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Columns

MAGA not really the country’s powerful force

By MONA CHAREN Syndicated columnist As we survey the wreckage of Trump’s second term, it is often said that HALF THE COUNTRY voted for this, or worse, HALF THE COUNTRY is fine with this. That isn’t true. MAGA is a bit of a moving target, but a recent Economist/YouGov poll found that ...

Who Epstein really was and why story still matters

By ARMSTRONG WILLIAMS Syndicated columnist For years, the public conversation about Jeffrey Epstein has been flattened into a single, horrifying dimension: sex crimes. Those crimes were real, brutal and unforgivable. The women and girls he exploited, often coerced, drugged and manipulated ...

Majority of the electorate may sit out midterms

By ERICK ERICKSON Syndicated columnist Speaking at The New York Times, their actually conservative columnist Ross Douthat said, “I want to tell you a secret. One that most conservatives on the internet don’t want you to know. A year into his second presidency, Donald Trump has lost the ...

Pollsters don’t ask if anti-ICE activists have ‘gone too far’

By TIM GRAHAM Syndicated columnist The unrest in Minneapolis has died down, and the Trump administration is pulling 700 immigration-enforcement offers out of the area. But all of the national media scrutiny has obsessed over Team Trump. They have rarely acted to “hold government ...

The midterms are Democrats’ to lose

Democrats are buzzing over the surprise victory of Taylor Rehmet in a Texas state senate race. Rehmet won by 14 points in a Fort Worth-area district Donald Trump carried by 17 points in 2024. That outcome inspired a piece by Republican strategist Karl Rove titled "Midterms Are Dems' to Lose ...

The state that stands up to ICE

President Donald Trump and his federal forces chose the wrong city and state for the escalating war on civilians out on the streets and in their homes, resulting in two deaths so far. Minneapolis residents are defending city walls as best they can against masked federal Immigration and ...