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 entrance sign at the University of Florida is photographed on September 12, 2016, in Gainesville, Fla.

College ambitions, shattered dreams, and ‘real life’

By Kristen Soltis Anderson March 13, 2019 1:45 pm

Tucker Carlson reacts during the final round of the Bedminster Invitational LIV Golf tournament in Bedminster, New Jersey on July 31, 2022.

Could the uproar of Tucker Carlson’s old comments make chastity cool again?

By Timothy P. Carney March 13, 2019 12:25 pm

None of this is normal

By Fred Barnes March 8, 2019 5:00 am

Who needs universal basic income?

By Dan Hannan March 8, 2019 5:00 am

Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Sergei Kislyak.

Letter from the editor: March 12, 2019

By Hugo Gurdon March 8, 2019 5:00 am

Bryce Harper adjust his cap as he's introduced as a Philadelphia Phillies player during a news conference at the team's spring training baseball facility, Saturday, March 2, 2019, in Clearwater, Fla. Harper and the Phillies agreed to a $330 million, 13-year contract, the largest deal in baseball history.

Losing a hometown hero

By Salena Zito March 8, 2019 5:00 am

President Donald Trump talks with reporters before departing on Marine One for the Air Force Academy graduation ceremony, Thursday, May 30, 2019, in Washington.

Why I am a critic, not a Never Trump absolutist

By Philip Klein March 7, 2019 4:20 pm

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., arrives to a hearing.

Impeachment quest lets AOC types set the Democrats’ agenda

By Michael Barone March 6, 2019 11:04 pm

President Trump speaks.

Trump’s laughably shortsighted solution to Democratic overreach: Elect me

By Kimberly Ross March 6, 2019 7:36 pm

FILE - In a Friday, May 25, 2018 file photo, Hillary Clinton answers a question at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Monday, June 18, 2018 called the Trump administrationâs âzero toleranceâ policy that has separated children from their parents at the southern U.S. border âa moral and humanitarian crisis.â Speaking at an awards lunch for the Womenâs Forum of New York, Clinton said what was happening to families at the U.S.- Mexico border is âhorrific.â

Can Democrats love the voters Hillary hated?

By Timothy P. Carney March 6, 2019 2:17 pm

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep. Jerrold Nadler D-N.Y., speaks during the House Judiciary Committee on the Trump administration's separation policy involving migrant families on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2019.

Byron York: House Democrats send message: Impeachment is on

By Byron York March 4, 2019 3:09 pm

Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Sergei Kislyak.

Letter from the editor: March 5, 2019

By Hugo Gurdon March 1, 2019 5:00 am