In Focus

Venezuelans celebrate with a painting depicting opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Corina Machado in Santiago, Chile.

Machado’s return could move Venezuela’s court fight into the streets

Ron MacCammon · October 28, 2026 3:00 pm

Block, the company led by Jack Dorsey, has released Dessa, a new voice model from its research lab that runs locally and produces strikingly human expressions such as laughter, pauses and crying. (Washington Examiner illustration/Getty Images)

Jack Dorsey’s ‘Dessa’ wants you to forget AI isn’t a person

Kamala Harris, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Gavin Newsom.

Democrats have a 2028 problem: Their candidates

Abdul el Sayed, former President Barack Obama, Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI), and Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN).

Obama and Slotkin’s selective defense of American ideals

Greta Thunberg waves from a boat taking part in a civilian flotilla bound for Gaza.

Climate, Gaza, French schools: To Greta Thunberg, it’s all the same fight

Demonstrators participate in the second "No Kings" protest on October 18, 2025 in Thousand Oaks, California. Organizers expect millions to participate in cities and towns across the nation for the second "No Kings" protest to denounce the Trump administration. (Photo by Kevin Carter/Getty Images)

No Kings is the Seinfeld of protests: A show about nothing

Joe Concha October 21, 2025 8:00 am

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass smiles after she held a news conference regarding the U.S. Marines currently deployed by the Trump administration in Los Angeles, at the Los Angeles Mission College in Sylmar, Calif., Monday, July 21, 2025.

Los Angeles’s failing leadership is worse than ICE raid ’emergency’

Zachary Faria October 20, 2025 2:00 pm

Photos of Zizian cult members.

‘Zizian’ cult case: What you need to know about the wildest, least reported story of the year

Mia Cathell October 20, 2025 8:00 am

Health Insurance Claim Form form document.

Insurance subsidies are a costly fix to Obamacare’s leaky ship

Timothy P. Carney October 19, 2025 8:00 am

President Donald Trump smiles as he listens to Brandi Kruse speak during a roundtable meeting on antifa in the State Dining Room at the White House, Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2025, in Washington.

In Focus Forum: One more promise kept from Trump

Washington Examiner October 18, 2025 2:00 pm

CNN correspondent Kaitlan Collins speaks in the James Brady press briefing room before White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt appears a press briefing at the White House.

Five big reasons why it’s so very nice to be a Democrat

Joe Concha October 18, 2025 2:00 pm

President Donald Trump speaks from the East Room of the White House in Washington, Saturday, June 21, 2025, after the U.S. military struck three Iranian nuclear and military sites, directly joining Israel's effort to decapitate the country's nuclear program, as Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth listen. (Carlos Barria/Pool via AP)

Trump sets up Vance, Rubio, and others for success and competition in lead-up to 2028

Mabinty Quarshie October 18, 2025 8:00 am

Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears (R-VA), left, and former Rep. Abigail Spanberger, right.

The GOP’s Virginia surge may be too little, too late

Jeremiah Poff October 17, 2025 6:00 pm

President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office.

Trump repudiates 25 years of failed democracy promotion

Tiana Lowe Doescher October 17, 2025 1:00 pm

President Donald Trump and Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Knesset, Israel’s parliament on Oct. 13 in Jerusalem. (Evan Vucci/AP Photo)

Peace seems possible in the Middle East, and Trump deserves considerable credit

David Harsanyi October 17, 2025 4:15 am

Cropped shot of an unrecognizable woman waiting for a pregnancy test result.

The surprisingly controversial IVF alternative dividing Washington

Madeline Fry Schultz October 16, 2025 2:00 pm

Sen. Bernie Sanders greets Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

The Left is silent about the ceasefire because it wanted Israel to lose

Peter Laffin October 16, 2025 8:00 am