Recent articles
May 21, 2026
A Close Reading of Trump’s Statement on Attending His Son’s Wedding
Trump’s funniest riff ever?
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May 19, 2026
Trump’s $1.8 Billion Slush Fund Is Worse Than Stealing
Recasting the January 6 insurrection as the work of heroic patriots remains the president’s highest priority.
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May 14, 2026
Donald Trump’s Inflationary Agenda
He was elected to tackle one problem. Instead, he’s made it worse.
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May 12, 2026
Big Brother Is ReTruthing You
Donald Trump is a victim of propaganda as much as he is a manipulator of it.
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May 5, 2026
Progressive Activists Are Sometimes on the Wrong Side of History
Thinking otherwise can enable the left’s worst instincts, as a speech at the University of Michigan’s commencement showed.
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May 1, 2026
The Mysterious Obsession With Obama’s Fake Son
Would he look like Trayvon Martin?
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April 29, 2026
Donald Trump’s Disturbing Welcome for King Charles
At the White House, the president embraced the idea that the nation is an Anglo-Saxon one.
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April 28, 2026
Calling Trump a Tyrant Is Not a Call to Violence
Conservatives want to police how we talk about Trump—while excusing how the president talks about everyone else.
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April 23, 2026
The Posting Will Continue Until Morale Improves
Trump’s Iran messaging seems desperate.
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April 22, 2026
How Democrats Can Lose Michigan, Again
What Abdul El-Sayed doesn’t get about Trump
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April 16, 2026
Israel Moderates Are Losing the Democratic Party
Their position has become untenable. But liberal Zionists can adapt.
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April 10, 2026
The Banality of MAGA-fication
A new book by an unremarkable Republican accidentally illuminates the devolution of the party.
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April 2, 2026
Pam Bondi Couldn’t Possibly Succeed
She did what Donald Trump wanted her to do. That turned out to be part of the problem.
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March 31, 2026
Trump Can’t Scare Iran and Reassure Oil Markets at the Same Time
But he’s trying.
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March 25, 2026
The Deep Risk That Republican Hawks Overlooked
If the Iran war goes badly, the isolationist, anti-Israel wing of the party is likely to steer the GOP’s future.
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March 17, 2026
Joe Kent’s Secret
If Trump can never be wrong, then he can only be wronged.
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March 13, 2026
Pete Hegseth’s Worrisome Press Briefing
If you want to believe the Iran war is going as planned, don’t listen to the defense secretary.
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March 5, 2026
How Kristi Noem Lost Her Job
She probably should have seen Trump’s decision to find a new homeland-security secretary coming.
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March 3, 2026
A Very Stable War
J. D. Vance says this Middle East entanglement can’t be dumb—because Trump is smart.
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