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Monday, December 15
Bondi Beach Was Not a Surprise
Jack Pinczewski, Quillette
I Was There When Shots Rang Out. Sydney Is Forever Changed
Elias Visontay, SMH
Australia Allowed Jewish Hate To Fester
Miranda Devine, New York Post
GOP Conundrum: Working-Class Base, Plutocratic Agenda
Harold Meyerson, TAP
It’s Affordability, Stupid?
Victor Davis Hanson, American Greatness
Donald Trump Has Lost the Suburbs
Kate Plummer, Newsweek
The Democrats Decide To Lose
David Catron, The American Spectator
Pence Calls on Trump To Fire RFK Jr Over Abortion Drug
Philip Wegmann, RCP
Republicans Feel Heat From Constituents on Health Care
Karen Tumulty, Wash Post
We Can Fix Health Care. Here’s the Plan
Frank Miele, RealClearPolitics
Nancy Pelosi Exits the Stage After 20 Terms in Congress
Susan Page, USA Today
The Old Guard Is Not the Right's Future
Scott Greer, The American Conservative
Trump Weaponizing Fear Against Me, Other Immigrants
Rep. Ilhan Omar, MS NOW
The Immigration and Deportation Conundrums
Kenin M. Spivak, RealClearPolitics
Courageous Indiana GOP Stands Up to Trump's Bullying
Robert Reich, Substack
Candace Owens and the 'Non-Stop Hate Binge'
Sasha Stone, Substack
Rob Reiner, Iconic Director & Political Activist, Dead at 78
Christie D'Zurilla, LA Times
Watch/Listen: Erika Kirk | Maria Machado | Mark Warner | Kevin Hassett | More
Tuesday, December 16
The Housing Burden of Unchecked Immigration
Peter Copeland, Commonplace


Why GDP Is the Only Number That Really Matters
Brian Albrecht, Vox
What Was the Justification for Gutting Meritocracy?
Jacob Savage, Compact Magazine
How the Gender Divide Is Rewiring America
Abrams & Kotkin, RealClearInvestigations
Intifada Comes to Australia
Walter Russell Mead, Wall Street Journal
Beyond Anger
Abe Greenwald, Commentary
Trump Says End to Russia-Ukraine War Closer Than Ever
Kevin Liptak, CNN
Jimmy Lai's Family Looks to Trump, World Leaders
Susan Crabtree, RealClearPolitics
Leftists Crushed in Blowout Chile Election
Monica Showalter, American Thinker
Canada's Grueling Mission To Preserve the USMC
Gabrielle Gurley, American Prospect
Mexico's China Tariffs Are a Major Milestone
Peter Navarro, Financial Times
AI Won't End Marketing, It Will Elevate It to Full Potential
Mark Penn, RCMarkets
Netflix Must Be Stopped
Jake Ures, Jacobin
Trump's Trustbusting Moment
Thaddeus McCotter, Chronicles
Trump Stands By Unhinged Post, Calls Rob Reiner 'Deranged'
S.V. Date, HuffPost
One of Hollywood's Great Comic Voices Meets a Tragic End
Peter Debruge, Variety
Ken Burns' Wake-Up Call
Susan Long, Law & Liberty
GOP 2028 (Big Data): Vance 45, DeSantis 8, Rubio 7, RFK Jr 6, Haley 5, Cruz 5
Wednesday, December 17
Susie Wiles, JD Vance and the 'Junkyard Dogs'
Chris Whipple, Vanity Fair


Vanity Fair's Dangerous Fiction Factory
Peter Navarro, Washington Times
Why Would Wiles & Co. Talk to Vanity Fair?
Bevan, Cannon & Walworth, RCP on SiriusXM
GOP Will Pay Price for Not Passing Obamacare Subsidies
Mychael Schnell, MS Now
Are Democrats Getting Desperate About Epstein?
Byron York, Washington Examiner
Trump Will Keep Lying About the Economy
Rex Huppke, USA Today
Minnesota Fraud Proves Welfare Is Broken
Rachel Sheffield, FOX News
Trump's Reiner Remarks Are Next Level Degradation
David Remnick, The New Yorker
Trump's Rob Reiner Statement Made a Valuable Point
John Nolte, Breitbart
The Shocking End to the Reiners' Efforts To Save Their Son
Fritz, et al., WSJ
LA Woman: How Bari Weiss Spent Her Exile in Hollywood
Charlotte Klein, NY Mag
Pennsylvania: Center Stage, Again, in 2026
Guy Ciarrocchi, RealClearPennsylvania
Dems Already Blowing Up Their Chances in Senate
Matt Lewis, Los Angeles Times
U.S. and China Are Headed for an AI Collision
Oren Etzioni, RealClearDefense
Australia Proves Gun Control Works
Ryan Cooper, The American Prospect
West's Embrace Of Mass 3d-World Migration Is Suicidal
Shawn Fleetwood, Federalist
This Christmas Season, Middle East Christians Under Threat
Ahed Al Hendi, RCP
Generic: CNBC: D+4 | Morning Consult: D+1 | Quinnipiac: D+4 | RCP Avg: D+3.0
Thursday, December 18
Trump Ditches 'Weave,' Delivers Sales Pitch Wiles Asked For
Philip Wegmann, RCP


