In Focus

White House press secretary Katie Zacharia walks out to speak with reporters in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House, Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2026, in Washington.

Zacharia had to go. Here’s who should be next

Joe Concha · October 17, 2026 6:00 am

Bernie Sanders speaks outside next to a Medicaid Saves Lives poster, right.

‘Medicare for all’ is popular only when you lie about it

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, center, embraces U.S. Ambassador to Greece Kimberly Guilfoyle, left, as Greek Foreign Minister George Gerapetritis, right, looks on during Rubio's arrival at Eleftherios Venizelos International Airport near Athens, Greece, Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2026.

Is Rubio running without running?

Victor Mellor Sr.

Havana’s man in America: A MAGA nominee files as Castro’s agent

Russian President Vladimir Putin looks ahead inquisitively and innocently, as he attends a session of the BRICS Plus Outreach format in New Delhi, India.

Russian assassinations on Western soil demand violent retaliation

New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani

The woke revolutionary can never be appeased

David Harsanyi October 9, 2026 2:00 pm

AI growth Risk artificial intelligence

America couldn’t govern AI if it wanted to

Peter Laffin October 9, 2026 6:00 am

Gas and diesel prices are displayed at a Shell station.

How can Democrats call themselves the ‘affordability’ party?

Guy Benson October 8, 2026 2:00 pm

This undated photo released by the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute of Siberia and Far East, shows the institute workers in a lab in Russia.

Siberian plague lab death shows why Moscow can’t be trusted

Tom Rogan October 8, 2026 6:00 am

People carrying Israeli flags walk through an installation marking the third anniversary of the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel.

Three years after Oct. 7, Jews are still a people who sing

Samuel J. Abrams October 7, 2026 4:00 pm

David Ellison speaks in front of a Paramount water tower and the Hollywood sign.

Money, celebrities, and state power couldn’t stop the Paramount-Warner Bros. merger

Bethany Mandel October 7, 2026 2:00 pm

Rahm Emanuel.

Why won’t Rahm Emanuel stand up to Abdul el Sayed?

Joe Concha October 7, 2026 6:00 am

Protesters make the raised-fist "Black Power" sign.

Black Power movement successors use Sharia law to raise bail funds

Hudson Crozier October 6, 2026 4:00 pm

Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson.

Sorry, Tucker: Putin’s Russia is a Third World nation with nukes

David Harsanyi October 6, 2026 2:00 pm

A motorboat travels past commercial vessels anchored amid haze in the Strait of Hormuz off Bandar Abbas.

How the US can win Iran’s war of exhaustion

Ron MacCammon October 6, 2026 6:00 am

College education

Why young Americans think the market has failed them

Samuel J. Abrams October 5, 2026 4:00 pm

The Supreme Court is seen Monday, July 27, 2026, in Washington.

The Supreme Court’s opportunity to restore horizontal federalism

Abhishek Kambli October 5, 2026 2:00 pm