The Court closed one door but left several others wide open. The machinery of American trade policy continues to operate—slower perhaps, more legally encumbered, but fundamentally intact.
Year: 2026
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Is Georgia Guilty of Violating the Secret Ballot?
Fulton County, Georgia, in its attempts to put an end to Justice Department investigations, claims to have records of how voters voted in 2020. That’s unconstitutional.
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Trump’s SOTU Case for National Renewal
In his 2026 State of the Union address, the president outlined his priorities for American sovereignty, affordability for all citizens, and ongoing national renewal.
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Gilding the Funeral Lilies for Jesse Jackson
Those who now hail the late Rainbow PUSH leader as a “civil rights icon” engage in willful amnesia about his many unsavory activities and statements.
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California’s Illiterate Governor
The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.
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Supreme Court Should Be Ashamed of Tariff Case Ruling
In its ruling invalidating President Trump’s tariffs last week, the Supreme Court appears to consider itself the nation’s Supreme Authority on political questions.
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Democrats Weaponize Faith to Tear Down America’s Borders
Appeals to Christian mercy without recognition of Christian justice are just self-serving pious posturing for political purposes.
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How a Party Offends Its Voters
Between Gavin Newsom’s insults to black voters and the struggles of both parties to retain Jewish voters, the 2028 election is still very much in play.
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The Talking Filibuster Is the ‘Anti-Nuclear Option’
If Republicans want to keep their governing majority, enforcing the talking filibuster would be one way to do that and make the Senate great again.
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Trump Is Right About the Mexican-American War
Far from insisting that America apologize for the conflict, Mexico ought to own up to the belligerence and chaos it instigated.
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Radicalized Left-Wing Woman Fatigue
The emergence of so many radicalized and violent left-wing women makes one nostalgic for the days of officious librarians who confined themselves to radically enforcing codes of silence.
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Mass Murder in Transada
Another transgender shooting spree in Canada demonstrates the degree to which the West is willing to submit to reality dysphoria.
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How to Become an Elite Law Dean in 2026
Despite resigning as president of the University of Pennsylvania after defending the right of students to call for “the genocide of Jews,” Liz Magill has landed on her feet as the new dean of Georgetown University Law School.
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Fully Human Lives: The Jazz Greatness of Kurt Elling
American Jazz great Kurt Elling’s love for the music touches audiences in the heart and soul, giving them glimpses of what it means to experience life at its fullest.
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The Tribal Media Culture of Our Time
A new study of Marshall McLuhan portrays a prophetic thinker who predicted the divisive effect of mass media.
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We Need to Save Gen Z From Obscurity
The problems older generations see in Gen Z are largely the result of the poor decisions they made as parents and leaders.
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Ronald Reagan’s Imaginary Friends and Enemies
Edmund Morris was wrongly ridiculed for using a fictional narrator in his biography Dutch. The recent Reagan biopic shows how it’s the perfect technique to tell the 40th president’s story.
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Why Are Anti-ICE Activists Building Borders?
The anti-ICE activists who are checking IDs and setting up roadblocks in Minneapolis are not harmless citizen activists. They are insurrectionists.
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Rubio’s Call for Europe to Renew the West Falls on Deaf Ears
The European Parliament’s commitment to transgender insanity as a central part of its foreign policy, as well as its demand for Russian reparations, demonstrate the unbridgeable gap between the U.S. and Europe.
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America Should Embrace the Idea of a Rearmed Germany
A Berlin-Washington duopoly remains the only stable balancing coalition in Europe, and only Germany can help the U.S. in burden-shifting.
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No Pity for the ‘Washington Post’
The paper’s laid-off employees point the finger at President Trump rather than examine how they failed their readers.
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The U.S. Can’t Outpace China in the Developing World
When it comes to competing with China for influence in the developing world, the U.S. is bound by considerations that don’t trouble Beijing.
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Bad Bunny and the Inescapable War Over American Identity
Conservatives disgusted by the Super Bowl spectacle need to wake up to the fact that the media narrative about immigration is transforming America before their eyes.
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Return of the Munichian Candidate
Democratic candidate for Congress, Ammar Campa-Najjar, is the grandson of one of the terrorists responsible for the attack at the Munich Olympics in 1972 but Democrats and the legacy media seem uninterested
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What Happened to the Fort Knox Gold Audit?
