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In a world where matters of the heart and hormones are among the most turbulent fronts in the culture wars, new traditions must be established to cope with the ongoing conflict.

That’s the question everyone is asking themselves, as it seems like every week there’s something new: moms clad in pink showing up in sympathy for Lindsay Clancy, the latest outrage over a scandalous Sydney Sweeney ad, or even something as ubiquitous as t…

Welcome back to This Week in Canada, where our sanctions reach all the way to Israel, what a Jewish journalist saw on Yom Kippur gets him in trouble, and more.

It’s Tuesday, September 29.

The best way to understand what happened yesterday evening on the Senate floor, where the Protect College Sports Act overwhelmingly passed by a vote of 77 to 22, is that Congress responded to the college sports establishment’s plea to save it from itself.

“Let’s whisper it,” said historian Simon Sebag Montefiore.

Unlike athletes, there is no dearth of MVP Jewish actors—specifically, actresses.

Have we already passed the peak of human intelligence?

“We want peace, liberty, and justice for the great people of Venezuela,” President Donald Trump proclaimed in the hours after he sent American forces to arrest and detain that country’s longtime dictator, Nicolás Maduro.

For Americans perpetually enraged about Israel, the ordeal of Mahmoud Khalil has become an obsession.

It’s Monday, September 28.

Delano Squires used to sit in on morning calls with the assistant police chief while working in D.C.’s office of gun violence prevention.

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Washington, D.C. — There is a story Donald Trump’s closest advisers like to tell about Donald Trump, and it goes something like this.

Two years ago, after a family meeting with our adult kids and their spouses, my wife and I made the joint decision to move to the same area as them, in northern Virginia.

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PRINCETON, New Jersey — Joe Schmid, 26, has spent years arguing that there is no God.

Communism is on the rise in America.

It’s 9 a.m. in Tucson, Arizona, and Rachel Dolezal is sitting across from me in a navy-blue dress, telling me about the local Palo Verde trees, and how they evolved green trunks to sustain themselves in the dry Arizona desert.

As if we were lacking for outrage, a new front in our unending culture wars opened this week when director Greta Gerwig announced that she had cast a woman (specifically: Meryl Streep) to voice Aslan in Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew—her upcoming film adap…

It’s Friday, September 25.

If you ask 10 people how artificial intelligence will affect education, you’ll probably get 10 different answers.

About midway through the newest season of Fauda, the hit Israeli Netflix show, Palestinian terrorists are training for an attack when one of the trainees asks his superiors whether the sleeper cells within Israel will join the fight.

For the longest time, Fauda was just a Netflix series about an Israeli counterterrorism unit, and even though it was compelling and smart, it was not especially important.

Hello, and welcome back to another great week of disturbing news.

We all know dating is broken.

If America wants to defend Taiwan’s sovereignty, it needs to build more warships.

“There’s a group to thank for August’s blockbuster jobs report: women.”

Modern dating is making a lot of young singles feel defective.

The results of the midterm elections will send a signal to Washington—stick to the course set by President Donald Trump, or set a new direction.

Dear Abigail, I am the mother of an 18-year-old daughter who is about six years into her declaration of transgenderism.

It’s Thursday, September 24.

The most famous bar in America, as of this week, is Last Ditch—a small, failing lesbian bar in Greenfield, Massachusetts, with $10 Negronis and a masking policy more fit for a CDC containment lab than a bar.

When I was living in Iran, someone gave me a copy of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale.

This Thursday is a big day for American Catholics.

I have a confession.

Shareholders of The New York Times filed a lawsuit against the paper’s parent company on Wednesday morning, arguing the paper has failed to meet its obligation: to tell readers the truth and correct itself in a timely fashion when it doesn’t.

It’s Wednesday, September 23.

Kenneth Deardorff lives in a cabin in McGrath, Alaska, where he day-trades put options.

In July, China freed Pastor Ezra Jin after he spent nearly nine months in prison for the crime of running a church and practicing his faith.

VILNIUS, Lithuania—I’m sitting on a park bench with the commander of the Lithuanian army, Nerijus Stankevičius, talking about the day Russia will attack his country.

Rob Weisskirch’s office at California State University, Monterey Bay, where he is chairman of the Department of Human Development and Family Science, has been decorated with union memorabilia ever since he began paying dues to the California Faculty Assoc…

WEST BLOOMFIELD, Michigan — Elise Otis and Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed agree on just about everything, she said—from abortion rights to DEI to taxing the rich.

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Welcome back to This Week in Canada, where Europe will be a tough sell for many Canadian businesses, national power is nothing to be embarrassed about, and more.

It’s Tuesday, September 22.

Could Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey form a “Muslim NATO?”

It is a sad reality of the modern era that when an ideological opponent admits they made a terrible mistake, most people are tempted to kick them while they’re down.

You may know me (if you know me) as the guy who was kicked off Twitter in 2021 for saying mRNA Covid shots didn’t stop infection.

President Trump announced last week that three news organizations—CNN, MS NOW, and Politico—would be banned from White House press briefings because they are “Fake News Media Outlets” publishing “one-sided,” “never good,” “purposely negative stories” about