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Signs of America’s Declining Power and the Emerging Multipolar World

Christopher Roach — Tue, 28 May 2024 07:00:03 +0000

During Bush’s years as president, Democrats frequently criticized his foreign policy, complaining that he acted like a cowboy, pursuing wars unilaterally without the imprimatur of […]

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The Lesson Heritage and America First Have Yet to Learn

Robert Patterson — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 07:00:22 +0000

What do the Heritage Foundation, the America First Policy Institute (AFPI), and Governor Ron DeSantis share in common? Like the failed presidential candidate, neither think […]

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To Make America Great Again, We Need to Win the Ideological War

Yuri Yarim-Agaev — Sun, 31 Mar 2024 08:00:58 +0000

“We have awakened a sleeping giant.” These words are attributed to Japanese Admiral Yamamoto, the mastermind behind the Pearl Harbor attack. Whoever said them, they […]

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Reflections on January 6

Paul Ingrassia — Fri, 12 Jan 2024 10:00:44 +0000

The following commentary was adapted from remarks I delivered at an event held in Toms River, New Jersey, by the Patriot Freedom Project, an organization, […]

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6 Things About Wokeness You Should Know from 2023

AG Staff — Sat, 30 Dec 2023 03:00:07 +0000

The left’s “woke” movement is a hot topic for American Greatness readers. Elon Musk once said, “At its heart, wokeness is divisive, exclusionary, and hateful. […]

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Biden’s Killing the American Dream of Homeownership

Stephen Moore — Wed, 06 Sep 2023 10:00:44 +0000

In boasting about Bidenomics two weeks ago in Milwaukee, President Joe Biden declared that his policies are “restoring the American dream.” Then he went into […]

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Fauci Fingerprints

Lloyd Billingsley — Wed, 28 Jun 2023 03:03:27 +0000

“Masking Guidance: Fully vaccinated guests are not required to wear a mask on the White House grounds. Guests who are not fully vaccinated must wear […]

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Western Man and the Suicide Porn of Our Age

Matthew Boose — Wed, 28 Jun 2023 03:01:56 +0000

Forty-five years ago, anti-communist dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn caused a stir at Harvard with a famous commencement speech deploring the decadence of the West. The rivalry […]

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What the Left Has Left for America

Victor Davis Hanson — Tue, 27 Jun 2023 03:01:47 +0000

The present-day Left bears little resemblance to the old civil-libertarian, integrationist Democratic Party that existed from the 1960s through 2000. The antecedents to its current […]

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Durham Sequel Goes Back to the Prequel

Lloyd Billingsley — Tue, 27 Jun 2023 03:00:09 +0000

“I made it clear that neither President Obama nor Vice President Biden were in Durham’s crosshairs,” explains William Barr, the attorney general who tapped John […]

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Politicians Meet the Polygraph

Lloyd Billingsley — Mon, 26 Jun 2023 03:02:50 +0000

Back in 1986, members of the Reagan cabinet said they were willing to take drug tests to set an example for federal workers and the […]

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The Lost Submersible As an Analogy

David Breitenbeck — Sun, 25 Jun 2023 03:00:46 +0000

When the Titanic sank, G.K. Chesterton wrote an essay called “The Great Shipwreck As An Analogy.” Now that this same ship has unexpectedly become the […]

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America Wakes Up to Woke

Victor Davis Hanson — Fri, 23 Jun 2023 03:01:46 +0000

Wokeness was envisioned as a new reboot of the coalition of the oppressed. Those purportedly victimized by traditional America would find “intersectional” solidarity in their […]

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If You Work for the FBI, Quit Your Job

Adam Mill — Thu, 22 Jun 2023 03:00:00 +0000

For those working for the FBI, particularly in the Hoover building or the Washington Field Office, allow me to offer a little career advice: Quit. […]

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Decadent Elites Plunge America Into Political Crisis

Matthew Boose — Wed, 21 Jun 2023 03:00:20 +0000

If the last seven years of constant anti-Trump intrigue have shown anything, it’s that America’s liberal so-called elites want to govern a certain way and […]

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Of Athletes and Nuggets

Lloyd Billingsley — Sun, 18 Jun 2023 03:04:17 +0000

Last Monday, the Denver Nuggets defeated the Miami Heat 94-89 to win their first NBA championship, with two key players who are not American nationals. […]

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Nashville Forensic Files

Lloyd Billingsley — Sat, 17 Jun 2023 03:00:17 +0000

On March 27, in the run-up to “Trans Day of Vengeance,” Audrey Hale murdered six people at the Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee. Nearly three […]

