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Last week, Mosab Abu Toha, a Hamas apologist and serial fabricator who vilified female Israeli hostages and justified their kidnapping on Oct. 7, won the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for commentary for a series of essays about Gaza in The New Yorker.

It is unsurprising, because the Pulitzer Prizes have become an irremediable joke.

You'd think that the ...Read more

Former vice-presidential candidate Tim Walz recently told an audience at Harvard's Kennedy School that former Vice President Kamala Harris chose him as a running mate because of his uncanny ability to connect with the average Caucasian cisgender dude. "I could code talk to white guys -- watching football, fixing their truck," he explained. "I ...Read more

During oral arguments in the case of Mahmoud v. Taylor, Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson unintentionally made a practical and convincing case for universal school choice.

A few years back, the Montgomery County, Maryland, school board instituted an "LGBTQ-inclusive" curriculum that included storybooks for kids as young as ...Read more

When you take a relative to the emergency room, you trust that the person with a medical degree will have a better grasp of physiology, ailments and treatments than you do. No sane person expects a doctor to sit down and explain biochemistry before treatment.

Because appeals to authority and credentials are part of the social contract.

The ...Read more

The case for protectionism revolves around a host of doom-and-gloom myths that we should not accept.

"We don't make anything anymore!"

I don't know how many times I've heard defenders of President Donald Trump's new tariff regime bleakly note that the U.S. economy is a mere husk of its glorious old self.

Is our manufacturing base perfect? No,...Read more

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent cautioned last month that Americans will likely experience "a detox period" after President Donald Trump implements his wide-ranging tariffs.

What are we detoxing from, exactly?

From an abundance of affordable goods and the world's highest living standards? From consistent economic growth? From leading the ...Read more

When I first came across Jonathan Chait's new Atlantic piece, "Why the COVID Reckoning Is So One-Sided," I assumed the answer would be that Democrats had been the ones relentlessly and tragically wrong about virtually everything during the pandemic. No such luck.

In Chait's telling, the Left remains uncannily open-minded, always striving for ...Read more

This week, the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration released tens of thousands of documents related to the assassinations of former President John F. Kennedy, his brother Robert, and Martin Luther King Jr.

Now, I'm one of those naive Americans who believe Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in 1963 when he assassinated Kennedy in Dallas....Read more

On the same day that Islamic State terrorist Shamsud-Din Jabbar murdered 15 Americans by plowing a car into a crowd in New Orleans, thousands of Hamas and Hezbollah supporters, many decked out in Islamist garb, descended onto Times Square chanting, "Globalize the intifada."

One of the organizers of the protest was Columbia University Apartheid ...Read more

President Donald Trump's fixation with tariffs is reminiscent of the Democrats' self-destructive crusade to pass the Inflation Reduction Act under former President Joe Biden. The Left treated the partisan spending bill as a moral imperative, even though honest economists across the spectrum warned that dumping hundreds of billions of dollars ...Read more

Mitch McConnell, perhaps the greatest strategist in Senate history, recently announced he would be retiring from politics after seven terms. This brought on celebration from MAGA Republicans, who detest the Kentuckian with the heat of a thousand suns.

And there are numerous legitimate criticisms of McConnell's tenure. He ruled the conference ...Read more

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has spread many detestable theories in his life, but none is more detestable than his scaremongering over autism and vaccines.

It's not merely that the new Health and Human Services secretary has convinced thousands of Americans that they're partially responsible for their children's autism -- a trend he once compared to a...Read more

Because of their modern designs, we might be led to believe that electric cars are technological marvels. But, really, most of the purported conveniences and innovations of new EVs are already available in most standard gas-powered cars at a far cheaper price. EVs are, at best, a lateral technology for most consumers (if you never plan on ...Read more