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It’s OK, parents — getting mad isn’t illegal

By GEORGIA GARVEY When I was in high school, rarely was an insult worse than calling someone “fake.” “Gosh, I love your shoes,” a girl might say, sitting next to you in chemistry, simultaneously giving you a side-eye that communicated much more convincingly that she did not, ...

We must not have enough real problems

By BEN SHAPIRO 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, America is the latter. Last week, the internet — and the media more generally — exploded over a ...

‘Happy Gilmore 2’ provides timeless, wholesome message

By JOSH HAMMER Every recreational golfer of my generation shares at least two things in common: We grew up revering Tiger Woods, and we know the movie “Happy Gilmore,” the 1996 Adam Sandler golf comedy, like the back of our hands. Which millennial, while lining up a putt on the green, ...

Why the forest sometimes needs a little fire

By BONNIE JEAN FELDKAMP Unless you’re roasting marshmallows, it’s hard to think of fire in the woods as a good thing. We all watched wildfire devastation play out earlier this year in Southern California, and many dealt with poor air quality as smoke drifted into the United States from ...

Dems still in disarray with midterm elections next

By MICHAEL BARONE Here’s a clue that the off-year elections in November 2026 may not go the way conventional wisdom suggests. That conventional wisdom is that the president’s party almost always loses House and, slightly less often, Senate seats. There are two structural reasons for ...

Levin fits big ideas in a little book

By TIM GRAHAM Mark Levin has written a brand-new book on a huge subject: “On Power.” How do you boil that subject down to 208 pages? In America, the founders and their current admirers have been all about limiting power, having the humility about human nature to understand that people ...