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

College student Eddie Cisneros cheers for Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., during a campaign rally at the Cubberley Community Center on Wednesday, June 1, 2016, in Palo Alto, Calif.

The kids today are high on socialism, but they haven’t ruled out capitalism

By Kristen Soltis Anderson January 30, 2019 5:17 pm

FILE - In this Sept. 28, 2018, file photo, Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif. attends a Senate Judiciary Committee meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington. Their campaigns are not yet official, but some Democrats are beginning to frame the 2020 fight on their terms.

‘Kamala the Cop’ is the perfect prosecutor for a bloodthirsty base

By Timothy P. Carney January 30, 2019 5:15 pm

A U.S. Border Patrol vehicle drives next to a U.S-Mexico border fence in the booming New Mexico town of Santa Teresa.

Byron York: In border talks, a new fight for barrier deniers

By Byron York January 29, 2019 7:14 pm

Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Sergei Kislyak.

Letter from the editor: Jan. 29, 2019

By Hugo Gurdon January 25, 2019 5:00 am

High CEO pay is perfectly justifiable — here’s why

By Dan Hannan January 25, 2019 5:00 am

The Job Creators Network found that 64 percent of small business owners see Trump's policy changes as helping their businesses. (iStock photo)

Nostalgia and the American dream aren’t airy fantasies

By Salena Zito January 25, 2019 5:00 am

The press can do better. It has to. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Does the media deserve to be respected and believed?

By Michael Barone January 24, 2019 5:01 am

Protestors gather outside the Catholic Diocese of Covington Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2019, in Covington, Ky. The diocese in Kentucky has apologized after videos emerged showing students from Covington Catholic High School mocking Native Americans outside the Lincoln Memorial on Friday after a rally in Washington.

A rumble on the Mall feeds into the war on institutions

By Timothy P. Carney January 23, 2019 4:51 pm

In this Jan. 16, 2019, photo, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., reacts during a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. âMedicare-for-allâ makes a good first impression, but support plunges when people are asked if theyâd pay higher taxes or put up with treatment delays to get it. The survey, released Wednesday, Jan. 23, by the nonpartisan Kaiser Family Foundation, comes as Democratic presidential hopefuls embrace the idea of a government-run health care system, considered outside the mainstream of their party until Sanders made it the cornerstone of his 2016 campaign.

‘Medicare for all’ support is built on a shaky foundation

By Philip Klein January 23, 2019 4:12 pm

Robert Mueller appears at a hearing in D.C.

What if Mueller doesn’t give Democrats what they want?

By Byron York January 23, 2019 2:46 am

Despite DC spending millions to turn 16th St NW north of the White House into "Black Lives Matter" Plaza, not one protester was there to observe the anniversary of the January 6th riots

Amtrak forgot trains aren’t planes

By Salena Zito January 18, 2019 5:00 am

Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Sergei Kislyak.

Letter from the editor: Jan. 22, 2019

By Hugo Gurdon January 18, 2019 5:00 am