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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

Byron York’s Daily Memo: A disaster entirely of Biden’s making

Byron York May 17, 2021 12:42 pm

The English-speaking peoples saw a series of landmark transfers of power from state to citizen: The Magna Carta, the Glorious Revolution, the American Revolution.Â (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Let’s hear it for Anglo-Saxon values

Dan Hannan May 17, 2021 4:00 am

Northern Ireland lives to an unlikely centennial

Dan Hannan May 10, 2021 4:00 am

The intersectional CIA

Reuel Marc Gerecht May 7, 2021 3:00 am

In this June 30, 2020, photo, a man passes a clothing shop with open signs in the window in Calexico, Calif.

Reasons to be cheerful — and worried

Hugo Gurdon May 5, 2021 8:00 pm

Big government isn’t ‘the big bad’ anymore

Kristen Soltis Anderson May 5, 2021 5:05 pm

Byron York's Daily Memo: No, there's no mandate to re-make America

Byron York May 3, 2021 1:51 pm

Primary in Pittsburgh

Salena Zito May 2, 2021 4:22 am

A person walks past a street mural by artist Vincent Ballentine on June 16, 2020, in the Brooklyn Borough of New York City.

The new scarlet letter: R for racist

Robert Woodson April 30, 2021 3:00 am

Blaine Amendments were designed to impede the growth of Catholic parochial schools and the threat they supposedly posed to the Protestant education system that prevailed in most public schools at the time. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Emails reveal Montgomery County health department’s contempt for nonpublic schools

Timothy P. Carney April 28, 2021 9:06 pm

Republicans, too, should wake up to Carville’s cry against ‘wokeness’

Quin Hillyer April 28, 2021 9:05 am

This March 23, 2018 file photo shows an envelope containing a 2018 census letter mailed to a resident in Providence, R.I., as part of the nation's only test run of the 2020 Census. A Trump administration plan to include a citizenship question on the 2020 Census has prompted legal challenges from many Democratic-led states.

The 2020 census: Small Republican gains in a nation hunkered down

Michael Barone April 27, 2021 4:29 pm