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The most immense and dangerous public scandal in American history is finally cracking open like a ripe pomegranate. The broad swath of the... Read More

Time to Speak Out Against Trump's Abuses

Rep. Adam Schiff, Washington Post

To my Republican colleagues Read More

Mueller Investigation Is the Biggest Farce in U.S. History

Matthew Walther, The Week

The biggest farce in American history is coming to an end Read More

The Right's Empty Rage Against Jussie Smollett

Adam Howard, The Daily Beast

In the Trump era culture wars, everything is viewed within the prism of a win or loss for the left or right Read More

Smollett Wanted to Smear Republicans, Not Increase His Salary

Thomas Lifson, AT

Spare me all the pieties about Jussie Smollett Read More

Are Dems Dominated by the Left? Don't Be So Sure.

Charlie Cook, Cook Political Report

From much of the media coverage these days, you would think that the undisputed leaders of the Democratic Party are freshman Rep. Alexandra... Read More

Alabama Already Waving Bye to Its 'Fluke' Sen. Jones

Susan Ferrechio, DC Examiner

It doesn’t really matter which Republican candidate takes on Democratic Sen. Doug Jones in November 2020, as long as is isn’t Roy... Read More

Has Trump's Trade War Done Some Good?

Mohamed El-Erian, Project Syndicate

It is often said that with risk comes opportunity. What initially was viewed as an unfortunate US shift to protectionism may in fact have... Read More

Why Flattery Works in Trump's Foreign Policy

Susan Glasser, The New Yorker

A striking exchange between Senator Lindsey Graham and a military officer captured the growing alarm among senior Republicans and... Read More

Only Path to U.S. Victory in the Mideast Is to Leave Now

Lee Smith, Tablet Magazine

American foreign policy is unmoored from American reality Read More

The Face of the Elder Guardian Trap

Diane Diamond, RealClearInvestigations

Lillie White, above, an octogenarian from Palm Coast, Florida, went missing in August 2016. Read More

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Videos

Chicago Police Chief: Jussie Smollett Faked Attack "To Promote His Career"

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Talks Tax Hikes: "Isn't $10 Million Enough? Like, When Does It Stop?"

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Conservative Student Assaulted on UC Berkeley Campus, Told He Is The One "Encouraging Violence"

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Charles Barkley Mocks Jussie Smollett: "Do Not Commit Crimes With Checks"

Jussie Owes Apology to Chicago, Victims, Trump Supporters

Mary Mitchell, CST

“Empire” star Jussie Smollett might as well save some big money and publicly apologize to Chicagoans for allegedly orchestrating... Read More

'Why Would Jussie Do This?' They Cried

Kyle Smith, National Review

Clueless reporters in endless coverage Read More

Sorry, Bigots, But I'm Not Sorry for Trusting Jussie

Dahleen Glanton, Chicago Tribune

Bigots think they deserve an apology from Jussie Smollett's supporters. Read More

Jussie Smollett, Aaron Sorkin, & The Decline Of Grace

Ben Domenech, The Federalist

The racially entangled hoaxes involving Jussie Smollett, and Atticus Finch, show our cultural zeitgeist is choosing tribalism before... Read More

The Covington Catholic Kids Take the Gloves Off

Grayson Quay, American Conservative

Their lawsuit seeks to teach the media a lesson it will never forget. Read More

On Foreign Policy U.S. Voters Want America First

Ian Bremmer, Time

A new study finds Americans of every stripe have a waning appetite for imperial adventurism overseas Read More

Europe Has a Big Choice to Make on Brexit

Timothy Garton Ash, Globe & Mail

“I will celebrate,” said an emphatic German voice behind me, while some dignitary on stage mouthed the conventional polite... Read More

Schiffting to Phase 2 of Collusion

Kimberley Strassel, Wall Street Journal

There’s been no more reliable regurgitator of fantastical Trump-Russia collusion theories than Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff. Read More

All the President's Broken Men

Stephen Collinson, CNN

They once were Donald Trump's strutting, sharp-suited alpha male political and legal fixers, living high and playing the game hard, seemingly... Read More

DOJ Planned a Coup Against Trump. The Press Doesn't Care

Victoria Toensing, DC

The silence of the MSM about the plot to oust President Trump is deafening Read More

Elizabeth Warren's Family Values

Paul Krugman, New York Times

Elizabeth Warren has another very good proposal. Read More

Clumsy Kamala: Harris Might Be Her Own Worst Enemy

Matthew Continetti, WFB

No Democrat running for president has had a better 2019 than Kamala Harris. The numbers tell the tale. She's had a good launch. But... Read More

Inside the Radical Campaign Strategy of Beto O'Rourke

Sasha Issenberg, Politico

He almost beat Ted Cruz. Could he take down Donald Trump? Inside the radical campaign strategy of Beto O'Rourke. Read More

Illegal Ballot Harvesting a Looming Issue in Arizona

Chris Buskirk, RealClearPolitics

Republican candidate Martha McSally beat Democrat Kyrsten Sinema in last year’s election to fill a vacant U.S. Senate seat. At least... Read More

National Emergency Will Haunt Trump's Re-Election Bid

Douglas Schoen, The Hill

On Thursday, Congress passed a bipartisan spending bill, and in doing so averted another government shutdown. Read More

Trump's 2020 Chances Improve with Every News Cycle

Mark Ellis, PJ Media

If the presidential election were held today? Read More

Trump's Real 2020 Foe: Demographics of the Electorate

Myra Adams, RCP

According to today’s RealClearPolitics polling average, President Trump’s job approval is 44.3 percent with 52.6 percent of... Read More

FBI Officials Wanted To Charge Clinton. They Should Have

Investor's Business Daily

Judge in Acosta/Epstein Case Gets It Right. Now What?

Miami Herald

U.S. District Judge Kenneth A. Marra ruled that former U.S. Attorney Alex Acosta and his prosecutors broke the law in concealing a plea deal... Read More

Why Was Trump Admin So Eager to Give Nuke Tech to Saudis?

Washington Post

Wisdom From Eddie Johnson: Smollett Owes City an Apology

Chicago Tribune

Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson appeared before a roomful of reporters and cameras Thursday, ready to provide details of an ugly,... Read More

Illegal Ballot Harvesting a Looming Issue in Arizona

PHOENIX – Republican candidate Martha McSally beat Democrat Kyrsten Sinema in last year’s election to fill a vacant U.S. Senate seat. At least McSally won on election night. We all know what happened: Over the next week hundreds of thousands of early, absentee, and provisional ballots were reviewed, contested, and counted -- and at the end of it all Arizonans found out that Sinema had Read More

Trump Administration

In Halting Calif. Rail Funds, Trump Sends Multiple Messages

Fiscal conservatives and the fossil-fuel industry are cheering President Trump’s decision to publicly whack California and slash nearly $1 billion in federal funds from what opponents long ago sarcastically dubbed the Golden State’s “high-speed train to nowhere.”Politically, Trump has hit a 2020 messaging trifecta with the move. First, he escalated his ongoing war of words Read More

2020 Democratic Nomination

Snapshots of Dems' 2020 Field as Sanders Enters the Fray

Sen. Bernie Sanders is officially running for president – and the surprisingly strong challenger to Hillary Clinton two years ago already finds himself with plenty of company.“We began the political revolution in the 2016 campaign, and now it is time to move that revolution forward,” the self-described democratic socialist said in a Tuesday interview with Vermont Public Radio.Unl Read More

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