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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

DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin.

Stop falling for the anti-Markwayne Mullin psyop

Tiana Lowe Doescher August 3, 2026 5:28 pm

U.S. Capitol

What if Republicans lose both House and Senate?

Byron York August 3, 2026 3:45 pm

Migrants wait for services at Ceuta office.

Ceuta invasion — nothingburger or outrage?

Hugo Gurdon August 3, 2026 3:34 pm

State Senator London Lamar, a Democrat from Tennessee, holds a copy of the proposed Congressional map for Tennessee during a special legislative session at the Tennessee State Capitol in Nashville, Tennessee, US, on Wednesday, May 6, 2026. Tennessee is considering redrawing its House congressional map following a key Supreme Court decision last week, a move expected to bolster Republicans ahead of what are forecast to be tough midterm elections in November. Photographer: Madison Thorn/Bloomberg via Getty Images

We can’t ‘ban gerrymandering’ if we don’t agree on what gerrymandering is

Timothy P. Carney August 3, 2026 3:34 pm

A poster showing the Trump Gold Card.

Trump makes himself the swamp’s toll collector

Timothy P. Carney August 1, 2026 5:45 am

nuclear ballistic missiles nuclear weapons

We are closer to nuclear war than at any time since 1962

Dan Hannan August 1, 2026 5:30 am

Trump in the Oval.

Ninety-five days and counting

Byron York July 30, 2026 11:17 pm

Rep. Summer Lee, D-Pa., speaks during a field hearing by House Oversight Committee Democrats focused on the Epstein Investigation, Tuesday, May 12, 2026, in West Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

How Pittsburgh became the early alarm bell for the DSA’s rise

Salena Zito July 29, 2026 4:20 pm

Zohran Mamdani

America’s peak socialism — abandoned a century ago

Michael Barone July 29, 2026 3:51 pm

Dr. Anthony Fauci appears before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee at the Capitol, Wednesday, July 29, 2026.

Fauci’s cowardly Fifth Amendment evasion

David Harsanyi July 29, 2026 1:08 pm

Trump speaks at Lindsey Graham's funeral.

‘He never saw a war that he didn’t like’

Byron York July 28, 2026 7:39 pm

Zohran Mamdani.

Mamdani is a key figure in global jihad

Hugo Gurdon July 28, 2026 7:00 am