Ben Shapiro is host of "The Ben Shapiro Show" and editor emeritus of The Daily Wire. A graduate of UCLA and Harvard Law School, he is a New York Times bestselling author whose latest book is "The Authoritarian Moment: How the Left Weaponized America's Institutions Against Dissent."
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The United States is winning. Anyone telling you otherwise is either mistaken—or rooting for a different outcome. That may sound blunt. But it happens to… Read More
SecurityCommentary
A brutal cold snap has gripped New York City and much of the East Coast, freezing streets, sidewalks—and, it seems, any remaining sense of civic… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
There is a growing sense of frustration coursing through American politics, and it is no longer confined to one party or ideology. That frustration has… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
Republicans are beginning to sound the alarm about the 2026 midterm elections, and not without reason. The concern was crystallized by a Texas state Senate… Read More
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The unrest surrounding federal immigration enforcement in Minneapolis did not arise by accident. It is the product of a combustible mix: deliberate obstruction by Democrat… Read More
Monday marked Martin Luther King Jr. Day, a national holiday honoring a man best remembered for urging Americans to judge one another by the content… Read More
SecurityCommentary
There is still chaos surrounding Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations, and nowhere is the anger more palpable than in cities like Minneapolis. Protesters insist they… Read More
InternationalCommentary
Something crucial happened with President Donald Trump’s recent actions in Venezuela. In fact, taken together with his earlier moves abroad, they mark the substantive death… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
One of the most persistent mistakes in modern politics is the insistence on flattening all ideologies—pretending that all human beings think the same way, want… Read More
InternationalCommentary
The United States is confronting an existential threat—but not the kind defined by ships on the horizon or missiles in the air. The danger instead… Read More
EconomyCommentary
The fate of the Donald Trump administration—and perhaps Republicans in Congress—is tethered to how Americans feel about the economy. And right now, it’s hard to… Read More
EconomyCommentary
Affordability. It’s the word on everybody’s lips. Ever since self-described socialist Zohran Mamdani became the front-runner in the New York City mayoral election by saying… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
How does a 33-year-old lifelong do-nothing—a person who has never held a real job, never suffered a true challenge, been handed everything on a silver… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
Three weeks ago, The New York Times released a poll of Americans on the question of whether America’s political system could still solve the nation’s… Read More
International Commentary
This week, I had the opportunity to visit the Israeli parliament, the Knesset, to hear President Donald Trump speak. Trump, who had just brokered a… Read More
InternationalCommentary
It has been a long time since a Western country has won a war. It can now be said that Israel has won its war… Read More
SocietyCommentary
This week, my friend Charlie Kirk was murdered in cold blood in front of a crowd of thousands at Utah Valley University. He was assassinated… Read More
SocietyCommentary
This week, most Americans were shocked by the images of Decarlos Brown Jr., a violent schizophrenic with a 14-count rap sheet, stabbing a young Ukrainian… Read More
SocietyCommentary
This week, anti-American and pro-Hamas advocates gathered in Detroit at a “People’s Conference for Palestine.” There, they expressed radical solidarity with terrorism, celebrated the achievements… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
This week, Axios ran a fascinating piece about the supposed “redefinition” of Americanism under President Donald Trump. Titled “Inside Trump’s American identity project,” Axios posited… Read More
SecurityCommentary
This week, news emerged that the Trump administration has been setting new standards with regard to incoming immigrants. According to Axios, the U.S. Citizenship and… Read More
International Commentary
Just a few weeks ago, it was widely thought that Israel and the terrorist group Hamas were nearing a deal to end the war in… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Some countries have true, serious problems. Then there are countries that have national discussions over a buxom young white woman in a jeans commercial. Obviously,… Read More
SocietyCommentary
The West faces a series of serious economic challenges: a demographic collapse that undermines growth; a welfare state that sucks money from the future and… Read More
LawCommentary
This week, the internet was set abuzz by a memo from the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Department of Justice about the Jeffrey Epstein… Read More
SocietyCommentary
America has a major problem: nearly half of Americans—42%— don’t believe in America. According to Gallup, just 58% of adults say they are either “extremely”… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
They did it. They finally did it. Those maniacs. They blew it up. As New Yorkers walk dazed through the streets of the world’s greatest… Read More
International PoliticsCommentary
This week, Israel finally unleashed its firepower against Iran’s nuclear program in a devastating feat of intelligence work, technological competence and war planning. The Israelis… Read More
SocietyCommentary
As Los Angeles burst into riots this week over a federal immigration raid, one protester took to his social media channels to explain just what… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
This week, the Department of Defense made an unprecedented move: They renamed a ship, originally christened the USNS Harvey Milk. According to Defense Secretary Pete… Read More
