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S.E. Cupp: What’s the point of debates anymore?
The year was 1980. The place was Cleveland’s Music Hall. The event was must-see TV.
It was the second presidential debate, featuring Ronald Reagan and ...Read more

November Has Been Nikki Haley’s Takeoff Month
Perhaps “Nikki-mentum” is too clumsy. And maybe “Haley’s comet” is too cute.
But however you want to put it, there’s no denying Nikki Haley is having a great month.
Despite a brief mid-month politics/fromtheright/secupp/s-2997796">Read more

Solution to Debt: Cut Spending I Disagree With!
Congress just passed – and President Biden just signed – the latest short-term government funding bill to keep the government running.
The bill, which essentially kicks the can down the road, ...Read more

Blame Trump for the Fist Fights on Capitol Hill
In San Francisco federal court on Tuesday, David DePape tearfully told a jury how he’d become radicalized by far-right conspiracy theories he’d devoured on YouTube podcasts.
He’d listen all day, he said, ...Read more

On Abortion, Lessons Not Learned by Republicans
On Tuesday night, voters in a handful of important states gave us a crucial temperature check on the state of the union leading up to the 2024 presidential election — and it’s not good news for Republicans.
In Virginia, the very popular Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin was hoping his party would win control of the legislature — “hold the ...Read more

Matthew Perry and the Cult of Celebrity
While Ms. Cupp is away, Mr. Thomas is filling in
I never saw an episode of “Friends,” but that is probably because I am from the television era that began with black- and-white pictures and television screens so small you had to draw a chair up to the box to see a flickering image. Back then, celebrity was a byproduct of talent and ...Read more

The Far Left Has a Serious Antisemitism Problem
The headlines paint a troubling picture.
“ Liberals Need a Reckoning With Antisemitism.”
“ How the Democrats betrayed the Jews.”
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The Right is Broken, and No One is Fixing It
As I write this column, it has been more than two weeks, and the House of Representatives still doesn’t have a speaker.
Even in times of peace and stability, this would be a troubling development inside a political body meant to, you know, solve problems. But these aren’t times of peace or stability.
Hamas’ barbaric massacre of hundreds ...Read more

Hamas Massacres Expose Moral Rot on Campuses
“Hi y’all,” began the letter to other NYU students.
Considering the topic, it was an odd and somewhat jarring salutation — cheerful, informal, chillingly indifferent.
But ...Read more

McCarthy Gaetz What He Deserves and We All Pay
“Bring it on.”
“Just did.”
These aren’t lines from a cheesy teen flick.
They’re what two members of the United States House of Representatives said to each other before embarking on one of the dumbest, most self-destructive and utterly embarrassing kamikaze missions in modern American politics.
On Tuesday, after threatening to do...Read more

Cal Thomas: The second longest ‘play’
Agatha Christie's “The Mousetrap” is the longest running show, of any kind, in the world. It opened Nov. 25, 1952 at the Ambassadors Theatre in London and is still running. The second ...Read more

Romney is a Good Man Who Was Always a Good Man
The heartfelt eulogies poured in from both sides of the aisle after Utah Sen. Mitt Romney announced he would not seek reelection in 2024.
Democrats and Republicans alike agreed that the Senate, the Republican ...Read more

Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s Weak Impeachment Folly
This week, spineless House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, in fear of being ousted from his precious leadership position by far-right hostage-takers like Florida’s Rep. Matt Gaetz and Georgia’s Read more