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Monday, May 12
America Shedding Pillars of Civilization - By Choice
Victor Davis Hanson, AG
Trump's Foreign Policy Blitz Carries Huge Risks
Stephen Collinson, CNN
I Will Use MFN To Reduce Drug Prices By 30-80%
President Donald Trump, X
Transparency Will Help Fix Healthcare for Everyone
Laffer & Fisher, FOX News
Is Jeff Bezos Selling Out the Washington Post?
Clare Malone, The New Yorker
The Democrat-Media Codependency
David Catron, The American Spectator
Virginia Republicans Are Reeling
Max Burns, MSNBC
VA Dems Can't Give Up Transgender Madness
Robert Knight, Washington Times
The Hard Calls Dems Must Make To Regain Power
Lauren Egan, The Bulwark
Old Joe Haunts Dems as They Try Flip Script on Trump
Miranda Devine, NY Post
The Big Beautiful Bill Is Hanging by a Thread
David Dayen, The American Prospect
A Common Sense Budget Reconciliation Bill
Rep. Brett Guthrie, Wall Street Journal
U.S. Defense Budget Must Be an Instrument of Lethality
Lucian Niemeyer, RCDefense
Inside the Battle for the Soul of the LAPD
Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone
The Hunt for Mexico’s Most Wanted Drug Kingpin
Fisher & de Cordoba, WSJ
Greg Gutfeld on Hosting the 'Strangest Game Show Ever'
Natalie Korach, Vanity Fair
Scott Jennings Is Cooking on CNN
Nicocle Russell, USA Today
Tuesday, May 13
The Ivies' Twisted View of Free Speech Can't Be Ignored
Ingrid Jacques, USA Today


Congressional Budget Office Still Works
Bill Scher, Washington Monthly
Never Had a President More Willing To Stand Up to Oligarchs
Robert Kennedy Jr, WH
Democrats Have an Age-Old Problem
Jason Linkins, The New Republic
Old Guard Moves To Consolidate Conservative Media
Andrea Widburg, Am. Thinker
Progressives Should Care That Population Is Set To Fall
Kelsey Piper, Vox
Pope Leo, Populism and the American Economy
Mercer & Cortes, RealClearPolitics
Is It Time for Unions To Rethink Everything?
Jacqui Germain, The Nation
Roberts Is Running Playbook on How To Destroy Judiciary
Mike Davis, War Room
The Hidden Cost of Qatar's $400 Million Gift
Anthony Fisher, MSNBC
Unbridled: How Massive Pentagon Spending Happens by Design
Ivry & Portnoy, RCI
Texas Marks a School Choice Milestone
Nicole Garnett, City Journal
WH Briefing Now a Playground for MAGA Influencers
Ross Barkan, NY Magazine
Our Rotting News Media Can't Handle the Truth
Hugo Gurdon, Washington Examiner
On the Death of Daydreaming
Haidt & Rosen, Substack
No, Don't Send Women Back to the Kitchen
Lauren Appell, The Daily Caller
Germany Halts Surveillance of AfD Amid U.S. Pressure
Cindy Harper, Reclaim the Net
Wednesday, May 14
Nation Builders Wrecked Far More Nations Than They Built
Donald Trump


Trump's Bold Mideast Plan: Make Business, Not War
Daniel McCarthy, Spectator World
The Tariffs Are Here. Inflation Isn't. What Gives?
Eric Levitz, Vox
Media Won't Give Trump a Win on Economy
Bevan, Cannon & Walworth, RCP on SiriusXM
How Biden Handed the Election to Trump
Jake Tapper & Alex Thompson, The New Yorker
9 Times Jake Tapper Dismissed Biden's Decline
Shawn Fleetwood, The Federalist
Democrats Must Show They Can Do Change, Too
Matt Robison, Newsweek
Democrats Can't Outrun the Woke
Sasha Stone, Substack
Kamala Could Have Won
Stanley Greenberg, The American Prospect
Trump Has Scrambled the Old Class Allegiances
Joel Kotkin, Spiked
Trump's Bizarre Tariff Scheme Won't Revive U.S. Jobs
Robert Reich, The Guardian
The Evil Scheme Behind Spate of Anti-Trump Lawsuits
Betsy McCaughey, NY Post
Careerism Still Poisons the Democratic Party
Norman Solomon, The Nation
There Are No Rigged Elections in America… Except at DNC
Hayden Ludwig, RCP
A Free People Need a Free Press
A.G. Sulzberger, The New York Times
Mark Zuckerberg’s Free Speech Charade
Mike Davis, Washington Times
The Unraveling of the King of Davos
Strasburg, et al, Wall Street Journal
Thursday, May 15
Welcome to the Post-Progressive Political Era
Eric Kaufmann, Wall Street Journal


