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“All Jews currently living in various parts of the city … are bound to go at once to live together in the houses situated in the Ghetto.” — Venetian Senate decree, March 29, 1516, as reproduced by the Jewish Museum of Venice When does an accusation cease…

Otto von Bismarck is counted among the most effective statesmen of the 19th century — or, for that matter, any century.

PITTSBURGH — In April 1894, a ragged column of unemployed men attempted to come through Pittsburgh on the way to Washington.

Once more this fall, for the 22nd consecutive year, no knuckleball pitchers will be playing in the World Series.

Reviews of Stephanie Slade’s fine new book Fusionism: Liberty, Virtue, and the Future of the American Right have produced a distorted picture of today’s right-of-center political and philosophical world —claiming Ronald Reagan’s fusionism is merely a poli…

Two weeks ago, I offered some humble advice (as humble as advice from a columnist can possibly be, given that the profession is by definition the very antithesis of humility) on how the Right could secure a comfortable victory over the Left in the upcoming

“I’ve become friends with school shooters.”

Social media users are chiming in on a woman’s post about her aborting her pregnancy upon learning that her baby was a boy.

Starting on Nov. 20, Airbnb hosts can no longer require guests to strip the sheets, wash dishes, or to throw away their trash.

President George Washington was on the ball.

“Ilhan Omar Marriage,” editorial cartoon by Tom Stiglich for The American Spectator on Oct. 26, 2026.

Vlad the Impaler Putin seems to have finally agreed to U.S. brokered peace negotiations with Ukraine as his forces get pushed back from the fortress belt strongholds of Kramatorsk and Sloviansk, whose capture has been his main objective.

It was 62 years ago, Oct. 27, 1964, that Ronald Reagan delivered a speech designed to help salvage Republican Senator Barry Goldwater’s sinking presidential campaign.

“The Great Rude Awakening,” editorial cartoon by Yogi Love for The American Spectator on Oct. 26, 2026.

They’re calling it an upset.

The prevailing ideological hostility directed at liberal democracies within the international human rights ecosystem is neither an organic moral awakening nor a grassroots pursuit of justice.

America’s federal tax base currently generates over $5 trillion annual.

Whether it is exorbitant business expenses or unaffordable consumer costs, healthcare costs may indeed be the determining “sleeper issue” of the midterms.

For years, the NFL has prided itself on being the perfect television product consisting of three hours of drama, violence, strategy, and suspense packaged for a national audience.

On Sunday, October 18, U.S.

I’ve long written that feminism has been one of the vilest ideological evils of modern times.

If you listen to its savants and politicians, you’d think that France was unravelling, on the brink of a civil war.

The West has been under attack by both radical Islam in the East and secular Marxist leftism in the West.

Netflix has released the first trailer for Greta Gerwig’s The Magician’s Nephew, and it is quite a production: Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven,” neon-lit ruins, a White Witch who wakes from her enchanted sleep in a silver glam-rock gown, and a lion who…

President Obama has taken some grief for claiming that Israel was founded on stolen land to house those fleeing European antisemitism.

A few decades ago, there seemed to be only two choices on origins: If you doubted that Darwinian natural selection of random mutations could explain all the magnificent species in the living world — including intelligent, conscious humans — you had to bel…

The first line of Dicken’s Tale of Two Cities resonates even today: “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.”

Psychology is the science that studies the mind, and it is the only medical science that examines something whose exact location remains unknown.

At a family gathering a few days ago I mentioned that I was planning on traveling to Germany next spring.

Most weekends, I take issue with some statement from some bishop, so I hope this weekend will be a welcome change.

We have been seeing day after day of spreading chaos on the streets of France and Italy.

French economist Gabriel Zucman has come to California bearing a familiar French solution to a fiscal problem: another tax.

While Capitol Hill may run on Zyn and Celsius, Representative Ilhan Omar apparently runs on deception and incest.

I have reached full-scale terror.

Republicans face a challenging situation as they enter the November midterms.

“Democrat’s Double Standard,” editorial cartoon by Jon Russo for The American Spectator on Oct. 23, 2026.

On Thursday, Call Her Daddy ex-host Sofia Franklyn revealed for the first time that she had an abortion.

On Oct. 18, a drone exploded in northern Lithuania, triggering the latest regional alarm in a conflict that, as of this writing, might mercifully be reaching its conclusion.

In one of my Cold War courses, I show students a documentary dramatization of the lavish feast hosted by Joseph Stalin and his Bolsheviks for their new Nazi cronies after mutually invading and carving up Poland in September 1939, thereby jointly launching…

Apple released a new commercial promoting their Apple Homeview product, and in turn became one of the worst ads ever created.

Democrats, suffering from denial and delusion, tend to think of themselves as the guardians of the rule of law.

Seventy years ago this October, Hungarian university students demanded Soviet withdrawal and free elections.

On Oct. 23, 1983, shortly after 6:00 a.m. local time, a hijacked Mercedes stake-bed truck carrying approximately 6 tons of TNT-equivalent explosives smashed through a series of inadequate barriers and sentry posts and detonated at the building near the Be…

This isn’t rocket science.

FCC Chairman Brendan Carr recently put out a statement warning that broadcasters airing fake polls risk losing their licenses, following news that Wedgewood polling firm recently admitted that its polls were fabricated.

Minnesota may prove that with wise candidate selection and unique local conditions, state elections can buck national trends.

We all know Jill Biden was a terrible first lady, given that she hid from the country the fact that her husband had cognitively lost it.

Thursday night, the nation was subjected to this quote-unquote bombshell… I’m intimately aware of the allegations coming out tomorrow.

Three children and a teacher were killed by a 16-year-old mass shooter at Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend, Oregon.

This year’s award to Navi Pillay brings to five the number of my countrymen on whom the Nobel committee bestowed the coveted Peace Prize.