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Opinion - Free Press Commentary
Douthat: Tucker Carlson versus conservatism
The most interesting thing in conservative politics right now is not the government shutdown and Donald Trump's flailing attempt to...
Brooks: The cruelty of call-out culture
A number of months ago, I listened to a podcast that has haunted me since — because it captures something...
Thiessen: Nancy Pelosi is lying about the State of the Union
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has written President Trump to suggest that he postpone his State of the Union address, citing...
Thiessen: Trump is surrounded by leakers. Why would he trust them with his Putin notes?
The Washington Post's report that President Trump "has gone to extraordinary lengths to conceal details of his conversations with Russian...
Thiessen: Democrats for wall before they were against it
Barring some miraculous breakthrough, the current government shutdown today will become the longest in American history.
Thiessen: Trump won the night. Schumer and Pelosi lost.
President Trump did something Tuesday night that he has rarely done since taking office: He used the presidential bully pulpit...
Thiessen: The 10 worst things Trump did in 2018
In his second year in office, President Trump did many positive things, and earlier this week, I offered my list...
Thiessen: Trump's top 10 successes of 2018
In his second year in office, the list of extraordinary things President Trump has done, for good and ill, continued...
Thiessen: Send Islamic State fighters held in Syria to Guantanamo Bay
President Trump's decision to withdraw all U.S. forces from Syria is already having unintended consequences.
Thiessen: I was arrested for having nunchucks in New York. I'm glad the law was overturned.
I was arrested for having nunchucks in New York. I'm glad the law was overturned.
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Stephens: Elizabeth Warren, Trumpian of the Left
For decades, the left sought to dethrone the idea of truth.
Thiessen: Trump is about to repeat Obama's mistake in the Middle East
During his time in CIA custody, 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed told his interrogator something prophetic.
Thiessen: The Mueller probe could turn out to be a disaster - for the Democrats
All of Washington is focused on the political peril President Trump faces from Robert Mueller's investigation.
Stephens: An antidote to idiocy in 'Churchill'
Earlier this year, retired astronaut Scott Kelly posted a harmless tweet quoting Winston Churchill's famous line, "In victory, magnanimity." Left-wing...
Thiessen: There's a word for the Democrats' negotiating strategy - insanity
Good news for the incoming House Democratic majority!
Thiessen: China tried to strike at Trump - and missed the mark entirely
"When you strike at a king you must kill him," Ralph Waldo Emerson once said.
Gerson: Bush's life proves that sometimes things go gloriously right
All the talk about the attributes of this or that generation is usually overblown.
Thiessen: Gene editing is here. It's an enormous threat.
A Chinese scientist's claim to have created the first genetically edited babies has evoked widespread condemnation from the scientific community....
Thiessen: Trump is ready to deal; are Democrats?
When Donald Trump first took office, many conservatives' greatest fear was that he would be too quick to cut deals...
Thiessen: We do have Obama judges and Trump judges.
For someone trying to demonstrate that the judiciary is not political, getting into a political fight with the president sure...
Thiessen: What Trump needs to do to avoid being a one-term president
President Trump did defy history in the 2018 midterm elections.
