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Matt K. Lewis
Matt K. Lewis

The media should be ashamed of its Connecticut coverage

What journalistic rationale could compel a reporter to interview young children at a mass-murder scene?

 
D.B. Grady
D.B. Grady

Syria's PR campaign failed — and so did America's policy

Bashar al-Assad is on his last legs, but his campaign to crush the rebellion in Syria got a boost from Washington's astonishingly weak stance

 
Matt K. Lewis
Matt K. Lewis

A 4-step program to cure the GOP of its self-destructive behavior

The party I love really needs some help

 
Paul Brandus
Paul Brandus

America already drove over a fiscal cliff

The steep tax hikes and spending cuts set to take effect at year's end pale in comparison to what the country weathered just a few years ago

 
Edward Morrissey
Edward Morrissey

You have the right to not pay union dues

Labor groups should have to convince members that their goods and services are worth the price demanded — and not just take the money and run

 
Daniel Larison
Daniel Larison

Republicans must get real on foreign policy

Enough with the reckless, tone-deaf warmongering. Conservatives ought to start listening to realists like Rand Paul and Jon Huntsman

 
Matt K. Lewis
Matt K. Lewis

The working class epidemic of demoralization

While coastal elites overindulge, struggling Americans in flyover country feel they have little to live for or believe in

 
D.B. Grady
D.B. Grady

Why the world is preparing for war in Mali

Regional volatility, imported weapons from Libya, and a poisonous religious ideology have turned the West African nation into a new Afghanistan

 
Matt K. Lewis
Matt K. Lewis

The speech that Marco Rubio should give

There's a huge opportunity for a rising GOP star to corner the market on a new conservative brand. Here's how

 
D.B. Grady
D.B. Grady

Obama is right to oppose new sanctions on Iran

The White House's move is a good first step toward bringing Iran to the bargaining table

 
Edward Morrissey
Edward Morrissey

Don't blame guns for Jovan Belcher's murder-suicide

By using guns as a scapegoat, Bob Costas wrongly absolves the NFL of the need to examine the dangerous effects of its violent game

 
Matt K. Lewis
Matt K. Lewis

John Boehner: Cat herder

Being Speaker of the House sure ain't what it used to be

 
D.B. Grady
D.B. Grady

The perks and perils of our newly indexed society

Paper documents have become unnecessary relics. But when everything is digital and searchable, it comes at a steep cost to your privacy

 
Paul Brandus
Paul Brandus

A grand canyon separates Obama and the GOP on the fiscal cliff

When Mitch McConnell first heard Obama's proposal, he reportedly laughed in disbelief

 
Dana Liebelson
Dana Liebelson

The Supreme Court takes on gay marriage rights today: 4 things you need to know

SCOTUS may take on cases that decide important issues relating to same-sex marriage, but the court will not rule on whether it should be legal nationwide

 

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