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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

College student Eddie Cisneros cheers for Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., during a campaign rally at the Cubberley Community Center on Wednesday, June 1, 2016, in Palo Alto, Calif.

The kids today are high on socialism, but they haven’t ruled out capitalism

Kristen Soltis Anderson January 30, 2019 5:17 pm

FILE - In this Sept. 28, 2018, file photo, Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif. attends a Senate Judiciary Committee meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington. Their campaigns are not yet official, but some Democrats are beginning to frame the 2020 fight on their terms.

‘Kamala the Cop’ is the perfect prosecutor for a bloodthirsty base

Timothy P. Carney January 30, 2019 5:15 pm

A U.S. Border Patrol vehicle drives next to a U.S-Mexico border fence in the booming New Mexico town of Santa Teresa.

Byron York: In border talks, a new fight for barrier deniers

Byron York January 29, 2019 7:14 pm

Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Sergei Kislyak.

Letter from the editor: Jan. 29, 2019

Hugo Gurdon January 25, 2019 5:00 am

High CEO pay is perfectly justifiable — here’s why

Dan Hannan January 25, 2019 5:00 am

The Job Creators Network found that 64 percent of small business owners see Trump's policy changes as helping their businesses. (iStock photo)

Nostalgia and the American dream aren’t airy fantasies

Salena Zito January 25, 2019 5:00 am

The press can do better. It has to. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Does the media deserve to be respected and believed?

Michael Barone January 24, 2019 5:01 am

Protestors gather outside the Catholic Diocese of Covington Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2019, in Covington, Ky. The diocese in Kentucky has apologized after videos emerged showing students from Covington Catholic High School mocking Native Americans outside the Lincoln Memorial on Friday after a rally in Washington.

A rumble on the Mall feeds into the war on institutions

Timothy P. Carney January 23, 2019 4:51 pm

In this Jan. 16, 2019, photo, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., reacts during a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. âMedicare-for-allâ makes a good first impression, but support plunges when people are asked if theyâd pay higher taxes or put up with treatment delays to get it. The survey, released Wednesday, Jan. 23, by the nonpartisan Kaiser Family Foundation, comes as Democratic presidential hopefuls embrace the idea of a government-run health care system, considered outside the mainstream of their party until Sanders made it the cornerstone of his 2016 campaign.

‘Medicare for all’ support is built on a shaky foundation

Philip Klein January 23, 2019 4:12 pm

Robert Mueller appears at a hearing in D.C.

What if Mueller doesn’t give Democrats what they want?

Byron York January 23, 2019 2:46 am

Despite DC spending millions to turn 16th St NW north of the White House into "Black Lives Matter" Plaza, not one protester was there to observe the anniversary of the January 6th riots

Amtrak forgot trains aren’t planes

Salena Zito January 18, 2019 5:00 am

Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Sergei Kislyak.

Letter from the editor: Jan. 22, 2019

Hugo Gurdon January 18, 2019 5:00 am