Charlie Kirk

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What, Exactly, Does the Right Stand For?The American Right must relearn judgment and stop confusing tolerance with moral abdication.

Y ears of bickering over the meaning of American conservatism and the identity of the American Right, which had already escalated in the conspiracy-filled aftermath of coalition lynchpin Charlie Kirk’...

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The Moral Blackmailing of the American PeopleOnce again, the Left threatens riots and violence to get their way.

I n Springfield, Illinois, in 1838, a young Abraham Lincoln delivered a powerful speech decrying the “ravages of mob law” throughout the land. Lincoln warned, in eerily prescient fashion, that the spr...

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Stop Projecting Your Beliefs onto Donald TrumpWhat did isolationist voters think when Trump said Iran can’t have nuclear weapons? That he would sit around while Iran built them?

“W e didn’t vote for this!” some Trump supporters are shouting. “We don’t want America striking Iran!” Well, they may not want it, but they should stop projecting their preferences on President Trump...

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Shouting match erupts between RFK Jr. and Dem lawmaker over his comments about Black children

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Rep. Terri Sewell, D-Ala., got into a heated exchange over past comments Kennedy made on a podcast. Health and Human Services Secretary Ro...

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Left Intolerance | The American Spectator | USA News and Politics

They left a message on the brass. On a September morning in Dallas, a rooftop sniper fired into an ICE… Social Media Monsters by Yogi Love “Social Media Monsters,” editorial cartoon by Yogi Love for T...

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Hither and Yon | The American Spectator | USA News and Politics | Page 4

I’m going to do what I can to really make this 5QT, in fact, Q. Mostly because I’m having one… Just before Tuesday’s election returns started coming in, I found myself confused. We had gubernatorial r...

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Why Free Speech Needs Congressional ActionPresidents of both parties have succumbed to the temptation of invading Americans’ speech rights. So Congress must lead.

T he old phrase holds that “where there’s a will, there’s a way.” Its legal corollary: where there’s a wrong, there’s a remedy. Chief Justice John Marshall expanded upon this dictum in Marbury v. Madi...

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Tom Stiglich

“Pete Hegseth: Shape Up,” editorial cartoon by Tom Stiglich for The American Spectator on Oct. 3, 2025. “Comey Indicted,” editorial cartoon by Tom Stiglich for The American Spectator on Sept. 26, 2025...

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Bernie Sanders Is RightUnlike bloodthirsty Democrats, Vermont senator decries political violence

B ernie Sanders is right. As a practicing free-market conservative, I agree with U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders on little more than the number of fingers on an average hand. Nonetheless, the Vermont Soci...

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Charlie Kirk and America’s Crisis of MeaningLast weekend’s memorial may show the way home.

T here is a through line that connects several recent news headlines: the assassination of Charlie Kirk, the Luigi Mangione murder trial, and Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral candidacy. It is the crisis of me...

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Free Speech | The American Spectator | USA News and Politics | Page 2

In George Orwell’s 1949 dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, there were four ministries of the government of Oceania: The Ministries of Truth, Peace, Love, and Plenty…. In recent years, the need for ...

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Why Conservatives Should Not Abandon Free SpeechTrump’s election was a repudiation of Biden’s weaponization of government to silence critics — not a license to use the same tactics.

T his week, ABC pulled Jimmy Kimmel Live! off the air after the Trump administration threatened to revoke the broadcast licenses of local affiliates who platformed the show. President Trump commented ...

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2025: Everyone Won, Everyone Lost, and Everything BurnedThe definitive autopsy of the year 2025.

T he year 2025 embodied horror for both political parties and the world at large. It started when Democrats became the minority party in Washinton, D.C., ensuring their agenda was dead. Similarly, Rep...

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When Hate Finds a Bulletin Board at GeorgetownThe fact that the flyers for the John Brown Club were posted and allowed to remain for two days suggests a frightful level of ideological intimidation on campus.

W hile Georgetown University administrators should be lauded for removing the violence-promoting recruiting flyers that were posted throughout the Catholic campus for the ANTIFA-affiliated John Brown ...

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Anne Hendershott

Few in the media are discussing the role of transgender ideology in the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk —… In a striking irony, George Abaraonye, the president-elect of the Oxford ...

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Founding Fathers | The American Spectator | USA News and Politics | Page 2

Both the faith tradition based on the Bible and the philosophic tradition that started in ancient Greece teach the importance… “The United States of America is a federal republic: a federation of stat...

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Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons to Step Down Later This Spring

Todd Lyons, who has been the acting director for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) since March 2025, submitted his resignation on Thursday. According to reports : Lyons, a two-decade ICE veter...

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Dots and Patterns: What History Can Teach UsAssassins seldom help advance whatever ‘cause’ motivates them.

P erhaps somewhere in America this week, a high school history teacher will assign his students to prepare for a debate on the question, “Was Gavrilo Princip justified in assassinating Archduke Franz ...

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Dangerous Schools and the Democratic Governors Who Ignore ThemDemocrat governors employ shady practices to trap students in violent, dangerous schools.

B lue-state governors are on high alert these days, fearing that President Donald Trump will send federal troops to address the rampant crime ravaging their constituents. But these very same governors...

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Unholy Uproar: The Politics of PrayerWe must recommit to honoring prayer as a divine invitation, an offering that welcomes the peace of Christ.

F ew events in recent times have drawn as much scrutiny and commentary as the assassination at Utah Valley University of conservative and Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk. Prayer has long been w...

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