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Biden Blew It
Ruy Teixeira, Substack
How the Left Helped Trump Win
David Gibbs, Compact Magazine
Harris Was Set To Crush Women's Vote. What Went Wrong?
Joan Walsh, The Nation
End of a Climate Delusion
Holman Jenkins, Wall Street Journal
California's Cycle of Fiery Destruction and Reconstruction
Robin Abcarian, LA Times
Whistleblower: DEI, Corruption Behind LA Fire Catastrophe
Michael Shellenberger, X
Pennsylvania GOP Sweep Was No Fluke
Athan Koutsiouroumbas, RealClearPennsylvania
With or Without DOGE, Dems Need a Plan To Fix Government
Will Marshall, The Hill
Pentagon Losing Equipment, Buying Stuff It Doesn't Need
Matthew Petti, Reason
A First Draft for Secretary Hegseth
Gary Anderson, RealClearDefense
What It Will Really Take To End the Russia-Ukraine War
Joshua Keating, Vox
China Continues To Shift Exports to Global South
David Goldman, Asia Times
The Great Dumbing Down of American Education
Joel Kotkin, The American Mind
Ignore the Road Rage: Congestion Pricing Is Sound Policy
Anna Heetderks, RCP
Hochul's Congestion Tax Killed the City of Dreams
Daniel Idfresne, RealClearPolitics
It Ain't Me, Babe
Robert Kuttner, American Prospect
Remember David Lynch's Sincerity and Love of America
Emina Melonic, The Federalist

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20% Bidenflation and the Economic Carnage Left Behind
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The Fed's Stress Tests Are Facing a Stress Test
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Confirm Trump's Cabinet
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A Sustainable Israeli-Palestinian Peace Must Now Begin
Financial Times

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Eyes on the Prize: Samizdat
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The Left's Mangled Guardrails
Kimberley Strassel, Wall Street Journal
The 2024 Election and U.S. Regional Cultures
Colin Woodard, Washington Monthly
Can Trump Make America Safe Again?
Heather Mac Donald, City Journal
Trump To Tap Sean Curran for Secret Service Chief
Susan Crabtree, RealClearPolitics
Will Biden's Approval Rating Ever Rebound?
Barbara Perry, Newsweek
WH-Directed Censorship on Facebook Worse Than on Twitter
Matt Taibbi, Fox Radio
Covid: NYT, WaPo Narrative vs. Actual Fact Pattern
Jenner Furst, Tucker Carlson Show
Expert in Grand Strategy Thinks Trump Is On to Something
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'Drill, Baby, Drill,' Yet Time To 'Chill, Baby, Chill' on Lower Prices
James Varney, RCI
Interest Rates, Biden, Trump and You
Steve Cortes, Substack
Meet the Democrats' Best Shot at Shaking Up the DNC
Zeeshan Aleem, MSNBC
NC Voters Confirm National Momentum for Term Limits
John Tamny, RealClearPolicy
The Stench of American Politics
Brian Karem, Salon
Mike Pence Doesn't Practice What He Preaches on Family Values
Katie Miller, X
The Cheapening of Felony's Sting
John Eastman, TomKlingenstein.com
David Lynch: The Cheery Oracle of the American Abyss
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Trump Transition Job Approval: FOX News: 52% Approve | CNN: 53% Approve

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U.S. Will Be Better Off When Biden Exits the Stage
Ingrid Jacques, USA Today
The Incoherence of the End of the Biden Presidency
David Dayen, American Prospect
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James Taranto, Wall Street Journal
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John Judis, Substack
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Paul Teller, RealClearEnergy
The Deeply American Roots of Trump's Territorial Ambitions
Zack Beauchamp, Vox
Trump and His Envoy Impact Mideast Before Inauguration
John Solomon, JTN
The Politics of Wind and Fire
Edward Ring, American Greatness
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Ruben Martinez, LA Times
Newsom Should Resign
Samuel Hammond, City Journal
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President-Elect Trump

Trump To Tap Sean Curran for Secret Service Director

President Trump plans to announce Secret Service agent Sean Curran, who heads his detail, to be the agency’s director, according to three sources in the Secret Service community.Curran, who has served in the agency for more than two decades, leads a team of roughly 85 agents who protect the president-elect and has done so over the last two and a half years of his presidential campaign. Curran ha Read More

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Eyes on the Prize: Samizdat

I often quip that I’m the last of the bison when it comes to American journalists—a description Ring Lardner applied to Gene Fowler in the 1930s. It’s a nice line, but it’s not quite right. There are more of us remaining in the news business than you might guess – reporters, editors, and producers who still adhere to the time-tested standards of fairness, accuracy, and nonpartisanship. Read More

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Analysis & Commentary

Fenton: Why This Lifelong Democrat Voted for Trump

This past November, I cast a ballot that I never would have expected: I voted for Donald Trump.As a lifelong Democrat, this decision was not rooted in ideology, but instead born of personal frustration with America’s broken systems – financial, judicial, and political.My story is not just my own but a reflection of the shared struggles of countless Americans, in almost every economic class, wh Read More

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