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Inflation Can Be Stopped
There is a magical mystery myth prevailing in our great United States of America. That myth says that once inflation...
The Hellcat is Coming Back… Expensively
The Charger is going to get its V8 back, probably sometime next year (2027), but only in 6.2-liter supercharged Hellcat...
Saving Civilization, One Wife at a Time
As traditional marriage and monogamy come under attack, we must ask a serious question: Can our democratic republic survive the...
The Narcissistic Lunacy of Selma Blair, Khloé Kardashian, and Hilary Swank
Narcissism is statistically on the rise in America. A 2008 study led by Jean M. Twenge found a significant rise...
Paris Is Burning. Is Washington Next?
We’re watching what’s happening in France, and we’re watching the liars of the corporate press assure us that the riots,...
No Kings Rallies Were No Big Deal
For weeks, the left-wing media were breathlessly reporting that the crowds for Saturday’s “No Kings” rallies were going to be...
Obama Lectures Israel on History. His Own Record Begs to Differ.
Former President Barack Obama once again waded into Middle Eastern affairs, stating in Belfast, Ireland, in a paid gig with...
Iran, Executions, and the SGO That Never Ends
(For those just joining us, the term “SGO” was coined by my late great friend, former Navy SEAL Al Clark....
Rioting in France
“Rioting in France,” editorial cartoon by Tom Stiglich for The American Spectator on Oct. 18, 2026.
Crazy Colorado
Heads up, California. That state in the crazy lane in your rearview mirror is closer than it appears. It’s Colorado....
Real Men Don’t Vote Democrat
In the screen world two weeks ago, an iconic white male comic-book superhero, now depicted as a depressed, disgraced loser,...
Black Enthusiasm Gap Haunts Far Left Democrats
Throughout the current election cycle, the pundit class has made much of an enthusiasm gap that purportedly bedevils the Republicans....
Threatened by Fire
Friday A scary day here in Southern California: A raging brushfire in the general area of Malibu is hurtling towards...
Israel’s Exodus Is Only Half the Story
One often reads today in the MSM about how many Israelis have left Israel since Oct. 7. A recent Tel...
The Emperor’s New Running Shoes
Meet Logan Mihailoff. Logan is a cross-country runner at Camas High School in the state of Washington. Logan, like many...
Reagan’s SDI Vision Is Today Affordable
Orbiting “Smart Rocks” knocking out missiles at ultrasonic speeds, laser and electromagnetic guns firing mega bullets and incinerating beams with...
Catholic Charities and the $62 Million Gospel of Somali Resettlement
A new report from the New York Post discovered that Catholic Charities and Global Refuge (formerly known as Lutheran Social...
AI Can Fake Empathy. Can It Fake a Soul?
The first I heard of AI was in 1990 when I picked up Roger Penrose’s The Emperor’s New Mind. Penrose,...
America’s Education Crisis: All Expense, No Excellence
We are living in an era of record-high American deficits and record-high spending on public education that have both resulted...
Winning the Election Shouldn’t Be This Hard for Republicans
The polls do not look promising for the Republican Party in the upcoming elections. I have seen columnists in the...
Italian Americans, Reclaim Your Vowels!
When Paul Kengor recently published his wonderful American Spectator reflection for Italian American Heritage Month, “Italian Without the Name,” he...
Remembering Iron Mike Ditka
I’ve written a lot lately about being raised an Italian in western Pennsylvania, albeit with the Polish last name that...
Gavin Newsom’s Awkward Marriage to Kimberly Guilfoyle
In 2001, Gavin Newsom wed Kimberly Guilfoyle, and she was gorgeous. When she accompanied him to events during his mayoral...
Gavin Newsom’s Awkward Marriage to Kimberly Guilfoyle
In 2001, Gavin Newsom wed Kimberly Guilfoyle, and she was gorgeous. When she accompanied him to events during his mayoral...
The Spectacle Ep. 479: Kingpin Ilhan Omar, Her Husband Brother, and the Democrat Scam She’s Running Against the American People
Ilhan Omar’s Washington, D.C. home was raided by Homeland Security and the Department of Justice as part of an immigration...
Abdul El-Sayed: A Muslim Brotherhood Puppet and a Grave National Security Threat
On NBC’s Meet the Press last Sunday, host Kristen Welker asked Democratic Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed if he would...
