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President Donald Trump touches his ear as he talks about the noise from the new ballroom construction before a Medal of Honor ceremony in the East Room of the White House, Monday, March 2, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

The closing economic pitch Republicans are too scared to make

Tiana Lowe Doescher · October 24, 2026 8:03 am

Trump.

Trump and the MAGA enthusiasm strategy

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Abdul el Sayed’s chronic, brazen lying

Abdul el Sayed.

Is it too late to move the midterm needle in Michigan?

Bucks County demonstrators.

The conservative who said yes to Bucks County, USA

President Joe Biden, center, sits with Secretary of State Antony Blinken, left, and National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan.

Trump immigration officials still struggling with Biden’s legacy

Byron York October 7, 2025 5:58 pm

Zach Bryan performs at the Railbird Music Festival on Sunday, Aug. 29, 2021, in Lexington, Ky. The chorus against Ticketmaster’s contentious concert pricing practices is growing, numbering among them Zach Bryan and friends.The country music artist dropped a live album, “All My Homies Hate Ticketmaster,” on Sunday, Dec. 25, 2022. With it came a statement posted to social media in which he decried “a massive issue with fair ticket prices to live shows lately.” (Photo by Amy Harris/Invision/AP, File)

Will Zach Bryan write a song about murdered women Laken Riley and Rachel Morin?

Christopher Tremoglie October 7, 2025 2:41 pm

Podcaster Tucker Carlson.

The two legacies of Oct. 7

David Harsanyi October 7, 2025 2:00 pm

Activists walk through Israeli flags and photos of Israeli hostages held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip

Oct. 7 facts vs. falsehoods

Hugo Gurdon October 7, 2025 1:12 pm

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson.

Chicago’s ‘ICE-free zone’

Byron York October 6, 2025 9:13 pm

Collin Arthrell, 15, of Jefferson Hill, Pennsylvania, a Mon Valley suburb, speaks at a podium.

What Democrats are missing in trying to recapture young people

Salena Zito October 6, 2025 5:05 pm

Jay Jones walks and looks down.

Why Jay Jones’s bloodthirsty texts didn’t surprise me

Timothy P. Carney October 6, 2025 11:23 am

President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office of the White House, Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2025, in Washington.

Trump’s remarkable polling stability

Byron York October 4, 2025 9:50 am

Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares attends a roundtable discussion in Winchester, Virginia, with local law enforcement

Jason Miyares’s race for Virginia attorney general just got more compelling

Salena Zito October 3, 2025 3:55 pm

Smoke rises to the sky following an Israeli airstrike in the northern Gaza Strip as seen from southern Israel, Monday, Aug. 25, 2025.

Trump’s Gaza plan is great. There’s just one big problem

David Harsanyi October 3, 2025 2:00 pm

People walk past damaged buildings along a street in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on September 30, 2025. Hamas was reviewing Donald Trump's plan for Gaza on September 30, while the Israeli prime minister said the military would stay in most of the territory after he gave the US president his backing. The plan calls for a ceasefire, release of hostages by Hamas within 72 hours, disarmament of Hamas and gradual Israeli withdrawal from Gaza, followed by a post-war transitional authority headed by Trump himself. (Photo by Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP) (Photo by OMAR AL-QATTAA/AFP via Getty Images)

Why is free trade good for Gaza but bad for the US?

Dan Hannan October 3, 2025 5:20 am

Girl with backpack leaving after swimming practice in public swimming pool.

‘He was allowed to be in there,’ the perverted poster boy of gender ideology

Timothy P. Carney October 3, 2025 5:15 am