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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

President Donald Trump speaks at the Republican convention.

Trump extends war timeline

Byron York September 10, 2026 2:23 pm

Humanoid Industrial Robots AI artificial intelligence

The case against AI hysteria

David Harsanyi September 9, 2026 4:15 pm

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz looks ahead.

Hey, Germany. It’s legitimate to limit immigration

Michael Barone September 9, 2026 1:55 pm

Howard Lutnick, now U.S. Secretary of Commerce, with his son Kyle on his first day of kindergarten, Sept. 11, 2001. The photo was taken at the same moment the first tower was hit.

The kindergarten drop-off that saved Howard Lutnick and the 658 who never made it home

Salena Zito September 9, 2026 1:19 pm

Voting stickers are seen at a political event in Texas.

Are midterm results already baked in the cake?

Byron York September 9, 2026 9:54 am

JD Vance

Affordability or bankrolling stay-at-home parents? You can only care about one

Tiana Lowe Doescher September 9, 2026 8:43 am

President Donald Trump claps after speaking

Trump and his voters

Byron York September 8, 2026 3:33 pm

Trump Venezuela Oil

Trump’s predatory grab for Venezuela

Dan Hannan September 4, 2026 2:04 pm

Gas Insulated Switchgear working at height.

EXCLUSIVE: How 1,800 local tradespeople are powering Pennsylvania’s ultimate energy and data innovation campus

Salena Zito September 4, 2026 9:30 am

Graphic of Donald Trump and Iran.

Does progress in Iran help Trump?

Byron York September 3, 2026 6:34 pm

This undated handout photo provided by NASA shows the Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctic.

The climate doomsayers promised a hell that never arose

Timothy P. Carney September 3, 2026 2:27 pm

New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani

What a Stalin biography tells us about our time

Michael Barone September 2, 2026 1:19 pm