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Tuesday, December 26
A Can-Do Attitude Is More Important Than Race, Social Class
Carol Swain, NY Post
Crisis of Single-Parent Families Has Only Gotten Worse
Albert Hunt, The Messenger
How Mass Mail-In Voting Changes Everything
William Doyle, The American Conservative
GOP Losers of 2023: Kevin McCarthy
Amanda Marcotte, Salon
The Legal Assault on Trump May Not Save Biden
Douglas MacKinnon, The Hill
Taylor Swift Could Save Biden in 2024. Seriously
Michael Cohen, MSNBC
Biden Wasn't Ready To Be President
Dennis Powell, The Messenger
Why So Many Young Voters Support My Campaign
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Newsweek
Harvard President Shouldn't Get a Pass on Plagiarism
Ingrid Jacques, USA Today
Will Claudine Gay Keep Her Job?
Robert Kuttner, American Prospect
Claudine Gay Update--Data Falsification?
Francis Menton, Manhattan Contrarian
Our Three Prerequisites for Peace
Benjamin Netanyahu, Wall Street Journal
The Cross and the Machine
Paul Kingsnorth, The Free Press
Bowling Alone Reads Like a Look at the Good Ol' Days
Bridget Phetasy, The Spectator
The Great Cousin Decline
Faith Hill, The Atlantic
Musk Says 'Make More Italians'
William McGurn, Wall Street Journal
The 'Risky' Business of Showing All Sides
David DesRosiers, RealClearFoundation
Wednesday, December 27
2-Minute Warning: On the Road in Iowa w/DeSantis
Philip Wegmann, RealClearPolitics


How Trump Is Running Differently This Time
Kristen Soltis Anderson, New York Times
Biden's 2024 Chances Much Stronger Than People Think
Simon Rosenberg, MSNBC
Voters Increasingly Ditching Dems for GOP in PA
Mary Lou Masters, The Daily Caller
John Fetterman Doesn't Care What You Think About Him
Holly Otterbein, Politico
McConnell No Longer Represents U.S. Interests. He Must Go
Charles Shor, USAT
Aiding Illegal Immigrants Instead of Vets Is Un-American
Sen. Tommy Tuberville, FOX
Want To Solve the Border Crisis? Legalize Immigration
David Bier, The Daily Beast
How Biden's Open Border Is Hurting America's Health
James Varney, RCI
Reparations Gained Huge Momentum in 2023 Thanks to CA
Curtis Bunn, NBC News
NY Latest State To Entertain Dems' Reparations Fraud
David Lewis Schaefer, AMAC
Voters Tuning Out the Lying Media
Christian Whiton, Substack
The 'Risky' Business of Showing All Sides
David DesRosiers, RealClearFoundation
What Ukrainians Need To Beat Russia
Bernard-Henri Lévy, Los Angeles Times
Joe Biden Has Ukrainian Blood on His Hands
Rebekah Koffler, Newsweek
How Snatching U.S. Citizens Became a Tool of Hostile Govts
Hinshaw, et al, WSJ
Biden's $6B Iran Ransom & Ongoing Hamas Hostage Crisis
Andrew Shirley, AMAC
Thursday, December 28
Biden Knew Carter Was in Trouble. Now He's in the Same Boat
Annie Linskey, WSJ


U.S. Braces for a Year, and an Election, Like No Other
David Smith, The Guardan
2024 Wild Card: A Banner Year for 3rd-Party Candidates
Alex Seitz-Wald, NBC News
FBI Knew the Biden Laptop Was 'Real'
John Solomon, Just the News
Who Was 2023's Biggest Loser in Politics?
Ed Kilgore, New York Magazine
2023 Was a Wash. 2024 Could Be Historic
Karl Rove, Wall Street Journal
The Year of Ozempic Bodies and Barbie Botox
Constance Grady, Vox
Funding for Failure
Heather Mac Donald, City Journal
How Regulating Banks Inspired My Children's Books
Sheila Bair, Financial Times
Have We Reached Peak ESG?
Ashley Rindsberg, UnHerd
Argentina's Milei Cuts 5,000 Government Jobs Added in 2023
Timothy Nerozzi, FOX
As '23 Ends, Hold Your Political Pundits Accountable
Bill Scher, Washington Monthly
Ramaswamy and Christie, Get Outta Here, Now
Hugo Gurdon, Washington Examiner
A Strange, Romantic Backlash to the Tech Era Looms
Ross Barkan, The Guardian
What Detransitioners Taught Me About the Risks of Therapy
Abigail Shrier, Substack
A Love Song for Deborah
Michael Tobin, The Free Press
The 'Risky' Business of Showing All Sides
David DesRosiers, RealClearFoundation
Friday, December 29
The Year America Became a Banana Republic
Sean Collins, Spiked