In Search of a Guiding Light for Democrats
John Halpin, Substack
The Most Explosive Book of 2026
Mark Judge, Chronicles
LA's Mayor Karen Bass to America: 'Beware!'
Gail Reed, The Nation
What Alleged Kirk Assassin Told Friends After Attack
Oakford, et al., Washington Post
Congress' NDAA Misses Mark. Trump Shouldn't Sign It
Doug Truax, Restoration News
Trump's War Against Europe
Martin Wolf, Financial Times
Without Drastic Change, EU Headed Toward Collapse
Roger Kimball, The Spectator
Democrats Sound Like They're in Doha
Daniel Shapiro, The Atlantic
Judge Green-Lights Secret Service Agent's Retaliation Case
Susan Crabtree, RCP
Did Brown University Disable Their CCTV Systems?
Sundance, Conservative Treehouse
The Internet's Tollbooth Operators
Rhoda Feng, American Prospect
RFK Had His Shot at HHS, But MAGA Should Move On
Yael Ossowski, RCP
HHS Terminates Major Grants to AAP--for Good Reason
Robert Malone, Substack
A Tale of Two Freedom Fighters
James Piereson, Washington Free Beacon
How To Fix Political Conversations Gone Wrong
Pamela Paresky, Psychology Today
RIP Norman Podhoretz
Hugh Hewitt, FOX News
Generic: Emerson: D+2 | Morning Consult: D+1 | Quantus: D+2 | RCP Avg: D+2.7
Friday, December 19
The Future of the Left in the 21st Century (Part Two)
Ruy Teixeira, Substack


Lesson From the DC Crime Crackdown: It Works
Douglas Murray, New York Post
Trump's Imaginary 2025
Harold Meyerson, American Prospect
Trump Takes a New Angle on Affordability
Bevan, et al., RealClearPolitics on SiriusXM
Fulton County: 315k Votes Lacking Sign-Off Counted in '20
Brianna Lyman, Federalist
Will Democrats Force Another Government Shutdown?
Igor Bobic, HuffPost
HHS Moves To Protect Children From Transgender Surgeries
Adam Garrie, Substack
The 'Randomness' of Attacks
Mark Steyn, SteynOnline
How Mayor Scott Curbed Crime in Baltimore
Liz Skalka, The New Republic
Somali Fraud and the Terms and Conditions of America
Sagnik Basu, Pirate Wires
Latin America's Revolution of the Right
Brian Winter, Foreign Affairs
Can Maduro Survive Oil Blockade?
Stott, Daniels & Smyth, Financial Times
Australian Massacre Exposes Hollow Core of Anti-Zionism
Eric Spitz, RCP
How Getting Richer Made Teenagers Less Free
Kelsey Piper, Substack
Blue States Inserting 'Woke Ideology' Into AI Tech
David Sacks, FOX Business
ABC Lost the Oscars to YouTube. Good?
Josef Adalian, New York Magazine
K-Pop Redemption
Gage Klipper, Chronicles
Saturday, December 20
The Media Effort To Bidenize Trump
Byron York, Washington Examiner
Democrats Don't Need a 'Wave' To Win the House
Ed Kilgore, New York Magazine
Why Did Dems Spike Their 2024 Autopsy?
Bevan, Cannon, & Walworth, RCP on SiriusXM
Is the Trump Administration Just a Reality TV Show?
Paz & Lindemann, Vox
Can the Dark Ages Return?
Victor Davis Hanson, American Greatness
JD Vance's Safe Harbor
Ian Ward, Politico
Charlie Kirk: Strategy of Assassination Proven Effective Again
Matt Walsh, TCN
Who Can Afford Trump's Economy? Public Is Feeling Grinchy
Matt Lewis, LA Times
Sorry, Democrats — The Trump Economy Is Taking Off
Liz Peek, The Hill
How To Make Things More Affordable
Gary Sasse, RealClearPolitics
Thanks To AI, Stanford Graduates Can't Find a Job
Nilesh Christopher, LA Times
A Year of U.S. Global Leadership and Peacemaking
Fred Fleitz, American Greatness
Islamic State Is Back
Alex Alfirraz Scheers, UnHerd
The New Europeans, Trump-Style
David Broder, The Nation
Big Pharma and the Drug Price Delusion
Michael Lind, Commonplace
Trump’s Marijuana Order Pushes a Dangerous Lie
Alex Berenson, FOX News
Lou Cannon, Preeminent Reagan Biographer, Dies at 92
Adam Bernstein, Wash Post
'28 GOP (Atlas): Vance 47, Rubio 23, DeSantis 13, Trump Jr. 2, Ramaswamy 2
Sunday, December 21
U.S. Seizes Another Vessel Off Venezuela's Coast
Kevin Liptak, CNN
U.S. Has Been Stuck for Too Long, We're Due for 5% Growth
Larry Kudlow, NY Sun
Can Money Buy Americans Happiness?
Eric Levitz, Vox
It's Never Been a Worse Time To Be a Democrat
Joe Concha, Washington Examiner
MAGA Infighting Erupts at Turning Point USA Conference
Andrew Howard, Politico
Weiss, Shapiro Are Not Conservative Gatekeepers
Megyn Kelly, Turning Point AmFest
A Road Map for Democratic Victory
Vanden Heuvel & Nichols, The Nation
Minnesota's 'Industrial-Scale Fraud' Scandal
Joe Walsh, CBS News
Work, Welfare and the Illusion of a New Eden
Richard Porter, RealClearPolitics
Why Should We Replace Our ICBMs?
Robert Rudney, American Prospect
News From the White House on Defense Contractors
Cass & Kishi, Commonplace
National Security Strategy Mirrors Trump World
Peter Berkowitz, RealClearPolitics
In Praise of Male Courage
Jemima Kelly, Financial Times
The Grand Rapids Revival and an American Comeback
Doug DeVos, Wall St. Journal
How To Defy History in the Midterms
John Tillman, RealClearPolitics
Why Rep. Stefanik Is Leaving Politics
Ben Jacobs, New York Magazine
Orwellian Excuse for Trying To Block My Testimony
Tyler O'Neil, The Daily Signal
Dems'28 (Atlas): Newsom 35,AOC 16, Buttigieg 15, Harris 8, Shapiro 6 | More'28


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