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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

Dan Hannan · October 17, 2026 8:05 am

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

Trump.

It’s nothing like it was under Biden, but inflation still vexes Trump

Kiefer Sutherland of Fox's TV show "24." (Richard Shotwell Invision/AP)

With Obama’s foreign policy, fiction is more comforting than the truth

Cal Thomas April 28, 2014 4:00 am

Hillary Clinton (AP/Susan Walsh)

Hillary Clinton, the unrepentant hawk

Steve Chapman April 28, 2014 4:00 am

ÃÂ Rep. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., speaks at a meeting of university officials in Little Rock, Ark. (AP/Danny Johnston)

GOP leaders need to nurture their future prospects

Hugh Hewitt April 28, 2014 4:00 am

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Who will ensure freedom of the seas if the U.S. can’t?

James Jay Carafano April 28, 2014 4:00 am

U.S. Marines collect their food in the drive through of McDonald's in Guantanamo Bay U.S. Navy Base, Cuba on Monday, Feb. 25, 2002. The fast food restaurant is the only one in Cuba. (AP Photo/ Tomas van Houtryve)

Obama’s work edicts could kill businesses on military bases

Byron York April 28, 2014 4:00 am

France has a 75 percent top income tax rate and essentially zero economic growth. (Thinkstock)

Thomas Piketty wants income equality — and the hell with growth

Michael Barone April 27, 2014 4:00 am

I believe the message of this new portrait of America from Pew points to the pressing need for new courageous conservative leadership. (Thinkstock)

A new America demands new courageous conservative leadership

Star Parker April 26, 2014 10:00 am

Many liberals respond to the Export-Import Bank fight by shrugging, rolling their eyes, and saying "what an odd fight to pick." (AP Photo)

Bankers and exporters rally for export-loan subsidies

Timothy P. Carney April 26, 2014 4:00 am

Economist and author Thomas Piketty speaks to the Department of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley, on April 23 in Berkeley, Calif. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Liberal pundits unite over Thomas Piketty’s radical economics

David Harsanyi April 25, 2014 4:00 am

In Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor's view, policies that apply the same standards to all individuals regardless of race place an unfair burden on minorities. (AP Photo)

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor: A not-so-wise Latina justice

Linda Chavez April 25, 2014 4:00 am

National Review's Kevin Williamson observes that more than half of adult Americans will be at or near the poverty line sometime in their lives. Seventy-three percent of the people will at some point be in the top 20 percent; 39 percent will achieve the top 5 percent for at least a year; and 12 percent will make the top 1 percent for at least a year.

President Obama’s income inequality scam

David Limbaugh April 24, 2014 4:00 am

During Bill Clinton's presidency, the White House claimed a "vast right-wing conspiracy" was working against the Clintons. (AP File)

The press never calls over role in ‘vast right-wing conspiracy’

R. Emmett Tyrrell April 24, 2014 4:00 am