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Thursday
Are Biden voters sick and tired of winning yet?
The curious case of the unlucky suckers who get exactly what they want and end up losing out anyway
Joe Biden, high priest of the cult of woke
Restoring mandatory critical race theory training is a dreadful idea
Wednesday
Impeachment 2.0 is another silly sham
Sen. Rand Paul is right
Tuesday
Who will replace Rob Portman in the Senate?
The list of potential Republican candidates is long
Monday
Why did Biden kill Keystone?
Biden’s call for a ‘foreign policy for the middle class’ suddenly looks laughable
Sunday
Joe Biden is no Al Smith
President Biden’s Catholicism seems to follow the law of inverse relevance
Friday
CNN is already running PR for the Biden admin
The network published a bogus story on COVID vaccine distribution
Jared Porter’s cold-storage cancellation
A foolish flirtation, an old tweet, a professional miscalculation that aged poorly: it’s all there, ready to be exhumed and trotted out
Joe Biden’s ‘harmony’ is curiously divisive
Tolerance exists only for ideas that are completely consonant with the left-liberal agenda
Americans don’t want woke neoliberalism
But that’s what we’re getting
Thursday
Did I miss the coup?
There was to be a worldwide media blackout after which Donald Trump — for it is he — would announce to the world that he was still in control
Wednesday
How the Republican party survives Trump
The GOP must become the party of liberalism
Welcome to the Harris presidency!
Make no mistake: the professionals are back, as rich, entitled and useless as ever
America last: Biden’s first day in office
The US will return to a global order that has failed to provide tangible benefit for Americans
Tuesday
Donald Trump’s third-party revenge
A party of his own could be a lucrative grift
Novak Djokovic is right to challenge state-mandated quarantine
It is madness to expect tennis players to perform to the best of their abilities after 14 days in captivity
Saturday
Welcome to DC, now show me your papers
The pre-inauguration lockdown of DC is an overreaction
Friday
EXCLUSIVE: Trump slashed aid to China by 52 percent
Inside the fiscal cold war
Thursday
Why is Massachusetts’s vaccine rollout so lackluster?
Perhaps it has something to do with all the ‘phases’
Wednesday
Why even bother mentioning the 25th Amendment?
The House resolution gets Congress’s role ass-backwards
The great futility of partisan impeachment
The President’s closest allies in Congress are still standing by him. What about his voters?
Tuesday
Andrew Cuomo’s economy U-turn
The timing of the New York governor’s hard-right shift cannot be ignored
@jack is the giant
Who does the Twitter CEO think he is, a college president?
Monday
The Big Tech backfire
How does forcing Trump supporters into seedier corners of the web help unite the country?
The trouble with alienating Middle America
Donald Trump is not the left’s real target. We — anyone who holds conservative principles — are the target
Saturday
So much for cooler heads prevailing
Is anyone really interested in deescalation?
MAGA arrives at the last level of the video game
For all the pathetic LARPing that took place on Wednesday, what happened inside the Capitol wasn’t a game
Friday
Now we’ll never know about voter fraud
The rioters have created a near untenable situation for their allies in power
The end game
How can America get through the final, flailing days of Trump’s presidency?
The honorable Mike Pence
The VP did not ‘turn on Trump’ — though Trump quickly turned the knife on him
The vaccine slow roll
When Ron DeSantis blames local officials, CNN reporters tear into him. When Cuomo does it? Crickets
Thursday
The folly of Josh Hawley
How dangerous is the Missouri senator’s ambition?
The carnival in the Capitol
They know the eyes of the world are upon them — and at least some of them appear to enjoy the attention