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Benito Mussolini in Rome, 1934. (Photo by Ullstein Bild / via Getty Images)

Age of parody

Dominic Green · October 31, 2026 5:45 am

Democratic candidate for US Senate James Talarico and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. (Photos by Ronaldo Schemidt and Mandel Ngan / AFP via Getty Images)

Extremist Democrats boosted by corrupt Republicans

President Donald Trump and tariffs.

Why did anyone think Trump’s tariffs would be popular?

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An eleventh-hour GOP surge, or a looming blue blowout?

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

No amnesty for British soldiers in Northern Ireland

Dan Hannan July 26, 2021 4:07 am

Speech suppression is habit-forming

Michael Barone July 21, 2021 5:39 pm

Tara Reade, Christine Blasey Ford.

Reining in our new Big Tech censors

Hugo Gurdon July 21, 2021 2:16 pm

Democratic victories in New Hampshire and Connecticut mark the 38th and 39th state-based seats to flip from Republican to Democrat since Trump took office. (iStock)

A nation divided by unfounded fear

Kristen Soltis Anderson July 20, 2021 4:53 pm

Byron York’s Daily Memo: The 2020 polling disaster

Byron York July 19, 2021 12:28 pm

UK’s irresistible urge to elevate the trolls

Dan Hannan July 19, 2021 4:42 am

Vice President Joe Biden addresses the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Centennial Celebration luncheon in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2013. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

Joe Biden’s voting rights theater

Byron York July 15, 2021 2:30 am

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden speaks at an LGBTQ Presidential Forum in the Sinclair Auditorium on the Coe College campus in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Friday, Sept. 20, 2019.

Joe Biden’s big lie

Michael Barone July 14, 2021 3:08 pm

Cuban exiles rally at Versailles Restaurant in Miami's Little Havana neighborhood in support of protesters in Cuba, Monday, July 12, 2021, in Miami. Sunday's protests in Cuba marked some of the biggest displays of antigovernment sentiment in the tightly controlled country in years.

Crime and Cuba backfire on Democrats

Hugo Gurdon July 13, 2021 3:45 pm

People take part in a naturalization ceremony to become U.S. citizens at a ceremony on May 4, 2021 in Joshua Tree National Park, Calif.

The West has been good at making immigrants drop their quarrels — until now

Dan Hannan July 12, 2021 4:00 am

Seeing America from the ground

Salena Zito July 11, 2021 4:00 am

According to a new poll, 46 percent of voters would pick former Vice President Joe Biden compared to the 35 percent who would re-elect President Trump in a hypothetical 2020 election matchup. (AP Photos)

Both parties failing to respond to signals in the political marketplace

Michael Barone July 8, 2021 12:06 pm