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President Donald Trump imitates a golf swing after speaking at a campaign event in Park City, Kansas, US, on Monday, Oct. 19, 2026. (Nick Oxford/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

When good enough is good enough

Timothy P. Carney · October 24, 2026 8:00 am

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Abdul el Sayed’s chronic, brazen lying

Demonstrators rally during a "Stop Sexual Violence" protest at the Washington Monument, Thursday, Oct. 8, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Our bodies, our choice, our 60-year mistake

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

Timothy Miller, 76, arriving at Portsmouth Magistrates Court, to face charges of wearing or using an item to conceal his identity at an anti-immigration protest in Portsmouth city centre on Saturday September 12. Picture date: Wednesday October 14, 2026. (Photo by Andrew Matthews/PA Images via Getty Images)

Timothy Miller, an innocent woman

Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Sergei Kislyak.

Defining ‘socialism’ down

Kristen Soltis Anderson June 19, 2019 8:32 pm

Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Sergei Kislyak.

The back door to your phone

Hugo Gurdon June 14, 2019 3:00 am

What happens when Joe stops being Joe?

Salena Zito June 14, 2019 3:00 am

Why South America’s prospects are looking up

Dan Hannan June 14, 2019 3:00 am

He who Laffs last

Fred Barnes June 14, 2019 3:00 am

President Donald Trump walks through the Colonnade of the White House, next to Polish President Andrzej Duda, as they arrive for a news conference in the Rose Garden, Wednesday June 12, 2019, in Washington.

The dumbest anti-Trump conspiracy theory is that he won’t leave the White House after being defeated

Philip Klein June 13, 2019 2:47 pm

Democrats’ Biden opportunity

Fred Barnes June 7, 2019 3:00 am

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Finding America at a back-roads gas station

Salena Zito June 7, 2019 3:00 am

Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Sergei Kislyak.

Of cover-ups and beach reading

Hugo Gurdon June 7, 2019 3:00 am

How small we can be

Dan Hannan June 7, 2019 3:00 am

Howard Dean speaks at the Geisinger's National Healthcare Symposium in Danville, Pa.

Howard Dean energized liberals in 2004, but he’d be on the right wing of the 2020 Democratic field

Philip Klein June 5, 2019 10:29 pm

FILE - In this Oct. 18, 2010 file photo, an Amazon.com package is prepared for shipment by a United Parcel Service (UPS) driver in Palo Alto, Calif. States could force Internet retailers to collect sales taxes under a bill that the Senate advanced on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File)

The millennials aren’t coming, they’ve arrived

Kristen Soltis Anderson June 5, 2019 9:55 pm