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The Left’s New Daddy Warbucks

Rachel Ehrenfeld — Fri, 16 Jun 2023 03:03:04 +0000

Alexander Soros’ bragging, “I’m more political,” promises limitless funding of the progressive-Left agenda for the 2024 election. It seems that the June 11 glorified announcement […]

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A Corporate American Index as Alternative to ESG Scores

Rod Thomson — Fri, 16 Jun 2023 03:02:07 +0000

The recent dust-up over Twitter’s on-again, off-again, on-again showing of the Daily Wire’s “What is a Woman” documentary did more than simply illustrate how deep […]

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‘America’s Front Porch’: When Georgetown was Great

Mark Judge — Thu, 15 Jun 2023 03:03:00 +0000

Like so many of the problems facing America, the exploding problem crisis of teen mental health has a pretty simple solution. Kids need to get […]

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California’s War Against Prosperity

Edward Ring — Thu, 15 Jun 2023 03:01:19 +0000

According to the U.S. Small Business Administration, small businesses are the backbone of the U.S. economy, generating 44 percent of all business activity. Take them […]

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Democrats Abandon the Blue-Collar Worker in Favor of ‘Social Justice’ Warriors

Salena Zito — Tue, 13 Jun 2023 03:00:40 +0000

CHESWICK, Pennsylvania—Up until two years ago, it would only take 12 hours for coal mined deep in a labyrinth operation 60 miles from here to […]

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CNN Blues

Ray McCoy — Mon, 12 Jun 2023 03:03:19 +0000

Recently, the far-left Atlantic published a profile by Tim Alberta of CNN CEO Chris Licht that was the equivalent of stuffing him in his school […]

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Corporate Retreat on Pride Month Is Not a Counter-Revolution

Christopher Roach — Sun, 11 Jun 2023 03:05:37 +0000

After a decade of intensifying demands from the Left’s social revolution, over the last few weeks something unusual happened: a retreat. Large companies have pulled […]

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Unmasking the CDC’s Medical CIA

Lloyd Billingsley — Sun, 11 Jun 2023 03:04:54 +0000

CDC director Dr. Rochelle Walensky is departing at the end of June and Joe Biden has tapped former North Carolina health boss Dr. Mandy Cohen […]

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Television? What’s that?

Adam Mill — Sat, 10 Jun 2023 03:00:02 +0000

One could almost hear the network executives and public officials screaming into their bluetooth headsets when the early ratings came in. “What is a Woman?” […]

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Jabba the State and Kanamit, Inc. Seek to Serve Man

Anthony Esolen — Fri, 09 Jun 2023 03:01:31 +0000

Last Sunday, while I was watching a prestigious golf tournament on television, I could not help being struck by the need corporate advertisers seem to […]

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Remembering the Horrors of D-Day

Victor Davis Hanson — Fri, 09 Jun 2023 03:00:18 +0000

Seventy-nine years ago this week, the Allies assaulted the Normandy beaches on D-Day, June 6, 1944. Their invasion marked the largest amphibious landing since the […]

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The Strange Pandemic of ‘White’ Disparagement

Victor Davis Hanson — Wed, 07 Jun 2023 03:00:16 +0000

One of the tenets of the early civil rights movement some 65 years ago was ending racial stereotyping. When Martin Luther King, Jr. called for […]

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The Lost Bardo of Bill Kristol

Mark Judge — Tue, 06 Jun 2023 03:04:45 +0000

“Although the world is full of people who will tell you who you are, what you are, and what you are to do and not […]

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Modern History Books vs. A.I. on Trump’s Presidency

Rod Thomson — Tue, 06 Jun 2023 03:03:21 +0000

It’s a pretty telling state of institutional affairs when multiple left-biased artificial intelligence platforms offer a more accurate depiction of Donald Trump’s presidency than the […]

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Title IX: Tool for Government-Imposed Sexualization

Teresa R. Manning — Tue, 06 Jun 2023 03:02:37 +0000

On May 26, the Biden Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) postponed the release of a new Title IX rule until October. This is good […]

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Mike Rowe Is on a Mission to Reverse the ‘Unspeakable Stupidity’ of Devaluing Work

Salena Zito — Tue, 06 Jun 2023 03:00:02 +0000

A few months ago, Mike Rowe stumbled upon a 2011 video of himself speaking in front of the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee during […]