What Happened to John Cleese Isn’t Funny
For the first time, what has happened to John Cleese isn’t funny. Instead, he is living the adage “when you...
Trump: Death Penalty for Killers of Firefighters, Police Officers
The president is not kidding around. The headline at Newsmax was this: “Trump Seeks Death Penalty for Firefighter, Cop Killers.”...
Speaker Jeffries and the Nightmare Scenario
In 1967, the 25th Amendment was ratified, rectifying the Constitution’s imperfect provisions concerning presidential succession. The amendment outlined the steps...
The No-Contact Epidemic Sweeping America
No Contact: How a Seductive Ideology Broke Families and Friendships and How We Can Repair Them By: Noelle Mering Forum...
Hey Democrats, That Rage Engine of Yours Is Going to Throw a Rod, You Know
I was at lunch Wednesday with one of my non-political friends, and — as often happens, and I swear I’m...
The Spectacle Ep. 478: Shane Gillis Baited the Feminists and Caught a Bunch of Fish Who Need Bicycles
Shane Gillis’s viral monologue on Saturday Night Live sparked outrage among people who were upset about his remarks about women...
$2 Trillion — and No Excuse
The federal government just closed fiscal year 2026 with a deficit of nearly $2 trillion, according to figures the Congressional...
Houthi-Saudi Conflict Tests Regional Alliances
Conflict between Houthis rebels in Yemen and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia escalated after four days of continuous Houthis missile...
The Auto Industry Can Plan for $4 Gas; It Can’t Plan for Shifting Trade Rules
Consumer sentiment and spending seem at odds. Confidence remains depressed, and yet spending continues to fuel the economy. A simple...
El-Sayed’s ‘Medicare for All’ Plays Well With Voters. It Won’t If It Ever Becomes Law.
In 2013, Abdul El-Sayed was a young man with a fiery pen and a conviction that the recently reelected President...
What Ends the World Will Take Your Breath Away!
We have five predictions for you: 1. Glacier National Park will be glacier-free by 2020. 2. The Arctic summer will...
When California Took the Lead on Civil Rights
As they face a “billionaire tax” and choose a new governor, Californians might recall the time they took the lead...
Why Prediction Markets Are a Safe Bet
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — In the Nevada Gaming Control Board’s lawsuit against Kalshi, a federally regulated San Francisco-based company that facilitates...
The Democrat Campaign to Destroy Kamala Harris
Democrats simply do not want Kamala Harris to run for president. After seeing her flub her 2020 presidential campaign, flounder...
The Spectacle Ep. 477: DataRepublican Exposes Who Really Runs America
The people in power are not just your elected officials; it’s also an ecosystem of NGOs, policy networks, contractors, and...
Take the Wilderness Road and You’ll Find the Appalachian First Lady Who Fooled Washington
WYTHEVILLE, Virginia — Most people meet this town zooming past it at 70 mph. Interstate 77 comes up out of...
The Spectator P.M. Ep. 254: 22 Percent of College Kids Believe America Deserved 9/11
The Buckley Institute at Yale University found that 42 percent of college students favored socialism over capitalism. The study surveyed...
Whatever Happened to the Art of Flirting?
A couple of years ago, single guys were running around like crazy, turning pineapples upside down in their shopping carts...
Europe’s Hard Left at Its Most Dangerous
Conservatives are poised to win back power throughout Europe, but the left is fighting back, violently. Communists and Islamist groups...
Canada Doubles Down on Letting Indigenous Criminals Off Easy
In the United States, the law is the same for everyone, regardless of race — at least theoretically. But in...
Who’s Offended by Shane Gillis?
A joke making the rounds when we called cancel culture “political correctness” went like this: Q: “How many feminists does...
The Spectator P.M. Ep. 253: Doug Emhoff Is Against Kamala Harris’s 2028 Bid
A recent report from the Wall Street Journal revealed that Kamala Harris’s husband, Doug Emhoff, privately prefers Harris to stay...
Freedom’s Forge for the 21st Century: America’s Maritime Revival
Historian Arthur Herman, more than a decade ago, wrote Freedom’s Forge: How American Business Produced Victory in World War II,...
The Anti-Trump Russia Hoax
Well of course. Over there at Fox News, the well-respected Fox legal analyst Greg Jarrett is headlining this: “Trump was...
