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Why Trump Did Much Better With Hispanics
The 2024 election highlights the complexity and nuance within the Hispanic electorate.
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Democrats, Their Base, and Their Performance
The Democratic Party is exactly where it has been intending to go for the last several decades and, considering that, it performed very well on Election Night.
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Trump’s Defiant Comeback Shows Potential Not Yet Tapped
The surprising arc of Donald Trump’s political comeback is not yet over. His critics should brace for more.
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Freedom of Political Expression Only Goes One Way
Despite Donald Trump’s victory last week, supporters and voters on the right remain less likely than those on the left to be open about their political leanings.
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Rick Scott’s Ultra-Neocon Foreign Policy Advisor
To ensure a sincere America First, Peace Through Strength foreign policy, there should be a better path for Senate leadership.
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On the Senior Executive Service’s ‘Secret Service’
The elitist bureaucracy created during the Carter administration makes nothing more efficient and is at odds with the interests of the American people.
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Democrats Are at a Dead End, Unless They Learn From Trump
Democrats who hope to revitalize their party need to accept that wokeism is a dead end and learn from Trump in the same way they once learned from Reagan.
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Five Factors Behind Trump’s Triumph
How Donald Trump defied expectations to win the 2024 election.
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Political Pollsters Are Not Sending Their Best
The crucial political science that was missing from this year’s election polls has a proven track record. So why wasn’t it used?
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Military Ranks Are Thinning but Revival May Be Coming
The woke and overcommitted military of the last couple decades has had a hard time recruiting. We are ripe for a change.
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The Death of Obamaism, and the Historic MAGA Opportunity
The 2024 election broke Obama’s Democratic intersectional coalition, presenting an historic opportunity for the GOP.
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How Trump 2.0 Will Rebuild America’s Border Security
The incoming Trump administration already knows how to fix our border crisis. What it requires is the strength and support of the American people.
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Viktor Orbán and Gerhard Schröder on War and Peace in Europe
The clear vision—but slim hope—of peace and prosperity in Europe was on display at a recent conference in Vienna.
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Election 2024: The Revenge of the ‘Fascist’
Considering his record, Donald Trump is a strange kind of “fascist.”
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The Silent Killer Crossing Our Border
America's unchecked borders are permitting the spread of tuberculosis.
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The Election’s Consequences, and Our Responsibilities
Americans stood up yesterday to say they want to govern themselves. Now comes the hard work of doing it.
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The Stable Genius Providentially Triumphs
Trump’s overwhelming victory appears to confirm his genius, the wisdom of the American people, and God’s Providence for our country.
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America’s Turn to Return the Insult
Kamala Harris’s gesticulations about unity after a campaign of hate and division ring false and hollow.
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Ben Shapiro’s Sloppy Mistakes Help Harris
In failing to fact check his story on Harris’s involvement in the Kavanaugh affair, Shapiro ends up pushing the liberal narrative.
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The One Big Reason I Can’t Vote for Harris
Kamala Harris’s open contempt for Western civilization and the culture that built America is disqualifying.
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How Politics Hasn’t Changed Since Jefferson
The election of 1800 featured many of the same elements of our politics today.
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Strong and Intelligent Citizens Don’t Support Harris
Mark Cuban’s insult of female Trump supporters fell flat and highlights the weaknesses of Harris supporters.
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Kamala Harris’s Contrived Candidacy
The manufactured identity of Kamala Harris is typical of how our elites hollow out all our most valuable institutions.
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What the Left Calls Voting Rights Cheapens Your Vote
The left’s incessant call to make voting easier is really about making it trivial and unimportant.
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Why Paleoconservatism Matters
A young reader explains how and why Chronicles has played such a central role in his development as a thinker and citizen.
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The Final Choice: Civilizational Arson Versus Civilizational Sanity
It is not an exaggeration to say that everything is on the line this Tuesday.
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Combating the Hidden Beltway Swamp Culture
Changing the composition of the personnel will never be enough to secure liberty. Changes to the swamp’s culture are needed.
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Trump Vindicates Meritocracy
The emotive arguments against Donald Trump from the left are proof-positive that they have nothing over him on the merits.
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A Pro-Trump Immigrant’s Story
Many legal immigrants, particularly those from Communist countries, know the stakes of this election.
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Biden’s ‘Garbage’ Comment Wipes Out Dem Claims to ‘Civility’
After a weekend of calling Trump and his supporters “fascists,” Biden’s “garbage” insult shows us the kind of civility we can expect from Democrats.
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Vindicated by Bezos Thirty Years after Leaving The Post
Jeff Bezos’s editorial calling out the bias of his own newspaper comes late in the game, but it is the paper’s last chance to redeem itself.
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Rejecting Fake Executives
What I learned in the Soviet Union about elections informs my vote as an American: We can’t allow phony executives to deceive us.
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What’s the Matter With Men?
Men have come to understand that it’s rarely in their interest to intervene on behalf of justice, order, or civilization.
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How the Media Elite Silences the Majority
Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann’s spiral of silence theory still explains a lot about how our media shape narratives and cows opposition.
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Kamala Harris Targets Married Women
An intrusive new campaign stratagem from team Harris pits husbands and wives against each other and patronizes women at the same time.
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Why the Right Needs Trump to Win
Right-wing critics of Trump are foolish if they think there is any future for the issues they care about without a Trump win in November.
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A Bad Moon on the Rise: Our Elections and the Aftermath
The forbearance and ingenuity of Hurricane Helene’s victims should inspire our actions in the event of election-related unrest.
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Never Mind the Cat-Eating; the Damage to Small Town America is Very Real
The media mind game, whereby they ‘debunk’ a minor part of a story so they can get you to swallow the rest of their narrative, is doing real harm to Americans.
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On Child-Free Men
There’s more going on in the rise of men forgoing marriage and fatherhood today than meets the eye.
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Donald Trump, Class Traitor Par Excellence
Donald Trump’s reputation as a champion of the American middle class is long-established and real.
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Trump’s Closing Argument Is His Strongest Yet
Trump turns the left’s self-hating narrative about American history upside down.
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American Revanchism
It is well past time for Americans on the right to stop calling their movement conservative. Before we can have anything to conserve, we must first take it back.
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Kamala’s Closing Argument: ‘I’m Obviously Not Joe Biden’
Even on the left, Kamala Harris’s most recent defenses of her campaign do not inspire confidence.
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Punk Rock Feminist Has Revelation While Stripping
A recent memoir from an ’80s punk rocker touches on themes with surprising resonance for people on the right.
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Against Self-Mutilation: Tattoos and Body Piercing
The increase in tattoos and piercings cuts across the political divide in America. But it is an indication that something is deeply wrong with our culture.
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Vibes Turn Bad for Kamala Harris
President Trump has become the more joyful campaigner in the wake of Kamala Harris’s attempts to absorb former Republicans into the Democratic base.
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Technological Tectonic Shifts
We can see parallels between our own situation and that of the American Revolutionaries and find hints for our own success in their experience. Technology can be an important key.
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Elon Musk Fights the Leviathan With Free Speech and Spaceships
Musk could have taken the easy road and gone along with the progressive agenda. Instead, he’s using his wealth and power to push back against the government.
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Whose is the Wrong Rally?
By telling people shouting “Jesus Is Lord” that they didn’t belong at her rally, Kamala Harris demonstrated the deep divide over religion between the parties.