February 11, 2026 Issue

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Digital Edition

FEATURE

American credibility: Why Trump must enforce his ‘red line’ in Iran

by Hugo Gurdon

✪ What the Trump national security strategy gets right

by Mackubin Owens

✪ Billy Bob’s boomtown: Taylor Sheridan’s ‘Landman’ and the triumph of traditional values

by Daniel Ross Goodman

✪ Politics without restraint: A generational shift toward violence and radicalism is taking place

by Samuel J. Abrams

✪ Fight leftist indoctrination in higher education without censorship

by Naomi Schaefer Riley, James Piereson

Your Land

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How many secret Chinese biolabs call America home?

by Zachary Faria

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If only Philadelphia had as much enthusiasm for plowing snow as getting rid of ICE

by Christopher Tremoglie

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Parenting without love

by Conn Carroll

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Melania Trump understands the assignment

by Tiana Lowe Doescher

Business

BUSINESS

Warshach test: Trump’s Fed chairman pick keeps monetary analysts guessing

by Zach Halaschak

BUSINESS

The real population bomb to come? Social Security’s looming bankruptcy

by Tiana Lowe Doescher

Letter From The Editor

LETTER FROM THE EDITOR

American decline, or a rebound?

Washington Briefing

Trump signs minibus spending bill with $6.5 billion in earmarks

by Kevin R. Kosar

Can the late shah’s son sell the Trump administration on leading a postcleric regime in Iran?

Proposed California ‘wealth tax’ may backfire on liberal politicians as state’s revenue base dries up

by Dain Fitzgerald

Trump’s $1.5 trillion ‘Dream Military’ budget proposal promises a Golden Fleet, a Golden Dome, and a host of bright, shiny new weapons

by Jamie McIntyre

The Columnists

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Dominic Green

Trumping Thucydides

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Dan Hannan

The kids are alt-right

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Guy Benson

New York vs. West Virginia: A sanctuary case study

Life & Arts

Books

When all the men kept things buttoned up

by Will Collins

TV

‘The Night Manager’ is back on duty

by Graham Hillard

Books

How the face of terrorism changed in the 1970s

Life in Uniform

Rules of engagement; or, ROE vs. Wait

Books

In Hoover Country without a map

by Chris R. Morgan

Film

‘Send Help’ and the costs of revenge

by Peter Tonguette

Long Life

The realities of residuals

On Culture

Bunny B. Goode

More from the Magazine

Business

Warshach test: Trump’s Fed chairman pick keeps monetary analysts guessing

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Obituary

Catherine O’Hara, 1954–2026

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