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This past week, Special Counsel John Durham released a 316-page report detailing the origins of Operation Crossfire Hurricane — the FBI’s investigation into supposed connections between the Trump campaign and the Russian government. The report is an astounding expose of corruption and collus…
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This past week, former President Donald Trump appeared on a CNN town hall. That day, he trumpeted the upcoming event on his social media platforms. “I’ll be doing CNN tonight live from the great state of New Hampshire because CNN is rightfully desperate to get those Trump ratings back,” Trum…
This past week, the media found its latest iteration of its favorite narrative: white man harms Black man. That iteration featured a 24-year-old white Marine from Queens attempting to suppress a 30-year-old homeless, psychotic Black man, Jordan Neely, via use of a suppression hold.
This past week, President Joe Biden formally launched his 2024 reelection campaign. He did so with a three-minute video in which he did not appear on camera speaking for more than two seconds at a time; the highly produced video instead utilizes audio of Biden over fast cuts of Normal Americ…
This past week, a 16-year-old boy named Ralph Yarl — Black — accidentally rang the doorbell of an 84-year-old white man, Andrew Lester. According to reports, Lester then shot Yarl twice through the door, wounding him in the head and the arm. Said Clay County prosecutor Zachary Thompson, “I c…
The legacy media have a preset narrative machine when it comes to mass shootings. That narrative machine takes into account the identities of the shooter and the victims, and then churns out an explanation for the shooting. White shooter, Black victims: systemic racism. Black shooter, white …
This past week, as Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg considered indicting former President Donald Trump on a flimsy felony charge over a seven-year-old hush-money payment to former porn star Stormy Daniels, Trump placed his focus on the man he perceives as the truest threat to his poli…
Jan. 6 was, according to White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, “the worst attack on our democracy since the Civil War.” Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer explained that the riot of Jan. 6 was a “violent insurrection.” And in order to preserve democracy, Schumer stated, Fox News …
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As America has decided to pull further away from the times of the Civil War and the oppression of Black Americans, there is a huge effort underway to eliminate decades-old venerations of Confederate officers. Those men who waged war against their own country to uphold slavery is to be ended
What a difference a year makes. Last year, we kicked off the summer traveling season with miserable weather. It was cold and rainy. We were still living under pandemic mandates. The national average for a gallon of gas was well above four dollars. If you were traveling by air, seats were sti…
April was sexual assault awareness month. Sadly, this is also a time that Illinois communities must be aware that rape crisis services are in danger of significant reductions across the state because of a $9.5 million cut in federal funding that begins in July.
Recently, many of the hospitals and clinics in and around Chicago, including my own, have elected to discontinue universal masking requirements, noting the lowest rates of COVID-19 in the last three years. This is being hailed as a sign of moving on from the COVID-19 pandemic. But is it real…
The left is waging a full-fledged cultural revolution against traditional America. And the Maoist results are often as absurd as they are terrifying.
The worst kind of graft is perfectly legal.
About the columnist
Ben Shapiro is a graduate of UCLA and Harvard Law School, host of “The Ben Shapiro Show” and editor-in-chief of DailyWire.com. He is the author of the New York Times bestsellers “How to Destroy America in Three Easy Steps,” “The Right Side of History” and “Bullies."
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