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

Photos by Salena Zito

Civility is dead — except in real life

By Salena Zito August 9, 2019 3:00 am

Thank you

By Hugo Gurdon August 9, 2019 3:00 am

President Donald Trump speaks to reporters before departing for a trip to Iowa, on the South Lawn of White House, Tuesday, June 11, 2019, in Washington.

Trump erodes civil society. A challenger must rebuild it

By Quin Hillyer August 8, 2019 10:13 pm

Police officers walk behind a Walmart at the scene of a mass shooting at a shopping complex in El Paso, Texas.

Has anyone actually read the El Paso manifesto?

By Byron York August 8, 2019 1:19 am

Democratic presidential candidates

Michael Barone: A Democratic puzzle, far from solved

By Michael Barone August 7, 2019 9:54 pm

Tucker Carlson, host of "Tucker Carlson Tonight," poses for photos in a Fox News Channel studio, in New York, Thursday, March 2, 2017.

Tucker Carlson, El Paso, and the white supremacy problem

By Kaylee McGhee White August 7, 2019 8:00 pm

This undated photo provided by Simon & Schuster shows the book cover of "The Book of Gutsy Women," by Hillary Clinton and Chelsea Clinton. The book is due out Oct. 1, 2019.

Hillary and Chelsea Clinton’s book on ‘gutsy’ women might be great if anyone else wrote it

By Madeline Fry Schultz August 7, 2019 3:50 pm

Alone wolves

By Timothy P. Carney August 7, 2019 2:01 am

Rats infest our cities, but there are bigger barriers to a better life

By Salena Zito August 2, 2019 3:00 am

Boris Johnson is no Donald Trump

By Dan Hannan August 2, 2019 3:00 am

Exit stage left

By Hugo Gurdon August 2, 2019 3:00 am

It’s not about the man

By Dan Hannan July 19, 2019 3:00 am