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The GOP seems ready to leave Reagan in the past, but today's leaders could learn something from the Gipper's unifying gift.

Fearless exploiters of children brag on TikTok about corrupting their minds, fearing no consequences

O'Rourke doesn't have a signature issue in the same way that Obama did, and he doesn't have anything else he can point to in his record that the many other...

Barbie world created the male-as-accessory, but women found it deeply disappointing.

Dec 17, 2025 - It’s a bad idea that undermines diplomacy and U.S. interests—which may be the point.

Can our entanglement with online life be redeemed?

If you've used the internet in the last two years, there's a very good chance that your personal data has been exposed. Any website that you log in to is likely

We do not have to repeat the errors of the early post-Soviet era.

The Senate should pass the DeOndra Dixon INCLUDE Act without delay.

'OK Boomer': teach your children not to respect traditions and eventually they'll turn against even your watered-down ones.

Regardless of migration levels, allowing immigrant children to assimilate under the 14th Amendment has proven a sensible idea.

At Davos, the Ukrainian president scolded European leaders.

The Navy is dysfunctional. Is there anything that can be done about it? And when?

One thing that everyone can rejoice in is the complete failure of the Bloomberg campaign.

This is what the president should say about future military action on fellow members' behalf.

Americans are turning to highly personalized, unorthodox religion to get fulfillment.

Christians have to be willing to help the poor. But what does that mean, precisely?

You cannot credibly inflict collective punishment on an entire nation and then pretend that this isn't exactly what you intended to do.

The pivot from collusion to generic corruption only exposes how empty the process is.

Take a look at that video, as much of it as you can manage without laughing so hard you pee your pants. The speaker is a California New Age guru named Barbara M

How the Fed creates booms and busts

Despite what spiteful Wajahat Ali thinks, demonizing voters by race and sex is not a path to political victory

After South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley (R-SC) announced that she supported the removal of the Confederate battle flag from the state Capitol, right-wing...

From TomDispatch: Bradley Manning, Washington, and the blood of civilians By Chase Madar | January 19, 2012 Who in their right mind wants to talk about,

State of the Union: Forcing the bigot to bake the cake was just a trial run.

A new book on British foreign policy sheds light on much but overlooks a deeper darkness.

An initial police press release claims "firearms offenses" were involved, but now the authorities are being mum.

What Jhumpa Lahiri learned about herself through learning Italian

The harm done to the civilian population by the "maximum pressure" campaign isn't unexpected or unintentional. Hurting the civilian population is essential to...

The privatization of America's wars swells the ranks of armies for hire across the globe.

Apparently, the threat is both serious and specific. The United States ordered 22 diplomatic missions closed and issued a worldwide travel alert for U.S. cit

American presidents have adopted Hobbesian levels of power.

Anheuser-Busch & the Des Moines Register surrender to cancel culture

State of the Union: The decision also ensures that Trump will be on the primary ballot in Illinois and Maine.

No state stays on top of the great power pyramid forever.

State of the Union: Iran signals it is still open to nuclear talks if the U.S. stays out of the war.

President Donald Trump is freaking out Europe and Canada for no good reason.

State of the Union: The 25 percent levy will apply to any country that conducts business with the Islamic Republic.

The president announced that he would honor the conservative activist during a speech commemorating 9/11.

Reader: My dad ruining his life with MAGA obsession. Our parents were no more ready for this media age than we were

If yes, then a culture-war criminal like you can't work for Apple

Suburban Jewish middle schooler falsely accused of sexual harassment. Next thing liberal Mom knew, he was a prisoner of the Alt-Right

State of the Union: The move follows two fatal shootings and congressional deadlock over immigration enforcement practices.

Service's co-CEO gives simpering interview to Variety, hoping Big Trans will have mercy

Normalization is broadly popular in the country and especially in Florida.

There is no honest assessment of the JCPOA that allows anyone to conclude that it "puts Iran on a path towards nuclear weapons."

State of the Union: The former Trump advisor gave a speech the same day as he was released from federal prison.

This time gives us the opportunity to step back.

