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Opinion

The Raffel Ticket

Columns

"Yellow dog" voters are back big-time. Who? In the run-up to the 1892 presidential election, journalist C. H. J. Taylor used the term to refer to western Republicans who, he wrote in The American Citizen, "would vote for a yellow dog out there if he was named Republican." In a 1956 voter ...

Betsy McCaughey

Columns

Far-left politicians want to annihilate property rights. A large share of young voters are buying into it — a red flag that our school systems have become socialist indoctrination factories. On Monday, one of the far left's agenda setters, Sen. Bernie Sanders, called on the federal ...

Jamie Stiehm

Columns

Change is not my best friend. Not since the day my family moved from Wisconsin to California when I was eight. Leaving the land of my grandmother, the skating rink and snowballs in winter, Lake Mendota and the tennis courts in summer, the community garden and all that seemed unfair. The ...

Jonah Goldbert

Columns

Normally, I worry that events may overtake a column. But not so with the Iran war. I don't worry about running afoul of a headline or Truth Social post from the president because what is said about the situation is no longer very relevant to the reality. On April 8, Nick Catoggio, my Dispatch ...

Daniel McCarthy

Columns

A hoax costs taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars and appears to incite arson attacks against dozens of churches. No, this isn't the latest headline out of Minnesota — look a little further north. In 2021, at a time when media throughout the Western world were still in a state of ...

Tim Graham

Columns

Sharyn Alfonsi represents the overweening pomposity of the hard-left partisans that have ruled CBS News. She responded to Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss with "resistance" lingo when her contract was not renewed. "This was not a routine corporate transition; it was a deliberate choice to penalize ...