David Harsanyi is a senior writer at the Washington Examiner and a nationally syndicated columnist. He is cohost of the “You’re Wrong” podcast and author of multiple books. Subscribe his Substack.
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“In the late summer of 2009, as the recession-ravaged economy bled half a million jobs a month, the country seemed to lose its mind,” The… Read More
LawCommentary
If Democrats believed that Robert Mueller would provide them with additional ammunition for an impeachment inquiry, they made an extraordinary miscalculation. Not only was Mueller… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
In 2016, a bunch of real-life white supremacists—not just Republicans who happen to disagree with the Democrats’ preferred immigration policy—put together a conference in Washington,… Read More
LawCommentary
In a recent interview with The New York Times, Attorney General William Barr reiterated his intention to find out why the Obama administration launched an… Read More
EducationCommentary
This week, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez claimed that it was “literally easier” for her to win the congressional election than pay off her student loan debt—which… Read More
InternationalCommentary
“The United States is running concentration camps on our southern border, and that is what they are.”—Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y. In April 1944, two Slovakian Jews… Read More
EnergyNews
Climate isn’t the same as weather — unless, of course, weather happens to be politically useful. In that case, weather portends climate apocalypse. So warns… Read More
LawCommentary
When House Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler and Speaker Nancy Pelosi claimed that the United States had been plunged into a “constitutional crisis,” a large swath… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
After listening to Seth Meyers run interference for Rep. Ilhan Omar last week, an exasperated Meghan McCain asked him: “Are you her publicist? Are you… Read More
EconomyCommentary
For those of you who survived the Great GOP Tax Cut Massacre, things are finally looking up. The unemployment rate fell to 3.6% last month,… Read More
LawCommentary
On the day of Attorney General William Barr’s testimony in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee this week, there was, as always, a selective leak… Read More
SecurityCommentary
After the horrific mass murder of 50 Muslim worshippers in Christchurch, New Zealand, there was widespread coverage and a torrent of mainstream news networks contemplating… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Democrats have spent the past two-plus years accusing the president of the United States and his allies of seditiously conspiring with our enemies to destroy… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
In a recent op-ed, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg implored the state to get more involved in governing the internet. “Every day, we make decisions about… Read More
SocietyCommentary
For the past two years, a large swath of the media engaged in a mass act of self-deception and partisan group think. Perhaps it was… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
The United States isn’t a “democracy.” Though every American should have learned this fact in high school civics class, the smart set still like to… Read More
EconomyCommentary
Presidential hopeful Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., has a new plan to break up Big Tech companies. The proposal entails appointing a bunch of regulators to… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
Rep. Ilhan Omar argues that American “democracy is built on debate,” tweeting, “I should not be expected to have allegiance/pledge support to a foreign country… Read More
EnergyCommentary
“The Green New Deal is the only way to save the earth from utter extinction. If you keep standing in the way, troglodytes, we are… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Anti-Semitic conspiracy theorist and Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar—someone who had previously argued that Jews hypnotized the world regarding their “evil” deeds—recently claimed that Americans only… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Democrats will protect American children from the evils of trans fats and gay conversion therapy, but not from doctors who will kill them through negligent… Read More
SocietyCommentary
When Sen. Dianne Feinstein told Amy Coney Barrett, who is now confirmed as a judge for the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and is… Read More
InternationalCommentary
The New York Times recently reported that President Donald Trump has, on a number of occasions, contemplated withdrawing from NATO. This is an important issue… Read More
SocietyCommentary
I have zero interest in financially supporting any politician, much less ones I find morally unpalatable. Yet Democrats want to force me—and every other American… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Over the past few years, Colorado has been on a crusade to destroy Jack Phillips’ business over a thought crime. The state’s Civil Rights Commission… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
This week, the allegedly unbiased fact-checkers at PolitiFact awarded their “Lie of the Year” award to the “online smear machine” that attempted “to take down”… Read More
EnergyCommentary
Even as anti-gas tax riots raged in France this week, naturalist David Attenborough warned a crowd at a United Nations climate change summit in Poland… Read More
PoliticsAnalysis
A Washington Post “analysis” of domestic terrorism argues that attacks from white supremacists and other “far-right attackers” have been on the rise since Barack Obama’s… Read More
SecurityCommentary
The other day—after slogging through a check-in line at one of the nation’s busiest airports, dutifully removing my shoes and belt, and checking my bag… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
Ilhan Omar, one of the first two Muslim women to be elected to Congress, is a new kind of politician. She’s telegenic, ideologically progressive, widely… Read More