It's not so much a sign of secular liberal grinches as it is of widespread de-Christianization

America is led by elites who believe culture war sometimes requires heavy weaponry and troop deployments

Assassination of Healthcare CEO sends shockwaves through political discourse.

The rational self-interest in turning the conservative movement into a cash cow

Novelist Paul Kingsnorth has become an Orthodox Christian

Matt Bai wants you to know that George W. Bush isn't a monster: And what do you know: George W. Bush really does care deeply about the men and women he sent

Remember the crucial passage of Barack Obama's Oration for the Ages on Race where he lumps his still-living 85 year old grandma with Rev. Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright

Oct 14, 2020 - The military-industrial complex greases supposedly neutral US think tanks to the tune of over $1 billion a year

Aug 27, 2017 - France has just emerged from one of the maddest years of politics in its democratic history. It is often said that the French adore politics; but at the time...

Romney had a great performance, but he didn't stand his ground on policy.

Perhaps this disciple of Nietzsche can teach us a bit of the right sort of pessimism.

American intervention in Russia's civil war is a classic example of how the U.S. can be lured into doing something unnecessary and dangerous on the basis of...

Left and right populists must unite to defeat cronyism and make policies that meet the needs of the American people.

The late publisher of Consortium News was a trailblazer who held lazy reporters and groupthink in the highest contempt.

Victory in the War on Terror depends less on homeland security than global collaboration.

Nothing will say more about who we've become as a nation than if a torturer is allowed to head the CIA.

Civil society can be rebuilt around food, and family, and friends.

After NYT columnist eviscerates 1619 Project as ideological agitprop, paper's top editor boldly stands by it

In episode #11, we discuss the return of Jordan Peterson, both in the form of his new book Beyond Order (Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life: Peterson, Jordan

Feminists always seem to rally to the dregs of humanity, so long as they wipe away their other sins with a little infanticide.

A mother of two who lost her husband reacts to Baton Rouge and Dallas police murders

Yesterday Rod Dreher wrote a blog post about Jennifer Kulynych, a Washington-area lawyer who decided to homeschool her daughter. She herself had written in th

David Brooks on PBS just now said that the McGovern Coalition -- college students, white liberals, ethnic voters -- is starting to look like the American majori

The visa program serves the American national interest, but needs deep reforms.

Faith-Based War: From 9/11 to Catastrophic Success in Iraq, T. Walter Herbert, Equinox, 224 pages

Conservatism should oppose the liberal state without becoming statist.

The Appellate Body is a stick for beating the U.S. It should stay defunct.

Tax-exempt foundations and think tanks should not interfere with the nomination process.

Harper's letter signed by centrists and liberals smokes out the illiberal left

Careerist U.S. generals touted a toothless military consumed from the start by corruption and split loyalties.

To restore the U.S. economy, America must tend her own garden.

You don't have to be a pollyanna to see the deal as a significant diplomatic achievement.

Freedom from the government will allow radical science to go on undisturbed.

Discord with Turkey, drudgery in Afghanistan, and Washington is obsessing over...Robert Mueller.

The price of having the Internet in your family home is eternal vigilance.

'Superman' Henry Cavill is besieged by feminists after he says he likes to chase women. Is this what we've come to?

Our cultural conditions demand the cries of Karens.

A reader writes: [Name], my youngest son, and I are looking at four years colleges for him and this article caught my eye. The article in question is a short

From George Ajjan and another commenter at the Scene, I have learned that the Arabic for blog is mudawwinah. You never know when a piece of information like

Police departments are pursuing bad policies, but they are downstream from the unmanageable immigration wave.

One of my Bucket List things to do before I leave Philadelphia is to have lunch with the conservative Swarthmore political scientist James Kurth (who, as it tur

Rude restaurateur boots Trump press secretary from her virtuous joint

Jewish history gives today's Christians an alternative to cultural secession.

Contra Bernie Sanders, the two ideas cannot co-exist and never will.

It would give America the debate we need on the Wall Street-Washington power nexus

Even as Middle Eastern churches face extinction, their lobby struggles to be heard.

The U.S. and its allies don't consistently apply and maintain sanctions against regimes that violate international norms and laws.