Commentary By Daniel McCarthy

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                            December 16, 2025Trump's Inflation Trap By Daniel McCarthy
   What can Donald Trump do to stop morphing into Joe Biden?

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                            December 9, 2025Biden's Immigration Debacle Is the Media's, Too By Daniel McCarthy
        The New York Times has invented a new genre of reporting -- covering big stories showing Democrats in a bad light years after the events that matter.

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                            December 2, 2025'Iryna's Law' and the Bad Judges Who Make It Necessary By Daniel McCarthy
   What will it take to get crime under control in our subways and public transit systems?
   On Monday, news broke of another passenger set on fire in New York City's subway -- though this story wasn't all it seemed.

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                            November 25, 2025Marjorie Taylor Greene's Exit Is a Warning to Republicans By Daniel McCarthy
   Marjorie Taylor Greene is a singular politician -- a maverick, though not in the John McCain sense.

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                            November 19, 2025Trump Hasn't Lost Hispanics (Yet) By Daniel McCarthy
   Is President Donald Trump losing the winning coalition he built just a year ago?

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                            November 11, 2025Trump Can Do Better Than Tariff 'Dividends' and 50-Year Mortgages By Daniel McCarthy
   Time is short for the Trump administration.

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                            November 4, 2025Trump's Tariffs on Trial By Daniel McCarthy
        This question confronts the justices this week in Learning Resources v. Trump, a case that puts the president's tariff powers to the test.

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                            October 28, 2025MAGA Makes Allies Great Again By Daniel McCarthy
        From Argentina to Japan, MAGA is going global.

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                            October 21, 2025How To Make the Americas Great Again By Daniel McCarthy
        President Donald Trump is in a fight for the destiny of the Americas.

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                            October 7, 2025Why Sharpies Are Made in America Again By Daniel McCarthy
   President Donald Trump loves a Sharpie pen, and now he has all the more reason to love the company that makes them.

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                            September 30, 2025Assata Shakur and Other Parents of Political Violence By Daniel McCarthy
        As the Trump administration takes on the latest wave of left-wing violence, an obituary reminds us what happens when political killers get away with their crimes.

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                            September 23, 2025The Left's Triple Threat to Free Speech By Daniel McCarthy
   Jimmy Kimmel's return to the nation's airwaves is proof of just how unseriously left-wing violence is taken by the liberal media.

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                            September 16, 2025Britain's Populist Moment By Daniel McCarthy
   Is Great Britain on the brink of a Trump revolution?

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                            September 9, 2025Who's Accountable for Autopen Pardons? By Daniel McCarthy
        There are too many politicians in America today who think a man like Decarlos Brown belongs on the streets and not behind bars or in a padded cell.

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                            August 26, 2025Trump's Industrial Policy Is Realism, Not Socialism By Daniel McCarthy
        Is it Comrade President now?

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                            August 19, 2025Is Gavin Newsom the Democrats' Answer to Trump? By Daniel McCarthy
        Gavin Newsom wants to be the new Donald Trump.

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                            August 12, 2025Just Say No to More Marijuana By Daniel McCarthy
   Will more marijuana use make America a better place?

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                            August 5, 2025Will the GOP Make Liberals Generous Again? By Daniel McCarthy
   Before politics overwhelmed the word, the primary meaning of "liberal" was "generous."

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                            July 29, 2025Trump's Trade Lesson for Economists (and the World) By Daniel McCarthy
        If America is in a trade war, the question to ask is, are we tired of winning yet?

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                            July 22, 2025Whose Politics Canceled Stephen Colbert? By Daniel McCarthy
Stephen Colbert is at the center of a conspiracy theory.