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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“It is utterly embarrassing that ‘pay people enough to live’ is a stance that’s even up for debate,” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently tweeted. “Override the… Read More
EconomyCommentary
Republicans should stop referring to the Democrats’ newest ideological wish list as a COVID-19 “relief bill” or “rescue bill,” or any of the other euphemistic… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
Appearing at a friendly CNN town hall event this week, President Joe Biden dropped a string of untruths on issues both large and small. One… Read More
LawCommentary
Republicans are “radicalizing against democracy” because they rely on our constitutional process when governing. This is the essence of Chris Hayes’ recent Atlantic piece contending… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
President Joe Biden contends there is “nothing we can do to change the trajectory of the pandemic in the next several months,” which is the… Read More
SocietyCommentary
In recent days, some of the nation’s most powerful corporations have engaged in a concerted effort, at the behest of a major political party, to… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
In his 1981 diatribe against contemporary American architecture, “From Bauhaus to Our House,” Tom Wolfe notes that seemingly every American child “goes to a school… Read More
LawCommentary
Mike Dukakis was asked by CNN’s Bernard Shaw during the 1988 presidential debates whether he would support the death penalty if his wife, Kitty, had… Read More
SocietyCommentary
In a recent Parents magazine piece headlined, “How to Explain the Hanukkah Story to Kids,” we are informed that, “this year more than any other… Read More
LawCommentary
After the 2016 presidential election, I wrote an exceptionally unpopular op-ed for The Washington Post headlined, “We must weed out ignorant Americans from the electorate.”… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
One must read to the end of The Washington Post’s recent editorial “Abolish the electoral college” before hitting on the real reason the Post’s editors… Read More
SocietyCommentary
The investigative journalists over at The Daily Beast report that Madison Cawthorn, the North Carolina Republican who will soon become the youngest member of Congress… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Political unity is an ugly, authoritarian idea. No free place has domestic political unity, nor should it aspire to it. What “unity” really means, of… Read More
LawCommentary
Nothing threatens the progressive project more than the existence of a Supreme Court that adheres to the Constitution. It’s really that simple. That’s what the… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
Less than three weeks from a presidential election, perhaps the most vital platform for political news and debate, Twitter, has locked down the accounts of… Read More
LawCommentary
For those keeping track, here’s a list of Democratic Party “norms” for placing new justices on the Supreme Court of the United States, as they… Read More
InternationalCommentary
After Israel’s resounding victory over the Egyptian, Jordanian, and Syrian armies in 1967, the Jewish state again offered the Arab world peace in exchange for… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
A recent article in The Washington Post’s Outlook section, “What’s the Worst That Could Happen?”—which explores various potential outcomes of the 2020 presidential election—found that… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
In April of 2005, Sen. Barack Obama took to the floor of the United States Senate and passionately spoke out against Republican efforts to end… Read More
SocietyCommentary
The tragically incompetent mayor of Chicago, Lori Lightfoot, appeared on CNN’s “State of the Union” last weekend to deflect attention from the horror show unfolding… Read More
LawCommentary
Despite the occasional looting, chaos, property damage, trespassing, rioting, graffiti, assaults, arson, and general mayhem, the media consistently assure us that Antifa “protesters” are “largely… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
On March 25, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo made one of deadliest mistakes of the coronavirus crisis, signing an executive order forcing nursing homes in… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Recently, I ran across a piece in The Philadelphia Inquirer that lays out four racist words and phrases that should be banished from the English… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
Major League Baseball is moving toward a 60-game 2020 season. For the first time in history, the designated hitter rule will be implemented in both… Read More
SocietyCommentary
We’re in the dawn of a high-tech, bloodless cultural revolution, one that relies on intimidation, public shaming, and economic ruin to dictate what words and… Read More
SocietyCommentary
“Pick a knee,” says CNN’s S. E. Cupp, “The one that knelt on a neck or the one that knelt to try to prevent it.”… Read More
SocietyCommentary
It’s weird that this needs to be said, but here we are. Then again, the pundit who reprehensibly claims that destroying property “is not violence”… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
No American, not even the president, has an inherent right to a social media account. Tech companies are free to ban any user they see… Read More
LawCommentary
Those sharing #Obamagate on Twitter would do best to avoid the hysterics we saw from Russian-collusion believers, but they have no reason to ignore the… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
It’s reasonable to assume that the vast majority of Americans process news and data, and calculate that self-quarantining, wearing masks, and social distancing make sense… Read More
