Commentary By Daniel McCarthy

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                            March 10, 2026Cuba Should Accept Trump's 'Friendly Takeover' By Daniel McCarthy
        President Donald Trump has shown Cuba's communist rulers two ways their reign over the island can end: the Maduro way or the Khamenei way.

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                            March 3, 2026Immigration Enforcement Saves Lives By Daniel McCarthy
   When a 41-year-old mother is murdered at a bus stop, who bothers to protest?

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                            February 24, 2026How a Party Offends Its Voters By Daniel McCarthy
        Gavin Newsom won't be the Democrats' 2028 presidential nominee unless he wins a significant share of the African American vote.

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                            February 17, 2026Why Are Anti-ICE Activists Building Borders? By Daniel McCarthy
        Anti-ICE activists in Minneapolis are setting up blockades.

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                            February 10, 2026A Japanese Lesson for Troubled Britain By Daniel McCarthy
        The contrast between America's great island allies on opposite ends of the world couldn't be more drastic.

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                            February 3, 2026The Trump Coalition Wins But the GOP Brand Doesn't By Daniel McCarthy
        Just how badly did Republicans do in two Texas special elections last weekend?

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                            January 27, 2026Canada Should Warm to Trump's Arctic Plans By Daniel McCarthy
        Donald Trump's Arctic strategy has been 500 years in the making.

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                            January 20, 2026From Rock to Tech, Talent Flees Taxes By Daniel McCarthy
        California Democrats should listen to The Rolling Stones.

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                            January 6, 2026Tim Walz Personifies Democrats' Decline By Daniel McCarthy
   Tim Walz is going away, but the Democratic Party's Tim Walz crisis isn't.

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                            December 30, 2025Harvard Says Yes to Discrimination, No to Western Civ By Daniel McCarthy
   At Harvard University today, professors who teach Western history are history.

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                            December 23, 2025JD Vance Gets America's Creed and Heritage Right  By Daniel McCarthy
   With America's 250th birthday as an independent nation coming up in 2026, the big debate on the right this season about what it means to be an American couldn't be more timely.

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                            December 16, 2025Trump's Inflation Trap By Daniel McCarthy
   What can Donald Trump do to stop morphing into Joe Biden?

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                            December 9, 2025Biden's Immigration Debacle Is the Media's, Too By Daniel McCarthy
        The New York Times has invented a new genre of reporting -- covering big stories showing Democrats in a bad light years after the events that matter.

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                            December 2, 2025'Iryna's Law' and the Bad Judges Who Make It Necessary By Daniel McCarthy
   What will it take to get crime under control in our subways and public transit systems?
   On Monday, news broke of another passenger set on fire in New York City's subway -- though this story wasn't all it seemed.

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                            November 25, 2025Marjorie Taylor Greene's Exit Is a Warning to Republicans By Daniel McCarthy
   Marjorie Taylor Greene is a singular politician -- a maverick, though not in the John McCain sense.

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                            November 19, 2025Trump Hasn't Lost Hispanics (Yet) By Daniel McCarthy
   Is President Donald Trump losing the winning coalition he built just a year ago?

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                            November 11, 2025Trump Can Do Better Than Tariff 'Dividends' and 50-Year Mortgages By Daniel McCarthy
   Time is short for the Trump administration.

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                            November 4, 2025Trump's Tariffs on Trial By Daniel McCarthy
        This question confronts the justices this week in Learning Resources v. Trump, a case that puts the president's tariff powers to the test.

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                            October 28, 2025MAGA Makes Allies Great Again By Daniel McCarthy
        From Argentina to Japan, MAGA is going global.

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                            October 21, 2025How To Make the Americas Great Again By Daniel McCarthy
        President Donald Trump is in a fight for the destiny of the Americas.