Magazine – Columnists

President Donald Trump speaks at the FBI National Academy graduation ceremony on December 15, 2017 in Quantico, Virginia. (Photo by Nicholas Kamm / AFP) (Photo by NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump leads, think tanks follow

By Salena Zito July 25, 2025 5:20 am

“Alma Mater,” a bronze statue by Daniel Chester French (1852-1931) welcomes students and visitors from the monumental staircase of Low Library at Columbia University.

Sentimental education

Dan Hannan and Tiana Lowe Doescher Jul 25, 2025

Ukrainian civilians try to extinguish a house fire after Russian shelling on the city of Kostiantynivka, Ukraine, 16 July 2025. (Photo by Diego Herrera Carcedo/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Trump’s backing of Ukraine has come too late

Dan Hannan Jul 18, 2025

Epstein mess a growing threat to Trump

Byron York Jul 17, 2025

Why climate change alarmism failed

David Harsanyi Jul 15, 2025

The French connection

By Dominic Green December 28, 2023 5:53 pm

Special counsel Jack Smith and former President Donald Trump.

The holiday rush to get Trump: Is it equal justice?

By Byron York December 28, 2023 9:43 am

The Boston Tea Party was a political and mercantile protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, Massachusetts, on December 16, 1773.

Exactly 250 years from the event that started the Revolution

By Dan Hannan December 18, 2023 12:12 pm

Hunter Biden at the Capitol on Dec. 13, 2023.

In three days, a preview of 2024’s battles

By Byron York December 14, 2023 3:44 pm

Why Marco Rubio is wrong about China

By Dan Hannan December 11, 2023 12:20 pm

How Taylor Swift can save America

How Taylor Swift can save America

By Timothy P. Carney December 7, 2023 2:42 pm

Olena Zelenska, spouse of Ukrainian's President Volodymyr Zelensky, accepts the Dissident Human Rights Award on behalf of the people of Ukraine for their brave fight against Russia from Dr. Edwin Feulner, chairman of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, at the Victims of Communism Museum in Washington, Tuesday, July 19, 2022.

For true evil, look not to Israel or America but to communism

By Michael Barone December 6, 2023 11:21 pm

Former Rep. Liz Cheney appears onstage in conversation with David Rubenstein at the 92nd Street Y on Monday, June 26, 2023, in New York.

Liz Cheney for president?

By Byron York December 5, 2023 6:16 pm

Bidenomics short-circuits electric car hopes

By Timothy P. Carney December 1, 2023 9:43 am

Biden’s false choice

By Dominic Green December 1, 2023 3:40 am

"We have to have a way to restore confidence of the American people in their elected officials and the leaders of this country," Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., said.

Tim Scott’s failed crusade

By Timothy P. Carney November 17, 2023 4:53 pm

A supporter of the Iranian-backed Hezbollah group waves a Palestinian flag with Arabic words that read: "Jerusalem we are coming," as she waits the speech of Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah during a rally to commemorate Hezbollah fighters who were killed in South Lebanon last few weeks while fighting against the Israeli forces, in Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, Nov. 3, 2023.

Romanticizing terror

By Dominic Green November 17, 2023 7:35 am