An Anti-Monopoly, Abundance Movement for Urban Politics
John Halpin, Substack
Dems Dig Their Political Graves--Trump Is Selling the Shovel
Larry Kudlow, NY Sun
DNC Drama Is Quickly Becoming the Democrats' Brand
DeVega & Mellman, Salon
SCOTUS Must Step In To End Universal Injunctions
Sen. John Kennedy, FOX News
A Rare Bright Spot in 'America First' Policy-Making
Zeeshan Aleem, MSNBC
Trump Heralds the End of Failed Neocon Foreign Policy
John Davidson, The Federalist
NIH Chief Lets Loose on Fauci, Vaccines and Covid Cover-Ups
Tim Rohn, Politico
Trade With Communists Should Be Uncertain
Oren Cass, Commonplace
Tapper Spills on Biden Meeting That 'Shocked' WH Official
Ben Blanchet, HuffPost
Why Is Jake Tapper Still Pretending To Be a Reporter?
John Nolte, Breitbart
Will the Qatar Gift to Trump Fly?
Jackie Calmes, Los Angeles Times
How To Win AI Race? Strategic Partnerships
David Sacks, Saudi-U.S. Investment Forum
Battle vs. Campus Identity Politics Has Only Begun
Heather Mac Donald, City Journal
Don't Let Harvard Off the Hook for Antisemitism
Mackenzie France, RealClearPolitics
Reader's Guide to the Tanenhaus Biography of Buckley
Neal Freeman, National Review
111,423 IP Addresses Shared Child Abuse Images in 30 Days
Tim Tebow, X
Friday, May 16
Dem Party Leaders Were Unprepared for Trump 2.0
Alexandra Rojas, The Guardian


The Real First 100 Days
Victor Davis Hanson, American Greatness
Secret Service Could Force Comey To Answer Questions
Susan Crabtree, RCP
How Did So Many Elected Dems Miss Biden’s Infirmity?
Michelle Goldberg, NY Times
NYT Did Opposite Of 'Report Deeply' On Biden's Decline
Eddie Scarry, The Federalist
Dems First 2028 Test: Biden's Mental Acuity
Wren & Otterbein, Politico
Rahm Emanuel for President?
Bevan, Cannon & Walworth, RCP on SiriusXM
How Much Power To Stop President Should Judges Have?
Erwin Chemerinsky, LAT
Will SCOTUS Stop Radical Judges From Subverting President?
Ben Weingarten, NYP
Qatar's Gift to Trump Is a Way To Rewrite History
Chris Brennan, USA Today
Trump Torches Neocon Elite in the Middle East
Kelly Sadler, Washington Times
Why Is Abortion Data Going Unreported?
Samantha Flom, RealClearPolitics
America Is Having a Showboater Moment
Jill Leovy, The Atlantic
Why Foreign Campus Demonstrators Must Go
Todd Bensman, The American Mind
A Strongman Like Trump Still Can’t Do Everything He Wants
Stephen Collinson, CNN
Trump Kennedy Center Rolls Eyes at Union Push
Philip Wegmann, RealClearPolitics
Wasting Away in Wind-and-Solarville
James Varney, RealClearInvestigations
Saturday, May 17
What Were We Thinking?
James Meigs, City Journal
Dems Need Honest Reckoning With Biden's Failed Presidency
Jeet Heer, The Nation
Comey and the Drumbeat of Hysteria
Ingrid Jacques, USA Today
'Big, Beautiful Bill' Tanks in House Budget Committee
Arthur Delaney, HuffPost
America Needs a Supply-Side Comeback
Allysia Finley, Wall Street Journal
Why Is Hawley the Only Republican Defending Medicaid?
Sohrab Ahmari, UnHerd
Who Started the Lawfare Era?
Matt Taibbi, Racket News
A Warning About the Left's True Intentions
John Davidson, The Federalist
What Dems Can Learn From Trump's Mideast Approach
Philip Gordon, Financial Times
Plea to 'Ms. Rachel' From Suffering Israeli Children
Cooper & Soffen, RealClearPolitics
Zuckerberg Endangered U.S. in Pursuit of Profit
Christopher Marquis, Am. Prospect
The Radical Left's War Against John Eastman
Kenin Spivak, The American Mind
Sen. Gallego Tries To Reshape Democratic Party Message
Salena Zito, DC Examiner
Clever the Twain Shall Meet
Sara Bhatia, Washington Monthly
America's Legislative Tradition Has Revolutionary Roots
Hans Zeiger, RCHistory
Destroy Harvard or Reform It?
Gregory Conti, Compact Magazine
Sunday, May 18
The Tragedy of Joe Biden
Maureen Dowd, New York Times
Biden Not Only Loser Revealed By Shocking Hur Audio
Jonathan Turley, FOX News
Media's Coverage of Trump Far Worse Than Biden
Margaret Sullivan, The Guardian
How Legacy Press Keeps Democrat Delusions Going
Sasha Stone, Substack
Donald Trump Is a Crook, But He’s Their Crook
Ross Barkan, New York Magazine
Deep State Littlefinger James Comey Removes His Mask
John Kass
Why Assassination Prep Is the Democrats' MO
Breccan Thies, The Federalist
7 Takeaways From Trump's Middle East Trip
Klein, et al., CNN
Trump in Riyadh: A Rejection of Globalist Gospel
Roger Kimball, American Greatness
Sanders Would've Been Better President Than Trump or Biden
Sara Pequeno, USAT
Lee Bollinger Whitewashes Elite-University Decay
Peter Berkowitz, RealClearPolitics
Assessing the Wreckage of Affirmative Action
Richard Epstein, Washington Free Beacon
The Irony Of Moody's Downgrade Of U.S. Credit
Quoth the Raven, Substack
How Trump's 'Liberation Day' Tariff Assault Unraveled
Callum Jones, The Guardian
Trump Clearly Won First Round of His Tariff War With China
Steven Mosher, NY Post
Trump Took Bruce Springsteen's Bait
Jeff Slate, MSNBC
Jake Tapper Is Why We Can't Quit Stephen Glass
Mark Judge, Hot Air


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