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Opinion

MAGA not really the country’s powerful force

Columns

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

Columns

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

Columns

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 ...

Trump focuses on foreign policy, voters worry about cost of living

Editorial

President Donald Trump kicked off his midterm campaign travel this week with a bipolar economy: huge growth but plummeting consumer confidence. How he navigates that tension will determine how badly Republicans fare this fall. This was the president’s message in Iowa on Tuesday night: “Our ...

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

Columns

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 ...

Military strikes won’t really help Iranian citizens

Editorial

The brutality of Iran’s crackdown on protesters is almost unfathomable. Despite the authorities cutting off communications and destroying evidence, it is clear that a regime never reluctant to shed its citizens’ blood has done so with unprecedented zeal, sensing an unprecedented threat from ...