responded swiftly to save lives. During his first term in office, Trump reduced the overprescribing of opioid painkillers, intercepted […]

Ron Johnson’s demand for a return to pre-pandemic spending levels is a nonstarter

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) achieved the seemingly impossible in getting President Donald Trump’s “one big, beautiful bill” across the finish line with a one-vote margin. However, Trump’s legislative legacy only passed the lower chamber with the promise to Freedom Caucus fiscal hawks that the Senate would expedite and expand Medicaid reforms and the reversal […]

RFK Jr.’s COVID-19 common sense

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Tuesday announced a change to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommendations for the COVID-19 vaccine. This comes more than five years after the onset of a pandemic that not only affected the health of millions but forever shifted the nation’s view of government advice and […]

The Trump administration shouldn’t stop with Harvard

Last week’s cowardly murders of two Israeli Embassy staff members by a man shouting “free, free Palestine” are not an isolated tragedy. It is the inevitable result of a campus culture that has mainstreamed hatred, glorified violence, and normalized antisemitic incitement. Nowhere is this rot more concentrated than in the rarefied air of the Ivy League, […]

Ban congressional stock trading

It’s not often that Republicans and Democrats agree on public policy. So when they do, it should be a catalyst for reform. “We do need to change the law so that sitting members of Congress cannot trade stock,” House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) said. “I’m in favor of that because I don’t think we should have […]

The tarnished treasure of higher education

Editor’s note: The Washington Examiner is honored to publish the unedited remarks of this year’s Bradley Prize honorees. Barry Strauss gave the speech below. I would like to thank The Bradley Foundation for the signal honor it has granted me by making me one of the recipients of the 2025 Bradley Prize. I accept, with […]

Conserving a revolutionary tradition

Editor’s note: The Washington Examiner is honored to publish the unedited remarks of this year’s Bradley Prize honorees. The below speech was given by James Piereson. Friends, we are gathered this evening at the beautiful headquarters of the Daughters of the AmericanRevolution. Our European friends smile when they learn that one of the most conservativeorganizations […]

Courage in the face of oppression

Editor’s note: The Washington Examiner is honored to publish the unedited remarks of this year’s Bradley Prize honorees. The below speech was given by Sebastien Lai. Members of the board of the Bradley Foundation, distinguished prize winners, ladies andgentlemen: As you can see, I am not Jimmy Lai. Instead of being here with you wonderful […]

Conservatism must be at the heart of our institutions

Editor’s note: The Washington Examiner is honored to publish the unedited remarks of this year’s Bradley Prize honorees. The below speech was given by Christopher Rufo. It’s great to be with all of you tonight. I’d like to thank the Bradley Foundation, the members of the selection committee, and my family — my wife and […]

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