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President Donald Trump and Russia's President Vladimir Putin talk, Friday, Aug. 15, 2025, at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

Trump has killed the American-led world order

Dan Hannan · October 17, 2026 8:05 am

President Donald Trump waves as he walks past presidential portraits along the Colonnade.

Inside Trump’s job approval crisis

Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate Abdul El-Sayed, talks to the media after a televised debate with Republican nominee for U.S. Senate Mike Rogers at WOOD-TV, on Thursday, Oct. 8, 2026, in Grand Rapids, Mich. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

El Sayed’s cure for high gas prices would make them worse

Hakeem Jeffries and Mike Johnson

What Pittsburgh can teach the next House majority

Trump.

It’s nothing like it was under Biden, but inflation still vexes Trump

Ralph Norman, Darline Graham Nordone, and Russell Fry.

The next senator from South Carolina

Byron York August 8, 2026 10:50 pm

Cambridge professor at centre of plagiarism row resigns

Cambridge has destroyed itself through DEI

Dan Hannan August 7, 2026 6:00 am

The city of Ambler, Alaska.

Baptists and bootleggers: Wilderness pilot opposes roads

Timothy P. Carney August 5, 2026 8:44 pm

Vice President JD Vance.

You’re not mad about the burrito prices. You’re mad about service prices

Tiana Lowe Doescher August 5, 2026 8:31 pm

Abdul el Sayed

On Michigan, keep big picture in mind

Byron York August 5, 2026 4:04 pm

Glenn Youngkin

Glenn Youngkin makes the case for new federal education tax credits in Pennsylvania

Salena Zito August 5, 2026 2:38 pm

Zohran Mamdani

Mamdani Marts will offer real-time Econ 101 lessons

David Harsanyi August 5, 2026 2:24 pm

Rep. Chuck Edwards, R-N.C., listens to testimony as the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Oversight holds a field hearing on violent crime in Charlotte, N.C., Sept. 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Nell Redmond, File)

When a congressman is hitting on his staffers, it’s worse when he’s married

Timothy P. Carney August 5, 2026 11:29 am

Michigan U.S. Senate candidates, Abdul el Sayed, and Rep. Haley Stevens (D-MI) are displayed on a television during a debate inside the spin room at WoodTV studios on Tuesday, July 7, 2026, in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

The long rise of the new Democratic Party

Michael Barone August 5, 2026 9:31 am

The Chautauqua Institute

Reclaiming the middle: Chautauqua’s slow push toward balance

Salena Zito August 4, 2026 3:56 pm

Rep. Max Miller walks out of a meeting with House Majority Leader Steve Scalise.

Max Miller’s career is over. It’s just a question of now or November

Tiana Lowe Doescher August 4, 2026 2:10 pm

President Donald Trump

Trumponomics: Big government is a racket

Timothy P. Carney August 4, 2026 12:36 pm