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

Sens. Kamala Harris, Bernie Sanders, and Elizabeth Warren, along with former Vice President Joe Biden, are shown.

2020 Democrats have no realistic plan to pass their agenda

By Philip Klein June 21, 2019 1:00 am

Something is amiss in the tribalist GOP

By Dan Hannan June 20, 2019 11:00 pm

Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Sergei Kislyak.

Defining ‘socialism’ down

By Kristen Soltis Anderson June 19, 2019 8:32 pm

Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Sergei Kislyak.

The back door to your phone

By Hugo Gurdon June 14, 2019 3:00 am

What happens when Joe stops being Joe?

By Salena Zito June 14, 2019 3:00 am

Why South America’s prospects are looking up

By Dan Hannan June 14, 2019 3:00 am

He who Laffs last

By Fred Barnes June 14, 2019 3:00 am

President Donald Trump walks through the Colonnade of the White House, next to Polish President Andrzej Duda, as they arrive for a news conference in the Rose Garden, Wednesday June 12, 2019, in Washington.

The dumbest anti-Trump conspiracy theory is that he won’t leave the White House after being defeated

By Philip Klein June 13, 2019 2:47 pm

Democrats’ Biden opportunity

By Fred Barnes June 7, 2019 3:00 am

Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Sergei Kislyak.

Of cover-ups and beach reading

By Hugo Gurdon June 7, 2019 3:00 am

SILVER GROVE, West Virginia â An unincorporated community in Jefferson county, West Virginia, on the eastern banks of the Shenandoah River.

Finding America at a back-roads gas station

By Salena Zito June 7, 2019 3:00 am

How small we can be

By Dan Hannan June 7, 2019 3:00 am