Campaign Door Knockers
“Campaign Door Knockers,” editorial cartoon by Yogi Love for The American Spectator on Oct. 12, 2026.
El-Sayed Executes Olympic-class, Medicare-for-All Flip-Flop in Senate Debate
If not a U.S. Senate seat, Democrat Abdul El-Sayed certainly deserves an Olympic gold medal for the men’s gymnastics achievement...
Ilhan Omar Search Warrant
“Ilhan Omar Search Warrant,” editorial cartoon by Tom Stiglich for The American Spectator on Oct. 12, 2026.
What an Awful Woman
The Democrats have rolled out a new strategy for combating the affordability crisis: kill your kids, and pocket the money...
What Socialism Has Wrought in Cuba Will Be a Nightmare to Unwind
For reasons obvious to most readers of this column, I’m currently doing lots of podcast and radio interviews about Cuba....
The Weekend Spectator Ep. 62: President Trump Embraces Columbus Day
Christopher Columbus has become incredibly misunderstood because of the rebranding given to him by the Left. Many, including President Trump,...
James Talarico’s Political Reversals Stir Trouble in Texas Senate Race
The senate campaign of Texas Democrat James Talarico has taken some puzzling turns in recent weeks, and he has finally...
The Green Party’s Anti-Zionism and the Politics of Antisemitism
Tony Blair, long-serving British Prime Minister from 1997 to 2007, recently declared that “Britain’s Fastest-Growing Party has an Anti-Jewish Problem.”...
Iran Can’t Bomb American Cities. Yet.
President Trump was not fear-mongering when he said that Iran could “take out Los Angeles or San Diego,” but he...
Hollywood’s Liberal Movies Are Flopping, but the Message Isn’t Getting Through
I often cite the famous quote from my late mentor Andrew Breitbart that politics is downstream from culture, because it...
James Talarico’s 12-Day Campaign Absence Deserves Scrutiny in Texas
Most political campaigns produce October surprises but James Talarico, the Democratic nominee for the open U.S. Senate seat in Texas,...
Anti-Italian Discrimination: The Bigotry Behind the Columbus Cancellers
“You know what it is? I’ll tell you what it is. It’s anti-Italian discrimination. Columbus Day is a day of...
Trump’s Armenia Corridor: A Strategic Opportunity with Real Risks
A small Christian country is about to hand a stronger neighbor the road through its last southern province, and Washington...
Yale Bans Right Turns: The Latest Campus Safety Crisis
Yale University, in collaboration with the city of New Haven, has taken a preemptive step to head off the next...
Netflix’s Monster and America’s Growing Obsession With Serial Killers
Netflix’s Monster has a new face. The anthology recently released its fourth installment, Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story, starring Ella...
We Haven’t Fixed AI’s Left-Wing Bias (We’ve Just Stopped Talking About It)
The other afternoon, I was bored. It wasn’t that I had nothing to do; I simply didn’t feel like working....
What I Learned Commanding US Marines on Okinawa
Thirty-one years ago a group of American marines and a sailor from Camp Hansen on Okinawa raped a local school...
America’s Dangerous Confusion About Right and Wrong
Americans appear increasingly unable to distinguish clearly between right and wrong. The most recent such instance that comes to mind...
Why the Left Hates Zionism: The History Behind Today’s War on Israel
What is Zionism? The short answer is the modern movement to restore the Jewish nation’s sovereignty. The name Zion is...
Columbus Goes to the White House
Ciao. In light of the news emerging from the White House with the approach of Columbus Day, saying “hello” in...
How to Prepare for Regime Change in Iran
At this point in the Iran conflict, it seems nothing dramatic will transpire before the November midterm elections. While President...
Domains and Dossiers Are the New Weapons of Cancelation
Few people take their cues from Letitia James or Kathy Hochul. A fair bit more people take theirs from Alexandria...
Italian Without the Name
It was October 1906. The place: southern Italy, the boot, Calabria — across the Strait of Messina from Sicily. Our...
Realism and Restraint Aren’t the Same Thing
Foreign policy realism and foreign policy restraint are not the same thing. Sometimes realism translates into restraint, but sometimes it...
