David Harsanyi is a senior writer at the Washington Examiner and a nationally syndicated columnist. He is cohost of the “You’re Wrong” podcast and author of multiple books. Subscribe his Substack.
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After the horrific massacre of 11 Jews at the Tree of Life synagogue, many of the same liberals who had recently fought to prop up… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
If you believe that a midterm election in a time of relative peace and economic prosperity is the most important in history or even the… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Former Attorney General Eric Holder believes that Michelle Obama was wrong when she famously advised, “When they go low, we go high.” Rather, he told… Read More
LawCommentary
The notion that certain Americans are pre-emptively guilty of wrongdoing, whether there’s any corroborating evidence to back up an accusation or not, isn’t reserved for… Read More
LawCommentary
As you may know, Brett Kavanaugh has already been found guilty of crimes against leftism, so now we’re just working our way backward from the… Read More
LawCommentary
“Guess who’s perpetuating all of these kinds of actions?” Sen. Mazie Hirono explained, boiling down the Senate Democrats’ position on Brett Kavanaugh. “It’s the men… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
“How hard can that be? Saying that Nazis are bad,” former President Barack Obama asked a crowd in Illinois last week. Well, probably no harder… Read More
LawCommentary
When cameras at Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court hearing caught sight of a woman named Zina Bash, a Republican lawyer, with her arm resting in a… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Someone recently dug up an old pro-Second Amendment Instagram post by Boston Red Sox star J.D. Martinez, in which the potential Triple Crown winner posted… Read More
LawCommentary
Perhaps one day a court will find that Donald Trump conspired with his personal lawyer Michael Cohen to pay nondisclosure agreements meant to silence his… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Of course, Facebook, YouTube, and other media are free to ban conspiracy-mongers such as Alex Jones from their platforms. They have a right to dictate… Read More
SocietyCommentary
The newest bugaboo of the gun control crowd is the bloodcurdling “3D printer gun”—or, as anti-gun activist Alyssa Milano called it, “downloadable death.” Reporters at… Read More
EconomyCommentary
On the same day that Venezuela’s “democratically” elected socialist president, Nicolas Maduro, whose once-wealthy nation now has citizens foraging for food, announced he was lopping… Read More
InternationalCommentary
Last week, The Washington Post published an op-ed headlined “It’s not wrong to compare Trump’s America to the Holocaust.” As with similar examples of this… Read More
LawCommentary
Sure, some of the anger aimed at President Donald Trump’s nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court is partisan bluster meant to placate… Read More
LawCommentary
If you’re under the impression that the system exists merely to facilitate your partisan agenda, it’s not surprising that you also believe it’s broken every… Read More
SocietyCommentary
It looks as if the next phase of our ginned-up national moral panic will feature the public shunning and harassment of people we disagree with…. Read More
SocietyCommentary
As soon as the Trump administration adopted a “zero tolerance” policy requiring law enforcement to prosecute all immigrants who crossed the border illegally, it became… Read More
EconomyCommentary
These days, I’m often accused of being a globalist. The word is a pejorative meant to insinuate that I am more concerned about international corporations… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
If your contention is that President Donald Trump has the propensity to sound like a bully and an authoritarian, I’m with you. If you’re arguing… Read More
EnergyCommentary
With consumer confidence at a 17-year high and economic prospects looking relatively strong, congressional Democrats have taken to grousing about the gas pump as a… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
If the Justice Department and FBI are, as we’ve been told incessantly over the past year, not merely patriots but consummate professionals incapable of being… Read More
InternationalCommentary
No matter how often Hamas tells us that rioters on the Israel-Gaza border are armed, the media keeps referring to them as “protesters” and “demonstrators.”… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
It’s strange that a president who had such a transformative effect on our national discourse will leave such a negligible policy legacy. But Barack Obama,… Read More
LawCommentary
These days, a number of people seem to be under the impression that investigating President Donald Trump is the most vital project undertaken by this… Read More
EconomyCommentary
Sen. Bernie Sanders is set to announce a plan that guarantees every American “who wants or needs one” a lifetime government job paying at least… Read More
LawCommentary
After being pressed by former top Bill Clinton political aide George Stephanopoulos on ABC News, James Comey admitted that he had “screwed up a couple… Read More
EconomyCommentary
In the year 2018, at the height of the Russia Scare, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was hauled in front of a tribunal of tech-illiterate politicians… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
Last month, news anchors at Sinclair Broadcast Group’s TV stations were required to read a script critical of “fake stories” and general bias in the… Read More
EconomyCommentary
President Donald Trump will reportedly name Larry Kudlow head of the White House National Economic Council. For fans of pro-growth policies—deregulation, low taxation, and open… Read More
