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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

Jose Alvarenga, center, BAMN national organizer, and others protest the Supreme Court ruling on the campus of the University of Michigan Tuesday, April 22, 2014, in Ann Arbor, Mich. (AP/Detroit News, David Coates)

Democracy, the Supreme Court and affirmative action

Steve Chapman April 23, 2014 4:00 am

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‘Income inequality’ stats don’t tell the full story

Thomas Sowell April 23, 2014 4:00 am

People are willing to volunteer their credit card information to corporations for the convenience of online shopping. (Thinkstock)

Valuing the freedom to make our own privacy tradeoffs

John Stossel April 23, 2014 4:00 am

A Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force destroyer fires an anti-submarine rocket during a fleet review off Sagami, south of Tokyo, Japan, Sunday, Oct. 25, 2009.(AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye)

Japan’s prime minister battles post-World War II constitutional military restrictions

Austin Bay April 23, 2014 4:00 am

Former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, 94, thinks the Constitution needs at least six amendments in order to bring the country more in line with what he believes is good for us. (AP Photo)

John Paul Stevens’ ‘Six Amendments’ shows why elections matter

Cal Thomas April 23, 2014 4:00 am

Dishonesty won’t help moderates win over Republican voters

Dishonesty won’t help moderates win over Republican voters

David Freddoso April 23, 2014 4:00 am

Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum sits on the set of Iowa Press before taping at the Iowa Public Television studios in Johnston, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

Republican candidates should respond to ‘war on women’ talk

Mona Charen April 22, 2014 4:00 am

Ukrainian tanks are transported from their base in Perevalne, outside Simferopol, Crimea on March 26. (AP/Pavel Golovkin)

Liberal approach to disarmament makes a victim of Ukraine

Thomas Sowell April 22, 2014 4:00 am

This photo taken Nov. 7, 2013 shows Idaho Republican candidate Bryan Smith answering questions at a town hall meeting with local residence during a campaign stop for the House seat in Idaho's 2nd Congressional District, in Montpelier, Idaho. (AP Photo/Kim Raff)

K Street battles Tea Party in GOP primaries

Timothy P. Carney April 22, 2014 4:00 am

President Obama talks to reporters about the situation in Ukraine and gives a positive assessment on his health care law, the Affordable Care Act, at the White House in Washington, Thursday, April 17, 2014. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Declaring the Obamacare debate over won’t save Democrats

David Limbaugh April 22, 2014 4:00 am

President Obama declared, "for a long time now, there's been too much secrecy in this city," and ordered his attorney general to issue newly restrictive standards for government use of the "state secrets privilege," which allows the government to shield national security secrets from civil or criminal discovery. Attorney General Eric Holder pledged that the administration would not "invoke the privilege for the purpose of concealing government wrongdoing or avoiding embarrassment." (AP Photo)

The most [REDACTED] administration in history

Gene Healy April 22, 2014 4:00 am

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Faith in government-provided health care is misplaced

Cal Thomas April 21, 2014 4:00 am