Justice Gorsuch, the Ten Commandments, and Our National Identity
In 1980, God watched our nation remove displays of the Ten Commandments in classrooms after the Supreme Court held, in...
The Left Has Made It Harder to Kill Christa Pike. She Must Die Anyway.
“Capital punishment presents moral questions that philosophers, theologians, and statesmen have grappled with for millennia,” wrote Supreme Court Justice Antonin...
The Spectacle Ep. 476: Here Are Lessons We Should Learn From the Cornell 7 Case
A high-profile lawsuit involving a female student at Cornell University (under the pseudonym of ‘Jane Doe’) and seven members of...
Trump Administration Cracks Down on Hamas in the US
While Hamas continues its forever war against Israel following its attack on the Jewish state on October 7, 2023, often...
The 5QT Presents: The Five Black Pills, Part 3 — The Burgeoning Illegitimacy of the Managerial Elite
In 1941, a former Trotskyist who would go on to become a luminary in the conservative movement, James Burnham, published...
Marco Rubio Delivers First Speech of the 2028 Presidential Race
Marco Rubio delivered the first speech of the 2028 presidential campaign where none of his votes come from but from...
Imagine President Don Lemon
Don Lemon handicaps the possibility of him running for president at 2-to-1 in favor. “If the people want me,” he told a...
Judge the ‘Populist’ Push for Price Controls on Populist Grounds
Most Americans apparently agree on at least one thing. Unfortunately, it’s something dangerous: price controls. A new Wall Street Journal...
Blame Feminism, Not the Patriarchy, for the Cornell 7
Alonso Quijano is the kind of man who makes most of us feel uncomfortable. You know, that kind of uneasy...
The Spectacle Ep. 475: Not-So-Conspiracy Watch: Global Elections, US Midterms, and Where Is Everyone?
Eight elections in Latin America are indicating a new shift towards the Right: Chile, Bolivia, Peru, Colombia, Ecuador, Argentina, and...
Israeli Military Responds to Controversial NAZA Film
As the credits for NAZA rolled after its debut on September 10 at the 83rd Venice International Film Festival, the...
The Enemy Within
I’d intended this column to be the third installment of my Five Black Pills series (the first, covering feminism, is...
Russian Plague
“Russian Plague,” editorial cartoon by Tom Stiglich for The American Spectator on Oct. 7, 2026.
Is ‘Trumpism’ to Blame for the ‘Cornell 7’ Circus?
No national controversy is complete until Amanda Marcotte has made a fool of herself about it, and the feminist writer...
Eva Marie Saint, RIP
Eva Marie Saint, born before the first talking motion picture, died yesterday at 102. She won an Academy Award for...
The Night Linden Avenue Stopped Feeling Safe
EDGEWOOD, Pennsylvania — The Evans family threw a Halloween party every year in their backyard on Linden Avenue. Neighbor Jeannine...
Sánchez Calls Early Elections in Spain: ‘Pour Me Another Whisky!’
“Try not to vote by mail.” That is the warning issued to citizens by Santiago Abascal, leader of the right-wing...
The Spectator P.M. Ep. 252: America Is Missing 30 Million Votes — From Christians
A 2024 study from the Cultural Research Center found that over 30 million Christians were likely to stay home instead...
Iran’s Sleeper Cells Come Awake
Attempts to pull off a 9/11-type attack on Israel and stage a drone attack against a strategic U.S. air base...
Why the Iran War Has Been So Poorly Fought
To say that the war with Iran has been poorly fought is a gross understatement. It has been badly handled...
A Plague of Clickbait
“Something About Russia Insisting Everything Is Fine After the Lab Leak Death Is Making Us Nervous,” ran one headline. As...
Emerald Robinson on Who Gets to Decide What Americans Can Think
There are people you interview, and there are people you sit down with and immediately start plotting how to get...
The Spectator P.M. Ep. 251: Poor Baby Born by ‘Surrogate’ Searches for His Mother
A newborn baby born via surrogate went viral on social media for being frustrated trying to root and latch. Unfortunately,...
It’s Been 2028 for While
The unstated subtext of the 2028 race for the Republican nomination for president involves fissures over foreign policy. JD Vance...
Owning and Reading Books May Be the Most Countercultural Thing You Can Do
The problem in our country isn’t with books being banned, but with people no longer reading … You don’t have...