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Elementary students are pictured writing dictation during class in the classroom.

Rich Lowry

How our schools' foolishness is courting 'civilizational failure'

May 15, 2026 | 9:47am

Our children aren’t learning to read — first because we’ve forgotten how to teach them, then because we're outsourcing their education to screens.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (R-NY) speaks to media while arriving for votes in the House during a candlelight vigil in honor of National Police Week at the Capitol on May 12, 2026, in Washington, DC.

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Socialist AOC targets billionaires — and aims to make us all poorer

May 13, 2026 | 3:11pm

Typical: Socialist AOC is taking a strength of American society — its openness to talent and innovation — and portraying it as a fundamental problem.

Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson speaks to the 2025 Supreme Court Fellows Program, Thursday, Feb. 13, 2025, at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., U.S.

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Ketanji Brown Jackson is hell-bent on destroying the Supreme Court

May 8, 2026 | 7:00am

The Supreme Court’s decision in a landmark gerrymandering case makes leftists — including one of the court's own justices — even more determined to delegitimize it.

This photo taken on May 3, 2026 shows a plane of Spirit Airlines at LaGuardia Airport in New York, the United States.

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Dems' fingerprints are all over the Spirit Airlines crime scene

May 5, 2026 | 10:26pm

The demise of Spirit Airlines was wanton economic destruction masquerading as antitrust enforcement.

An Emirati patrol boat, second from right, is near a tanker anchored in the Gulf of Oman near the Strait of Hormuz, as seen from a coastal road near Khor Fakkan, United Arab Emirates, Friday, May 1, 2026.

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Operation Epic Fury is highlighting the utter brilliance of 'Drill, baby, drill'

May 3, 2026 | 10:00am

The Western hemisphere stands to gain from the Iran crisis, as the closure of the Strait of Hormuz underlines the inherent risks of reliance on Middle Eastern suppliers.

President Trump speaking to the media at the White House press briefing room after the shooting at the White House Correspondents' Dinner on April 25, 2026.

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Trump defies assassins — and shows why he's a history-maker

April 29, 2026 | 6:30am

President Trump's omnipresence, ambition and willingness to exercise power are making him one of the most dominant figures in American political history.

Hasan Piker speaks at a campaign rally for Abdul El-Sayed, a progressive candidate in the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate in Michigan, Tuesday, April 7, 2026, at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Mich.

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Hasan Piker's 'cool crimes' chatter exposes the left's toxic rage

April 24, 2026 | 5:11pm

Is robbing the Louvre a good idea?

Amir Makled is pictured smiling.

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Michigan's 'Dearborn Dems' herald the Islamization of US politics

April 21, 2026 | 4:08pm

The trend will tie the Democratic Party even closer to campus radicalism — and will leave many Jewish Democrats politically homeless.

Pope Leo XIV arriving at a mass at the Bamenda airport in Cameroon on April 16, 2026.

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Here's what Code Pink and Pope Leo get wrong about war

April 17, 2026 | 7:00am

Military conflict is, at times, necessary and highly consequential; it can achieve beneficent ends, as well as awful ones.

Pope Leo XIV saying mass at the Basilica of Saint Augustine in Annaba, Algeria on April 14, 2026.

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Pope Leo needs to brush up his Bible on war and peace

April 14, 2026 | 6:11pm

The Bible is not an injunction for pacifism, and it doesn’t entail a condemnation of the Iran war.

An aerial view of San Francisco skyline is seen with the Transamerica Pyramid, skyscrapers, and colorful residential buildings, with a bridge and water in the background under a blue sky with white clouds.

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How San Francisco is licking crime — and offering hope for America

April 11, 2026 | 8:00am

Unlike some of the city’s other adventures, this one is actually working out.

US President Donald Trump, alongside Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, speaks about the conflict in Iran in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House on April 6, 2026, in Washington, DC. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP via Getty Images)

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Why Trump's huge $1.5T defense budget is worth every penny

April 7, 2026 | 7:00am

It reflects a correct assessment of what should be the federal government’s priority — not funding social services, but providing for the common defense.

The Artemis II crewed lunar mission lifts off from Pad 39B at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on April 1, 2026.

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Why the Artemis II mission is exciting everyone so much

April 4, 2026 | 8:00am

BBC science editor Rebecca Morelle, who was covering the launch of Artemis II, couldn’t contain her enthusiasm when the first plumes of smoke spread out from the launch pad.

Saudi Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed bin Salman holds President Trump's hand during a meeting in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, DC, on Nov. 18, 2025.

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Gulf states' Iran scars push them closer to Trump — and Israel

March 31, 2026 | 7:25am

There’s no insurance policy against having a fanatic millenarian state as a neighbor.

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What Jimmy Kimmel gets wrong about 'plumbers' like Markwayne Mullin

March 27, 2026 | 12:21pm

The late-night host took a shot at newly confirmed Department of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin, who used to run a plumbing business.

A statue of Christopher Columbus stands in front of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building.

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Why rescuing Christopher Columbus redeems America, too

March 23, 2026 | 7:34pm

Happy ending: An act of destruction seeking to change our public landscape and the story we tell about ourselves has been resisted and reversed.

President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., March 19, 2026.

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Trump is owned by no one — driving some former allies nuts

March 19, 2026 | 7:17pm

We have never had a president who is so thoroughly his own man as Donald Trump.

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Why freeing the Strait of Hormuz is America's burden to bear

March 17, 2026 | 6:17pm

Guarding the safe passage of commerce has been a core Anglo-American commitment for a couple of centuries, so this fight is on us.

President Donald Trump speaks in the East Room of the White House on March 12, 2026 in Washington, DC.

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Trump is obliterating Obama's Iran-appeasement plan — to America's benefit

March 13, 2026 | 3:19pm

But perhaps no Trump undertaking runs so directly counter to Obama’s approach than the Iran War.

The mayor’s narrative of Islamic victimhood runs so deep that it's presumably hard for him to process that two Muslim men were more hateful than their right-wing adversaries.

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Mamdani gets mugged by reality — after ISIS bombers target NYC

March 9, 2026 | 7:56pm

The mayor’s narrative of Islamic victimhood runs so deep that it's presumably hard for him to process that two Muslim men were more hateful than their right-wing adversaries.