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As always, the left misdefines Americanism

By BEN SHAPIRO Syndicated Columnist This week, Axios ran a fascinating piece about the supposed “redefinition” of Americanism under President Donald Trump. Titled “Inside Trump’s American identity project,” Axios posited that “President Trump is wielding government power to ...

Republicans won’t let hypocrisy get in the way of a little tyranny

By JONAH GOLDBERG Even before America became a country, Americans already had a habit of freaking out about even minor violations of abstract principles. “In other countries, the people ... judge of an ill principle in government only by an actual grievance,” observed Edmund Burke, the ...

Trump continues his assault on the norms of society

By JAMIE STIEHM Just when you think President Donald Trump can’t get worse, he gets worse. Now he threatens to send soldiers and federal agents to Baltimore and Chicago next. Woe is U.S. I live in lovely, green and safe Washington, where crime is down. The Smithsonian museums are free. ...

Don’t know much about history? That’s OK with President Trump

Of the 21 museums under the umbrella of the Smithsonian Institution, one in particular seems recently to have rubbed President Donald Trump the wrong way. "The Smithsonian is OUT OF CONTROL," Trump fulminated in a social media post Tuesday, "where everything discussed is how horrible our ...

RFK Jr. won’t make us healthier but can make us sicker

When Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was named as Secretary of Health and Human Services, Calley Means, a former Republican lobbyist, expressed a common misconception: "The public health expert class has given us a public health collapse. We are on the verge of, at best, a health crisis and, at worst, a ...

Will Trump help Ukraine stop Russia’s westward drive?

The extraordinary pair of meetings in the past week — the Trump-Putin summit in Anchorage, Alaska, on Friday and Donald Trump's hosting of the leaders of Ukraine, Germany, France, Britain, Italy, Finland, as well as the NATO alliance and the European Commission — were prompted by the latest ...