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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

While some use suicide rates or unemployment levels to gauge the country's happiness, others measure the number of bicyclists out on the streets. (Examiner File)

Bike lane ‘indignados’ are a sign of unhappy times

R. Emmett Tyrrell January 23, 2014 5:00 am

Former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie are both in some hot water. (AP Photos)

Conservatives don’t circle the wagons around corrupt politicians

David Freddoso January 22, 2014 5:00 am

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo drew the ire of conservatives when he said in a radio interview that extreme conservatives "have no place in the state of New York." (AP Photo/Mike Groll, File)

Andrew Cuomo shows that Left has forgotten what the First Amendment means

Cal Thomas January 22, 2014 5:00 am

Glass, debris and overturned furniture are strewn inside a room in the gutted U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, after an attack that killed four Americans in September 2012. (AP Photo/Ibrahim Alaguri)

Senate report finds that CIA knew about danger in Libya

Terence Jeffrey January 22, 2014 5:00 am

President Lyndon B. Johnson delivers his State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress, Jan. 8, 1964. Speaking in the House of Representatives, the chief executive said one of his aims was "unconditional war on poverty in America." (AP Photo)

The ‘war on poverty’ made the problem worse

Thomas Sowell January 22, 2014 5:00 am

When businesses get in the government handout line, it's not a "public-private partnership." It's corporate welfare. (Photo: Thinkstock)

The US Chamber of Commerce versus America

Michelle Malkin January 22, 2014 5:00 am

The Guttmacher Institute, a pro-abortion-rights organization, has just released a study that states that the number of abortions declined from 1.21 million in 2008 to 1.06 million in 2011. (AP Photo)

Abortion defines the political parties, 41 years after Roe v. Wade

Michael Barone January 22, 2014 5:00 am

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Words carry more weight than facts to liberals

Thomas Sowell January 21, 2014 5:00 am

Nebraska Treasurer Shane Osborn is a conservative Republican who rails against Washington insiders and criticizes the Republican leadership for the recent budget deal, but whose pedigree shows strong ties to the Republican establishment.ÃÂ (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)

K Street and Tea Party in Nebraska proxy war

Timothy P. Carney January 21, 2014 5:00 am

Environmentalists assume that as people get richer and use more energy, they pollute more. The opposite is true. As nations industrialize, they pay more attention to pollution. (Photo: Thinkstock)

Let’s chill out about global warming

John Stossel January 21, 2014 5:00 am

Obama’s poll results fall as middle class gets his number

Obama’s poll results fall as middle class gets his number

Noemie Emery January 21, 2014 5:00 am

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (AP/Richard Drew)

Is it bullying? Depends which side says it

Mona Charen January 21, 2014 5:00 am