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These Canadians Are Ready to Go to War with America
‘Many of us would rather have our eyes spooned out, be thrown in acid, have our heart pulled out of our mouth than have anything to do with the United…
Rupa Subramanya
WATCH: They Fled Iran Fearing Death. Then the U.S. Deported Them to Panama.
A group of Iranian Christian converts thought they had made it safely to the U.S. before they were shackled, loaded onto a military plane, and sent…
Tanya Lukyanova
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WATCH: ‘I’ve Lost 23 Relatives. We All Might Be Killed.’
An exclusive Free Press report on the massacre in Syria.
Tanya Lukyanova
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Syria’s New Rulers Tortured Me. Now They Are Targeting My Friends.
My captors dreamed of total rule. Now, the Alawites and the Christians live under their nightmare.
Theo Padnos
In This English Village, Asylum Seekers May Soon Outnumber the Locals
The people of Wethersfield do not deny that the newcomers have changed their lives. But they are afraid to discuss it on their own doorsteps.
Dominic Green
When War Crashed Through the Window
Muscovites have long been insulated from the war their country launched. That changed on Tuesday, when Ukraine unleashed a major drone attack on the…
Tanya Lukyanova
Fight Club: Are Israel and Ukraine’s Wars the Same—or Worlds Apart?
Eli Lake believes it is incoherent to continue support for Israel while cutting off Ukraine. Michael Brendan Dougherty disagrees.
Eli Lake and Michael Brendan Dougherty
Michael Rapaport: A Message to My Haters up North
A Canadian politician is trying to bar me from the country where I’m scheduled to perform a few gigs. I’m offering her front-row seats.
Michael Rapaport
Christopher Caldwell: Zelensky’s Trumpian Trick
People who like Zelensky dislike Trump. They seem not to have noticed that the Ukrainian leader is the most Trump-like politician in the world.
Christopher Caldwell
What Average Americans Think of Trump’s Showdown with Zelensky
Most ordinary voters weren’t horrified by the president’s treatment of an ally. In fact, they agreed with it.
Batya Ungar-Sargon
Michael Oren: What Zelensky Can Learn from Netanyahu
When Bibi collided with Obama in 2011, Rahm Emanuel pounded my chest and barked: ‘Your [expletive] prime minister cannot come into the [expletive] White…
Michael Oren
Victor Davis Hanson: Ten Reasons for the Zelensky-Trump Blowup
What comes next for relations between the United States and Ukraine?
Victor Davis Hanson
Will Trump’s Tariffs Rob Victory from Canada’s Conservatives?
The patriotic backlash that could save the Liberals.
Rupa Subramanya
Trump’s Foreign Policy Revolution
America is now just as intent on changing the structure of the world order as Russia and China.
Matthew Continetti
Many Ukrainians Believed in Trump. Now They Feel Betrayed.
‘We used to wear American flag patches on our body armor as a symbol of the land of freedom. Now, we’ve taken them off.’
David Patrikarakos
Everybody Freeze! It’s the Climate Police
In their quest to slow climate change, bureaucrats in the U.S. and Canada advance restrictive edicts that make very big headlines and very little…
Doomberg
The German Establishment’s Last Chance
Immigration drove Germans to the polls in record numbers, and it doubled the AfD’s vote share. Is the next chancellor listening?
Christopher Caldwell
My Ancestors Fled Ukraine. It Was America That Allowed Me to Return.
Our leaders talk endlessly about the cost of beating Russia. They never talk about the more frightening and much more expensive alternative.
Peter Savodnik
Victor Davis Hanson: Can Trump Troll His Way to a Peace Deal in Ukraine?
Handicapping the dispute between two conservatives I admire: Vice President J.D. Vance and Niall Ferguson.
Victor Davis Hanson
Natan Sharansky: A President’s Words Saved Me in the Gulag
Reagan was our lifeline in the Soviet Union. Trump’s rhetoric betrays Russia’s freedom fighters.
Natan Sharansky
No, Mr. President, It Was Russia that Started the War
A dishonest narrator of the conflict cannot be an honest broker of peace.
The Editors
Bernard-Henri Lévy: Europe Must Unite or Die
The White House has made itself clear: We can no longer rely on the U.S. So we must rely on ourselves.
Bernard-Henri Lévy
How the U.S. Government Controls Ukrainian Media
USAID funded the vast majority of 'independent' media in Ukraine. What American taxpayers don't realize is that their money went to suppressing the…
Tanya Lukyanova
Bari Weiss: Against the Vandals
What happened on the left over the past decade is a cautionary tale for a right that wants to look away from the danger ahead.
Bari Weiss
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