October 22, 2025 Issue

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FEATURE

Peace seems possible in the Middle East, and Trump deserves considerable credit

by David Harsanyi

✪ American Jews feel joy that comes with surviving hostages’ freedom

by Daniel Ross Goodman

✪ Sharm offensive: How Trump reshaped the Middle East, and what happens now

by Dominic Green

✪ No ‘Abundance’ of caution: Populists and progressives are winning the argument among Democrats

by Jay Caruso

✪ Blue-city blues: Democratic mismanagement is not limited to the biggest urban centers

by Conn Carroll

✪ Durbin’s reward: An American pope and the Democrats’ leftward drift on abortion

by Jeremy Lott

Your Land

★★★

We don’t need racially segregated congressional districts

by Zachary Faria

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Twilight of the boomer priests

by Timothy P. Carney

★★★

There is no First Amendment right to dox law enforcement

by Conn Carroll

★★★

All’s fair in love and AI

by Madeline Fry Schultz

Business

BUSINESS

Tim Scott balances Senate policy and GOP political roles

by Zach Halaschak

BUSINESS

Trump reduces the deficit by 4% with tariffs and his signature tax law

by Tiana Lowe Doescher

Letter From The Editor

LETTER FROM THE EDITOR

No Kings, no peace, no money, no way

Washington Briefing

After decades of red ink, a fresh push for a balanced budget amendment emerges

by Kevin R. Kosar

Years before Trump’s executive order, McConnell helped block a constitutional amendment to ban flag burning

by Frederic J. Frommer

Trump’s hostage-freeing ceasefire plan draws gratitude from Israelis

by Michele Chabin

Gaza triumph rekindles Trump’s interest in a Ukraine peace deal

by Jamie McIntyre

The Columnists

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Dan Hannan

Now Trump destabilizes politics in the Nordic world

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Timothy P. Carney

Biden’s antitrust crusade protected the big guys

Life & Arts

TV

British espionage blues

by J. Oliver Conroy

Sports

The Mets and the myth of Tantalus

by Timothy P. Carney

Film

The end of the world as we fear it: Review of ‘A House of Dynamite’

by Peter Tonguette

On Culture

Rural Hungary’s prophet of decay wins Nobel Prize in Literature

by Will Collins

Books

Capturing Spark’s flair

by Christopher J. Scalia

Books

In Columbus’s wake

Books

Has Thomas Pynchon still got it?

by Derek Robertson

Long Life

Cameras off, honesty on

More from the Magazine

Business

Tim Scott balances Senate policy and GOP political roles

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Obituary

Diane Keaton, 1946-2025

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