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“Nike Stock Craters,” editorial cartoon by Tom Stiglich for The American Spectator on Oct. 5, 2026.

On Wednesday, the state of Tennessee botched the execution of convicted first-degree murderer Christa Pike.

The United Arab Emirates general prosecutor continued its investigation over the weekend into the thwarted terrorist attack on the flydubai flight last Wednesday carrying a plane full of Israelis to Tel Aviv.

The Democrats are in a quandary.

This weekend’s box-office mega-bomb, Digger, could not have come out at a clearer moment.

As the 2026 midterms rapidly approach, the consensus among the commentariat is that the Democrats will retake control of the House of Representatives and perhaps the Senate as well.

For many of us, artificial intelligence (AI) still means ChatGPT or one of its competitors.

“Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it.”

Thanks to the tenacity, bravery, and ingenuity of some everyman Israeli passengers, we’ll remember Sept. 30 as just another day, rather than another 9/11.

We live in the age of baseball analytics.

Just a week after the streets of Paris were lined with hundreds of thousands of Catholics eager to greet Pope Leo XIV, the city has devolved into chaos and violence — as has much of France as a whole.

Terrorists want nothing more than to prevent peace.

Some lies falsify history; others invert it.

Here we go again.

Once upon a time in America, Friday nights in the fall were the sole domain of high school football.

The president of the United States changed a word heard hundreds of times a day on cable news and with increasing frequency in private conversations.

A note from the 5QT: this is the second of a five-part series which won’t just appear in the space where the Five Quick Things appears; we’ll have Parts 3 and 4 in regular columns next week.

The Trump administration’s decision to keep the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards at 34.9 mpg instead of 50.4 mpg will not only save you money, but also save the car industry from being forced to build purely hybrid or electric vehicles.

Is the federal government’s history of enormous deficits proof that it can keep up the borrowing?

The crisis of manliness comes with many names.

Local newspapers are hurting, and many communities have lost their local paper altogether.

SpaceX made history once again by launching the Starship rocket into Earth’s low orbit for the first time.

It was William Shakespeare who penned that famous locution: “That which we call a rose / By any other name would smell as sweet.”

I don’t follow New York politics as heavily, perhaps, as I should.

American Intellectual Antisemitism: The Anti-Jewish Movement Tearing Through Our Universities By: Shai Davidai Post Hill Press, 352 pages, $30 It was the philosopher George Santayana who told us that those who forget the mistakes of history will end up re…

“Capitalism as we know it is not working,” Gov.

When Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, joined by OpenAI’s Sam Altman, Google’s Demis Hassabis, and xAI’s Elon Musk, warns that artificial intelligence is simply out of control and that they need help to fix it, one must listen.

HOMER CITY, Pennsylvania — Eighteen months ago, Shawn Steffee stood in a field in Indiana County and watched the smokestacks of Pennsylvania’s largest coal-fired power plant fold into a cloud of dust, then told anyone who would listen that the wreckage was