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Wednesday
Apocalypse, please: Climate Night looms
How much coal do we need to burn to ensure the world ends before it starts?
The foreign policy amateur
So far Biden has alienated allies and layered on the bureaucracy — what next?
Tuesday
Biden’s big UN whopper
He says America doesn’t want to fight ‘the wars of the past’, but we still are
The Biden border crisis isn’t going away
Tens of thousands of migrants are descending on a Texas border town
Monday
The Biden presidency is in free-fall
You’re not imagining things
Rejecting the media elite echo chamber
The Nicki Minaj vaccine saga tells us a lot about the right to be wrong
Sunday
Ticking off the French was strategic genius
America used a submarine deal to send a message to the freeloading Europeans
Saturday
The ‘Justice for J6’ rally was a total dud
The media hyped it as the next potential Capitol riot but Washington has rarely been more peaceful
Friday
J.D. Vance: Biden is unwilling to secure the southern border
The Ohio Senate hopeful talks to The Spectator about gay marriage, those old Trump tweets and more
The Wuhan cover-up is more typical than you think
Much of what’s considered ‘science’ in research periodicals is nothing of the sort
David Frum is wrong: guns save lives and sustain communities
From self defense to funding fire departments, they’re woven into the culture of red America
Thursday
A Cheney imperiled
Can the Wyoming congresswoman face down a cowboy rebellion?
The patriotism of CNN’s ‘magic wall’
Elections are about the only time left when we remember how vast and wonderful America is
Afghanistan and climate change: the West’s twin failures
Both have the same cause: a failure to accept reality
Wednesday
Will Biden deal with the Taliban?
He may need to, given that we still have interests in Afghanistan
No one elected Mark Milley
The general doesn’t belong anywhere near the levers of power that we the voters grant our elected officials
Democrats reluctantly backed Newsom: ‘It was more like taking out the trash’
California is a much more liberal state than it was in the 2003 recall
Gavin Newsom won in California, but so did Trumpism
Larry Elder has shown the state GOP the way forward, even as they blame him for losing
Tuesday
A sober evening at the 2021 Bradley Prizes
Mollie Hemingway scorched Republican leadership for ‘insincere opposition’ in her speech
The smug self-satisfaction of the Met Gala
The powerful hypocritically signal their virtue while everyone else laughs
In defense of AOC’s Met Gala dress
The pseudo-moralistic accusations of decadence, hypocrisy and immodesty feed her fame
California’s Wild West versus Canada’s security
A tale of two elections
Monday
A tale of two media standards for governors
Cuomo is gone, Newsom could be on his way out, yet the press remains obsessed with Florida and Texas
Joe Biden cheapened 9/11
His Afghanistan pullout was a disaster and his rationalization of it insulted our military men and women
This is not the next American civil war
Joe Biden’s vaccine mandate is wrong and authoritarian, but let’s keep some perspective here
The return of Marty Peretz
Ex-proprietor likes the look of Vlad Davidzon
Sunday
Gavin Newsom’s California is falling apart
Yet the governor, the essence of white privilege, will likely weather the storm of a recall election
Friday
The West should rediscover Hayek and end the lockdowns
His defense of liberty is as relevant today as it’s ever been
Congress pretends to hold the Pentagon accountable
Lawmakers claim to be outraged over Afghanistan. So why are they about to throw money at the generals?
Joe Biden’s vaccine mandate is an affront to American liberty
When Americans sense they are being deprived of their constitutionally guaranteed freedoms, many tend to fight back
Thursday
Larry Elder gets egged
White protester assaults black political candidate. Yet no one on the left cares
9/11 and the war on terror kiddie table
Contra Lindsey Graham, let’s spend this somber anniversary living without fear
Wednesday
The smoking gun on Anthony Fauci?
Documents show his agency outsourced gain-of-function research to China after all
