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Abdul el Sayed.

Slick Abdul

Byron York · October 19, 2026 4:45 pm

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

President Donald Trump waves as he walks past presidential portraits along the Colonnade.

Inside Trump’s job approval crisis

Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate Abdul El-Sayed, talks to the media after a televised debate with Republican nominee for U.S. Senate Mike Rogers at WOOD-TV, on Thursday, Oct. 8, 2026, in Grand Rapids, Mich. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

El Sayed’s cure for high gas prices would make them worse

Hakeem Jeffries and Mike Johnson

What Pittsburgh can teach the next House majority

Washington Examiner columnist Jed Babbin's new book "The BDS War Against Israel," written with Herbert London.

‘The BDS War Against Israel:’ Rebutting the lies

Jed Babbin June 3, 2014 11:00 am

President Obama gives White House press secretary Jay Carney a hug after announcing that Carney will step down later next month, during a surprise visit to the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House, Friday, May 30, 2014. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

White House press secretary: The most nonessential job in government

Gene Healy June 2, 2014 10:02 pm

Releasing Taliban prisoners will embolden terrorists

Cal Thomas June 2, 2014 9:00 pm

In a Supreme Court increasingly defined by narrow 5-4 decisions, it's notable when the justices decide a case both unanimously and with dizzying speed. (Thinkstock Image)

Supreme Court keeps patent trolls under the bridge

Sean Higgins June 2, 2014 9:00 pm

Next week Hillary Clinton will release "Hard Choices," a memoir of her years as secretary of state. (AP Photo)

Hillary Clinton’s Senate years curiously missing from her memoirs

Byron York June 2, 2014 9:00 pm

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Petty annoyances on grammar and word choice

Walter Williams June 2, 2014 4:00 pm

Beginning in late March, roughly two months after his Federal Reserve chairmanship ended, Ben Bernanke gave several high-priced private-dinner talks for major hedge-fund players and banks.. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Ben Bernanke’s loose lips are driving the financial markets

Lawrence Kudlow June 2, 2014 3:37 pm

President Obama delivers the commencement address during a graduation and commissioning ceremony at the U.S. Military Academy on May 28 in West Point, N.Y. (AP/Mike Groll)

Obama’s conservative foreign policy

Steve Chapman June 2, 2014 3:22 pm

Washington Examiner columnist Jed Babbin's new book "The BDS War Against Israel," written with Herbert London.

‘The BDS War Against Israel:’ What is the BDS movement?

Jed Babbin June 2, 2014 2:19 pm

President Obama arrives to deliver the commencement address to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point's Class of 2014, May 28, in West Point, N.Y. In a broad defense of his foreign policy, the president declared that the U.S. remains the world's most indispensable nation, even after a "long season of war," but argued for restraint before embarking on more military adventures. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Does Obama care about intelligence? It doesn’t look like he does

James Jay Carafano June 2, 2014 1:29 pm

Secretary of State Rodham Clinton adjusts her glasses during a Global Townterview at the Newseum in Washington in this Jan. 29, 2013 file photo. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Still plenty of questions for Hillary Clinton on Benghazi

Hugh Hewitt June 2, 2014 1:26 pm

Vice President Joe Biden is the Democrats' likely backup option if Hillary Clinton doesn't run for president in 2016. (AP Photo)

Democrats’ nightmare scenario for 2016

Michael Barone June 1, 2014 9:00 pm