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A History of Hate

Roger Kimball — Mon, 05 Jun 2023 03:01:52 +0000

I gave up reading the New York Review of Books many years ago. I felt that I had served my time, having picked through countless […]

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What State Harassment and Institutional Terror in Woke America Looks Like

John Kline — Sun, 04 Jun 2023 03:05:07 +0000

A federal court ruling likely to drop this month should provide a good indication as to whether America still has a fully functioning First World […]

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Pride Celebrations and the Law Written on the Heart

James Patrick Riley — Sun, 04 Jun 2023 03:02:46 +0000

Picture yourself as a young parent with three small children in tow. As you pass through the entrance gates of Disneyland, with your debit card […]

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Left-Wing Authoritarianism

Thaddeus G. McCotter — Sun, 04 Jun 2023 03:00:53 +0000

The daily issue of Lisa DePasquale’s “Bright” political newsletter never disappoints. Her May 31 edition was quite an eye opener. To wit, via the New […]

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End American Gerontocracy

Josh Hammer — Sat, 03 Jun 2023 03:02:05 +0000

Joe Biden’s viscerally jarring fall on Thursday in Colorado Springs, while on stage dispensing diplomas to new U.S. Air Force Academy graduates, underscores a terrifying […]

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George Soros and the New York City Subway Tragedy

Maurice Richards — Fri, 02 Jun 2023 03:02:24 +0000

The tragic death of Jordan Neely and the despicable legal lynching of Daniel Penny are not random events. Democrats have instituted globalist-inspired programs and policies, […]

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Is the Sleeping Conservative Dragon Finally Waking Up?

Victor Davis Hanson — Fri, 02 Jun 2023 03:00:47 +0000

Conservatives and traditionalists are often exasperated at the ongoing woke cultural revolution in their midst. How can America be turned upside down, as it is, […]

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A Beantown Letdown

Ray McCoy — Tue, 30 May 2023 03:03:26 +0000

On May 17, reports suddenly surfaced that by the end of the week Rachael Rollins, U.S. attorney for the district of Massachusetts, would resign. She […]

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Stories That Inspire Always Begin With an Everyman Never Giving Up

Salena Zito — Tue, 30 May 2023 03:01:16 +0000

This past Saturday, Michael Block, golf’s 46-year-old everyman, was playing shoulder-to-shoulder with the world’s top players at the PGA Championship in New York State. Against […]

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It Was Always Only About Power With the Left

Victor Davis Hanson — Tue, 30 May 2023 03:00:45 +0000

Why do so many liberal climate-activist grandees fly on private jets? Or why do those who profited from Black Lives Matter have a propensity for […]

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Reflections on Memorial Day 2023

Mackubin Owens — Mon, 29 May 2023 03:04:12 +0000

Today, we celebrate Memorial Day. What does that mean? Unfortunately, for many citizens, it signifies just another three-day weekend, the beginning of the summer season, […]

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What a Difference a Real DA Makes

Lloyd Billingsley — Sun, 28 May 2023 03:05:04 +0000

Chesa Boudin, named after cop-killer Joanne Chesimard, and son of Weather Underground terrorists Kathy Boudin and David Gilbert, was elected district attorney of San Francisco […]

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The 1980s Satanic Panic and Transgenderism Today

John Conlin — Sun, 28 May 2023 03:04:03 +0000

In the 1980s what now seems like collective insanity hit this country—false reports of satanic sexual abuse of children in daycare. Some called it the […]

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Democrats Demand Homage to Hoover’s Ghost

Thaddeus G. McCotter — Sun, 28 May 2023 03:00:23 +0000

Though the public was unaware at the time, the seminal Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) director, J. Edgar Hoover, was a political extortionist. Deftly manipulating […]

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The Mind Virus of the Affluent Woke Left

Paul Gottfried — Fri, 26 May 2023 03:04:34 +0000

Those who belong to the woke Left are held together by overlapping interests and shared passions. Not all wokesters support the same causes and certainly […]

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When Will the NAACP Issue a Travel Advisory for Chicago?

A.J. Rice — Fri, 26 May 2023 03:02:00 +0000

Did you hear the news? The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People thinks the entire state of Florida is hostile to black people. […]

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The Left Has Pushed the Envelope

Victor Davis Hanson — Fri, 26 May 2023 03:00:34 +0000

The Left is waging a full-fledged cultural revolution against traditional America. And the Maoist results are often as absurd as they are terrifying. Special-counsel John […]

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