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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

President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference after a summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, Thursday, Feb. 28, 2019, in Hanoi.

The real reason Trump walked away from Kim Jong Un

Tom Rogan February 28, 2019 5:02 pm

"We may not have much choice on that but we have choice on something else. That is that you can expel a senator once they are in with two-thirds of the vote after the ethics committee does an investigation," Klobuchar said.

Amy Klobuchar is actually quite liberal

Philip Klein February 28, 2019 1:37 pm

Sens. Bernie Sanders, Kirsten Gillibrand, and Cory Booker are shown.

Democrats getting out on dangerously left-wing limb

Michael Barone February 27, 2019 11:35 pm

A member of the Secret Service stands guard as President Donald Trump speaks at a news conference in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House, Monday, Aug. 10, 2020, in Washington. Trump briefly left because of a security incident outside the fence of the White House.

The holy war over Trump

Timothy P. Carney February 27, 2019 10:37 pm

Michael Cohen, President Trump's former personal lawyer, testifies before the House Oversight and Reform Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.

For GOP, attacking Michael Cohen’s credibility is a double-edged sword

Byron York February 27, 2019 7:34 pm

In this May 23, 2018, photo, Paul Manafort, President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman, leaves the Federal District Court after a hearing in Washington.

In the Manafort case’s ‘Exhibit 233,’ a page count has never been so fascinating

Kristen Soltis Anderson February 26, 2019 5:49 pm

Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Sergei Kislyak.

Letter from the editor: Feb. 26, 2019

Hugo Gurdon February 22, 2019 5:00 am

The roots of Tucker Carlson’s rage

Dan Hannan February 22, 2019 5:00 am

Finding Maduro a new home

Philip Terzian February 22, 2019 5:00 am

SILVER GROVE, West Virginia â An unincorporated community in Jefferson county, West Virginia, on the eastern banks of the Shenandoah River.

While national media carried water for Jussie Smollett, local media did it right

Salena Zito February 22, 2019 12:00 am

The healthcare.gov website is seen on a laptop computer in Washington, D.C., on May 18, 2017.

Government report reveals CBO was scandalously off in Obamacare estimates

Philip Klein February 21, 2019 3:02 am

Bill Kristol attends an event.

Dems’ hard-left turn poses dilemma for Never Trumpers

Byron York February 20, 2019 11:30 pm