In the midst of so much global insecurity in financial markets, it would be a comfort for Americans to know how much gold the United States actually has in reserve.
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Fake Conservatives Attack ‘Chronicles’
Critics of our magazine muddle their account of our supposed sins and expose their own affinity with the censors on the woke left.
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‘Köln 75’ Reminded Me Why I Love Movies
This small-budget German film is heads and shoulders above anything generating Oscar buzz this year.
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A Japanese Lesson for Troubled Britain
Whereas Japan's Sanae Takachi has an overwhelming mandate for her agenda, the UK's Keir Starmer is hugely unpopular and is afraid to call an election.
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The Winter of Italian Content Is Deceptive
The stability defining Giorgia Meloni’s government is deceptively reassuring, as the calm it produces prevents Italians from tackling their most nagging problems: immigration and low birthrates.
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Elites Versus Ordinary Americans on Voter ID
Voter ID isn't a restriction on election integrity—it's a safeguard for it.
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The Sad and Sterile World of Tinder
The dating app advertises a world where transgression is normalized, romantic aspiration is empty, and society is best served in neutering itself.
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Professor Duesberg Leaves the Lab
Here’s hoping someone may fill the shoes of Peter Duesberg, the brilliant scientist whose work Anthony Fauci undermined before he got his hooks into COVID.
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Selfie Culture Lacks Self-Awareness
An increase in selfie deaths highlights the degree to which our culture’s obsession with the self is lacking, not only in depth and meaning, but, ironically, in self-awareness.
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Politicized Courts Are Destroying the Rule of Law
Politics is for the elected branches of government and the people, not judges. Judges who do politics from the bench should either run for office … or be impeached.
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Alexander Vindman’s Campaign for the Limelight
The newly-minted Florida man is almost certain to lose his bid to represent the Sunshine State in the U.S. Senate—but it’s likely that’s not the prize he’s eyeing, anyway.
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Ilhan Omar, Somali Immigrants, and Female Genital Mutilation
Although Omar claims to be an “intersectional feminist,” her silence on the widespread acceptance of the barbaric and banned practice among Somalis speaks to how difficult it is to assimilate them.
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The Trump Coalition Wins But the GOP Brand Doesn’t
With or without Trump on the ballot, the GOP’s survival now depends on the coalition he pioneered.
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February 2026 Chronicles
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Democrats Don’t Take Their ‘Affordability’ Argument Seriously and Neither Should You
Democratic caterwauling about “affordability” does not reflect reality as much as it is a desperate attempt to grasp at something that might shake the confidence of Trump’s base and return Democrats to power.
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We Aren’t Europeans, and They Aren’t Americans
As we engage in the Greenland debate, it is helpful to recognize the fundamental differences and interests between the United States and Europe.
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The Middle Path
As the right has fractured into extremes over Israel and Jewish influence, Chronicles remains focused on the critical battleground and the chief opponent: immigration and the left.
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Virginia Democrats Are Not Playing Beanbag
“Politics ain’t beanbag,” or so the saying goes. These days, the only people who seem to understand that are Trump … and the Democrats.
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Heritage Is Better-Off With Kevin Roberts—and Without the Malcontents
Kevin Roberts fights to conserve our Western patrimony—something his detractors do not care about. Good riddance to them!
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The Conservative Theory of Radicalization
Conservatives can only curb radicalization through patient persuasion. Cancellation only worsens the problem.
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In Search of Natural Conservatives
The platitude that culturally conservative immigrants and minorities are natural conservatives is a false notion, born of white guilt, that has only led to electoral defeat for the GOP.
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Don’t Throw Out the Liberal Baby with the Bathwater
There is a middle path that prudent conservatives should take between discarding America's founding principles and wholly adopting the neoconservative caricature of it.
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Remembering Henry Ford
Henry Ford gave America its strongest source of order and stability—its middle class—which conservatives and right-wingers should appreciate.
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What We Are Reading: February 2026
Short reviews of 'The Wide, Wide Sea' by Hampton Sides, and 'A Program for Conservatives' by Russell Kirk.
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Taki, Playboy and Raconteur
Taki’s new memoir holds nothing back. Like the man himself, The Last Alpha Male is interesting, witty, knowledgeable, high-spirited, and just plain fun.