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

All hail, our artificial overlords

By Dominic Green March 23, 2023 11:45 pm

Gender dysphoria is a social contagion that is spreading like wildfire among vulnerable young girls.

A new look at trans in America

By Byron York March 23, 2023 5:15 pm

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.

For Democrats, the weakness of Bragg’s case against Trump is the point

By Hugo Gurdon March 20, 2023 9:16 pm

Kick your Twitter addiction

By Dan Hannan March 20, 2023 4:30 am

Biden is pulling the reverse ferret

By Dominic Green March 17, 2023 10:30 am

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks at an event Friday, March 10, 2023, in Davenport, Iowa.

Ron DeSantis, in the mainstream on Ukraine

By Byron York March 14, 2023 7:33 pm

Cpl. Charles A. Graner Jr. appearing to punch one of several handcuffed detainees lying on the floor in late 2003 at the Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad, Iraq. Graner was later convicted of offenses that included stacking the prisoners into a pyramid, knocking one of them out with a head punch and ordering prisoners to masturbate while soldiers took pictures. He was released Saturday, Aug. 6, 2011 from a military prison after serving more than 6Â½ years of a 10-year sentence, an Army spokeswoman said.

What were they thinking when they chose to invade Iraq?

By Dan Hannan March 13, 2023 1:10 am

Culture and anarchy

By Dominic Green March 10, 2023 12:30 am

The Biden administration announced a new proposed temporary rule Tuesday that attempts to clamp down on the skyrocketing number of illegal border crossings.

After border disaster, can Biden pull off ‘pivot’ on immigration?

By Byron York March 8, 2023 5:32 pm

How long can the First Amendment survive the new, unwritten woke blasphemy laws?

By Dan Hannan March 6, 2023 5:28 am

Are the great books gone?

By Dominic Green March 3, 2023 3:05 am

Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis.

Trump’s wheelchair-over-the-cliff attack

By Byron York March 1, 2023 3:21 pm