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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The Obama Doctrine is as dead as Yahya Sinwar. And the world is better off in both cases. While the massacre of Oct. 7, 2023,… Read More
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Even before we knew the targeted killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson by Luigi Mangione was politically motivated, many leftists were justifying, celebrating, and rationalizing… Read More
President Joe Biden is right about one thing. His son Hunter Biden has always been “treated differently.” If Hunter Biden had a different last name,… Read More
A lot of you people sound nuts. It is unsurprising that a Trump campaign ad featuring the tagline “Kamala is for they/them. President Donald Trump… Read More
If the 2024 presidential contest proved anything, it’s that the mass media no longer drive the national conversation. They can no longer stoke fear and… Read More
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Vote. Don’t vote. I don’t care. Just stop telling me that Vice President Kamala Harris is going to save democracy. Do I wish Republicans had… Read More
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A few months into Kamala Harris‘ 2024 presidential run, her handlers faced a dilemma. Should they continue cocooning the candidate or unleash her on the… Read More
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The greatest moral hazard in American life is politics. Many of you probably remember 2012 GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney being secretly recorded by a… Read More
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Though Democrats are endlessly prattling on about “norms” and “democracy,” it is often unclear what aspects of the constitutional order they actually support. This week,… Read More
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At one point during the Sept. 10 presidential debate, former President Donald Trump accused Democrats of not only supporting unlimited third-trimester abortions, but the “execution”… Read More
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In 2019, Vice President Kamala Harris told CNN’s Jake Tapper that social media companies “are directly speaking to millions and millions of people without any… Read More
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“Kamala Harris Is No Communist, Socialist, or Nixon,” Jill Lawrence assures us. OK. But are we sure? Not that anyone’s asked me, but as someone… Read More
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Have you heard about Tim Walz’s folksiness? Surely you’ve noticed the “folksy demeanor” and “folksy manner” and “folksy appeal” and “folksy mannerisms” of this “folksy… Read More
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It’s difficult to make substantive arguments against the Democrats’ Supreme Court “reform” proposal, since everyone knows it’s just a cynical ploy to delegitimize both the… Read More
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With some hard work, pluck, the right boyfriend, and a bit of genetic luck, Vice President Kamala Harris has found her way onto the presidential… Read More
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The Left’s efforts to push a fragile Joe Biden out of the presidential race are probably hitting an apex around now, as Senate Majority Leader… Read More
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Carl Bernstein of Watergate fame recently told CNN views that people close to President Joe Biden — people “who loved him, have supported him, and… Read More
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Not long ago, Snopes, a left-wing “fact-checking” site, finally admitted that former President Donald Trump had never called the neo-Nazis who marched at the Unite… Read More
International Commentary
The reaction to the rescue of four Israeli hostages from Gaza is a microcosm of the past 70 years of this conflict. Every time Palestinians… Read More
LawCommentary
The day Merrick Garland was set to appear before Congress, The Wall Street Journal ran a piece exploring the attorney general’s “by-the-book, play-no-favorites approach.” This… Read More
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The same day the Biden administration and the European Union offered their condolences over the death of Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi—the “Butcher of Tehran”—the chief… Read More
EnergyCommentary
Not long ago, President Joe Biden promised to transform the American auto industry—”first with carrots, now with sticks,” is the analogy The Washington Post used…. Read More
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Even as President Joe Biden was delivering his perfunctory Holocaust Remembrance speech earlier this week, decrying the “ferocious surge” in antisemitism on college campuses and… Read More
EducationCommentary
Mohamed Abdou is a pro-Hamas “anarchist interdisciplinary activist-scholar of Indigenous, Black, critical race, and Islamic studies, as well as gender, sexuality, abolition, and decolonization” at… Read More
International Commentary
If a belligerent state launched 185 explosive drones, 36 cruise missiles, and 110 surface-to-surface missiles from three fronts against civilian targets within the United States,… Read More
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Ronna McDaniel, formerly chair of the Republican National Committee, was recently hired and subsequently fired by NBC News when the “talent,” unable to countenance even… Read More
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One of the big takeaways from the newly released transcript of President Joe Biden’s two-day interview with Robert Hur is that the special counsel was… Read More
SocietyCommentary
The other day, Politico reporter Heidi Przybyla appeared on MSNBC’s “All In With Chris Hayes” to talk about the hysteria de jour, “Christian nationalism.” Donald… Read More
International Commentary
President Joe Biden has not only promised to veto any stand-alone Israeli aid, but he’s reportedly circulating a draft resolution within the United Nations Security… Read More
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President Joe Biden promised to veto any stand-alone aid bill for Israel, and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and most House Democrats voted against one…. Read More
