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In the contention over the U.S. peace plan for Ukraine, the Europeans are in their accustomed role -- carping from the sidelines.

Not only can the once-great European powers no longer dictate the fate of far-flung parts of the world, they can't even dictate the end of a war involving a European country whose fate they deem crucial to their ...Read more

The deep issue in the Russia-Ukraine war is how to end an aggressive 21st-century war while avoiding nuclear devastation and multimillion casualties.

Unfortunately, raw casualties in Ukraine have reached the multimillions. U.K., Polish and Ukrainian sources report Russia and Ukraine combined already have already suffered over a million and a ...Read more

The fate of the Trump administration -- and perhaps Republicans in Congress -- is tethered to how Americans feel about the economy. And right now, it's hard to find anyone who can say with confidence what the hell is going on.

Thursday offered a fresh reminder of the chaos. As The Wall Street Journal noted, "Stocks surrendered gains and ...Read more

S.E. Cupp's column will not move this week. We substituted a column by Cal Thomas for release on 11/27.

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Rahm Emanuel wants to take leadership of the Democratic Party and capture its nomination for president in 2028.

He shares his thoughts in a recent Wall Street Journal op-ed. It's the first time a Democrat has made me smile since President Bill Clinton announced in his 1996 State of the Union address that "The era of big government is over."

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In 2006, a few days before Christmas, doctors announced my wife had six months to live. She had, they said, a rare form of cancer that had spread to her lungs. There was really nothing that could be done. We had a one-year-old and I had been told my job was coming to an end the same day of the diagnosis. Thankfully, it was a misdiagnosis. Not ...Read more

New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani's smile carried him a long way toward being elected. And he used his affability again on Friday, turning the meeting he had requested with President Donald Trump into an Oval Office lovefest.

Now it's time for the mayor-elect to employ the power of smiling to make day-to-day life better for New Yorkers...Read more

People are turning to socialism. Two-thirds of Americans ages 18-29 hold a "favorable view" of it. New York just elected a "proud socialist" mayor. My video explains why his ideas would make things worse. Of course they would! Socialism has never worked. Anywhere! Yet Seattle too just elected a socialist mayor. "Let's give socialism a ...Read more

Six weeks after Great Britain signed the Treaty of Paris, ending the Revolutionary War and acknowledging the independence of the United States of America, the Continental Congress passed a resolution asking the states to set aside a day for Americans to give thanks to God for this providential outcome.

"And whereas," says this resolution ...Read more

Since Oct. 1, PBS isn't taxpayer-funded, but the radical leftist spirit of PBS remains unchanged. When it comes to transgenderism, for example, the discussion cannot have two sides. In a 2023 study of seven months of the "PBS News Hour," the libertine left drew 90% of the airtime.

It was even worse for in-studio guests. It was 19 to one -- and ...Read more

Trial lawyers have been the bane of U.S. employers for many decades, sucking blood out of the economy like a swarm of mosquitos.

The most famous case was back in the 1990s when the courts awarded a $500,000 judgment to a McDonald's customer who claimed she was burned by coffee that was too scalding hot. Then there was the Washington man who ...Read more

KANAWHA COUNTY, West Virginia -- Steve Lipscomb was a son, a father, a husband, a Marine, a man of faith, and a coal miner.

Ten days ago, Lipscomb and his crew encountered an unknown pocket of water when a "sudden and substantial" flood sent millions of gallons into the Rolling Thunder Mine. Lipscomb lived up to his life of service, faith, ...Read more

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Give Thanks for the Fossil Fuel Industry

Just by living in 21st-century America, you have a lot to be thankful for.

You live in the richest country in the history of the world -- and one of the freest. Despite what the ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy is my new hero. Duffy is promoting a "civility" campaign that urges passengers to be polite and dress up rather than wear sweatpants and slippers when they fly. If everyone dresses better, everyone will behave better, Duffy offered.

It's an idea that could bring smiles to the friendly skies ...Read more

WASHINGTON --Six elected beltway Democrats with backgrounds in the military or intelligence are stirring the pot with a video in which they tell viewers, "This administration is pitting our uniform military and intelligence community professionals against American citizens."

Then they tell the troops and spooks, in the words of one of the six...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Last month, a group of journalists and I sat down with Larry Summers before a speech he delivered in Washington, D.C., at the American Council of Trustees and Alumni.

It was an opportunity to hear what the former Harvard University president and professor had to say about academia and free speech.

After the House release of ...Read more