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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: Democratic pollsters acknowledge: We darn near lost

Byron York April 13, 2021 2:38 pm

Pro-Trump counter-protesters met anti-Trump and Black Lives Matter protesters who were marching near the convention site and things got heated quickly. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Why they will never cancel Foucault

Dan Hannan April 5, 2021 4:00 am

Pictured are President Trump, left, and Joe Biden, right.

Too much risk aversion is too risky

Michael Barone March 31, 2021 4:12 pm

Senate Budget Committee Chairman Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., listens during a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 25, 2021, examining wages at large profitable corporations.

The selfishness at the heart of socialism

Hugo Gurdon March 30, 2021 10:30 am

Byron York’s Daily Memo: Biden’s FDR delusion

Byron York March 29, 2021 1:09 pm

On June 15, the Department of Defense reported a set of targets in its daily airstrike report: two Islamic State "tunnel systems" in Syria, a tunnel entrance and two additional tunnel systems in Iraq. (AP Photo)Â

The worst is behind us, most people (finally) believe

Kristen Soltis Anderson March 25, 2021 8:01 pm

On vaccinations, the EU is showing its Venezuelan side

Dan Hannan March 22, 2021 4:00 am

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

Ignoring even one shattered norm endangers the civilian-military relationship

Salena Zito March 21, 2021 4:01 am

Biden’s Democrats don’t want to free the serfs

Hugo Gurdon March 17, 2021 8:05 pm

President Joe Biden speaks about the COVID-19 relief package in the State Dining Room of the White House, Monday, March 15, 2021, in Washington.

What explains Biden’s chameleon-like transformation?

Michael Barone March 17, 2021 5:58 pm

Byron York’s Daily Memo: The Democrats’ filibuster hypocrisy

Byron York March 17, 2021 1:23 pm

She brings genetic diversity and special opportunity. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

Victimhood has its privileges

Dan Hannan March 15, 2021 5:00 am