We Stopped Being Able To Pretend About Trump in 2023
Susan Glasser, New Yorker
Biden and the Left Are Putting the Rule of Law at Risk
James Bovard, New York Post
2023: The Year of Republicans Acting Stupidly
Rex Huppke, USA Today
What's Behind Biden's Sliding Poll Numbers?
James Piereson, RealClearPolitics
Democrats Can't Afford To Ignore Black Male Exodus
Michael Hopkins, The Hill
Hunter Biden Comes Home To Roost
Kimberley Strassel, Wall Street Journal
Nikki Haley's Big Mistake
Julian Zelizer, CNN
Iowa Doesn't Matter
Steve Krakauer, The Hill
Congress Has Not Looted Social Security
Bill King, RealClearPolitics
Americans Not Buying Biden's Messaging on Economy
Joe Concha, The Messenger
The Israel-Hamas War Was Not Inevitable
Thomas Friedman, New York Times
Is Hamas Causing a Mass 'Kronstadt Moment'?
Daniel Shuchman, RealClearPolitics
How Hamas Weaponized Sexual Violence on Oct. 7
Gettleman, et al, New York Times
IOC Leaders Must Make Difficult Decisions
Eric Spitz, RealClearPolitics
The Chilling Effect of Texas' Anti-DEI Law
Hector Ruacho, Austin American-Statesman
Do You Want a Dead Son or a Live Daughter?
Greg Ganske, JohnKassNews.com
The 'Risky' Business of Showing All Sides
David DesRosiers, RealClearFoundation
Saturday, December 30
What If Biden Drops Out? Or What If He Stays In?
Javers & Nicholas, NBC News


Republicans Begin '24 With a Sense of Electoral Optimism
James Antle, DC Examiner
24 for '24: The Numbers That Will Shape a Crucial Year
Steven Shepard, Politico
The Impact of Lawlessness & Crime on Society & the Psyche
Brian Eha, City Journal
Are Latino Voters Really Defecting to Republicans?
Cardona & Barreto, LA Times
Diversity, Equity and Delusion
Mike Solana, Pirate Wires
How Long Until Harvard Gives Claudine Gay the Boot?
Roger Kimball, The Spectator
2023 Was the Year of the Party--and it's Just Getting Started
Helaine Olen, MSNBC
2023--Media's Year of Moral Collapse
B.C. Brutus, AMAC
New Year, New Us
Wiseman, et al., The Free Press
How 'Antiracism' Becomes Antisemitism
Barton Swaim, Wall Street Journal
The Squad Has a Serious Shot at Party Leadership
Julian Zelizer, The New Republic
Our Razor's Edge
Victor Davis Hanson, American Greatness
Year in a Word: Barbenheimer
Stephen Bush, Financial Times
Don't Leave Your Will in Your Couch & Other Year-End Advice
Carol Roth, FOX News
Top 6 Portfolio Moves for 2024
Amy Arnott, Morningstar
The 'Risky' Business of Showing All Sides
David DesRosiers, RealClearFoundation
Sunday, December 31
2023: The Year in Review
Dave Barry, Boston Globe
The Biggest News Stories of 2023
Bevan, Cannon & Walworth, The RCP Takeaway
One of the Strangest Years Ever in American Politics
Michael Goodwin, New York Post
Yes, Trump Should Be Removed From the Ballot
Perry Bacon, Jr., Washington Post
Destroying Democracy To Save It
Jonathan Turley, The Hill
Biden Enters New Year Facing Political Fight of His Life
David Smith, The Guardian
GOP Has Great Chance To Retake the Senate in 2024
Lindsay Wise, Wall St. Journal
Haley's Unenviable Position
Douglas Schoen, The Messenger
DeSantis Shouldn't Have Regrets. No One Could Beat Trump
Mark Davis, Newsweek
The Year in Patriarchy
Arwa Mahdawi, The Guardian
We Can't Ignore the Depravity of Hamas' Sexual Atrocities
Alex Berenson, Substack
What I Thought When I Saw Hamas Release Hostages
Ana Diamond, CNN
Netanyahu's 'Saudi Bind' Muddles Planning for 'The Day After'
Peter Berkowitz, RCP
The Elon Musk Industrial Complex
Erica Pandey, Axios
Left-Wing Turn Bodes Ill for the Future of Our Institutions
Eric Kaufmann, UnHerd
The Washington Post's Weird Piece on Detransitioners
Lisa Davis, Substack
The 'Risky' Business of Showing All Sides
David DesRosiers, RealClearFoundation
GOP 2024 (RCP Avgs): Iowa: Trump +33 | NH: Trump +22 | National: Trump +62


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